It's impossible to say much about the history of DR® Power Equipment without mentioning our late co-founder, Lyman P. Wood.

In the 1960's, Lyman Wood changed the future of American gardening by founding the company that later became known as Garden Way and developed its first product, the Troy-Bilt® Rototiller. Over the next two decades Lyman made Troy-Bilt the number one selling rototiller in the U.S.

A few of us here at DR® Power Equipment worked alongside Lyman in the 1960's, '70s, and early '80s, helping to sell rototillers and the gardening-centered lifestyle they helped make possible. But things changed, many Americans turned away from large gardens and we — Lyman included — left the tiller business to start a new venture. This time the focus was on helping folks care for their land and property (in much the same way as we had encouraged them to care for their gardens some years before).

That new venture was DR® Power Equipment.