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Laramie, Wyoming 82070
Dear Mike,
I am writing this letter to inform you how pleased Albany County is with our FW Signing Trailer. We
have had our signing trailer in service for approximately 18 months. It has not been out of service a
single hour in this 18-month period.
My crews are using this trailer for fence repairs, snow fence erection, and even sign erection and
repair. I don't believe we have found all the uses for this trailer. I don't know how we functioned
without this trailer.
We have replaced an auger tractor, one stake truck and one trailer with this FW Signing Trailer.
Hence, Albany County is saving money maintaining one piece of equipment instead of three separate
pieces. We also have saved labor and time in sign installations with everything on one trailer instead
of three separate pieces of equipment.
Your product support is unequaled in my equipment world. You always have time to answer
questions and provide good ideas.
Thank you,
Bradley Clingman
Superintendent
Albany County Road & Bridge
Office of County Engineer
Van Buren County
Keosauqua, Iowa 52565
Dear Mike:
Van Buren County has been using our FW Sign Trailer for approximately 8 weeks. The trailer has
met our exceptions for increasing the efficiency of our signing operations, and utility of our existing
equipment. We have initially attached to the concept of a sign trailer because it would allow us to
use our existing vehicle as a power unit, this lowered our initial costs and still made this vehicle free
for other used when not required for signing, a distinct advantage over units we had looked at that
were permanently mounted on truck chassis. The trailers design provides ample sign and post
storage in a convenient arrangement. Tool and misc. part storage are easily accessible from the
operators platform. The trailer deck provides an abundant area for work since post storage is
located between frame rails. The boom mounted auger is by far the fastest and safest method we
have ever used for drilling post holes. The telescoping platform makes access to existing sign
installations fast and vastly more safe than using ladders or steps that hook on to the posts.
We believe that the use of the FW Sign Trailer will greatly improve the efficiency of our signing
operation. This efficiency will come not only from lower equipment cost, but also, and more
importantly, from making signing a safe and fast one man operation.
Van Buren county is impressed with your commitment to your product, and your pledge to make our
unit and all other units you build perform to the satisfaction of the owners and operators.
Sincerely,
Donald G. Pool, Assistant Engineer
Van Buren County Highway Department
Delaware County Secondary Road Department
Delaware, Iowa 52036
Dear Rhonda:
Our office is called the Delaware County Secondary Roads. We maintain 905 miles of road, and
have over 4,500 signs. Our sign person is Bill Rossow who is responsible for all the signing
operations.
We purchased a Flannegan Western crane, auger and flatbed in the spring of 1992. Prior to this we
used manual labor to dig holes. We mounted this equipment to a one ton dually pickup. The flatbed
was equipped with hydraulic outriggers, ad the truck engine was fitted with a hydraulic pump to power
the auger.
We first looked at a number of crane-auger type systems. Other systems were center mounted
limiting the reach of the auger onto the fore slope. Other cranes were just too short to obtain the
needed reach. Of course signs along the back slopes by fences cannot be reached. When we
maintain the street name signs in 1994, we will use a sign post driver that is hydraulic and will be
powered by the same sigh truck unit obtained from Flannegan Western.
The crane-auger is easy to operate and even drills holes through frost for sign post replacement in
the winter. Service and maintenance are minimal.
Labor costs have been reduced by approximately $6,000 per year because we have not had to hire
part-time employees to assist the sigh person. In fact, the sign person now even has time to plow
snow, cut brush, and do other routine road maintenance.
Another consideration is lessening the exposure of workmen's compensation of back injuries by
letting the machine do the work of the man's back.
The only drawback is the underground utilities within the right-of-way. Any machine is more likely to
dig through a utility line than a person digging manually. So on each new sign location we call
One-Call before digging operations begin.
We feel within three years the sign auger will pay for itself, and we are very satisfied with Flannegan
Western & Associates for sales and service.
Sincerely,
Brain T. Ridenour
County Engineer
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