Deal’s Small Engine ends long run on Main Street
Micah Piotrowicz and Justice Snyder move a shelf from the Deal’s Small Engine store on North Main Street on Monday. The store closed last Friday. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
The Smiddy family, which owns the Exit 122 power equipment business, had purchased Deal’s from Barbara Deal in October 2020, and had been operating it since then.
According to its Facebook page, which was still active Monday, the business sold and serviced “a wide array of lawn-care equipment, including Hustler mowers and Stihl handheld equipment.”
The Main Street store shut down last Friday, and staff were on hand Monday moving stock and equipment out of the building at 450 N. Main St.
Slade Smiddy, who was the store’s manager since the family took it over, is the son of Exit 122 founders Ed and Trena Smiddy
Deal’s, with the small-engine equipment and repair shop at 450 N. Main and a parts warehouse at 476 N. Main St., had been in business 34 years when the Smiddy family bought it in 2020.
The buildings were recently sold through an online auction.
Its products are primarily lawn and garden care equipment and supplies, including mowers.
Exit 122 Outdoor Power Equipment was founded by the Smiddys in 1994, and continues to sell Cub Cadet mowers and Mahindra tractors, according to its website. Its address is 2520 Andersonville Highway.