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In 1925, two brothers, Ray and Koop Ferwerda, started the Ferwerda Brothers Construction Co., they were involved in the building of roads and bridges, installing water and sewer lines, and building site preparation. In 1941, Ray and Koop sold a portion of their equipment to rent a garage in Beachwood, Ohio, and buy equipment to make their grading machine. The brothers asked two Cleveland contractors, who they worked for, to be partners in the making of the grading machine. Those contractors names were Ralph Werba of Werba & Long Construction Co., and Donald Finlay of Donald Finlay & Sons Construction. With the assistance of their partners, the brothers created a manufacturing company called the FWF Corp. (Ferwerda, Werba and Finlay). In 1944, in the spring, the very first Gradall machine came out of the garage of Ferwerda, and dug a trench and a decent sized hole in the ground. The new machine had a hydraulically powered telescopic boom that could be tilted as well as raised and lowered. At the end of the boom there was a bucket mounted on it with two strong steel hinge-pins for wrist-action. A hydraulic cylinder operated the bucket, and gave the bucket the powerful wrist-action to grade a slope, load a truck and dig a hole. By the fall in 1945, the FWF Corp. had built five Gradall machines. Two of the machines were prototypes for testing purposes and the other three were for production and were available for sale. The machines were used on construction jobs throughout northeast Ohio and demonstrated to city officials to show the machine’s versatility for street maintenance, trenching and snow removal. In November 1945, the Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland made an agreement with the Ferwerda brothers to acquire the rights to use their Gradall patents to manufacture and market the Gradall. Then in January of the following year, manufacturing of the first Gradall Model M-2400 was setup in the W&S machine tool plant complex in Cleveland, and by the end of that year, Lot 1 of the first 11 Gradall M-2400 machines were shipped from Cleveland manufacturing operations. In 1948 at the Road Show in Chicago, the M-2400 was introduced to the construction industry. This machine was ranked as one of the top five machines on display. They recognized the M-2400 with unmatched hydraulic operation for digging and grading. By the end of 1948, the Gradall engineering team completed the design of the new Model M-2460. This model had improved boom design with the boom hoist cylinders mounted to the front of the boom cradle, increasing the lift capacity. At the beginning of 2015, Gradall introduced its new Discovery Series excavators, which featured an excavator upper-structure integrated into a Freight-liner truck chassis. Designed to meet the common needs of states, counties and cities, the first model- D 152_was carefully priced to meet conservative government budgets and it received a warm reception. Also during 2015, Gradall introduced Series V excavators in both the crawler and wheeled on/off pavement model categories.