Monthly Archives: September 2026

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 ...

Last month a tree service crew from Georgia sent us photos of their grinder. The machine had less than 800 hours on it, but the wheel was shaking so hard the operator refused to run it. They suspected...

When a forestry mulching drum starts throwing dust instead of chips, the problem is almost always the same: worn forestry mulcher teeth. Tooth wear is the single biggest operating cost on mulching att...