Fall Accident involving a AU Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner dies from 12 meter fall in Australia.

According to window cleaning safety experts, window cleaning professionals with 5 years or longer of experience are more apt to have an accident, than those with less experience.

In the USA, the IWCA/ANSI I-14 standard has helped in creating safety standards for window cleaning industry.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends and industry with the death of this Australian window cleaner.

12 meters is approximately 40 feet up.

Celebrating our 50th Anniversary of a product

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the launch of the Tucker® High Level Window Washer in 2007. This year celebrates in many ways the 50th year of use of water fed pole for the window cleaning industry in the USA.

The Tucker High Level Window Washer developed from the original Tucker Car & House Washer from the mid 1950's. Today, the Tucker High Level Window Washer is more commonly referred to as the Tucker Pole.

In the early years, the in-house professionals were the early users of the Tucker Pole. Institutional customers, such as educational and medical facilities; hotel/motel, financial and commercial organizations were among the early users of the product. As the professional window cleaning contractor or building maintenance contractor organizations have developed, the Tucker Pole began to be used by those professionals.

The addition of "spot free" water rinse to the Tucker Pole in the 1980s has really opened the door for all, especially professional window cleaners, who maybe got started with only a squeegee and other tools in hand.

It's fitting that we open this blog, with an announcement celebrating the 50th year of the water fed pole in the marketplace. Our founder, Irv Tucker, developed a fine quality product that Tucker, its employees and customers, over the years have been able to build on and utilize.

The diversity of products and tools in the window cleaning industry continues to expand. We are proud of the origins and developments the Tucker High Level Window Washer has had on the window cleaning industry.

The Tucker Pole today is shipped to over 25 different countries, many delivered by one our vendors, FedEx. The development of water fed pole cleaning equipment has been a part of the culture at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. for over 50 years now. The benefits of "spot free" water rinse has added greatly the marketability, overcoming the challenges of areas where "hard water" created a problem in rinse.

The slogan "we go to great lengths" with the Tucker High Level Window Washer remains very true today. The Model 83 has a maximum reach of 83 feet or 25 meters.

For more information on the Tucker Pole or water fed pole history, you can contact us.