I am hard to impress,,, you done it.

 

Yeah, those guys just smoked it.

I could probably watch that crew day after day and enjoy it.

 

Another framing project wrapping up tomorrow with a little punch work.

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Time to make some reeding.

Sled.

Sled loaded.

W&H moulder with knife.

Run through the moulder.

The arsenal, bandsaw, planer, moulder, brush sander.

These are going to be drawer faces and island end panels.

Tom

 

Time to make some reeding.

Sled.



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Sled loaded.

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W&H moulder with knife.

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Run through the moulder.

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The arsenal, bandsaw, planer, moulder, brush sander.

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These are going to be drawer faces and island end panels.

Tom

Nice shop, how come no crap on the floor😂

 

Gaining on this thing, will be glad when done with it. Has not been a fun one plus working on one of his other ones at the same time while waiting for materials

 

Not a current job, but stumbled upon the excuse for buying this laser level (that was on sale) back in December of ‘23.

 

When the panel you’re glueing the reeding to is 1/4” thick and you still need to get the faces on the drawer box.

Tom

 

Well that's a PITA.

 

Billable with PIA up charge.

Tom

 

Just setting some deck posts.

 

Yup. Way to fly and cut some hard man hours off.

 

No doubt, we had 7 of us on one of them for 2.5- hours the other day.

4 guys set 4 today in one hour with the crane. The best ROI I have seen in September.

 

I set up a rental crane for a company and told the owner,,, watch for guys totalling months and seasons vs counting each day. So I am driving by and offer up 1/2 rate to a new guy to set some trusses... No,,, he can drive his little 20 hp tractor 2 hrs each way etc and set them with a little boom. I forget the details and do all kinds of things to keep the money in pocket but the leap is huge here and the dipstick cant grasp that at 1/2 off.

 

Reason I commented on this is that I have ran the math from both sides on this,,, as a renter and as a customer and guys that listen and pay attn save a quite a bit even with volunteer labor on truss set or as contractor on tract homes etc especially considering ancillary cost, comp hours, insurance and bennies etc.
Not only that weather, timeliness, can be sheeting roof instead of setting trusses at the end of a day and tomorrow.

 

I have a different type. I have erected with it but really too small and short for that regular work. But the crane out of the way and the flat is handy as a pocket on t shirt. Got rid of a 1T flat.

 

 

He has other people.

 

When I didn’t have “other people” the shop was always tidied up. If you don’t show/teach the others to keep their work area clean they do not care or understand the time wasted. The do not do it naturally.

Lead by example.

Tom

 

Don't have the time. It catches up to you when you get behind. I remember working for others. We had a crew of 12. End of the day for 15 minutes it was cleanup time. That's 3 man hours compared to 15 minute hours for me. It's more worth it for me to have a day where I put a couple hours into cleaning all at once.

 

I have heard this before,,, you have others. Obviously from someone hasn't done it. More people. More mess and very few clean more than they make.

 

Major upgrade,,,, hook for the tool and a spot for spray can which is always a super pain.

 

I moght make a fairing or hood, may see if I could make all in one unit that is simply installed in the stake pockets. I have built a lot of custom equipment and getting to the end of that where function comes first and so much easier to tailor when its simple and not worried about some extreme finish. Alteration and addition is easy. A guy builds something that is active too good and gets committed to it even if its not ideal.

 

We have a big shop for a lot of small jobs. We do rebuilding projects but am kind of tired of them. Being ready for little stuff we didn't know we had a bit ago is what it is and also being able to schedule/cope with weather if we need to.

 

Is that the door you let salesmen out of your office? 😂

 

I came in last night with a truck and trailer, thought it might be raining this morning and wanted things dry.

 

Man, that's a heck of a shop, you must be prepared for any job!

 

I am. I am not real complicated and while I can find my way around machine tools use the neighbors on the rare chance I need one. The shop is very universal and can adapt to any trade in short order and does have somewhat tailored bays.
So much revolves around automotive that we try to make it as easy as we can to do what is called 'pre emptive" maintenance which is slightly different than preventive and routine.
m We can drive an old car,,, a brake noise isnt ignored but dealt with most of the time same day kind of thing and moved out when done. I have a storage building,,, this is not it, this is shop.

 

I can go from parking space to paint booth in about 10 mins. In winter in very cold and snow I park plow truck in warm building,,, if we are headed out early in super cold, same thing. I am not lazy but can find an excuse and this takes some of that away and while I really dont enjoy the work I like having the ability to solve the kind of stuff gets in the way and stops me from what it is I am trying to do. Example is,,, the bad news its broke, the good is a couple hrs and 10$ welding rod and we will be back to the work. I can use equipment would be way to worn out for others.

 

I just retired a 91 and a 2005 but now the trucks are 96, 97, 99,,, 88 and an 84 and a 14 family truckster. Newest tractor a 76.