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July 27 1971 (Sec I) SANDY (Or«.J POST— 13
With move to Sandy:
Mar Hook hopes for diversification
Mar Hook’s new 44-acre
fa cility in Sandy's industrial
park offers room for product
d iv e rs ific a tio n
for
the
pioneer logging equipment
manufacturer, corporation
vice president J D. Mitchel
said.
The new plant is also more
centrally located for the
corporation’s trade area and
designed for a smoother
work flow than its former
site in Aberdeen, Wash.
The John Mitchell family
operated that facility from
1955 until this year when one
year of site preparation and
construction culminated in
the opening of the firm ’s new
20,160
square
foot
manufacturing plant and
separate office building
In Aberdeen, the offices
were
located
in
the
manufacturing plant and
suffered from noise and dust,
according to Mrs. John
(Gwen) Mitchell who serves
as secretary and treasurer in
the family business.
John Mitchell founded the
business some 20 years ago
with invention of the Mitchell
Automatic Release (MAR)
or
M ar
Hook
which
revolutionized the logging
industry to where it no longer
needs to store logs in water
with a man stationed in the
water to unlock a group of
logs.
Mar Hook remains the only
manufacturer in the world
for log truck trailer hoists
and log grapple tongs.
The firm turns out some 50
booms,
h ydrau lic
log
grapplers and log truck
trailer hoists per year — an
average that’s held up over
the past 10 years. Sales total
about $1 m illion per year.
The new plant employs 27
persons for an annual payroll
of approximately $350,000.
All but seven employees
were h ired lo ca lly and
trained, which accounts for
J. I). M ITC H E L L stands beside one of
Mar Hood's Mar Rooms, a hydraulic
excavator specially converted for log
handling with removal of the excavator
and addition of a Mar Hook grappler in
front.
the delayed open house last
week after actual plant
opening in April.
Following the Mitchell
fam ily from Aberdeen are
engineering supervisor Hugh
Armstrong, shop foreman
Vern Oldfield, and pur
chasing agent George L'rsu.
The metal mam building
includes its own engineering
room, tool crib, parts room
and separate upstairs lunch
rooms for smokers and non-
smokers
The plant dow nstairs
contains all welding on one
side of the large open room
and machining on the other
side Assembly and the pre
assembly of trailer hoists is
done on the far end of the
room
The corporation hopes to
branch into areas outside
logging — its mainstay- for
supply of its equipment to
handle and lif t heavy
materials.
M ar Hook, Inc. also
manufactures jib cranes,
bridge cranes and electric
hoists, acting sometimes as
dealer and more typically as
d is trib u to r to some 20
dealers
in
Oregon,
Washington, Alaska. Mon
tana,
Idaho,
northern
C a lifo rn ia
and
B ritis h
Columbia.
PRE-ASSEMBLY is made in plant at Mar Hook to
insure that trailer hoists fit together properly when
sent out into the field.
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Business peaks for the firm
generally follow housing
market and general economy
trends, according to J.E.
Mitchell, son of corporation
president John Mitchell.
Few m en a re la c k in g in
cap acity, b u t th e y fa il
because th e y a re la c k in g
in a p p lic a tio n .
C a lvin C o o lid g e
Product diversification in
the new Sandy' plant is ex
pected to smooth out the
peaks and valleys in the
c o rp o ra tio n ’s production
year, J.D. Mitchell said.
Locally, the firm w ill ship
through Sandy Truck Lines,
with some supplies pur
chased through Action Auto
and others.
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