dstryr
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2010
- Location
- Nampa Idaho
Been working the most we have ever this year. 6-7 days a week 12-14 hours a day trying to keep up. Forgot to post this up on here.
This machine has been a god send for us. I lost sleep on the countless times going back and forth in my head about the amount of money and the risks but after 2 months of getting 140-150 hours of cycle time a week I am convinced. I'm hoping as I add more parts to the machine I wont be working 7 days a week in 2017... hoping is the key word. We have been truly lucky to break away into a niche and be able to grow this much. Lots of hard work, crazy hours and deadline but it all comes down to meeting the right customers and getting them to come back.
Crazy to think when I first post a major thread about my shop we were just moving into this 4000 sq ft space with a New Doosan vertical. 6 years later and the space is maxed out and we have grown the shop 4x over in such a short time. We are also running 2 shifts with 8 employees now vs the 5 people we used to run just on day shift. Lot of gut wrenching nights and probably 10 36 hour straight spells but I wouldn't change it for the world.
Machine
Yasda PX30i
33 pallets
310 tools
Truly shoe horned it into the space we are in for the next few years. 0 shops available between 6-10k sq ft here and rent is $1.00 NNN so we are utilizing as much as we can. For those curious to see what I mean about shoe horned....
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This machine has been a god send for us. I lost sleep on the countless times going back and forth in my head about the amount of money and the risks but after 2 months of getting 140-150 hours of cycle time a week I am convinced. I'm hoping as I add more parts to the machine I wont be working 7 days a week in 2017... hoping is the key word. We have been truly lucky to break away into a niche and be able to grow this much. Lots of hard work, crazy hours and deadline but it all comes down to meeting the right customers and getting them to come back.
Crazy to think when I first post a major thread about my shop we were just moving into this 4000 sq ft space with a New Doosan vertical. 6 years later and the space is maxed out and we have grown the shop 4x over in such a short time. We are also running 2 shifts with 8 employees now vs the 5 people we used to run just on day shift. Lot of gut wrenching nights and probably 10 36 hour straight spells but I wouldn't change it for the world.
Machine
Yasda PX30i
33 pallets
310 tools
Truly shoe horned it into the space we are in for the next few years. 0 shops available between 6-10k sq ft here and rent is $1.00 NNN so we are utilizing as much as we can. For those curious to see what I mean about shoe horned....
(Heres looking at you Andy)
