Our 2014 Tucker Pricing is available online

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We have new pricing in 2014 for the Tucker® Pole System

2014 Tucker® Window Washer Pricing

2014 Tucker® Parts Pricing

2014 Tucker® Method X Pricing

 We want to thank our long-term customers, dating back to 1957 for the Tucker® High Level Window Washer.

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2013 Easter Holiday News

OUR OFFICES will reopen at

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Monday, April 1, 2013 @ 8:30 a.m.

We want to wish you a safe and enjoyable Good Friday and Easter Holiday.

On behalf of all of us at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., we wish you a Happy New Year

Wishing our customers, vendors and 

Tucker Pole users everywhere...

^{Closing early on December 31st for the New Year's Eve!}

^{Our offices will be closed on ...}

Tuesday, January 1^st

We want to Wish Everyone a Safe and Happy New Year!

Robin Tucker

And

our Tucker Staff

Enjoying a 3-Day weekend as the Memorial Day Holiday kicks off May 26-28th

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. will be closed May 26th-28th in observance of Memorial Day weekend in the United States.  We want to wish our customers, vendors and friends a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Holiday.  Our offices will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 29th.

If you haven't visited us on Facebook or Twitter, we invite you to Like or Follow.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those serving in our nation's Armed Forces, as we pay our respects and offer in memorial those who have died in service to our nation and our loved ones who are no longer with us today.

In 1915, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael replied with her own poem:


We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

Again, we wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day 2012 ...

Service Interuption is hopefully resolved with Tucker's Fax and Internet

Our company's fax and internet services were interupted Thursday, May 3rd for several hours, until the modem could be properly reconfigurated. Please feel free to shoot us an e-mail or fax to assure we received what you may have sent earlier in the day. Our Fax Number at Tucker is 1-319-366-7792 Our general contact information for Tucker Manufacutring Co., Inc.

Merry Christmas to you and yours, as we head into the Christmas Celebration

At 1 p.m., the offices and production facility of Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., at 613 Second Avenue SE, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA will close for Christmas. We will enjoy Christmas break with family and friends.

We want to wish you and yours, a wonderful Winter Holiday Season, as we enjoy the first full day of the new season on Friday.

We want to wish those of the Jewish faith a Happy Hanukkah, as it began on Wednesday this year. As we leave to enjoy Christmas cheer with our family and friends, we want to wish those traveling this Holiday Season, a safe and enjoyable holiday.

Our offices will reopen on Tuesday, December 27Th at 8:30 a.m. We want to say thank you to our customers, distributors and associates for their past business and service to our organization.

With warmest

thoughts and wishes

for a wonderful Christmas.

Labor Day Weekend 2011: Closed September 5, 2011

Like most organizations, Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. will be closed September 5, 2011.

In observance of the Labor Day holiday, Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. will be closed beginning Friday, September 2Nd at 5pm and Monday, September 5Th. We will return Tuesday, September 6Th and resume normal business hours.

Have a safe and happy holiday everyone!
Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA

800.553.8131 or 319.363.3591
http://www.tuckerusa.com/

We welcome September to our various customer, vendors, distributors and friends

September has arrived! Wow, where have the past eight months gone! Labor Day weekend is approaching and the coming of Autumn. Though, the weather today in Cedar Rapids is hot and humid.

We want to wish Carole Tucker a Happy Birthday, this September 1St. Carole has been a part of Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. for over twenty years now.

Domestic customers will see a change in our logistics, starting this month. DB Schenker is following DHL and will no longer be shipping in the States. International customers will not be impacted.

The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce will host an International Event this month.

We have been invited to be a part of the program, which we are looking forward to being a part of the CEO Panel Discussion. Our company has enjoyed helping international customers dating back to the early 1960s. We entered the Japanese market in 1964.

We will be preparing for our next Trade Show and Convention this month. We look forward to seeing many of you at this year's ISSA/INTERCLEAN Las Vegas 2011 on October 17-20. We will be exhibiting again this year. Our Stand is Booth #3318 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

School is back in session, as we begin a new year 2011/12. Please let us know how we can be of service to you this school year. We want to thank the various in-house professionals, building service contractors, professional window cleaners and individuals that utilize the Tucker Pole at their facilties.

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Accidents do happen: Are you prepared for it?

Accidents Happen
Are you prepared for Self and Partner Rescue?


