Todays misadventures

[billinohio]

Last week, I welded the framework for a box on a landscapers truck. It is made out of 2x3 rectangular tubing. I drove pieces in to the stake pockets and welded pieces on the top, tied everything together. He wanted it 5 feet tall.
Of course, when he came to get it, OMG, it’s too tall for the loader to dump in.
So, today we start cutting to get it 10 inches lower. I almost ordered new material to replace the entire top rail (4 sides) because I just couldn’t handle that big rectangular l part by myself, but I decided to break it into 4 parts that I can handle, and I can salvage it all. Still a PITA, but it’s do-able and I don’t think it will look very cobbled up.
and, I have to make set of swinging doors for the back of it, too.

The warm weather has got people dragging things out to be welded, I am getting busy.

[sandbur]

You should make them supply you drawings of what they want. That always happens to me at work....I always tell them give me a plan on what you want...I can't read your mind, and people are terrible about communicating what they want.

[billinohio]

I did meet with him, and look at his other trucks, but, his partner showed up later and brought this point up. They are Guatemalans, maybe something is lost in the translation…….
I have done several projects with them, they are good guys!,

The rework is just about as much work as building it in the first place, I guess I need the practice….

[Angle iron]

Feb 12, 2024 20:48:48 GMT -6 billinohio said:

I did meet with him, and look at his other trucks, but, his partner showed up later and brought this point up. They are Guatemalans, maybe something is lost in the translation…….
I have done several projects with them, they are good guys!,

The rework is just about as much work as building it in the first place, I guess I need the practice….

As long as the rework pays as well as original and I had the time it never really mattered. Change orders can get expensive and at times discourage rework. It gets  expensive because you not only have to do the new but destroy the old in the process. As long as all parties understand the concept of change orders at the start it normally ends well.

[billinohio]

I don’t think there will be any problems.

[504]

I was in the installation shop for a very large truck bed manufacturer a few years ago. The truck was the size of a F-650 single axle. It had a drive up the ramp bed with the rack over the cab to catch the loader bucket,racks for wheel barrels,shovels. All of the stuff that Butcher used every day in his former life. Then they drove it across the truck scale,without the backhoe or the tools. It was 1000 # over gross. They decide to just ship it to its new owner.