Manta Machinery Sales Co., Inc

Spring Hill, Florida
P 352-596-1007 / Fax 352-596-7003
email: sales@mantamachinery.com / homepage: www.mantamachinery.com

Welcome to Manta Machinery. We'll try and introduce ourselves and hopefully tell you a little about ourselves in business and other aspects of  this trade. 

Like most of the dealers throughout the country Manta Machinery started out working in the used machinery market place while working for another used machinery dealership.
Learning the trade, making contacts, and through many years of experience finally gives someone enough confidence to venture out on their own. Manta Machinery finally did that
in 1998 and has been around for over 10 years with nearly 15 years experience.  Entering in the machinery business at a very young age was very interesting and it was very hard I
must admit establishing some relationships as you know it's hard to gain ones trust and respect when everyone else has been doing this for decades and into their 2nd or 3rd GENERATION.

Nonetheless we were very persistent and the experience taught us that treating customers with utmost respect, giving the customers the largest selection of used machine tools was
also very vital in the success as we all know that at times the CNC market is very HOT, then the large manual machinery might get very HOT and the CNC market will slow down.
This simple but very effective strategy has kept Manta Machinery in business through the ups and downs of the business.  We started out just brokering machines to now owning many machines throughout the marketplace , renting warehouse space with partners throughout the USA.

Manta Machiney has developed many strategic relationships with key businesses in the machinery world.  We have the ability to provide a turn key approach to selling a machine
to a customer or to just broker a simple deal.  We have the ability to take in a 1970's  Vertical Boring Mill of any size and completely strip it down and remanufacture the machine
and retrofit it with the most Modern CNC Fanuc Control or whatever control the customer may want.

We have literally hundreds of machines with our parnters in plants like General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Rotek Bearing, Smith Aerospace only to name but a few. We have sold machines from Maine to Mexico and from New Zealand to New Mexico.

Manta Machinery will evaluate and purchase your machine if you so desire. We can place your machine on our website for FREE. Soon you will be able to list it yourself on our machinery FORUM (see main page for link).  We have the ability to reach THOUSANDS of dealers throughout the country immediately to market your machine and can reach literally hundreds of thousands and more end users categorized to what machines they run to market your machine more efficiently than ever before.

Many Many people ask "how is it possible that you can list all these machines on your website, do you own all of these" ?

    This is a VERY common question and one that we love to answer.  We are one of the only dealers that lists each and every one of the machines we come across.  It's as simple as the more machines you list, the more machines you can sell to potential customers. We keep track of which mfg'ing company has which machine for sale.  Many other dealers will use other dealers to advertise their machines also.  To be honest, a single dealer cannot even come close to getting their machines out to every buyer out there. Us dealers rely very heavily on the networking and relationships that we have together to get our machines on the market and throughout the market as soon as possible. So as each machine comes through our email from .......... End Users.........Bank Repos.........Other Dealers......Private Individuals........Leasing Companies......and Banks.......and many more, we put the machines on our website with a brief description and some photos so we may be able to quote you.

     The ABSOLUTE hardest and most annoying thing in this business is keeping track of the availability of each and every machine. We do apologize for the ( ** SOLD **)
text after some machines.  IF we do not do this, search engines would never be able to differentiate your sold machines to the available machines (this is another story all together).

    We would like to personally thank you for visiting our website and please feel free to simply browse our VERY EASY to use website. A category or machine should only be 1 or clicks away. We like to keep it simple as we know your day is very busy and navigating our website isn't on the top of your list to do while you are running machines in your plant.

A LITTLE ABOUT THE OWNER

    My name is Gerald Heddleson, and live in West Central Florida where the weather is beautiful most of the year. This area is called the "Nature Coast" with some of the Best Scuba Diving in the WORLD with it's MANY beautiful caves and caverns that run keep into the Florida Auquifer.  Many people have lost their lives (including a schoolmate of mine years ago) in the caves as one kick of your fin and it will stir up all the silt that has laid there undisturbed for years. Once it muddies the water up and if you don't have a lifeline you will not be able to find your way back.  Fishing is another hobby, sport, whatever you call it that I love to do.  I live in an area called HOMOSASSA. It's actuallyl the Tarpon capital of the USA.  The largest record Tarpon have come from this area. For a great fishing vacation, check out the internet and fish the Tarpon when they are in season. NOTHING like catching a 200-300 lb  Tarpon. One of the BesT SPORTFISH in the world !!! (Sorry I get carried away when I talk about fishing).

I also really enjoy cars. My favorite is the Dodge Viper with it's heart pounding stock 500 - 600HP engine. There's nothing like the Torque that when launched, reverses the Earth's orbit for a split second..... I actually own one (no kids yet!!) and love the speed. I actually owned another one I supercharged and had over 1,000 HP and it ran with street tires, 1000% street legal (full A/C, stereo, etc just like you'd ride to Grandma's house) over 140 MPH at 10.4 Seconds.  I could beat ANY litre Sport Bike and I used to make videos of it. You can still see the videos on Youtube about it. Noone ever beleives it though... (Sorry I get carried away again!).  But hey ..., that's me.. !

Some machines you may come across on our site are:

So if you're searching for a machine, Please feel free to give us a call. We'd love to talk to you.

Singed...

President, Chief Executioner, head Honcho

Gerald Heddleson