Shop / Yard Pictures

[Nac]

Post your shop or yard

[Wawrecker]

Whats an acre or two with a small building zoned industrial going for in NJ NAC?

[Nac]

If you can find an area that is zoned for outside storage of heavy equipment you are going to pay 600,000 - 1,000,000 an acre for the land. I rent and have been looking for land to put up a 5 bay 50 x 100 2 story building to rent out the other 4 bays to contractors and keep one for my self. It is very tuff to find the land and not be in a bad part of the state or you have to be futher than you want to be.

[SunServicesLLC]

Same here NAC I-2 property is right at 1 mil an acre I got real lucky where i am. Bought 2.9 acres with a 12k sq ft block warehouse on it for a little over 1 with another guy. I wanted the yard he wanted the office space. We rent out most of warehouse which covers half our mortgage. A few pics to follow from my cell phone. 1st is some of the trucks, two more hiding behind the building, second is just spun to left 90 degrees 1st three bay doors are my service bays and mezzanine sp? level of office space I will get better pics of everything once i find my digi camera

[jmac]

Same here NAC I-2 property is right at 1 mil an acre I got real lucky where i am. Bought 2.9 acres with a 12k sq ft block warehouse on it for a little over 1 with another guy

Wow, thats alot of money for an acre. In upsate NY an acre of farm land is going for 5k. Most building lots are 5 acre or more. No well or water but still a lot less than down state. I see folks from NJ or Lower NY come up here and buy large farms for 1 million. Behind my house we have a 300 arce farm with brand new riding barn and farm house, pond, inground pool, water fall, and two other large barns just go for 1 mil. The new owners or from NJ and are not going to move up here for another 2 years.

[CascadeScaper]

That sounds a little cheaper than the Seattle area, you're looking at $2-3 million if you own an acre anywhere near downtown Seattle. But, if you go about 20 minutes from Seattle, prices are cheaper, but properties are being snatched up. Business is hot over here, doesn't slow down.

I almost bought a house back in my hometown this last summer. Zoned industrial/commercial with a 3500 sq. foot house grandfathered into the zoning. Right next door used to be a gravel pit, the company used the house as the office. The pit went dry and they moved elsewhere. Would have been a PERFECT spot to set up base for an excavation company. 2 acres of open land, awesome house with a view, and there was even a ledge where I could dump spoil over, it would probably take 20,000-30,000 cubic yards to fill the void, I could dump stuff there forever. I had plans to live in the house after college, park all the equipment there, throw up a fence and get a big shop built.

[Wawrecker]

This is a picture of the building we are buying, we move in the 1st of March its in Pacific WA. 6,000 SF of building and 40,000 SF of yard. All for the low price of $850,000. Small sites like this dont come up very often and you have to be ready when they do. We are going to start selling used building materials from this location as it has freeway visability.

[Wolf]

What kind of used building material will you be selling? Salvage from demo? Is there a market for that up there?

[Wawrecker]

Ive never done it at a "Profesional" level before. Ive sold alot of 2x6 T&G for $0.40 a LF and misc wood beams. I think there is a market for casework or cabinets, etc. I am also going to sell misc structural steel like angle iron, I beams, tube steel, etc. There is a steel yard that sells this stuff used for $0.50 a lb which beats the hell out of $0.08 a pound. I'll see what happens.

[Wolf]

any "architectural fixtures". I hear there is a pretty big market for old doors, lighting fixtures etc. Seen some retail outlets in CT selling the stuff for big bucks.

[90plow]

I know brick pulls in some money also, because alot of repairs on older buildings require old brick.

[Wolf]

Nac:

Where in Jersey are you. Your lot looks pretty heavily wooded, and I thought Jersey was much more built up than that.

[Nac]

My shop is in Wayne NJ. Nj is pretty built up but there is still some open land but most of it is wet land and stuff you can not build on.

