BigK75
Member
Hello Folks:
Let me introduce myself. My name is Claude and I am from London, Ontario. I am manager for a software company. I am here because my family in Poland has a teeth distribution company and they are looking into expanding into Canada, but more specifically Ontario and then hopefully someday to the US. They have tasked me with gettting information for them. Since I don't anything about teeth I thought this would be a good place. As far as I know this company mainly specializes in teeth for caterpillar and I believe they also deal with esco and hitach but maybe there are others.
I am looking for information or even someone to sit down with me and go over some of the questions I have.
I am looking for information on teeth for excavators, backhoes, front loaders etc. Specifically I am looking for answers to these questions:
1. Where do you purchase teeth for your backhoes and excavators?
- Dealer or Aftermarket?
- Brand Name or Chinese or Other?
2. How often do you replace the teeth?
- backhoes
- excavators?
3. When you replace teeth do you replace only worn teeth or all at the same time?
4. Do you replace the nuts and bolts as well or just the teeth?
5. Do you service the teeth on your machine at the dealer or do you do it yourself?
6. Can you give me a part number of the tooth that you most often order?
- What is the price that you pay on these teeth?
7. Do you know of any leads where I could get the top selling teeth for some of the brand name companies like caterpillar/hitachi/esco?
8. If I call some of the excavator companies in London will they even be willing to chat with me to get these answers or will they brush me off. I am not sure how to go about getting this info nor do I feel comfortable approaching companies for this information.
Any help you guys could give me would be very appreciated. If you want to send me a PM that would work too.
If this not right area for this please let me know.
Thanks,
Claude
Let me introduce myself. My name is Claude and I am from London, Ontario. I am manager for a software company. I am here because my family in Poland has a teeth distribution company and they are looking into expanding into Canada, but more specifically Ontario and then hopefully someday to the US. They have tasked me with gettting information for them. Since I don't anything about teeth I thought this would be a good place. As far as I know this company mainly specializes in teeth for caterpillar and I believe they also deal with esco and hitach but maybe there are others.
I am looking for information or even someone to sit down with me and go over some of the questions I have.
I am looking for information on teeth for excavators, backhoes, front loaders etc. Specifically I am looking for answers to these questions:
1. Where do you purchase teeth for your backhoes and excavators?
- Dealer or Aftermarket?
- Brand Name or Chinese or Other?
2. How often do you replace the teeth?
- backhoes
- excavators?
3. When you replace teeth do you replace only worn teeth or all at the same time?
4. Do you replace the nuts and bolts as well or just the teeth?
5. Do you service the teeth on your machine at the dealer or do you do it yourself?
6. Can you give me a part number of the tooth that you most often order?
- What is the price that you pay on these teeth?
7. Do you know of any leads where I could get the top selling teeth for some of the brand name companies like caterpillar/hitachi/esco?
8. If I call some of the excavator companies in London will they even be willing to chat with me to get these answers or will they brush me off. I am not sure how to go about getting this info nor do I feel comfortable approaching companies for this information.
Any help you guys could give me would be very appreciated. If you want to send me a PM that would work too.
If this not right area for this please let me know.
Thanks,
Claude