August 12 – Pittsburgh

A few days ago a window cleaner in Seattle, WA slipped from his rope descending system and dangled 65 feet from the ground by his safety rope before firefighters were able to rescue him. If this were to happen to you or your fellow window cleaners, are you confident that you would know what to do?

Did you know that if you are suspended and need to be rescued, you only have 30 minutes before shock trauma sets in? In an accident, every minute counts. Make sure you and your employees have the skills they need to save others and themselves.

For more information and to register, please contact IWCA headquarters at 800.875.4922. You also may register online by visiting the following link. REGISTER HERE

HOTEL INFO
Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport
8256 University Blvd.
Coraopolis, PA 15108
412-262-3600
(A hotel room rate of $139 has been negotiated for IWCA. When you make reservations, be sure to mention the code “IWC”.)

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
7:30 a.m. Breakfast and Introductions
8-10 a.m. Plan Ahead for Safety
10 a.m. -Noon Working Safely around High Rise with Rope Descending Systems (RDS)
12-12:30 p.m. Lunch
1- 4 p.m. Working Safety Around Route/Residential

Hands-on demonstrations:

• Self-rescue


• Ladder Safety


• Aerial Lift Safety
  

FEES
IWCA Member Registration Fees

• Regular Registration $129.00


• 2-9 Additional Registrations $119.00


• 10 or more Additional Registrations $99.00

Non-Member Registration Fees

• Regular Registration $189.00


• 2-9 Additional Registrations $159.00


• 10 or more Additional Registrations $119.00

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. received the above e-mail promoting a safety program from the International Window Cleaning Association. We are one of the founding members of the association and have enjoyed helping provide a safe means to reach, wash and clean windows and other exterior surfaces to in-house professionals, contact cleaners and professional window cleaners, such as members of the IWCA.

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We want to wish I.L. 'Tommy' Tucker a Happy Birthday on May 9, 2011

Our founder I.L. 'Irv' Tucker founded Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. in 1945. He would have been 110 years old this year. Since 1945, one person has been associated with our company from the beginning and that would be Irv's son, Tommy, pictured to the left.

Today, Monday, May 9Th is Tommy's birthday. His son, Robin, celebrated his birthday on the Sunday, the 8Th. Another son, not involved with Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. anymore was born on the 5Th. May birthdays have been a family tradition for some.

On behalf of everyone at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., we want to wish Tommy a "Happy Birthday" as he is enjoying time with yet another family member, his daughter, Marcia. Marcia worked for Tucker back in college and moved to Arizona to enjoy a career in special education and working with special needs populations. She is married and has a daughter.

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May 5, 2011

From all of us at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
manufacturer of the original and dependable Tucker® Pole Window Washer System and Exterior Maintenance System!

Customers: Old or New ... it's fun when you run into them in an unexpected way!

Happy April 27, 2011 to everyone! We hope the weather in your area is pleasant and you are not in harm's way. However, we know that much of the U.S.A. has been a little unseasonal this April.

It has turned out to be a great day today. Four conversations that were outstanding this afternoon ...

• Meet a early customer of my grandfather's,


• Visited with a current customer, who passed on his personal experience with my father that was quite remarkable, as well,


• Had a good visit with a potential new customer, and


• Talked to one of our distributors, who recently made his largest order to date

It started out this afternoon at the bank. Waiting in line, I struck up a conversation with a retiree, who I had never had the pleasure of meeting. We were talking about the weather and how it was impacting the move of the Czeck Museum (part of our local flood recovery). He was a nice gentleman and he asked me for my name. So, I told him my name and it turns out he was an old customer of my grandfather.

Now, my grandfather would have been 110 years old this year. Irv passed away in 1975, so it is not every day I get an opportunity to talk to someone who knew my grandfather as well as this gentleman did.

The gentleman started out by describing the business my grandfather had been a part of prior to starting Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. in March of 1945. Flood recovery has been on the minds of our community in Cedar Rapids for a long time, since June 2008. Our original business location was at A Street and 22Nd Avenue SW, right in the Czech Village district of Cedar Rapids. The gentleman's business was right across where the museum is today. Had Tucker Manufacturing Co. been at that location in 2008, we would have been destroyed. Thankfully, we moved up to higher ground decades ago. However, many businesses and residents of Cedar Rapids weren't has fortunate.

The gentleman talked about the products that we first made at Tucker Manufacturing Co. like it was yesterday. He spoke about the As we stood outside in the parking lot having this conversation, I just thought to myself how small the world really is at times.