[DigDug]

Wow those prices bite ! I bought 163 acres for $100k :) in Maine. My house and shop is all on one lot. This is all i have for pics. Will get some soon. doug

[DigDug]

Heres the only shop pic i have. Is a 40x80 shop with daylight basement on this end.

[Lashlander]

Nice place, If your shop has a daylight basement on one end what is the floor of the shop and whats it rated for? Oh and are you sure that lowboys rated for that load? :bouncegri

[DigDug]

Nice place, If your shop has a daylight basement on one end what is the floor of the shop and whats it rated for? Oh and are you sure that lowboys rated for that load? :bouncegri

HaHa, my skid steer trailer is junk (time for a new one). SO i have to hual it with the lowbed.
Only the last 20' of my shop is daylight basement, and the last 20' of the shop upstairs is decked over with joists and plywood to make the offices.
Hows the weather up there? I have a cousin in Sitka , dont know if thats close to you. SHe works for the state, animal checker outer or something.
doug

[Lashlander]

The weathers been a little more nasty this year than usual. I think were getting the weather that you folks are supposed to be getting, this is after all tropical Alaska. Were located on the western side of the gulf and Sitka is on the eastern side. I've never been over to the Southeast part.

[DigDug]

I just looked on Mapquest . I see where you are , it says 5044 miles from me. :Banghead

[Lashlander]

I've driven it 3 times from Wyoming, its right at 4000 miles. Long haul, nearly did my wife in.

[Dwan Hall]

Tedays weather in Sitka and Juneau, Rain of corse. about 1" of it and temp in the mid 30's. And like Kodak we are gitting weather that should represent Alaska.

My shop is 1800 sq ft. along with a 3000 sq ft warehouse on 1 acre. in town which I got 5 years ago for $350,000. Today it is worth a little over $750K. Zoned comerical. Best investment I have ever made.

Dwan

[DigDug]

The shop.

[Wawrecker]

I'd be proud of that Dig Dug.

[jmac]

Very nice! What size doors do you have 12 x 14?

[DigDug]

Thanks guys , it feels good to have a warm shop . I built it 4 years ago my last shop was my dirt driveway for 10yrs. :mad:
It looks kinda plain today with no equipment or trucks around , oh well.
The doors are 14'x14' insulated doors & glass . Commercial garage door openers. Thanks, doug

[DigDug]

I was out in the yard taking pics of some granite i have for sale. When i remembered to take a pic of the shop.

[King of Obsolete]

digdug, nice shop, if you had all your equipment around that would mean you have no work. it is good to see the equipment out.

thansk

[Lashlander]

Very nice, Do you use the clam bucket? Do you have a granite pit and how do you cut it? Sorry for all the questions I'm just curious.

[jazak]

Wow those prices bite ! I bought 163 acres for $100k :) in Maine. My house and shop is all on one lot. This is all i have for pics. Will get some soon. doug

You lucky SOB :bouncegri

[DigDug]

Very nice, Do you use the clam bucket? Do you have a granite pit and how do you cut it? Sorry for all the questions I'm just curious.

The clam bucket is just for looks . My wife hangs a pot of flowers in it during the summer.

I am in the process of getting a rock quarry approved on this land , but it will be for crushed material. The granite is stuff i collect from demo jobs and sell here and there for some extra money. I dont mine the granite.

[cat320]

The shop.

That is a nice shop and a nice amount of land It must be nice inside too.

[wrenchbender]

Excellent Shop there Digdug:notworthy Well here's a pic of mine It ain't as big or nice as DigDug's shop but it makes a real nice TOOL BOX all the same.:thumbsup

[DigDug]

WRenchbender , thanks for the compliment. YOur shop looks great also. I like your screen name.

[wrenchbender]

WRenchbender , thanks for the compliment. YOur shop looks great also. I like your screen name.

Thanks, the screen name was given to me when I was just a kid helping my Dad about 35 years or so ago.

[John H]

Hear is a link to our web site. It shows a little of our shop. I'll have to dig around to find some more pictures. http://www.treetechinc.net/about/facts.html

[jmac]

John, thats a great story about Alex and how he got started in 86'. The photo looks like that was his first check.

