In Africa, Repairable Beats Cheap
A machine 30,000 yuan cheaper, then two months waiting for parts and 200,000 yuan of downt…
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Twelve Years in This Trade — Three Things I Tell Newcomers to Think Through First
Last week a young man born in '95 came to the warehouse wanting to enter used-equipment ex…
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At the Trade Fair We Printed No Flyers — Just Three Things
At the Canton Fair we printed not a single flyer. We brought a monitor, a box of parts sam…
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We Built a File for Every Machine
From this year, every machine through our warehouse gets its own file: inspection photos, …
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Used Excavator Slewing Bearings: The Play Must Not Exceed This Number
I have an iron rule for excavators: no machine with slewing bearing play over 2 mm. In Mar…
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A Ten-Year Customer Bought Me a Coffee and We Talked for Four Hours
In January in Dar es Salaam, Mohammed bought me a coffee by the sea. Ten years on, he's go…
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The Excavator We Sold Ten Years Ago Is Still Running
We revisited the first batch of machines we sold in 2015. Of the three units, one was scra…
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Electric Construction Machinery Is Here — Will the Used Market Change?
Three electric loaders sit in the Changzhou warehouse at 60% of diesel prices, and after t…
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We Lay One Machine's Whole Ledger Open for the Customer
In September a customer asked how much we actually make off him on one excavator. I listed…
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