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toolmanmike said:
I had (had) a electric vacuum that worked great for the patio and under bushes. It would vac and grind up the leaves and blow them in the attached bag. It fell over and broke into pieces yesterday. With it I never used a rake.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VSQFIU/?tag=fabo03-20
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Had one too. I bought a gas leaf blower for the far away stuff and to blow snow off cars. Wife sold the electric.
 
Tooljunkie said:
Had one too. I bought a gas leaf blower for the far away stuff and to blow snow off cars. Wife sold the electric.
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Mine wasn't a B&D but you get the idea. I guess I will put one on my Christmas list.

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Morning, very light snow here and the air has a bite to it. Coffee is on, and oatmeal is cooking.
 
jaws said:
Morning, very light snow here and the air has a bite to it. Coffee is on, and oatmeal is cooking.
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Good idea with the oatmeal. I have a box of flavored instant around here somewhere. Time to do some searching.
 
So just got some bad news from work. We’re in near panic mode. We have just enough inventory to last thru early Jan. We’d placed an order and moved away from just in time inventory last spring, before the major shortages hit. The steel and raw nylon we have had on order I guess since April, keeps getting pushed back. Last word was March of 22, now they’re saying maybe by June 22.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
So just got some bad news from work. We’re in near panic mode. We have just enough inventory to last thru early Jan. We’d placed an order and moved away from just in time inventory last spring, before the major shortages hit. The steel and raw nylon we have had on order I guess since April, keeps getting pushed back. Last word was March of 22, now they’re saying maybe by June 22.
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Ugh..

No margin of error in J-I-T supply chain..but these days there isn't much anywhere....
 
WV64Signet said:
Ugh..

No margin of error in J-I-T supply chain..but these days there isn't much anywhere....
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Luckily we as a company switched away from it. Our two main competitors are near bankruptcy over it, they’ve been hurting since july
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Luckily we as a company switched away from it. Our two main competitors are near bankruptcy over it, they’ve been hurting since july
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Figure a lot of places are getting crushed with material shortages on the one hand and then completed product transportation availability and cost on the other.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
So just got some bad news from work. We’re in near panic mode. We have just enough inventory to last thru early Jan. We’d placed an order and moved away from just in time inventory last spring, before the major shortages hit. The steel and raw nylon we have had on order I guess since April, keeps getting pushed back. Last word was March of 22, now they’re saying maybe by June 22.
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Our buyers apparently decided to hedge against shortages. Warehouse is stuffed, pallets in aisles etc. Even rented some trailers and offsite warehouse space. Sucks getting through aisles and for them to pull what they need, but they haven’t run short on most types of stock.
 
toolmanmike said:
I had (had) a electric vacuum that worked great for the patio and under bushes. It would vac and grind up the leaves and blow them in the attached bag. It fell over and broke into pieces yesterday. With it I never used a rake.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VSQFIU/?tag=fabo03-20
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I never used my newer one as a vac. The old one I did and the fan got chewed up to the point it didn’t blow enough air anymore. Blow them out and run the mower over them.
 
zkx14 said:
Our buyers apparently decided to hedge against shortages. Warehouse is stuffed, pallets in aisles etc. Even rented some trailers and offsite warehouse space. Sucks getting through aisles and for them to pull what they need, but they haven’t run short on most types of stock.
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We did the same actually as did a couple of the local suppliers we use. But now, we starting to get to critical limits. The Problem is three-fold. One, we kept the foot to the floor on production and new projects while our competitors had to cut back. This led to problem 2, the clients that our competitors had, jumped ship to us, which is good, and we were able to supply them, but problem 3, arose in the fact the above two issues ate thru inventory at an even faster rate than ever seen before.

I tell you all this because the company I work for, builds and maintains the equipment, both ours and competitors, to produce nearly 80 percent of the food you all find in grocery stores and restaurants. There’s wearable items on these machines that we have to replace routinely. Right now, we’re okay. But if things don’t change in the next 5 weeks, expect shortages to get worse on food items.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
We did the same actually as did a couple of the local suppliers we use. But now, we starting to get to critical limits. The Problem is three-fold. One, we kept the foot to the floor on production and new projects while our competitors had to cut back. This led to problem 2, the clients that our competitors had, jumped ship to us, which is good, and we were able to supply them, but problem 3, arose in the fact the above two issues ate thru inventory at an even faster rate than ever seen before.

I tell you all this because the company I work for, builds and maintains the equipment, both ours and competitors, to produce nearly 80 percent of the food you all find in grocery stores and restaurants. There’s wearable items on these machines that we have to replace routinely. Right now, we’re okay. But if things don’t change in the next 5 weeks, expect shortages to get worse on food items.
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Similarly, I would bet our labels are in every one of your homes. Can’t sell stuff without the label…
 
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zkx14 said:
Similarly, I would bet out labels are in every one of your homes. Can’t sell stuff without the label…
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Yep. One of our clients, is the leading home delivery meals and treats company. They ride around in little yellow trucks with freezers.... they’re struggling to get packaging supplies. And have been since august. It’s why they’ve cut back on their offerings
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Yep. One of our clients, is the leading home delivery meals and treats company. They ride around in little yellow trucks with freezers.... they’re struggling to get packaging supplies. And have been since august. It’s why they’ve cut back on their offerings
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When Gov Wolf's original list of 'essential' businesses came out for the shutdown in PA 'printing and packaging' was not on it. :BangHead: They did get it changed before it took effect, so we were never shut down.
 
WV64Signet said:
I think that is completely doable. Get a good business plan together and execute on the timeline.

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Hey guys. I've retired a few years. Now my new pool guy has been hiring me at 60 an hour to do repairs and run new 220 and such. 4 days over a grand. Tax free. Electrical repairs.
 
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