Two brands. One roof. Seventy years of it.
Cee-Jay Tool builds the Chris Cutter.
A Colorado shop puts a hydraulic stone splitter on the market and quarry crews take to it. For decades the Chris Cutter and Stone Mason names carry the industry standard reputation.
The Youngs come home and open Turn-Again.
Chris and Stephanie Young move back from Alaska and open Turn-Again Machine and Welding, named for Turnagain Arm near Anchorage. Chris starts with a few jobs in his father's hobby shop, a dogged work ethic, and one rule: if he is ever out of work it will be nobody's fault but his own.
Cee-Jay flies Chris to Colorado.
Their sales team keeps seeing Chris Cutter repairs and upgrades their own engineers never designed. Cee-Jay hands Chris a concept they could not bring to life. Six weeks later he is back with a marketable prototype.
Cee-Jay goes under. Turn-Again digs in.
The recession takes Cee-Jay Tool down. Turn-Again weathers it with hard work and careful planning, grows the customer base and a catalog of proprietary equipment, and expands next to the family farm in Greenwood into a machine shop, a welding shop, and a warehouse.
The Youngs buy what is left of Cee-Jay Tool.
Offered first because Chris had the reputation and the passion to restore the brand, the Youngs bring the Chris Cutter and Stone Mason lines home to Greenwood, Arkansas. Two brands, one roof.
Still building. Still overkill.
Turn-Again manufactures and maintains the Chris Cutter and Stone Mason lines and supports the heavy equipment that is the backbone of the quarry industry. The goal has not changed: the best rock cutting equipment in the industry, bar none. Real people, real work, made in the USA.
