Shegog said that Toyota’s reputation for durability hangs on a major cornerstone of the Toyota Advantage: Quality, Reliability and Durability (QDR). It’s definitely going to see me out, given I’m retiring, that’s for sure.” “So, we are expecting a nice, long service life from the new one, too. Other than that, nothing has gone wrong at all. We had to do the brakes but that’s about it and that wasn’t a great drama. We get Toyota to do the servicing and our old Toyota forklift has been almost faultless during its time with us. They say they are good and that helped with our decision, also. “Even our steel suppliers who deliver to us use Toyota forklifts. We have found our 2.5t- Toyota forklift to be a reliable workhorse in its time with us. “We know the Toyotas have a reputation for lasting a long time. Verhees said Toyota’s reputation for reliability as exemplified by the enduring innings of the Toyota 62-7FD25 forklift gave him confidence to buy the new Toyota 8FD30 forklift. In all its years, it’s been well looked-after and serviced regularly by Toyota, it’s had a really good run.” “In that time, basically nothing has gone wrong with that machine. Laurens actually kept the original receipt and showed it to me. “They bought their 62-7FD25 about 20 years ago. Shegog says that the longstanding performance of Ki-Ki Engineering’s older forklift greatly influenced the decision to buy another Toyota forklift for the fleet,” says Shegog. Now we can just hop on the other one right away, which is just great.” “Before, one of us would be doing a job and then something else would come up but we’d have to wait around. “We didn’t realise how handy it would be to have them both at the same time,” said Verhees. Ki-Ki Engineering’s Laurens Verhees agreed, saying he was surprised how often both forklifts would be in use simultaneously.
“Also, they’re really busy at the moment so it was quite good timing for their business.” “The original plan was to retire the old Toyota 62-7FD25 but once they got used to the luxury of having the additional forklift and not having to wait in line, they decided to keep the old one,” said Shegog. Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) area sales manager, Brendan Shegog, says that with Laurens Verhees nearing retirement, he purchased the new Toyota 8FD30 forklift for the business, to shore things up for his younger brothers. Our forklift duties include unloading raw materials arriving from interstate or Adelaide, moving steel plate, square tubing, and flat bar around after it’s been cut, and putting pieces into position.” “Mostly we use welders and oxy-cutters, lathes and drills. “Basically, we manufacture agricultural stone-rollers to break-up stone in fields prior to seeding,” says Verhees. A true family-run business, both brothers’ wives also work in the operation and youngest brother Peter Verhees has also recently joined. Ki-Ki Engineering partnership owner, Laurens Verhees, has operated the business in partnership with brother Theodore Verhees for 40 years and said their father started the business even further back, in 1968. Ki-Ki Engineering predominantly makes large-scale stone-rollers used in broadacre farming to prepare soil ahead of sowing crops. Ki-Ki Engineering, based in the small town of Ki Ki – on the Dukes Highway between Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia – recently added a new 3t Toyota 8FD30 forklift to its fleet, to accompany its 2.5t Toyota 62-7FD25 first purchased new 20 years ago. It was a case of ‘same again, thanks’ for a South Australian-based agricultural equipment manufacturer, when it came to getting a new Toyota forklift.
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