[Serv]

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=27.678022&lon=-99.595814&z=18.7&r=0&src=ggl :yup

[DigDug]

John, i went to the About Us/History section and saw the pic of the check also . Great pic. I think i see a mistake where it says the shop is 75,000 hundred square feet. I think it should be 7500 square ft or 75,000 square feet but not both. I'm not nit picking , just wanted to point it out. doug

[Wolf]

Great website, and awesome equipment you run for land clearing!!!

How is Alex to work for????

[John H]

Thanks Digdug I'll try to get it fixed. As for working for Andy I am working on my 12 year. He treats us pretty well. In 11 years I have never had to ask for a raise.

[dayexco]

In 11 years I have never had to ask for a raise.


that says something for you more than him. employers, "not to sound cold here".......but view employees as a tool...you have a good tool, you treat it well.

[dayexco]

took these pics today, we're putting on new cutting edges, fixing leaks, doing the oil/filter change thing, detailing cabs

here's a link to the 2 pics i took today
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[Serv]

I'm making a new shop these days and remembered this thread. I bought a custom 50' x 100' building kit from www.metalbuildingdepot.com and hired a local cement man to do his part. We were supposed to pour the slab today but I hear thunder and rain right now. We made a 100 foot dock to accept 10 trailers. Thankfully, my wife saved up enough money last year (through our business) for us to do all of this for cash. I will be saving 2000 a month in rent from my current location that doesn't even have a 1 acre yard. I've been renting for 11 years so having my own place is new to me.

I got to work on a yard the other day and cleared about 3 acres of it with the dozer. By the end of this week, my yard should be right at about 6 acres. I spoke with a few local owners of multiple dump trucks and asked them to start sending me all weather material (gravel mixed with crushed asphalt) so I can start working on a solid base.

My property is way out in the county so I'm not having to ask permission for every move I make out there. Here's some pics of the retainer wall and start of the dirt work.


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Here's the scraper compacting. Remember, I can only work with what little I have. I don't own a roller yet, but the scraper did a great job out there. :beatsme


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Every time we'd water it down, we'd run the scraper over it for hours working through the night.


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[Serv]

Charlie, the new operator, getting the feel of my John Deere dozer.


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Angel about to service the scraper and loader before a day of work. Grease them all up and check the fluid levels.

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Charlie trying out the loader and me on the dozer

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Me on the dozer facing the hole we're making to build up the pad.

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Charlie doing some polish work on the pad with the loader

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Fueling up!


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Me on the scraper now.

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Here's a few more piles of scraper loads

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Charlie on the edge of the retainer wall. DON'T GET TOO CLOSE! YOU CAN KNOCK IT DOWN.


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We were told by the concrete guy not to get to close to the retainer wall with the heavy machines as we could knock it down. Well, that means the trusty old GMC needs to get in on the action too. :usa So I ran the pickup truck back and forth about 30 times and compacted the edge of the concrete wall the best I could.

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Cement guys out there doing their thing. We really had to get the level of the floor within an inch or so for them with the machines.


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This is the beginning of us making a yard out in front. Still have to get caliche in there sometime.

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Here, we had to make some nice access ramps for the concrete trucks to get up there and pour when it's time.



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[Serv]

Here's a little less than half of the yard I'm making. I know this job may not be the best, but IT'S MINE. *** After all, it's only my first attempt at anything of this nature.


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Here's a panoramic shot from the top of where the building's gonna be.

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Hmmm. What's this for? The dock maybe?


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Yup.

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[dirtdigger]

here is a picture of my place a couple years ago. It is a little more devolpoed now, and my big dozer (Fiat HD-21B) isnt in it.

I also sold the 762 JD pan and the Hoes trencher.

