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This has been a strange week at work, 3 unusual jobs and a lot of driving.
1 - I was sent to revamp an older boiler in a boiled egg processing facility, they are capable of hard boiling 1.2 million eggs in a 3 shift, 24 hour day. Their current processing rate is about 800,000 eggs a day. Trucks bringing in raw and taking out boiled eggs, all day long. This may be tightest run shoestring operations, I've ever work on, it seemed the accounting staff, were calculating the repair cost, as we were working, leading us to jest, they might shut it down, when a certain dollar figure was reached. We got them up and running, on a temporary basis, to their joy, but were disheartened, when we told them they need about another $30-$40,000, more to bring them up to long term acceptable standards.
2 - Worked on a boiler in a maple syrup co-op, processing syrup from Northern NY and Vermont. The operation is huge, they processed (according to the manager) about 650,000 gallons of syrup, last year, hoping to go over a million, next year. Most of the syrup is sold overseas and to industrial accounts (flavorings). I got the boilers running, we were running close to 1000 gallons of propane an hour, with the propane coming to the facility in train cars. Unfortunately I was unable to acquire any syrup for personal consumption, no small containers, they ship the processed syrup out in stainless steel 55 gallon drums, but I did get a discount coupon for syrup from a local vendor, so for $10, I got a gallon of Dark Amber.
3 - One of our customers, a 50 employee production machining/plating/job shop operation has decided to close up operation. I've serviced their boilers for almost 40 years. The owner said the business is way off, along with,operating cost, taxes and gov't regulations and finding qualified workers are making operation rough and none of the sons or SILs have any desire to continue, so a sale/closure at this point is the best option. Its taken almost a year, but the sale is now final.
The whole plating operation has been sold to a company in Canada, tanks, conveyors and related equipment is going to be boxed up in conex boxes, for shipment to an Arizona/Mexico border town, where it goes from there is unknown, except by the purchaser.
All of the machine tools and related equipment, is also going to be packed into conex boxes, for shipment to the purchaser, for use in Belize. The owner looked into an auction to sell the equipment off, but because of tax options and equipment liability issues, an auction became an unviable option, so a package deal to the Belize purchasers. I tried to buy a couple of pieces of equipment and was told, they had to be sold out of the country or destroyed, to avoid possible liability issues. So no die filer for me.
1 - I was sent to revamp an older boiler in a boiled egg processing facility, they are capable of hard boiling 1.2 million eggs in a 3 shift, 24 hour day. Their current processing rate is about 800,000 eggs a day. Trucks bringing in raw and taking out boiled eggs, all day long. This may be tightest run shoestring operations, I've ever work on, it seemed the accounting staff, were calculating the repair cost, as we were working, leading us to jest, they might shut it down, when a certain dollar figure was reached. We got them up and running, on a temporary basis, to their joy, but were disheartened, when we told them they need about another $30-$40,000, more to bring them up to long term acceptable standards.
2 - Worked on a boiler in a maple syrup co-op, processing syrup from Northern NY and Vermont. The operation is huge, they processed (according to the manager) about 650,000 gallons of syrup, last year, hoping to go over a million, next year. Most of the syrup is sold overseas and to industrial accounts (flavorings). I got the boilers running, we were running close to 1000 gallons of propane an hour, with the propane coming to the facility in train cars. Unfortunately I was unable to acquire any syrup for personal consumption, no small containers, they ship the processed syrup out in stainless steel 55 gallon drums, but I did get a discount coupon for syrup from a local vendor, so for $10, I got a gallon of Dark Amber.
3 - One of our customers, a 50 employee production machining/plating/job shop operation has decided to close up operation. I've serviced their boilers for almost 40 years. The owner said the business is way off, along with,operating cost, taxes and gov't regulations and finding qualified workers are making operation rough and none of the sons or SILs have any desire to continue, so a sale/closure at this point is the best option. Its taken almost a year, but the sale is now final.
The whole plating operation has been sold to a company in Canada, tanks, conveyors and related equipment is going to be boxed up in conex boxes, for shipment to an Arizona/Mexico border town, where it goes from there is unknown, except by the purchaser.
All of the machine tools and related equipment, is also going to be packed into conex boxes, for shipment to the purchaser, for use in Belize. The owner looked into an auction to sell the equipment off, but because of tax options and equipment liability issues, an auction became an unviable option, so a package deal to the Belize purchasers. I tried to buy a couple of pieces of equipment and was told, they had to be sold out of the country or destroyed, to avoid possible liability issues. So no die filer for me.