LiuGong Dressta Names Texas Timberjack as Texas Dealer

LiuGong North America has formed a partnership with Texas Timberjack, the largest forestry equipment dealer in Texas and now the authorized LiuGong and Dressta dealer for one of the largest equipment market, Houston, and surrounding areas.

Michael Roth

Nov. 16, 2018

Texas Timberjack was founded in Lufkin, Texas, in 1984 by owner and president Harold Estes. Now with locations in Lufkin, Jaspar and Cleveland, Texas, the company is a leader in forestry, mulching and construction equipment sales, parts and service. With LiuGong and Dressta construction equipment lines, Texas Timberjack offers a complete line of products for the construction equipment industry along with services and a full range of financing options, warranty, and aftermarket support.

“We were looking for an opportunity with a construction equipment manufacturer that could help us explore the market,” said Lane Blount, Timberjack sales. “We went through a long and careful investigation, and we chose LiuGong because they make well-built machines that run well.”

LiuGong Construction Machinery is located in Katy, Texas.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.