[Dwan Hall]

Wow Serv That only took less then 1/2 hour to post. Looks like you need to be back out on the job instead of playing on the computer. LOL
That sure is going to be nice. What am I saying "it is going to be nice" it is great now.
Thanks for taking the time to show us your project. We all need something to keep us out of trouble and it looks like you will be busy for some time to come.
Hope your wife understands why you are not home at night.


Dwan

[King of Obsolete]

wow, nice stuff guys, someday i'll have a fancy place, LOL

thansk

[Serv]

Wow Serv That only took less then 1/2 hour to post. Looks like you need to be back out on the job instead of playing on the computer. LOL
That sure is going to be nice. What am I saying "it is going to be nice" it is great now.
Thanks for taking the time to show us your project. We all need something to keep us out of trouble and it looks like you will be busy for some time to come.
Hope your wife understands why you are not home at night.


Dwan

Hey thanks Dwan. I've been working my butt off down there both on the project and trying to keep the machines from coming unglued. :D My wife understands perfectly and is actually rushing me to get done so she won't have to write out that other 2k a month rent check any more. ;)

[Walt 66A]

Well, I don't have a shop of my own, but how about where I work? I took this on a Sunday, when the yard was empty.

[equipment fan]

Welcome to the HEFWalt 66A :notworthy ,I think is the mcanninch yard.true?It`s a very beautiful yard.:eek:

[JimBruce42]

Well, I don't have a shop of my own, but how about where I work? I took this on a Sunday, when the yard was empty.

Welcome aboard Walt!

I for one, hope you will show us many more photos of your jobs:cool2 :cool2 :drinkup

What do you run for the big Mac?

Here is where they park the lowboys for where I work...

[Walt 66A]

Yup, that's McAninch's shop. I work at the shop, for several years as a mechanic, but now I do other things instead of pulling wrenches. I don't get too many pics of the jobs, as they don't let me out of the shop!:D I'll dig around for some I have for past jobs and post them.

[Serv]

I thought I'd post some progress pics of my yard. This is a continuation of the hundred or so pics I posted on page three. My spare time has been non existant lately and I look like a lobster from all the sun. Still have a full day ahead of me.

cliff notes: I cleared a spot on my land to build a dock high warehouse to eliminate the rent I've been paying for the past 11 years.

here's a pic before all the dirt work we did and a couple of current pics. We unloaded the flatbed at 11am two days ago on Thursday and worked till 5pm and by the next day (yesterday) we had the thing completely framed by 4pm. Not bad for a day and a half of work for four guys.

The building is now ready for sheeting. We should be done with this coming friday. I really hope we finish by our target date, because of that cheap loader I need to make time to go pursue. :D


The great thing about this project is I still haven't borrowed a single penny to pull this off. It's not at all easy, but it should be worth it in the end since I hate payments so much. If I haven't already mentioned it, my wife penny pinched all last year to save up the money to do this.

[Lashlander]

Looks good!:thumbsup Thanks for posting the pics.

[CM1995]

Great thread - first time I have seen it. Serv - your project looks very nice and kudos on not borrowing any money to do it!:thumbsup A 50'x100' building is a nice size especially with loading docks.

Wow - reading the earlier posts about industrial land blew my mind. $1 mil for an acre!:eek: I purchased 3/4 of an acre a month or so ago, zoned M-1 which is manufacturing and the best zoning for a shop you can get. Landfills and junkyards are allowed in M-1. Anyway I paid $45k for it and it is approx. 1/2 mile from downtown B'ham within a block of I20/59 and less than a mile from the I65-I20/59 interchange. Now it's not in the best neighborhood - that's what razor wire and security systems are for.:rolleyes: Serv like yourself I don't owe a dime on the property and I hope to build my shop out of pocket as well. But with the cost of a steel building, it's going to be tough.

It has also been mentioned about renting part of your shop out to cover the mortgage. This is a great way to have someone else pay for your building. I have 2 6000SF buildings south of town that I have rented out. I started with 1 building - with 2 3000SF office/warehouse bays. I had my office in one side and rented the other out. The renter covered the mortage and I was only out of pocket for insurance and taxes - which are very reasonable here - back then less than $2k per year for property taxes.

