High tech, agriculture produce Harsh reality

EATON — Bob Brown, president of Harsh International Inc., concedes that Eaton is an odd place to locate a manufacturing plant.
But Eaton, right in the middle of one of the richest agricultural counties in the country, is where Bud Harsh founded Hydraulics Unlimited Manufacturing Co. in 1948.
In World War II, he had lost the use of both legs in an explosion as he tried to save three men trapped in a sinking destroyer. An innovator in underwater welding and cutting, Harsh returned home and applied his skills and imagination to agriculture in Weld County. What began with a…