Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[Strouty]

I don’t think the water pump is water pumping. I am not too sure if I want to dig much further into this, I can already see where it is going to lead. I need to look at the manual and see if it shows the flow, but the heater hose is just looped from the pump to the thermostat housing and it is cool to the touch when the other hoses are warm that makes me think we have no flow. I hope I am overthinking things and maybe it is just a stuck thermostat. The cool hose is throwing me for a loop, I would expect that would be warm as well, regardless of the thermostat. Only good thing is that I have a parts engine I can take a look at and maybe get some parts off of it. Honestly, if I have to fix the cooling system, I might as well give the guy his money back, fix everything and sell it for more money as a ready to go unit.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Can’t be that difficult to change a thermostat? Probably 10 bucks?

 

[Strouty]

I am not touching it, talked to the buyer and it is going as is, he expected he was going to have to do some work to it anyways. At least I have some resolution there. Hopefully it will be gone sometime next week.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Nice

 

[Strouty]

You know what the worst part about this forklift is? I am so off my game, I missed buying a somewhat twin to this one for $2500 by 15 minutes. It was a perkins diesel and had side shift, brakes worked, tires held air. I bet I could have upsold this buyer and then sold the one I currently have as pure profit. Oh well, I guess I was asleep at the wheel.

 

[Strouty]

I am not having fun, nothing is going quite right.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I am not having fun, nothing is going quite right.

Making a treehouse?

 

[Strouty]

Had to swap out the batteries, I guess when I parked it, not only did I leave them hooked up, I also never turned the master disconnect off, they had 0.6 volts in them and I think that may have only been because I had used the booster pack to try and raise the body up. Unfortunately, the ram that lifts the body was puking fluid and wouldn’t lift the body enough to get the safety engaged, it was also dropping as fast as it went up. It is almost impossible to change the batteries without lifting the body, I have done it, but I paid the price for days, I am not a contortionist nor am I a little guy.

I did move it out so I could put a float charger on the “new” batteries, glad I had them in stock, was trying to pawn them off on my Brother, that would have been bad. I need to investigate the alternator, I think the belt came off in pieces, I know it used to squeal a bit when first being started, but unless you lift the body all the way up, you really don’t have any access to the front of the engine. I am going to have to decide for sure if I am using this truck, if so I need to get the ram rebuilt otherwise you can’t work on it at all.

 

[Lou's Garage]

Sure was handy to have that little crane boom on the Freightliner!

Lou Manglass

 

[jack stand]

Ok, firetruck cab. It took the 2nd picture for me.

 

[Strouty]

The funny part is that the Boston fire truck started right up, other than the front brakes being stuck, it was not too bad. I did have to tug it with the Mitsu, but I drove it out and parked it out of the way. The school bus is doing weirder things with the automatic transmission, it won't always get into gear, then of course when it did go into gear, I had the big fire truck right in the way, so I couldn't take advantage of it. I suspect I will be able to get the bus back into gear today, need to take some things out of the back, then it can get parked for the winter. I am going to try and spend the next week on the stuff at the Hill, then get started on the Salvage Garage. I have a plan for over there, but I am not sure I have the ambition and time to tackle it, so it may be just get things cleaned up enough for $N*W.

 

[86turbodsl]

Hang in there brother. It'll get better eventually.

 

[Strouty]

At this point, better, Is probably ten years out...

 

[Strouty]

I am dealing with a customer that only wants space in our building, nothing on the tower, apparently we have fiber there and they need that plus a space for equipment to handle 911 services. I have been back and forth with them on the lease language, they wanted nothing written in the actual lease about rent amount or increases, just attached an exhibit with a spreadsheet. It old them no way in hell as someone could change the exhibit and then I am in a bad position that will cost me time and money to rectify. They now have the exhibit tables added into the "rent" section, but still won't spell out the amounts, it just says see below. I am not sure why they are so against this, I have never had a lease where rent wasn't literally spelled out within the terms. Very weird.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I am dealing with a customer that only wants space in our building, nothing on the tower, apparently we have fiber there and they need that plus a space for equipment to handle 911 services. I have been back and forth with them on the lease language, they wanted nothing written in the actual lease about rent amount or increases, just attached an exhibit with a spreadsheet. It old them no way in hell as someone could change the exhibit and then I am in a bad position that will cost me time and money to rectify. They now have the exhibit tables added into the "rent" section, but still won't spell out the amounts, it just says see below. I am not sure why they are so against this, I have never had a lease where rent wasn't literally spelled out within the terms. Very weird.

