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Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust these eight thirty six and coming all the way in from Bosco and is Chili Chili Chili eight degree morning.

We've got Jim Armstrong from an American Edge product. How you doing, sir, I'm doing well well. I gotta tell you. I've been listening to your stories on your commercials about American Edge and tell us a little bit of a story about you, your daughter. How you guys got started about a year or so. Tell us a little bit. First of all, what is American Edge.

American Edge is just a small implement company. We specialize in skids, teer and tractor and excavator attachments. And then we also have a hose shop, which is a hydraulic fuel, air cylinders, things like that.

Take care a little bit of everything. Big Ranching community. Where you are, yes, sir, yes, sir. You guys kind of go to now.

We are getting there.

We've got a lot of people that it used to have to drive to Ponka City or Tulsa that are happy that we're there to fulfill their hydraulic needs at least my goodness.

Now, you spent a few years in the law enforcement before going into business. You keep telling everybody you're not a salesman.

I am not tell us what you do.

How do you actually get a product to the right person.

Well, fortunately, I've been in the ranching business and ranching community. I've used a lot of this equipment. My friends are in the equipment business. They clear a lot of land around here in the community. So I've got a background of using and kind of knowing what equipment works for what, and I just try and solve what the problem of the customer is and match them with the proper equipment.

Anybody can sell a piece.

Of equipment, but it's really important that you get the piece of equipment that fits you. And that's how I do it. I want something that works all the time when I need it, and I know they do.

That's a win win situation when you make a perfect fit there, I would hope. So, yeah, you bet, you, you bet. You've got demo days coming up.

Tell us about that, Yes, a demo day.

We're partnering with JK Trucks and More out of Barnstall, and one of our vendors Loftness is going to be on site. They're in Barnstall demonstrating all of their equipment. They specialize in the mulching world. So there's going to be multures for skid steers that they're going to demo, multures for tractors, there's going to be stump grinders, there's going to be some other equipment that they have that they're going to put on display. And then one of

How does this work?

It vibrates, So.

Instead of traditionally pounding a post into the ground, this is a design that vibrates. It vibrates over five thousand times a minute. Oh, you can't even see it. All you see is the post moving down into the ground. And because of that, it can do any style of post. It's not going to damage the post like a pounder wood.

Oh yeah, he using all that kind of a force on it.

Correct.

It generates about thirteen five hundred pounds of centrifugal force and at five thousand vibrations a minute, that force just pushes that postman.

Right down in Oh, I got to tell you a body can stop vibrating. You can just let that thing do that for you, because when you pounding it, postman, that's an all the job and you're gonna feel it.

Yes, And the really cool thing about it is all that vibration is concealed in the actual driver, so it's not transferred to the machine. So like post pounder is all that vibration, all that pounding is transferred into your machine. And all those pins and bushings and stuff tend to wear out faster we do that.

Well, this is gonna be cool. I just have to go there just to watch that happen.

Yes, it's gonna be neat.

I've got several styles of posts, from delineators to galvanized post, to fiberglass post, to steal post, a wood post. We're gonna be driving a lot of posts.

Well, it's gonna be a pretty good little exercise there. It's Demo D. When's the Demo D coming up?

It is March first, right, It starts at nine am and it's gonna run until we set four o'clock. But it's gonna run until people are done done. We are gonna we are gonna have lunch and provide hamburgers and hot dogs and sides and drinks. It's at one three zero two nine State Highway eleven and that is actually just south of UH eleven and ninety No. One three and eleven.

Yeah, okay, I know, but I know exactly where you are. I can see that right now.

Yep.

Okay, So this is gonna be a good time. This is going to be coming up on March the first, one to four nine, and you want to get out there. You want to talk to you Jim. Now, Jim, you've got a partner in your business.

I do, I do so. My daughter.

Her job, unfortunately after own a little over ten years, was dissolved by the business and I was fortunate enough to be able to snag her. And she's working with me now and it's it's been a lot of fun. She's doing a lot of the hard work. She takes care of all the computers and all the the things like that, financing and uh so.

She's actually the boss. I'm just the guy on the radio.

Oh my gosh, how humble is that? Folks? You got to meet Jim in person. This is American Edge. Now, where are you in Pasco? Where can we find you in any old day that ends and why that you're open?

