Booms are Booming on the Eastern Shore of Delaware

The boom and lift traffic alone keep 22 employees busy, not to mention his two locations also sell and service a dozen well-known manufacturing brands in the construction, paving, and lawn and garden industries.

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Chess Hedrick, owner of Iron Source in Georgetown, DE, didn’t go to the ARA Show this year.  Anaheim was a cross country stretch from him, but he kept busy anyway. “I spent a lot of money growing our rental fleet the last few months, mostly buying telehandlers and 45’ to 85’ booms,” he emphasized. “I have 17 forklifts between our Georgetown and Smyrna stores and they’re all out. We have 45 to 50 scissor lifts, and all but three are on rent. Booms are disappearing, too.”

The boom and lift traffic alone keep 22 employees busy, not to mention his two locations also sell and service a dozen well-known manufacturing brands in the construction, paving, and lawn and garden industries.   

“Delaware’s Eastern Shore is growing and Sussex County, where our Georgetown store is located, is one of the fastest growing counties on the East Coast, said Hedrick. “We have beaches, vacationers, low taxes, and lots of construction to keep our building, paving, and landscaping contractors busy. We had a record year last year, up 22 percent from 2017, and if the early boom and lift traffic is any indication, this year looks promising, as well.”

Hedrick has been in the equipment business for more than 20 years since graduating from college, first working for United Rentals and later as a rep selling John Deere Construction Equipment. He opened the Georgetown store 2009 and the Smyrna location followed four years later. Gehl was his first product line, soon followed by Manitou, Wacker Neuson and other names like Bandit, Western Snowplows, CE Attachments, Ventrac, and Husqvarna.

From the very beginning, his stores sold and serviced new and used equipment and were active in the rental industry. Today, rental accounts for approximately half of Iron Source’s annual revenue. 

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