Later in the day, the other three conversations occurred. The gentlemen from California passed on the time the story, when he meet my father "Tommy" at his business. Another "small world" moment.

April has been a very interesting month. Often, the grind of the world today gets one down. It's nice to have a day, where one can reflect and rejoice in the fruit of one's labor. And, today I saw it through the eyes of one of my grandfather's customers, one of my father's, as well as one of my own. Further, it was nice to hear from a new prospect looking to purchase their first Tucker® Pole model.

We are preparing to make a price increase in 2011. One of my distributors today stated to obvious. It's time that we raise prices. So, we will be passing on a price increase soon. The gas prices are impacting raw materials prices heavily. Our last price increase was in 2008. Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA. Our products are manufactured right here in the State of Iowa, since 1945. Since 1957, we have focused on the manufacturing of the first commerical waterfed pole system. Originally called the Tucker High-Level Window Washer, it is better known as a Tucker Pole today.

We want to say thank you to our long-term, new, old, future and existing customers. We appreciate your business. Thank you for sharing a part of our long and enjoyable history.

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We want to wish everyone a Good Friday, Happy Earth Day; Safe and Enjoyable Easter weekend

Our offices at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. are closed for the Easter holiday on Good Friday. We began that tradition many years ago, since it offers a good break between the New Year's and Memorial Day holidays for our staff, as well as celebrate Good Friday with our friends and families.

Friday, April 22 is also Earth Day, so we want to wish you a Happy Earth Day 2011, as well.

We are in the middle of a busy Spring, with producing products, packaging and getting them shipped out from our facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Tucker Pole is manufactured here in the USA, right here in Downtown Cedar Rapids.

We want to thank our Distributors, customers, end users, vendors and friends this Easter season. Our offices and production will resume on normal hours on Monday, April 25Th.

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Have you ever experience e-mail problems communicating with tuckerusa.com?

What percentage of e-mails is spam for your organization? Or, put it another way, how many of your e-mails are good ones, as compared to junk e-mail?

• Over the past four days, 2% of our e-mail have been acceptable, with 98% going to our spam filter


• Talking with our third-party IT representative, on average customers typically average 9% good to spam

If you have experienced issues e-mailing to any of our tuckerusa.com e-mail addresses, we invite you to e-mail us and re-connect. We apologize for the recent troubles that our third-party spam filter has had. We have changed providers and we look forward to a smoother situation in 2011.

Please let us know, if you have any questions?

Sincerely,

Robin Tucker for Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all, as Cedar Rapids enjoys SaPaDaPaSo 2011!

Think Green Cedar Rapids!

The SaPaDaPaSo Parade from Downtown Cedar Rapids will kickoff at 1 p.m. today. Our manufacturing facility is one-half block off the parade route at 613 Second Avenue SE. The Parade will start on Sixth Street SE and make the left turn on Second Avenue SE, just down from Tucker Manufacturing., Inc.

The SaPaDaPaSo Parade debuted on March 17th, 1975. The original parade took four minutes, which is certainly a sharp contrast to today's parade.

On behalf of everyone at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., in Downtown Cedar Rapids, we want to wish you a safe and joyful St. Patrick's Day 2011.

On Saturday, a little Red will be in the air, with the St. Joseph's Day Parade in Czech Village in Cedar Rapids. But, today's it is all about the Green! Happy St. Patrick's Day...

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We go to great lengths world wide!

Tucker Pole It Clean!

Happy Groundhog Day to All: No Shipping this Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The recent blizzard conditions and 12"+ of snow has grounded production today at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa today. Most of our staff opted to make today a "snow day" since roads were not easy going this morning.

From our neighbor in Downtown Cedar Rapids, SourceMedia:

Area roadways still challenging
Main streets in Cedar Rapids should be open in the next couple of hours. Crews are working on residential streets. Highway 218 south of Iowa City is closed.

• LIVE mobile streaming weather coverage


• Delays and cancellations


• Road conditions


• Latest forecast information


• NEW TODAY: Winter storm photos from Cedar Rapids, Iowa City

We received the following information from our shipping partner, FedEx, by e-mail ...

To All:

• FedEx Ground:
  
  Will NOT be making any deliveries or Pick Ups today. We received no Freight in and nothing left Cedar Rapids last night.


• FedEx Express/Air:
  
  We will not be making any deliveries, freight did NOT make it out last night. As
  far as pickups go, I will no more after the lunch hour.


• FedEx Freight LTL Priority and Economy:
  
  We will not be making any deliveries or pickups. Freight did NOT leave the
  building here either.
  