Go with your gut. Sounds shady to me.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I am dealing with a customer that only wants space in our building, nothing on the tower, apparently we have fiber there and they need that plus a space for equipment to handle 911 services. I have been back and forth with them on the lease language, they wanted nothing written in the actual lease about rent amount or increases, just attached an exhibit with a spreadsheet. It old them no way in hell as someone could change the exhibit and then I am in a bad position that will cost me time and money to rectify. They now have the exhibit tables added into the "rent" section, but still won't spell out the amounts, it just says see below. I am not sure why they are so against this, I have never had a lease where rent wasn't literally spelled out within the terms. Very weird.

I'd tell em to **** off into the sunset.

 

[Strouty]

I really want to, but the money is good, so I am trying to make it work. I have already been told that they won't initial all the pages and that they only do digital signing only. I hate docusign ****, I also like to have both parties initial each and every page/exhibit (minus the signature page), this is the way I protect myself and the company. I have had two occasions where exhibits were changed and one occasion where an entire page was changed, I caught the page change, but the exhibits were from leases I was not involved in.

The guy handling the lease wrote back to me:

"as I told you that language is confusing and we put the exact rent for every year of the term right in the lease so we don’t need that language."

They have a several tables added to the lease that are what makes up the exhibit, I asked him if he thought writing out the rent amounts and escalator were "confusing", well, what about the rest of the lease language????

I added the redlines, but this is the super "confusing" language:



They just have the tables inserted and I understand that they are what the rent is and it does make things easy for any idiot to understand, but this is a lease and it should be spelled out fully regardless of a simple image.

 

[Firebrand]

If it sounds like a duck…

I say we nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

 

[FullRaceMerc]

I am not sure why they are so against this,

Anytime someone is opposed to something normal, it seems like they have a plan to take advantage of their abnormality. You should listen to your instincts here.

We did a mall job for an out of state company. We sent them our contract. They sent us their contract. Theirs set up situations where they didn't have to pay us. They signed our contract. We didn't like theirs & didn't sign it.

When it came time to pay, they immediately pointed to clauses in their contract that said they didn't have to pay for some of our work. It was clearly part of how these crooks did business. After some advice from our lawyer, we pointed out that the only signed contract said they had to pay for all of our work, & since it was based in our state all legal fights would be here. We got paid in full the next day.

Again, I think you should stick to your instincts here. There's no good reason to not spell it out in the lease. My dad had attachments to a rental agreement ignored by a judge. His take was that everything to be considered in court had to be within the single agreement.

 

[kent_323is]

I agree with what FullRaceMerc is saying here.. and I might go a step further and say that it might be time to have your lawyer review it as well. They do seem like they're trying to slip one by you to be used against you at a future date. A good contract lawyer should be able to review and provide guidance for a relatively small amount. You can also use that as ammunition to them.... "I'm having my lawyer review this" and that might be enough to push them to your standard agreement.
Good luck, the last thing you need is a future problem rearing it's ugly head.

I know you were struggling with the firetruck, but that was a pretty sweet pic of a knuckleboom truck providing assistance to a firetruck, along with an all terrain forklift adding eye candy!

 

[kaymccampbell]

I really want to, but the money is good, so I am trying to make it work. I have already been told that they won't initial all the pages and that they only do digital signing only. I hate docusign ****, I also like to have both parties initial each and every page/exhibit (minus the signature page), this is the way I protect myself and the company. I have had two occasions where exhibits were changed and one occasion where an entire page was changed, I caught the page change, but the exhibits were from leases I was not involved in.

The guy handling the lease wrote back to me:

"as I told you that language is confusing and we put the exact rent for every year of the term right in the lease so we don’t need that language."

