Coe Orchard Equipment, Inc.

The roots of COE began simply in 1970 when Lyman & Lois Coe purchased a catching frame as a way to save money on the harvest of their 10 acre prune ranch and to make some supplemental income by using the machine to custom harvest some neighbor's prunes.

Within a few years the custom harvesting business had grown enough that Lyman decided to quit his day job to focus on growing the custom harvesting business. Lois would run the bookkeeping and run parts during harvest in addition to being a full time mom.

Lyman would now have the time to harvest more crops which would take him as far as New Mexico to harvest pecans and Oregon to harvest cherries in addition to the peaches and prunes he harvested locally. During the off season Lyman would make improvements and modifications to the equipment purchased from shaker manufacturers to improve their reliability and performance. In the late 70s pistachios started coming into production which added another crop to harvest and COE's first full time employee besides Lyman.

By the mid-80s the decision was made that to keep a steady well trained year round crew for harvest and to help provide more reliable and productive equipment COE would start manufacturing its own equipment. Lyman also thought he could sell a few machines to the public. The response to COEs first simple and affordable catching frame was overwhelming and by the early 90s COE was outselling its competitor in the catching frame business.

Growth continued through the 90s with the introduction of the Thunder Head shaker head and C7 series of wheel motor driven shakers that helped make harvest more productive than ever before. Early in the 90s COE moved its manufacturing facility from the original prune ranch to a larger facility in Biggs to keep up with demand in both domestic and export markets. In the mid-90s COE introduced the revolutionary L2 series receiver which increased harvest productivity further. By the end of the 1990s Lyman and Lois had purchased a 45 acre prune orchard adjacent to highway 99 between Gridley and Yuba City to develop a brand new manufacturing facility.

In 2001 COE moved into the current factory. The additional space allowed COE to work on development of the new S7 & M7 tree shakers for almond, walnut and pecan harvest as well as additional equipment lines for bulk handling. Domestic & Export markets continued to grow as well as the COE dealer network. In 2010 COE started plans to add an additional 45,000 square foot facility on the current site to further expand production.

COE is a family owned and operated business. Lyman & Lois still own the company and oversee the operations. Their 3 children and children's spouse's also work at the company in management positions along with a group of talented and dedicated product manager's, service technicians, office staff, machinists, assemblers and fabricators.

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