Uhlig and Wallace were living in Dayton, Ohio, but had a mutual friend, Roy Hallen, who owned a small machine shop called Lincoln Precision Machining Company in Massachusetts. Uhlig and Wallace approached Roy Hallen to help with manufacturing details and to produce the new product. The three men jointly created the Lincoln Precision Machining Co. Hoist Division in 1949, and the Hoist Division began to sell the new hoist manufactured by Lincoln Precision Machining Company under the name The Lug-All Company. Uhlig and Wallace searched for a convenient business location from which to base The Lug-All Company sales office. Philadelphia was selected because its central location offered easy one-day travel to most of The Lug-All company's customers in its East Coast market. The Lug-All Company business eventually expanded to the entire country. Not long after setting up business in Philadelphia, Uhlig bought out Wallace's share of the Hoist Division.

In 1953, Lincoln Precision Machining Company and Lincoln Precision Machining Co. Hoist Division entered in an agreement that provided that Lincoln Precision Machining Company would manufacture the Lug-All hoists for The Lug-All Company and The Lug-All Company would sell the hoists. The new agreement also provided that Roy Hallen sell his one-third share of Lincoln Precision Machining Co. Hoist Division to George Uhlig. George Uhlig then owned all of the shares of the Hoist Division, and incorporated The Lug-All Company in Pennsylvania in 1954 to carry on the business of the Hoist Division as The Lug-All Company.

The 1953 agreement expired in 1968. When that agreement expired, the lawyers representing Lincoln and Lug-All could not agree on terms for a new agreement, so going forward it was decided between Roy Hallen and George Uhlig that they would continue working without a written agreement. A main point of disagreement in 1968 between Lincoln and Lug-All was Lincoln's belief that it should have full access to and the use of Lug-All's customer list. Lug-All disagreed.

In 1959 a new U.S. Patent No. 2,913,224 issued to George Uhlig that disclosed, among other features, a new main frame shape that is still in use today. That new frame shape was registered as U.S. Trademark Registration No. 1,336,278 in 1985, after the Lug-All frame shape became so recognizable and known throughout the marketplace. Today when anyone in the industry sees the Lug-All frame on a hoist, they say, "That's a Lug-All!"

George Uhlig passed away in 2002 and his son, Richard Uhlig, who had begun to manage the company several years earlier due to George's failing health, assumed full control of the company. The company by then had incorporated as Lug-All Corporation. Roy Hallen passed away in 1983 and management of Lincoln Precision Machining Company was passed on to his sons David and Richard Hallen.

Over the years, Lug-All grew to offer a large and diversified hoist product line. In addition to owning various patents over the years, Lug-All came to own U.S. trademarks in the LUG-ALL name, the LUG-ALL logo and the distinctive shape of its main frame.

Even though Lug-All was growing and exclusively purchasing its hoists from Lincoln, Lincoln began to seek to reduce the number of hoist models produced for Lug-All. Lincoln discontinued Lug-All's two-ton 50-foot cable model, the 450-R, about 20 years ago, even though requests for them continue to this day. In the early 2000's Lincoln wanted to reduce the product line even further by discontinuing the Rapid Lowering Series (a Lug-All exclusive), the 6,000 LB Mode16000-15 (another Lug-All exclusive) and the Marine Grade Series.

In order to retain these important hoist models in its product line, Lug-All had to subsidize Lincoln's production costs. In so doing, in order not to raise the cost of the hoists to its customers, Lug-All was forced to lower its profit margin so that Lincoln could retain its profit margin. It soon came to be realized that Lincoln's repeated balking at new product development and suggestions for improvement from Lug-All was limiting Lug-All's ability to expand its product line.

Then, in September 2004, Lincoln's President, David Hallen, sent to Lug-All a letter stating that "we've had a good long run but nothing lasts forever." Lincoln had been the exclusive supplier of hoists to Lug-All since the first winch-hoists were created in 1949. Now it seemed that Lincoln was advising that their exclusive relationship was about to come to an end, and in 2004, Lincoln was Lug-All's only source of Lug-All hoists. The September 2004 letter was an alert to Lug-All that it could lose everything if Lincoln simply refused to continue to provide products to Lug-All.

Devastated to learn that it could no longer solely depend upon having Lincoln manufacture the Lug-All products, Lug-All initiated efforts that evolved into the creation of its own new production facility. By so doing, Lug-All gained complete control over the manufacture its Lug-All products. After almost four years of planning and development the new Lug-All manufacturing plant has opened, and Lug-All now manufactures ALL of its own products in a state-of-the-art CNC facility with efficiency and precision.

ALL of the LUG-ALL hoists (including all web strap models) that are sold for export are certified to CE standards by TUV Sud, a German registrar, who also certifies Lug-All's ISO 9001-2008 quality program, making Lug-All one of the first hoist manufacturers to certify to the new 2008 standard.

Lug-All Corporation is committed to continuous improvement in quality, new product development and high manufacturing standards, and with a third generation of family management moving into place with the arrival of Steve Uhlig, Richard Uhlig's son, Lug-All Corporation is solidly positioning itself to continue to fulfill its commitments to its loyal customers well into the 21st Century!