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Full Circle- Back to where I started (almost)

Don.S

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Mar 28, 2016
Messages
397
Location
Montreal Canada
We are over $15 000 a acre for farm land around here and some of it is not even tiled. I dont understand how people keep buying it but they do. At that price you can not pay the mortgage with what you harvest.
 

Birken Vogt

Charter Member
Joined
Nov 30, 2003
Messages
5,305
Location
Grass Valley, Ca
Port capacity shortages? Who knows.

Lots of service guys make their customers buy the parts direct. We sell them ourselves because that way we have them on the shelf. It has come in very handy this last year sometimes.

 

John C.

Senior Member
Joined
Jun 11, 2007
Messages
12,865
Location
Northwest
Occupation
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Thank you for that video. It explains why I run Toyota and not any other brand of vehicle. It also explains why Toyota has eclipsed all the other manufacturers of cars and why our particular brand of just in time engineering has failed.
 

Crummy

Senior Member
Joined
Jul 9, 2017
Messages
918
Location
Idaho
The guy that's framing my workshop needed some more 2x4's, he priced at the local lumber yards- $5/ea more here than going 70+ miles to Home Depot.
Get them & they are stamped Idaho Forest.
The mill is, literally, RIGHT ACROSS THE %@#!ing STREET from the locals! And it's PACKED with units of dimensional lumber ready to ship.
 

Truck Shop

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Dec 7, 2015
Messages
16,556
Location
WWW.
When this implodes will be ugly, and it will implode as unsustainable.

Every load we haul is a must get there an emergency load. DC's don't want anymore in the warehouse/freezer
than can be used that day, running on the fringe. So yeah when it implodes the shelves will be bare real quick.
 

Truck Shop

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Dec 7, 2015
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Location
WWW.
Yeah you better stock up on tater tots, tater barrels and tater doodly dangs and buy a 55 gallon drum of ketchup and 1/4 drum of tarter sauce while your at it.
And don't forget your tater krispy's for breakfast.

Actually I hate taters-nothing but a bunch of filler, full of starch and starch sugars.
 

Truck Shop

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Dec 7, 2015
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We haul all kinds of crap that is used to enhance the flavor of those rotten spuds. Totes full of coatings that the fries are covered with to make you eat more and more.
The smell is so strong seeping out of a sealed trailer it permeates the shop, smells like a 53' french fry. The list of chemicals/ingredients is a mile long. Mostly what we
haul really isn't good for human consumption.
 

Crummy

Senior Member
Joined
Jul 9, 2017
Messages
918
Location
Idaho
Thought for the day:
I had to get a pitless adapter RFN for my well; 1-1/4" Boshart SS, so called around:
Local supply house (5 locations)- $333.95 1 week out
Big box in Lewiston: $285.99 1 week out
Found one at local little well pump service- $205.00 "I'm sure I got one in the shop, let me look.." [edit- I have no problem with his price, he's not a retail outfit and I think he was generous giving it to me when he wasn't doing the work]
I'm doing another well on the property this year+1 spare "just in case" so I ordered online- qty 2 = $164.46 (incl. sales tax) delivered in my mailbox 5 days.
So, as I'm pretty sure the employees at the first two places are getting rich, are we going to continue blaming others because "we can't compete"?
 

Crummy

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Jul 9, 2017
Messages
918
Location
Idaho
OK, how about this one:
Went and checked out an ad I saw for a local little saw mill operation selling 2x4's for $4.25/ea. Ended up buying everything he had on the ground. He said if we need any more let him know as he and his partner are running day and night to keep up with the demand.
So here's the thing-
He said no shortage of logs to process, they've got loggers begging them to take log truck loads, because they are paying MORE than the big mills for logs!!!!!
And selling the finished product for less than 1/2?
Wait, wait, wait.....there's something wrong here.
I will not purchase a stick of lumber now that's from a big mill. Scamdemic shutdowns! Cant get workers! Bullsh!t, you a$$holes are just profiteers.
Keep my money local and food on someones table.
I'm so pissed now about what's going on I can't put it into words.
 

Truck Shop

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Dec 7, 2015
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50% of what I buy for parts inventory is on a supposed back order and when I do get it there's a price jump.
 

Crummy

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Jul 9, 2017
Messages
918
Location
Idaho
50% of what I buy for parts inventory is on a supposed back order and when I do get it there's a price jump.
Flatbed outfit here same problem. Struggling to keep the rigs in service due to lack of parts. I was jawing with one of the guys there a couple weeks ago and he said tires were becoming an issue too for some unknown reason.
 

Greatwestcam

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Joined
Sep 14, 2010
Messages
382
Location
Northern Alberta
Occupation
Driver/Mechanic
The same is going on here with parts or lack off, brake drums, oil filters, air bags, cyl heads, each day the suppliers are telling us its harder to get thing. But the price of scrap metal is up, the farmers are cleaning all their junk out around here, was told China is taking it all but nothing is being sent back.
 

Truck Shop

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Every month tires have taken a minim 5% hike. Just bought 100 drives and 250 trailer tires.
Brake drums were averaging $72 for cast balanced now average $90 to $100. Engine oil up
on average $2.00 a gallon. Grote trailer maker lights were $6.50 now average $8.50. Even
a stinking dock bumper was $7.43 now $15.42.
 
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