Carl McFarland: Celebrating 20 years of hard work and the right team
If you’ve purchased, operated or worked on an Apache Sprayer in the last 20 years, there’s a good chance you’ve inspected some of Carl McFarland’s work.
McFarland began working on the assembly line at Equipment Technologies in 1999 when the company’s manufacturing facility was located near the airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. At first, he saw the job as a way to do what he loved — working in manufacturing and playing a role in providing machinery for hard-working farmers — but he soon saw it was about much more than just the work. It was, and remains 20 years later, all about the people.
“I believe when you have a group of people who work well together, it is just awesome. You can get a lot of work done and have a good time doing it when you’re with the right people. The people here make me want to get up and go to work every morning,” McFarland said. “It makes me feel good when I’ve finished a day’s work and I can look at what I’ve helped build. Apache Sprayers are great products, and I am proud to say I help make them.”
Helping the company in the early days took a lot of hard work, McFarland said, but it’s that work ethic — a common thread among Equipment Technologies employees and leaders — that makes the company a unique place.
“The company went through some hard times, as all successful company’s do, but everybody worked hard,” he said. “Because it’s such a great place to work, everybody seems to want to work hard to help keep the company moving forward.”
McFarland is a man who values a hard day’s work, a job well done and contributing to a high-quality product that helps the customer do his or her job well. It’s reflected not just in the work he does every day — which over the years has covered the manufacturing and assembly of everything including sprayer frame rails, crossmembers, rear ends, fuel tanks, cabs and booms — but also how he wants to be remembered one day when he decides to retire. That day is not anywhere near, though, he says.
“I hope when I retire that people remember me as a hard worker and someone really nice to work with because I truly love working here,” McFarland said.
Read more about Equipment Technologies team members here.
