Wally Johnson, back during the year 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by starting a company that became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very skilled mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access equipment when he started searching for a solution to painting his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a home painting project. Current scaffolding was not able to deal with the uneven terrain on his property. After being very unsatisfied with his options, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also founded the very same year in St. Joseph, Missouri. This small company helped to revolutionize the new elevating boom lift. The machine was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
In 1977, Snorkel sold its very first self-propelled lift. This specialized product line did not take long to become the main business for the company.
It did not take long for Wallace Johnson to catapult to the top of the business and achieve global dominance with his scaffold. Once he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and make the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
In 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory in Selma. There he made the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new machine exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the main source of revenue of the company.
Wallace Johnson passed away in 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his pioneering and inventive spirit lived on. During 1994, UpRight launched the world's first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.