In August 2025, the owners of Duo-Lift Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Neb., completed an asset purchase of Linco Precision, El Paso, Ill., a shortline dealership whose primary lines consisted of Duo Lift, Brehmer, New Leader and Walinga.
Linco Precision was one of 3 businesses owned and operated by Illinois-based Skip Klinefelter, whose businesses interests included being Bottom Line Solutions and 2025 Precision Farming Dealer’s award-winning dealer group, ASTG.
Strategic Direction: Entering the Dealer Space
Ben Hellbusch: “We’ve been talking about a dealership for 20 years. We've ended up with a wholesale distribution and independent rep company, which is the middleman between a manufacturer and a dealer. We never lost the appetite for a dealership, but we're super focused on it either. Here in the last 6 months, an opportunity presented itself that gave us a chance to get into the dealership world. And coincidentally, it was a dealership focused on fertilizer equipment, which is Duo Lift's main business.