About Us - Yellowhouse Machinery Co.

Yellowhouse Machinery Company is the oldest John Deere Construction equipment dealership West of the Mississippi; Mr. J.E. Hancock established the business in 1958. At that time, there were no John Deere dealerships that were strictly construction, although there were many John Deere combination agriculture and construction dealerships. Mr. Hancock established Yellowhouse Machinery Company, John Deere’ first Construction-only dealership, so that he could sell the Hancock Elevating Scrapers that he manufactured. Mr. Hancock hired Mr. Morris O. Kerr as general manager of this progressive enterprise. In 1960, Mr. Hancock sold Yellowhouse Machinery Company to Mr. Joe Thompson and Mr. Morris O. Kerr.

In 1986 Yellowhouse Machinery expanded to the Panhandle and opened its dealership in Amarillo under the direction of Mike Kerr, Morris’ son, when it bought Deckard Equipment Company. In November 1991, John Kritser bought Yellowhouse Machinery Company from Morris Kerr, Joe Thompson and Mike Kerr. In November 2001, Yellowhouse Machinery expanded south and opened dealerships in Abilene and Odessa. In January 2005, Yellowhouse opened its fifth dealership in San Angelo. Currently, the company sells and services John Deere Construction Equipment, Hitachi Construction Equipment, JLG Telehandlers, Bomag Compaction Equipment, Etnyre asphalt distributors, chip spreaders and trailers, Ranco belly dump and end dump trailers, in 91 counties (almost half of the state of Texas).