About

Our Story

 

I started Two Herons' Equipment because I couldn't find what I needed within driving distance at a price that made sense — and when I went looking, I couldn't find anyone giving me a straight answer either. Everyone was trying to sell me something. Nobody was just trying to help.

 

I figured if I was hitting that wall, other people were too.

 

So I built the thing I wished existed. A small yard in Oxford, North Carolina, with real equipment, real prices, and a real person on the other end of the phone. We carry six brands of skid steer attachments — buckets, grapples, augers, brush cutters, pallet forks, the rest of that world — and we sell to anyone who shows up, from the guy down the street working on a backyard project to full-on construction companies.

 

We try to help. Not sell.

 

If you call and tell me what you're trying to do, I'll tell you whether one of our attachments is the right answer. Sometimes it isn't — sometimes the answer is a different tool, a different approach, or someone else entirely. That's fine. The goal is that you drive away with what you actually needed, not what was easiest to put in your truck.

 

Six brands, not one.

 

There's a lot of equipment on the market right now, and most of it looks the same in a photo. Brands you've heard of, brands you haven't, prices all over the map, specs that may or may not mean what they say. It's confusing on purpose — and if you buy the wrong attachment, you don't find out until it's already in your yard.

 

We've spent the last few years testing this stuff. Running it. Selling it. Hearing from the customers who came back. We've learned which brands are built to last, which ones are honest about their specs, and which ones are dressing up a cheap product with a paint job and a sticker. We carry the six brands we'd put on our own equipment — and we steer people away from the rest.

 

You don't have to figure it out alone. That's our job.

 

About the name.

 

Two Herons' Farm came first. There are two herons that hang out in our pond, and there are two of us — me and my wife Liz — so the name fit twice over.

 

We also liked what the heron stands for. Across a lot of traditions, the heron is a symbol of patience, wisdom, and the kind of quiet skill that comes from watching before acting. That's how we try to run things. Listen first. Figure out what's actually needed. Then move.

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What we want.

 

When you pull out of our yard, the test isn't whether you bought something. It's whether you got an answer. That's what we're trying to do.