A few years at the first place and it was time to build again. Same building and same concept. I stayed at the second building a few years and decided to build another office building - 8000SF. I pioneered a little on this one and the old saying "build it and they will come" does not always hold true. :Pointhead Had a tough time in the beginning renting the spaces out so it was time to move the office again, so we could have some warm blood in the new building. The growth finally caught up and now this building is full. So it is time to build another shop building. (The office we are in now is just office no warehouse or shop :Banghead ) I have pictures of the current office and one of the office/warehouses here www.keystonebuildingco.com The site needs a little updating, we now have 12 guys on the dirt side.:D

If anyone is considering building/buying a shop, my suggestion is to get as much space as they are comfortable with paying for and renting part of it out to cover the expenses. Also I totally agree with a few other guys on this thread a commercial building is a great investment as well - especially if you have a renter paying for part of it. I set my commercial mortagages up on a 15 year note, so hopefully one day the building will be paid for. Also if times to get tight and you need cash, a building with equity can be refinanced and pull some cash out. I wouldn't advise this unless you really need it. And I will be honest I have done this once and was glad to have it.

[RollOver Pete]

Here are some of the Riverside Yard.
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[RollOver Pete]

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[Serv]

Serv - your project looks very nice and kudos on not borrowing any money to do it!:thumbsup A 50'x100' building is a nice size especially with loading docks.


Thanks man. :D





Serv like yourself I don't owe a dime on the property and I hope to build my shop out of pocket as well. But with the cost of a steel building, it's going to be tough.


Sorry if I misled you, but I owe around 120k on the property. :Pointhead I'm building the above warehouse (which will be my new tire facility) out of pocket.




here's a little background on why I'm doing what I'm doing in case anyone is bored.

About 6 or so years ago, I applied for a permit to reclaim a portion of the landowner's land using tire shreds as 50% of the fill material. The land owner is one of the larger ready mix guys down here. He previously mined a portion of this property for sand and gravel. The portion of the property I'm building on was not mined and or reclaimed. He allowed me to use his property in exchange for tipping fees from me over those years. Then about a year and a half ago, I offered to purchase the part I'm filling and more from him. A total of 15 acres. We setup a deal where I would be paid off in 7 years, owner financed so I immediately gave him so much down. My payment to him is actually lower than my tipping fees to him used to be. Also, by moving by tire business out there, I will save $2000.00 per month at the warehouse I currently rent as well as the freight associated with hauling these shreds to this site every day. I've been a renter at my current facility for 9 or so years. While my rental warehouse is larger (1- 9600 square ft. building), there is hardly any yard at all and only one useable dock slot to unload from. I had the building people design the bays on this new one at every 20 feet so I can back in 2 trailers per bay, totalling 10 trailer slots along the hundred foot dock. This way, I can use the trailers as a warehouse in place if filling up the warehouse with junk tires when we get in a bind. I We usually keep around 20 or so trailers at the shop so this new place will help tremendously for our limited trailer space. I actually stopped buying the cheaper storage trailers a few years ago because I ran out of room to park them.






It has also been mentioned about renting part of your shop out to cover the mortgage. This is a great way to have someone else pay for your building. I have 2 6000SF buildings south of town that I have rented out. I started with 1 building - with 2 3000SF office/warehouse bays. I had my office in one side and rented the other out. The renter covered the mortage and I was only out of pocket for insurance and taxes - which are very reasonable here - back then less than $2k per year for property taxes.

