Yearly Archives: 2026

A county road department in the northern US ran out of cutting-edge life in the middle of a February storm. The soft edges on two plow trucks had worn back to the steel in four hours of hard plowing, ...

A mixed farm in the US Midwest ran a six-metre stubble cultivator through a wet harvest season. By the third week the points had worn back enough that the tines were dragging soil instead of cutting i...

A tree-waste processor in Oregon ran a Morbark 4600XL horizontal grinder through demolition wood that was mixed with rebar and concrete dust. The original teeth were gone in six weeks, and by the time...

A biomass yard in the Pacific Northwest was processing stumps, demolition wood and green waste through a pair of horizontal grinders, and their wear-parts spend was all over the map: cheap tips that d...

A grinding contractor in Ohio added a second shift on his 3680XP to keep up with tear-off shingles, and his wear-parts bill doubled in a month. The teeth were not wearing out faster — he was simply ru...

A land-clearing crew near Trois-Rivières was three days into a right-of-way job when the DAF-180E started leaving streaks of uncut brush. The operator pulled the head, and half the forged knives were ...

A quarry manager in Western Australia once told us his bucket rebuild budget was the only line item he could not predict. The lip would look fine at the monthly inspection, then lose six millimeters o...

FAE mulching heads hold their value better than almost anything else in the land clearing business, and for good reason. The weak point is not the machine. It is a row of steel teeth spinning against ...