MCBURNEY SALES

McBurney Sales was always a family business and in the early days my mother and grandfather both worked with my dad. As the years went by and the company grew, my brother and I came on board. We didn't have a chance because we lived beside the business and grew up knowing that working with our parents was in the cards. Over the years we have developed into a specialty house that both sells and services tools and equipment. We have sold hydraulic equipment used to erect the CN Tower. We were involved in providing equipment for the Olympic Stadium in Montreal and we have consulted on the proper equipment to lift a bridge, raise a roof and even lift a ten-story building faced with marble. We have worked with the University of Toronto and supplied the equipment used to test the strength of reinforced concrete using a block of cement reinforced in various ways to give it strength, then placed in a huge reaction frame where it was stressed by hydraulic cylinders at 48 different locations,..