Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Charles Brady – BMO Capital.
Charles Brady – BMO Capital Markets
And with respect to moving OE orders into 2010, am I correct in assuming that there could still be more of that happening or have you kind of moved what you're going to move into 2010?
Timothy Sullivan
I think the bulk of its done. We picked up around $25 million to $30 million here in the quarter that we shifted into '10. So it's pretty well, I think, played out. I think pretty much of what we've got now in '09 we will keep in '09.
Charles Brady – BMO Capital Markets
In terms of production slots, looking out into 2010, can you gives us a sense of I guess how many openings on the production schedule are there now with respect to what's been moved into 2010?
Timothy Sullivan
Well we haven't really published that. I think that's still kind of a work in process right now. It's going to depend a lot on what happens here in Q3 and Q4. I think suffice it to say, we're probably about half of what we want to be right now for '10 and that's on OE only, not on aftermarket. And aftermarket continues to be quite strong with the larger install base that we have out there now. But we're about half booked I think on the OE side for both service and underground right now.
Charles Brady – BMO Capital Markets
Okay, and then one final one and I'll get back in queue. On the new order, in terms of a dollar number on new orders, do you think at the current Q2 rate, $367 or so million that we've kind of found a bottom on order rate in dollar terms or would you expect on a dollar terms does that kind of keep pulling down?
Timothy Sullivan
I don't think it's going to pull down. I think that's probably a pretty good level of, I don't want to call it worst case but that's certainly the low end of where we think we can book. I think we tend to underestimate at times the strength of that $28 billion install base out there, which in five years is three times what it was in 2004.
And there's some tremendous strength out there with that install base. And we still are seeing a lot of aftermarket activity. So it was a good quarter, don't get me wrong, in aftermarket, but with some of these other lingering opportunities on OE, potential business out there, if the commodity prices hold up and if aftermarket continues at the pace it is now and we think possibly even higher, I would say that Q2 is certainly on the low end of what we should be booking.
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