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The Hockney Company is the parent company of Truxor USA and was founded in the summer of 1903, during the height of the ice harvesting era on the lakes around Silver lake, Wisconsin. C.L. Hockney, the village Blacksmith, was commissioned to devise a method for clearing aquatic weeds in the areas where blocks of ice would be cut the following winter. |
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Hockney set to work and came up with a rowboat-mounted sickle device that could cut a clean swath through the tangled weedgrowth. The original Hockney Underwater Weedcutter was the first of its kind and so effective that soon other ice companies were beating a path to his door. |
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Over the ensuing years, C.L. Hockney continued to perfect his machine. The rowboat was replaced by a self-contained, self-powered craft that not only "mowed" the weeds, but was very easily adapted to rake them to shore as well. |
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Mounted on a single pontoon and propelled by an innovative paddle system, Hockney's weedcutter did not become entangled in the dense weedgrowth and could be operated in water as shallow as 10 inches.
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In 2007 The Hockney Company expanded operations by entering an agreement with Dorotea Mekaniska AB and became the first U.S. based sales agent and retail dealer for the TRUXOR® Amphibious Machines and Tools. The agreement lead to the forming of the TRUXOR USA division of the Hockney Company and the sales and importation of the first TRUXOR® amphibious machines and tools into the United States marketplace. TRUXOR USA continues to develop TRUXOR® sales and service in the United States with an expert understanding of the TRUXOR® uses and applications focused in controlling aquatic weeds.
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Today, both the TRUXOR® Amphibious Machines and the Hockney Underwater Weedcutters are used around the world to keep waterways clear of excessive or unsightly weedgrowth. It is simplicity in motion, an environmentally safe and efficient method for controlling aquatic weeds without chemicals and without fouling the waters it's designed to enhance.
Click here to visit the Hockney Underwater Weedcutter webpage |