They have a several tables added to the lease that are what makes up the exhibit, I asked him if he thought writing out the rent amounts and escalator were "confusing", well, what about the rest of the lease language????

I added the redlines, but this is the super "confusing" language:



They just have the tables inserted and I understand that they are what the rent is and it does make things easy for any idiot to understand, but this is a lease and it should be spelled out fully regardless of a simple image.

It's simple language. You could include both, as long both agree with each other. Satisfies both parties' needs.

As for hard copies. Provide an initial box on every page, even blanks. They initial each and every page, and return the original initialed contracts to you by UPS or FedEx envelope at your expense. In the contract state that refusal to initial every page violates the lease but opens them up to a processing fee. Put it on the first page and right above the signature line. I don't know the exact language as my lawyer used to handle that.

 

[Strouty]

They won't do the initials, I tried that already, I will initial all pages myself, better than nothing. I got their lawyer to agree to something I can live with, so better than losing the revenue stream. The rest of the lease is straightforward, so I should be good to go now. Of course I will do one more review with fresh eyes tomorrow, just to triple check.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Since you're doing DocuSign, why is initialing an issue? It's one click per page. Did they say why?

 

[Strouty]

Because they "don't do it".

 

[Old Man Roger]

hmmm

 

[Strouty]

I have to fight the battles that are important, ultimate goal is to have the paying customer.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Ya, I‘m always looking for a scammer.lol

 

[86turbodsl]

They won't do the initials, I tried that already, I will initial all pages myself, better than nothing. I got their lawyer to agree to something I can live with, so better than losing the revenue stream. The rest of the lease is straightforward, so I should be good to go now. Of course I will do one more review with fresh eyes tomorrow, just to triple check.

They are trying to pull a fast one. I agree with the others stating that. Better get YOUR lawyer involved. Hopefully he's good with contracts.

 

[Strouty]

This isn't a little company, it is Comcast, so the initials aren't as big of a deal as the totally missing language would be.

 

[86turbodsl]

Well it's your company. Big companies are scummy too.

 

[Old Man Roger]

This isn't a little company, it is Comcast, so the initials aren't as big of a deal as the totally missing language would be.

Holy ****! Comcast invented scummy business behavior.lol

 

[RADcustom]

Is that a series 50 or 60 in the fire truck?

 

[Strouty]

Is that a series 50 or 60 in the fire truck?

430 Horse 60 series

 

[Strouty]

Been busy with office stuff, trying to get to the point where I am doing cleanup/prep outside during daylight hours, then working when it is dark. *****, because I lost several nice days, but what can you do, got to pay the bills some how.

Yesterday I went to town on the prep work so I can get all four Lista cabinets out into the conex at the Hill, I have two of them all in and leveled up and the space has been cleared for the final two. I have to modify one to fit some extra drawers and finish unloading the other one. Once they are in place, I can start installing drawers and figuring out what is going where. I also have several cabinets to shuffle inside the shop, a couple custom shelves need to be made, and a section of pallet rack needs to be reworked. We will see how much I can get done today. While this is technically "inside" work, I have stuff everywhere because of the mess I made clearing space for the Lista cabinets, so it just needs to get done.

 

[Strouty]

I got the cabinet modified, working on the last couple drawers that have stuff in them. After that I have to get them into the conex, I had two people for the other ones, might be a tad bit tricky by myself. Once those are in and leveled, I can start hauling empty drawers out there, I still have several more to unload and remove from other cabinets in the shop, but I can’t do much until I at least get the cabinets setup out in the conex. Baby steps.

 

[Strouty]

Oops, forgot pictures, sorry it has been a while, I will be better, promise.

 

[Strouty]

And this is where they are going.

 

[Strouty]

It also got hot outside, definitely doesn’t feel like mid November.

One more to go.

 

[Strouty]

All four cabinets are in and leveled. It was snug, had to reach under the cabinet to level the back feet, so once I get things situated, I will move the black racking tighter to the Lista cabinet. The plan is to put more of the black racking on top of the lista cabinets so I am not wasting space above them.

 

[Strouty]

I also took an artistic photo for your viewing pleasure.