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 Surely you remember him, the bow-legged, friendly, Wild West hero who was always coming to the farm to fix things?
“It was my dad’s favorite show, he probably has every single episode of the TV series at home on the bookshelf,” said Haugskott.
In fact, the name is not the only similarity. Haugskott is a man who has always gone his own way and run two companies so far, despite his young age.
“I have run a contracting company with my partner since the turn of the year. We hire out drivers for various types of machines, excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes, and much more, and I’ve been working with this for four years.”
The company also has a road grader that Zeb drives himself. Things are going well for Team Haugskott AB. In just six months, the company has gone from two to seven people and almost half are women.
“The assignments come from all over Sweden, intermittently there have been many mining assignments and right now we have an entire job just cable plowing.
They work a seven day shift, which means working for seven days in a row then having seven days off. Zeb uses it in his own way.
“I’ll work at another location for seven days, then I work at home in ?stersund for seven days. I’m never off work,” he said, just returned from a job in S?len where he was paving roads.
“I live Hardox”
He has made himself known in the industry in a rather special way. The big red tattoo that adorns the entire inside of his forearm is very noticeable, since the Hardox logo is as clear there as it is on the excavator next to him.
 “Look” he said, holding up his arm proudly next to the Hardox logo on the machine, “check out how similar they are.”
The resemblance is striking and the question hangs in the air. Why did you get a Hardox tattoo?
“I live with a Hardox wear plate every day. I’ve worked with agricultural machinery, plows and a number of other machines. Hardox is everywhere. I come into contact with it every day and it has become a special metaphor to me. So to me, Hardox means that I am an exceptionally strong and durable person. It’s the tavern version after all,” laughed Zeb, who doesn’t take it too seriously.
“I think the Hardox logo is distinctive, it stands out. And I think it’s quite funny when I get to a building site, it’s time for lunch and people look curiously, but nobody dares to ask. Sometimes somebody comes up to me and asks if that was me in Trucking magazine and it was. It was a story from the mine, and they saw my tattoo and so I ended up in the magazine.
Driving a road grader in the summer and plowing in the winter causes a lot of wear.
You need a steel that can be trusted, every minute you can keep going before you have to replace the steel is valuable”, said Haugskott and went briskly back to his road grader where he spends most of the time, about 300 hours a month.
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