Thank you for understanding.

FedEx Sales

• From our representative from FedEx Sales this morning.

We will not be shipping any orders today, due to the recent storm. We hope to resume normal operations on Thursday, February 3, 2011.

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Our thoughts and prayers go out of one of our former employees who passed on Monday

Growing up in a third generation business, I always remember many of the guys who have worked in our manufacturing plant over the years. This morning, we learned the news that one of our former employee's passed away on Monday. Ralph Fowler, 94, worked 33 years for Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., retiring in 1983.

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Hump Day of the First week of the New Year ...

Happy New Year everyone ...

Blogs are always a good way to communicate news and a variety of information. It's nice to be back in the swing of things, but one New Year's Resolution I already need to work on is keeping the blog updated regularly. Where does all the time go in a day?

We hope 2011 is off to a good start for you.

We enjoyed New Year's Day watching college football. It was a bad day for the Big Ten Conference schools going 0-5. The Rose Bowl was sure a good game though. Congratulations to coach Gary Patterson and his TCU Horned Frogs, in the 21-19 win over Wisconsin.

We have had e-mail issues in 2010. Some Microsoft products work well and some do not. We haven't fully resolved the problem, but we are working on it.

Our normal business hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

We have enjoyed conversations with good long-term customers in England and California this week. Our thoughts are with one of our customers as they have surgery today.

On a more somber note recently:

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Rita Ertel, Bob Ertel's wife, due to the passing of Bob over the holidays. Bob Ertel was a former owner of J. Racenstein Company, formerly of New Year City. Bob was a great customer and distributor for many years up until he sold the company to the present owners, who also distribute our products. Bob was instrumental in the creation of the industry's first professional window cleaning catalog. He made the Tucker Pole a part of his first catalog. We are grateful for his business over the years. Bob's wife was also involved in the company, so we enjoyed seeing them at shows and doing business with both of them.

Bob and his former business partner, Marty Racenstein, were instrumental in the creation of the IWCA. We were invited to be one of the founding members of the association. We have enjoyed many shows over the years with Bob, Rita and many others. The association has changed in many ways, since the early days, when Bob and Rita were present. The size hasn't changed much. It certainly become more of a DIY show for the window cleaning profession.

Back to College Football this week, it is nice to congratulate both Stanford and Ohio State for wins in the Orange and Sugar bowls, respectively.

Yes, the season is winding down, but I do enjoy my college football. Of course, the NFL Playoffs kick off on Saturday and before we know it, January will be in the books and Super Bowl Sunday and Daytona 500 will be occurring.

If you have any questions about our products, please let us know. Our normal business hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Of course, you can communicate via fax, e-mail, voice mail, Twitter, Linkedin or Facebook 24/7. We will get back to you, as soon as is practical. Your business in 2011 is much appreciated and we have enjoyed helping people, since 1945, when my grandfather took a part of another company and started what is Tucker today.

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Window Cleaning equipment

Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA

Our revised office hours for the Christmas Holiday

Wishing all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

On behalf of all us at Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas this Holiday Season and best wishes in the coming New Year.

Our offices will be closed for the Christmas Holiday from Thursday, December 23Rd through Monday, December 27Th. Our offices will re-open on Tuesday, December 28Th at 8:30 a.m. We have closed our offices for normal business, so our staff can enjoy the Christmas holiday with friends and family. We expect a weather front on Thursday, so we wanted to give our staff a little extra time, if they are traveling.

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Join Us next week in Orlando, FL for ISSA/Interclean® North America 2010 ~ November 9Th-12Th

Tucker Manufacturing Co Inc. ~ Booth 3843
Tucker Manufacturing Co Inc. Booth 3843
Tucker It — Reach, Wash And Clean

The Tucker® Pole window washers and exterior maintenance systems offer the tools to reach, wash and clean glass, frames and exterior surfaces.

Tucker's window washers reach up to 22, 45 and 83 feet for certain applications.

Visit us at ISSA/INTERCLEAN® to learn more about this sustainable system that has helped in-house professionals, building service contractors and window cleaners throughout North America and many parts of the world.

The Tucker Pole utilizes water purification for spot-free applications, detergent dispensers that assist with certain jobs and an array of various accessories to reach over window ledges and different brushes for specialty jobs.

Contact Tucker to learn more about the sustainable aspects of the waterfed Tucker Pole.

• Visit us at ISSA/INTERCLEAN Booth 3843

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