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crane down and hook it to our belts and
have us hold on and raise us up…then let
us dangle for a second and lower us down.
We always thought we had gotten one over
on my father, but I mentioned it to him
one day, and he said he knew. ‘Yeah, what
could I say? He did the same thing to me
when I was a kid.’”
Another memorable event occurred
when John started working at Stringfellow.
“I was working in the truck equipment
department of our office at that time. I say
‘at that time’ because my father felt it im-
portant, as I do now, that if I ever planned
to move up in this company I had to un-
derstand how every part of the company
operates. I was working in truck equip-
ment sales, and I was bidding on a service/
utility bed for a city. When I was figur-
ing up the price, I left freight out of my
equation, which can really add up. Being
young and full of myself, I turned the bid
in without having it looked over. I went to
the bid opening, recorded the results, and
we were obviously low bid. So, I headed
back to the office to give the results with Above: Stringfellow Booth at the 2011 Conference in Memphis. Back row: Eddie Yaun, Eddie Anderson,
my chest puffed out and excited. That was Joe Connolly, John Anderson. Front row: Buddy Harper and Ron Johnson.
short lived. I turned the bid tab in, and my Below: Each year at the Annual Conference, the crew from Stringfellow, Inc. provides lunch for
father and Oscar Webb immediately no- all the rodeo contestants and other participants. On the right side of the table, from left to right:
ticed we were low. I replied, ‘Yes Sir!’ with Eddie Anderson, Joe Connolly, John Anderson, Ron Johnson, and Buddy Harper.
a smile. ‘We are really low,’ they said. ‘Yes
Sir?’ I said, not smiling. Dad said, ‘I don’t
say this often, but maybe they will just buy
one.’ They bought three. I can laugh about
it now; but I promise you I check and
recheck my tabulations to this day!”
Social Media: Adding To, Not
Diminishing, Customer Service
John Anderson oversees day-to-day
operations as well as online marketing.
“We have a new and improved website:
www.stringfellow.bz. Stringfellow can also
be found on Facebook, LinkedIn and other
sites. Please do not get me wrong; I think
an online presence is important, yet I still
feel nothing is better than sitting down
with someone and talking to them, looking
them in the eye and shaking their hand
after you demonstrate a piece of equip-
ment. That is a large part of what I do. We
at Stringfellow have an extensive demon-
stration fleet of our equipment from Heil
Environmental Equipment to TYMCO
Sweepers and Pac-MAC Knuckle-booms.
Pretty much everything we represent, we
either have a demonstrator unit or can get
our hands on one. It is like my father says,
‘Stringfellow, where there is no substitute
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have us hold on and raise us up…then let
us dangle for a second and lower us down.
We always thought we had gotten one over
on my father, but I mentioned it to him
one day, and he said he knew. ‘Yeah, what
could I say? He did the same thing to me
when I was a kid.’”
Another memorable event occurred
when John started working at Stringfellow.
“I was working in the truck equipment
department of our office at that time. I say
‘at that time’ because my father felt it im-
portant, as I do now, that if I ever planned
to move up in this company I had to un-
derstand how every part of the company
operates. I was working in truck equip-
ment sales, and I was bidding on a service/
utility bed for a city. When I was figur-
ing up the price, I left freight out of my
equation, which can really add up. Being
young and full of myself, I turned the bid
in without having it looked over. I went to
the bid opening, recorded the results, and
we were obviously low bid. So, I headed
back to the office to give the results with Above: Stringfellow Booth at the 2011 Conference in Memphis. Back row: Eddie Yaun, Eddie Anderson,
my chest puffed out and excited. That was Joe Connolly, John Anderson. Front row: Buddy Harper and Ron Johnson.
short lived. I turned the bid tab in, and my Below: Each year at the Annual Conference, the crew from Stringfellow, Inc. provides lunch for
father and Oscar Webb immediately no- all the rodeo contestants and other participants. On the right side of the table, from left to right:
ticed we were low. I replied, ‘Yes Sir!’ with Eddie Anderson, Joe Connolly, John Anderson, Ron Johnson, and Buddy Harper.
a smile. ‘We are really low,’ they said. ‘Yes
Sir?’ I said, not smiling. Dad said, ‘I don’t
say this often, but maybe they will just buy
one.’ They bought three. I can laugh about
it now; but I promise you I check and
recheck my tabulations to this day!”
Social Media: Adding To, Not
Diminishing, Customer Service
John Anderson oversees day-to-day
operations as well as online marketing.
“We have a new and improved website:
www.stringfellow.bz. Stringfellow can also
be found on Facebook, LinkedIn and other
sites. Please do not get me wrong; I think
an online presence is important, yet I still
feel nothing is better than sitting down
with someone and talking to them, looking
them in the eye and shaking their hand
after you demonstrate a piece of equip-
ment. That is a large part of what I do. We
at Stringfellow have an extensive demon-
stration fleet of our equipment from Heil
Environmental Equipment to TYMCO
Sweepers and Pac-MAC Knuckle-booms.
Pretty much everything we represent, we
either have a demonstrator unit or can get
our hands on one. It is like my father says,
‘Stringfellow, where there is no substitute
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