Precision Husky Adds Tidewater as Dealership

Tidewater Equipment Co., with locations in five southern states, has rejoined the network of Precision Husky dealers and will be marketing the ProGrind line of equipment, along with Whole Tree Chippers and Flail Debarkers, in all its stores.

 “We welcome them back with open arms,” says Bob Smith, Chairman and CEO of Precision, who notes that Tidewater was the company’s dealer for Husky loaders in the 1980s. Bob and his son, Scott Smith, president of Precision Husky, stated that Tidewater “did a superb job” for them and that Precision looks forward to working together on sales of grinders and mobile logging equipment.

The Precision Husky line of equipment includes 10 models of tub grinders and six models of horizontal grinders. The units are available with engines from 100 horsepower to 1,100 horsepower. The company manufactures stationary chippers from the smallest to the largest and from 50 horsepower to 3,500 horsepower, along with four major sizes of mobile Whole Tree Chippers.

Precision Husky Corp., Leeds, Ala., was started in 1964 and has for nearly 45 years designed and manufactured equipment for chip mills, sawmills, wood yards, log loading and

in-woods debarking/chipping and wood scrap grinding.

The company currently provides employment for more than 100 workers in its 165,000-square-foot headquarters in Leeds, Ala., and its second facility in Lynn, Ala

“The Tidewater stores have always offered top-of-the-line equipment and we believe the quality of Precision’s equipment speaks for itself,” says Gil Morgan, president of Tidewater Equipment Co. Since 1947, Tidewater, based in Brunswick, Ga., has provided equipment, parts, and services for loggers, contractors, mills, and municipalities throughout the Southeast.