Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co.
Walker Machinery Co., a third-generation, family-owned company founded in 1950, prides itself in providing quality Caterpillar equipment and excellent service to its customers. Walker's more than 750 highly trained and dedicated employees help to make Walker Machinery Co. virtually synonymous with Caterpillar in Southern West Virginia. In 2003, Walker celebrated its 50th anniversary as a Caterpillar dealer.
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After 59 years as a heavy equipment distributor and 56 years as a dealer for Caterpillar, Inc. for western West Virginia and southeastern Ohio, the Walker Family is exiting the business. We have signed a letter of intent to sell Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co. and Walker Realty Co. to the Boyd Company, LLC owner of Whayne Supply Co., the Caterpillar Dealer for Kentucky and southern Indiana. The company has been in business since 1913 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY. The parties are attempting to consummate the sale by the end of 2009 or early 2010.
The Boyd Company is owned by Monty L. Boyd, a former Caterpillar employee and associated with Whayne Supply since 1984. The Boyd Company, LLC is purchasing the stock of Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co. and Walker Realty Co. and in essence literally "steps into the shoes" of the present companies.
It is the intention of the Boyd Company, LLC to continue to operate Walker Machinery "as is" and continue the name of Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co. By a stock sale, the assets, liabilities and obligations are transferred to the new ownership. Contracts, including our labor agreements with The Operating Engineers, Local 132 remain intact.
The Walker Family deeply appreciates the commitment and work excellence of our employees, past and present. We thank the customers we have served for six decades and who honored us with their business and trust. Of course, we must recognize the wonderful suppliers we have enjoyed who have been an integral part of Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co.'s success.
Walker Golf Tournament Drives Friendly Competition 
July 23
OAK HILL – Sam Lilly attributes his team’s win, in the Walker Summer Golf Challenge, to good solid play.
“When we needed to make putts, we made them and when we needed a good drive - we might have just had one in four - but playing as a team like that, you just need one,” he said.
Lilly is Sales Fleet Assistant Manager at Walker Machinery, Co. in Belle. His foursome
shot a 60, winning each member a $200 gift certificate to the Bridge Haven Pro Shop. Other team members were Sales Manager Eric Ramey and machine salesmen Steve McGrew and Greg Calvert. Some might call it luck, but it was not the first time Lilly, Ramey and McGrew were on a high-ranking team, Lilly said confidently.
Tim McLean organized the Walker golf tournament that took place July 23. McLean is Vice President of Operations for the Walker Machinery Co., in Belle.
“The weather was great,” he said. “I take full credit for the weather.”
According to McLean, Walker used to have the tournaments on a regular basis, but not within the last two years. The results of a recent employee survey shed light on the fact that many employees wanted it back.
“I took that to earnest,” McLean said. “And everybody had a blast.”
Thirteen foursomes showed up at the tee of Bridge Haven Golf Club, in Oak Hill. Machinery Transport, Inc. and Terry and Jerry Hildebrand of Hildebrand Hauling, Inc., provided lunch. Walker was extended a great deal on green fees. Walker provided all of the prizes.
First Place team members each won $200 gift certificates to the Bridge Haven Pro Shop. Second Place winners, with a total score of 61, each won $100 gift certificates, and they are: Steve McGrath, Luther Jones, Frank Hill and Harold Massey. Third place winners, also with a total score of 61, each won $50 gift certificates, and they include: Josh Vance, Phillip Paynter, Barney Goins and Randy Forren.
A Ping K-15 Hybrid club for longest drive on hole 9 was won by Phillip Paynter, of Logan.
“He crushed it,” McLean said.
A Karsten Ping Putter was won by Jim Counts, from Belle, for closest to the pin on hole 14. And a Ping Tour- S56
Degree Wedge was won by Frank 
Hill, of Belle, for closest to the pin on hole 4. Two second-place prizes went to Josh Vance, of Logan, and Kenny Judge, of Belle, for closest to the pin. Vance won two Greenbrier Classic general admission tickets and Judge won concert tickets to the Black Eyed Peas. Judge also won $50 for getting a hole-in-one on the first putt of the challenge.
McLean said the event gave a chance for employees to meet each other; people that only communicate electronically or by phone got to meet face to face. And he even had a couple retirees participate: Roger Lilly and Tom Piggott.
“I think we let off a little bit of steam,” he said. “We are all working hard towards common goals and objectives and we were just out there to have a really good time. I like it when you can get people from different branches together, because we’re just one company. When we have an outing like this, it gives
all of us an opportunity to see what a great company we are.”
Terry Easter, Technical Services Manager, Belle
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