Last Summer I was going to buy some equipment from them and they were 6-10 weeks out from being able to process my order as well. Sorry to hear they are even further out now. Not sure how a small operation stays going with times like that. I ended up buying a Land Pride box blade also and it was extremely well built. I've had an EA box blade and grapple in the past and they were excellent. But when you need an attachment, there aren't a whole lot of people out there who can wait 2-3 months for it. When you need it, you need now.
We stay going because of increasing demand and we stay behind because demand has grown faster than our ability to build the product...
This was written by Ted a couple of months ago and posted in the
Everything Attachments Channel group.
Good morning to all the EA group. I just wanted to share a little bit about how lead times are working...
I know this is a painful subject but needs to be addressed. Growing pains are real and they hurt both of us. We lose orders and our valued customers are not getting what they need when they need it. There was a day a few years ago when we had a pile of attachments and just hoped we could build the EA brand up to sell them. I will never cut corners to be able to keep up production or make it easy to build. I have been using every attachment we build from many of the best brands from the time my dad would let me on a tractor. Besides the lawn mower when I was about 6 years old, my first start was on a YM135 Yanmar in 1972. I was 8 and loved it. Through the years, I destroyed many attachments and 3 point hitch parts at my dads expense. Now, it is my goal to build the best attachments on the planet so you guys don't have to worry about destroying them. This does not mean they cant be bent or destroyed if not used correctly, but we engineer them to have the best design for the intended use. It is our intention to make them out perform all others and be as affordable as possible.
The sad thing is... We have the equipment and just paid for the old factory we were leasing that is just sitting full of lasers and every thing needed to do twice as much, BUT WHERE DO WE FIND GOOD SKILLED WORKERS THAT WILL WORK. ?? There is little room to train a worker to make YOUR attachments to our standards. It seems no one these days wants to work. We are constantly hiring at Everything Attachments, but between people that can't do the job and won't come to work, that is our biggest challenge. We start no one below 15 dollars per hour and most make 20 plus plus.
I LOVE MADE IN THE USA, BUT IT IS A REAL CHALLENGE. MY GOAL IS TO SAY IT WILL SHIP IN LESS THAN 3 DAYS. We will not quit till we get there. I have been working harder than ever in my life to 6 AM till 4 or 5 PM then go home a think the rest of my day on how to fix this great problem. Thanks to all of our awesome EA CUSTOMERS!!!
Ted Corriher.
How it begins...
Flip any box blade over and compare it to this. Check out the triangular bracing, horseshoe plates of steel under the tube and plate added to the leading edge for wear resistance.
The best USA tubes are laser cut and welded by people inside our factory.
Very strong ripper shank attachment points. It isn't as cheap or easy as most others, but it is stronger.
Welded hitch is also more expensive to make, handle and ship for us, but no corners are cut.
Strong, solid, continuous welds. This is art.
We build them and we use them.
Another big reason for our being behind. Around 300 people are in line for a
Wicked Root Rake Grapple at any given moment.
I hope this helps to explain the situation we're dealing with. We understand if you can't wait, but, all the time, people tell us that the wait was well worth it.
Travis