Once I decide I've had enough of this tire business, I hope to have reclaimed and built a huge ten acre yard, rent it out, then take whatever equipment I may have left over and go do something else. Currently, 100 percent of my capital assets in the tire business are completely paid for. That was easier said than done. The only notes I owe are my house and the 15 acre tract out there. I don't even have a payment on any personal vehicle we own. This was not always the case though. :D My banker doesn't exactly agree with my way of thinking, but then again, he's a banker. If he doesn't lend out money, he has no job. :beatsme I am currently getting all my paperwork together and working on a loan to purchase the best primary tire shredder on the market. You may have seen it on the discovery channel "dirty jobs". In this case, a loan is the way to go. My banker even came over to the house to initiate the loan process over dinner last week. He really wants me to borrow from him. Well if/when I get this loan, at least I was able to say I didn't owe on equipment for a couple years. :D




A few years at the first place and it was time to build again. Same building and same concept. I stayed at the second building a few years and decided to build another office building - 8000SF. I pioneered a little on this one and the old saying "build it and they will come" does not always hold true. :Pointhead Had a tough time in the beginning renting the spaces out so it was time to move the office again, so we could have some warm blood in the new building. The growth finally caught up and now this building is full. So it is time to build another shop building. (The office we are in now is just office no warehouse or shop :Banghead ) I have pictures of the current office and one of the office/warehouses here www.keystonebuildingco.com The site needs a little updating, we now have 12 guys on the dirt side.:D

My best friend and best man at my wedding does this. He owns ten or so buildings around Texas that he rents out. He bought 7 of them years ago at once and has since built at least three more. He struggled to pay off the majority of them and now owes very little. The seven he bought as a package deal had tenants in them from as far ago as the 60's. They are mainly phone companies. Verizon somes to mind. Let's just say that he doesn't work anymore. Well, he worked his ass off in the last two months. One of his tenants asked for more space. So Robert, his dad which is a life long contractor and a small crew headed out to go build a 6000 square foot building along the gulf coast next to one of his other buildings. We ordered our building kits at the same time, from the same place. He chose to build his own and I hired an experienced crew to erect mine at 1.50 per foot.

Robert says he won't see any money out of this new one for at least 5 years. He built it out of pocket and claims he's kinda tight right about now but he's finished and the tenant already moved in. He makes a comfortable living and is enjoying life raising two young boys and maintaining an upper middle class living. I think the main key to success in any business is to live and spend within your means.

[CM1995]

Very interesting about the "tire fill". Is it considered a landfill or does it fall under another classification? BTW - saw the Dirty Jobs episode with the tire cutter, that is a pretty neat show.


Sorry if I misled you, but I owe around 120k on the property. :Pointhead I'm building the above warehouse (which will be my new tire facility) out of pocket. .

No biggy. Regardless having only 120k in a shop and nice facility is way ahead of the game. The payment on the note is cheaper than your rent and you own it.:thumbsup 120K is alot of money but then again not a lot of money when you have what you've built.





I don't even have a payment on any personal vehicle we own. This was not always the case though. :D My banker doesn't exactly agree with my way of thinking, but then again, he's a banker. If he doesn't lend out money, he has no job. :beatsme

Absolutely. The banker's job is to "sell" money and he just like the rest of us need to sell our products/services to make a dime. If the banker is not "selling" money the bank isn't making a profit.



I think the main key to success in any business is to live and spend within your means.

Right on! It looks like you have a nice niche business. I hope everything continues to go well.:usa

[Serv]

Very interesting about the "tire fill". Is it considered a landfill or does it fall under another classification? BTW - saw the Dirty Jobs episode with the tire cutter, that is a pretty neat show.



It's not the same classification as your regular landfill. Landfill = big permits and what I do is more of a notification (alot of notification). Was it easy and cheap to get? Not really. Is it easy and cheap to run? Not really. I'm still trying to tell myself that it's less expensive than our landfill tipping fees though. But the more equipment I buy and run in this reclamation, the more I'd rather just pay a 30 dollar per ton tipping fee and be done with it. :beatsme






Absolutely. The banker's job is to "sell" money and he just like the rest of us need to sell our products/services to make a dime. If the banker is not "selling" money the bank isn't making a profit.


