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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: screenprintguy on July 10, 2015, 02:36:33 PM
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Shaved some years off my life trying to unload all this stuff without a loading dock, but with a forklift, 5 guys and a flatbed tow truck we got it all in here. M&R builds some serious crates and skids. I think we can build a few more houses with all this wood. Sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj5fzpzsovy8l0k/20150710_115113.mp4?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj5fzpzsovy8l0k/20150710_115113.mp4?dl=0)
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Congratulations!
Wait until you use it!
Its hard to not hump it when you get it unwrapped..LOL
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Its hard to not hump it when you get it unwrapped..LOL
it is for me rob..... :o..you sick-o.
Congrats Mike, that's one hell of a truck load.
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Don't forget about all of those packing peanuts!!!
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Thanks guys, a little overwhelming too lol. 3,000 square feet of skids and pallets right now out there and tables crammed up into the other 3,000 square feet where we are currently operating out of, gonna be along weekend of sorting and making pathways hahahahah
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so worth it in the end, wait till you see how the quality of life is once its all running. I bet you don't stay past 5 anymore. It eats jobs so fast.
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oh, I remember that day for us well..
invite all your friends over next week for a serious bonfire..
and yes, have fun with the packing peanuts...
Rich: if you're listening... PLEASE consider using that expanding foam stuff or some other packing method than the peanuts... they get EVERYWHERE... 10 months later and we're still finding packing peanuts around the shop.
-J
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You suck, I am jealous. Congrats on your new toys.
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A big Congrats Mike!
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so what's in it? what'ya get? I missed that part I guess...
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not to still his thunder, but a 14 color GT3, Sprint 2000, 2 Red Chile, I think that's right.
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Shaved some years off my life trying to unload all this stuff without a loading dock, but with a forklift, 5 guys and a flatbed tow truck we got it all in here. M&R builds some serious crates and skids. I think we can build a few more houses with all this wood. Sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj5fzpzsovy8l0k/20150710_115113.mp4?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj5fzpzsovy8l0k/20150710_115113.mp4?dl=0)
Had 5 guys hanging on the back of a bobcat, acting as counterweights, with extended forks for our first auto, almost dropped a $70K piece of equipment because I was too cheap to rent a proper sized forklift. Live and learn....
~Kitson
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Shaved some years off my life trying to unload all this stuff without a loading dock, but with a forklift, 5 guys and a flatbed tow truck we got it all in here. M&R builds some serious crates and skids. I think we can build a few more houses with all this wood. Sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj5fzpzsovy8l0k/20150710_115113.mp4?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj5fzpzsovy8l0k/20150710_115113.mp4?dl=0)
Had 5 guys hanging on the back of a bobcat, acting as counterweights, with extended forks for our first auto, almost dropped a $70K piece of equipment because I was too cheap to rent a proper sized forklift. Live and learn....
~Kitson
Had a big skid loader here for ours too, it didn't even think about lifting it off the back of the truck. All I could picture in my head was this press laying on it's side in the middle of the road. Had to call in a tow wrecker that they use for big rigs. He was able to cradle it off the truck. Stress level 10 that day. :-)
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i hired a rigging company to move our embroidery machine. $800 to deliver, drop and put it in the building...we don't have a dock.
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Thankfully we are surrounded by neighbors that all have forklifts. We expected to use one neighbor's big boy, but I didn't realize they had modified the forks for lifting transmissions for big rigs. I think I'm going to buy a set of 8' extensions to keep around lol. When the neighbors need them, I'll have them. Not a bad trade off to use their lift. Especially on install day, I'm sure it will help to have a forklift handy that week. I'm still pinching myself to know it's not a dream and this awesome stuff is here. My only hold up now is the dam electrical contractor. I just can't get over how huge everything is. It's awesome and as usual the M&R team has been on it. Rich even reached out to make sure we got everything ok. We know more than ever that we made the right choice. Clients are all getting excited seeing pics of the crates on Facebook and sparking up sales. Pretty nice when you have a supportive clientele, we are blessed for sure!!
