Fruita sits at the west gate of the Colorado National Monument, where the red-rock bench meets the river bottom, and it’s about a fifteen-minute drive to our yard on the I-70 Business Loop in Grand Junction. Load a trailer here, be back on your Fruita lot before the coffee’s cold. Real people at the counter: (970) 241-4368.
Fruita’s subdivisions off 18 Road, the acreage along the river, the orchards and hay ground toward Loma. Most of it sits on adobe clay and cobble that laughs at a shovel. That is what the mini excavators, walk-behind trenchers and post-hole augers are for: sprinkler lines, fence posts along a horse pasture, a footing for the shop. For moving material there are Bobcat skid steers, track loaders and dump trailers ready to hook up.
Fruita earned its name on fruit trees and its fame on singletrack. Both mean yard work: cottonwoods along the ditches that drop limbs every spring, old orchard stock to clear, windbreaks to trim. The chippers, log splitters and stump grinders handle the big stuff and the Husqvarna chainsaws, pole saws and blowers handle the rest. Mowers, aerators and tillers for the lawn are on the Lawn & Yard page.
Two-story stucco, barn lights, the sign out on Highway 6 & 50: the 34-foot towable boom lift tows behind a pickup and goes up where a ladder shouldn’t. Hot water pressure washers cut the dust off equipment and driveways, and the pumps and compressors cover flooded crawl spaces and air tools. If it isn’t listed, ask. The yard stocks more than the website shows.
New Hustler and Husqvarna zero-turns and Husqvarna saws and trimmers on the sales floor · factory-authorized Hotsy, Husqvarna and Hustler service and small engine repair on anything with a spark plug · propane fills and exchanges on the way home.