I finally borrowed from my bank. They committed to me last week for the purchase of a high capacity shredder. It's time to take this to the next level. :Pointhead I planned to put my shredder purchase off for one more year while I built this new shop, but I got under pressure when our shear went down a couple weeks ago and paid my banker a visit. The cost of the machine is 210k delivered so I offered him 20% down and he had me approved in 2 days. I bought a Barclay which is the same brand as the one on the Dirty Jobs show, just a newer model/style. http://www.tireshredders.com/49PrimaryContent.htm





Right on! It looks like you have a nice niche business. I hope everything continues to go well.:usa

Thanks! :drinkup

[Serv]

more pics of my new/future shop. Lots of work to go. I have 400 amps of 480 3 phase on the way as well :D

[Serv]

:usa a few more. These pics are probably a couple weeks old.

[Serv]

My new tire shredder arrived exactly 82 days after I ordered it. I went ahead and poured some concrete to set her down outside. This thing is heavy. I had to hire a crane to set her in place.

The first literature I ever received on this machine was in late 1999. The first time I ever called Mark, the owner of Barclay Shredders, I told him that some day when my business got big enough, I was going to buy a brand new shredder from him.

I called him at least once a year up until recently that I bought this. His entire crew knows me by name and Mark even waved the 40k deposit they collect to even put you in line for one of these.

I'm currently setting up an old 40 foot outfeed conveyor and finishing up the electrical to run this beast. I should be firing it up this Friday. :D

This shredder can process 2000 car tires per hour or 400 semi truck tires per hour and is "hands down" the best machine of its kind on the market, period.

[CM1995]

Awsome Serv!:drinkup That is one mean lookin' machine.

[Serv]

Awsome Serv!:drinkup That is one mean lookin' machine.



Thanks! :drinkup I know I haven't been around much. This setup is taking all my time lately. Maybe once it's all up and running, I can back off of work a little bit.

[cat320]

i saw that on dirty job feeding the tires thru to go to the cement plant for fuel.

[Chaz Murray]

here is our shop....the yard to the right is ours too but not pictured...it has our Trucking fleet trailers parked over there and with plans for another shop to be built that will have the main production in it and being 49,000sq ft...so we will amost double in size after that is complete:eek:

[Ross]

Unfortunately we don't have workshops. Just a Concrete pad. Some parts of the yard aren't even lit.

Took these today.

[cat320]

here is our shop....the yard to the right is ours too but not pictured...it has our Trucking fleet trailers parked over there and with plans for another shop to be built that will have the main production in it and being 49,000sq ft...so we will amost double in size after that is complete:eek:

Very nice set up there. what other types of trailers do you make ? do you do smaller like 4,5,6,7 ton utility(bobcat type trailers)?

[Chaz Murray]

Very nice set up there. what other types of trailers do you make ? do you do smaller like 4,5,6,7 ton utility(bobcat type trailers)?

nothing that small...:( the smallest trailer we mfg would be a 35-40 ton trailer. we only make lowbed heavy haul trailers ranging in size from 5 axle to 9 axle trailers and have been since 1946 in the same location.

[oldman]

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=27.678022&lon=-99.595814&z=18.7&r=0&src=ggl :yup

no idea if Serv is still around (too new to search)...but the location of his shop fascinates me...wonder what it's like there today? he's a stones throw from the border...

[fyrwood guy]

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Wow those prices bite ! I bought 163 acres for $100k :) in Maine. My house and shop is all on one lot. This is all i have for pics. Will get some soon. doug

nice spot you got there digdug,and you did good to get out of the power equipment business.i wish i'd picked another business it's in the toilet now as they have sold out to the box stores. (i just found your reply to my pic's i posted in another thread today) luckily my wood business keeps me afloat.
let's see some more pic's of your place.here's a pick of my latest addition.i'm going to build my own flat bed dump with removeable sides and headboard.
2011 6.6 duramax :D

[kevink]

Nice website fyrwood guy,wish we could find some trees like that in North Texas to cut firewood from got some good helpers there to.