Uh, well, we're actually just west of Sonic about a blog.

Oh that's it? Yeah, yeah, Okay.

So from the ninety nine sixty junction there and we're about a quarter mile back to the west.

Okay, easy to find, very easy. So what was a what did you hesitate a little bit or is this something that you kind of always wanted to do when you started your business?

Well, it actually was not something I was thinking about. It just kind of evolved rapidly. But it was a really good fit and it was something that I'm excited about. It's something I enjoy and I've been fortunate because of my background. One of my vendors is quick Attach. Quick

That's nice.

Yes, we also support Southwest Distributors which allows us about and they're out of Clinton, Oklahoma. They have about twenty twenty five different vendors that we have access to.

For all types of things.

Hey, equipment to skid steer equipment to sprayers. I mean we can, we can really cover a large array of pieces of equipment.

And you're right there in Pasco, right in the middle of everything. Yes, man alive. I'll tell you what You've just been kind of like a life aligned for several ranchers in the area. Like you said that that drive to Ponka is not a bad drive, but it takes time out of your day.

Yes, when you're looking at two hours. Yeah, and that's hoping that you got the business in Ponca City has it to fix and it's not two weeks or three weeks. I'm stalking. When it comes to hydraulics, I have got the largest selection of couplers anywhere in the state. And I know that because I've had a couple of people get in touch with me, and I'm the only one that's had it that includes the big names in Tulsa.

Wow.

So I'm stalking a lot of things up to one inch. My machine doesn't go over one inch. So if it's a one inch line or smaller, I can.

You got it nailed pretty much. Wow, that's pretty cool. Now do you have a Facebook page or a website or just what folks just to drive in and say hi to.

No, we actually developed a web page.

I think we went live in October, okay, and it's American Edge Products dot com. And then we also have a Facebook page which is American Edge Products and Instagram. And if there's something else, my daughter would have to tell you, because I'm not that guy.

Yeah, my daughter does my stuff too, Just so you know. I just look at it and said, oh, that's nice. And daughters are great, yes, And Jessica's working very very hard for you, yes, she is. My goodness, what a what a great team you guys are making here fourteen months? I almost hear that. Yeah, that's pretty darn good run here. Yes, we started uh in November of twenty three. Wow, so right post right.

Yeah, and then Jessica came on part time shortly thereafter, just kind of taking care of the books. And then she came on full time in October of this year.

Wow, my goodnessy. And typical day you're open Monday through Saturday.

Monday through Friday Saturday, and day by appointment.

By appointment, ye, because you never know, you never know, you never know. But this is great right there, just the west of Sonic in Pajusca. Yes, And of course we've got the big demo day coming up nine to four on March the first in Barnstall at JK.

Well, it's going to be at Johnny Kelly's residence. Ranch is where we're going to be doing it.

Okay, my goodness sakes. The other guy's a little bit busy.

Yes, and Johnny is a great friend and we are so happy that we're doing this together. Our goal is farm shows are expensive and we end up having to go to multiple farm shows throughout the year, and so our idea is to make our own farm show.

Why not?

And if this is successful, and we think it's going to be, we're going to possibly have one in the fall as well and try and do you know, couple times a year.

We also are going to have Bill knight Ford there.

Bill's a great guy.

Yes, yes he is, So Bill knight Ford's going to be there. They came on board with us, so we're looking.

We're looking right.

As far as the demo day goes, it looks like it's going to be a really solid day and the weather looks like it's going to cooperate, which is really good.

It's going to be to be a far crise of this, so it'll be about fifty to sixty degrees warmer than this.

Yes, we're looking at mid fifties with three mile an hour wind, so I'm the static it's going to feel like one hundred degrees.

I think yes, Jim. I want to thank you for coming in here today and telling everybody about American edge products. Watchkin, Where can we fight in Pasca.

We are at seventeen oh one East Main Street in Puhusco, Oklahoma, and that's just west of quarter mile from State Highway ninety nine and US sixty junction.

Or a block west Sosonic. Easy to find, easy to find.

Hey, thanks for being in here.

Thank you.

Looking forward to seeing it again, Shu. I appreciate it all right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our community connection.

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