Here's a video clip of the flatbed easing the turret section of the Gauntlet 3 down in the shop. I should have panned right to show that the front end of the truck was about 2 feet off the ground from the weight lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXotvxljJd4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXotvxljJd4)
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i hired a rigging company to move our embroidery machine. $800 to deliver, drop and put it in the building...we don't have a dock.
Yea we don't do light weight goods very well. If by the pound we are the cheapest equipment out there! LOL! I could see the front of the truck rising!
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i hired a rigging company to move our embroidery machine. $800 to deliver, drop and put it in the building...we don't have a dock.
Yea we don't do light weight goods very well. If by the pound we are the cheapest equipment out there! LOL! I could see the front of the truck rising!
Rich, we here are THANKFUL you guys do NOT make light weight stuff. You do remember that story I told you when you were here right? lol. I know for a fact, most other presses would have been down for the count from that goof move that I pulled there. Not the DB, that steel is 100% true hahaha :o ;D
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i hired a rigging company to move our embroidery machine. $800 to deliver, drop and put it in the building...we don't have a dock.
Yea we don't do light weight goods very well. If by the pound we are the cheapest equipment out there! LOL! I could see the front of the truck rising!
Rich, we here are THANKFUL you guys do NOT make light weight stuff. You do remember that story I told you when you were here right? lol. I know for a fact, most other presses would have been down for the count from that goof move that I pulled there. Not the DB, that steel is 100% true hahaha :o ;D
I'll just bump this story time...this has to be good.
that's one hellofa truck load. G3 sounds awesome!...
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Yeah- more picts!!
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I'll put some more pics up when we get the crates broke down. Right now we are so busy, and waiting on the power to get done. We are having to have our service upgraded from single to 400 amp 3phase so I think we should keep it all wrapped up and protected until the electrical contractor is done. I just got 2 big 48" wall mount exhaust fans in today too to add to the "one" we have now lol. This heat has been bad, these two add in fans should move a ton more air through the shop. If I owned the building I would have had them put in the roof but the landlord wants zero roof penetrations. I have a feeling with the mechanical guy comes Monday to cut the walls and install these he's going to make a mess too, so another reason to keep all the crates bagged up for now.
Homer the "story". Well as embarrassing as it is to tell, nobody is perfect especially myself. I was having one of those days, tons of production to do, lot's of multi color set ups. A couple new people being trained so a million questions and talking come at me, phone, deliveries all stacked so my head was somewhere other than focused. Did I mention I'm seriously adhd. I had pulled a screen out, slipped in the next screen using the same squeegee floodbar set up, set the screen with the ink across two pallets in the load area. Got called away for some reason, had someone yappin at me and walked over to the other side of the press to pop in another screen, forgot I had the newman frame back there, an M3UL still straddling. Freewheeled over to triclok the other screen in and thats when now there is a newman frame jammed in head 1 between the pallet and the frame holders of the press. When hearing the loud noise and trying to table down the press, the newman frame actually held the tables in the up position with no way to get it down now. Screen holders were bowing up a little big from the newman crammed up on another newman and the holders. Well the only thing we could do was yank on the crammed frame and kaaaaaablaaaaaaaaaaammmmmm. It all came crashing down, my heart came out of my eye socket and everyone about crapped themselves. Now to say M&R builds heavy duty gear to is to just understate. The newmans were fine, still square, no rip, "I have no idea how that happened", and the frame holders unbowed on their own. I put a level on them they were true, got under the press and made sure the crash didn't break or crack anything. Not a dent or chip or nothing. This happened a few years ago, press still runs like new, never a reg issue or nothing. I know for a fact looking at how other companies make their frame holders that several other brands would have broke. Hopefully nobody pulls a bone head move like this, but things happen and that put the quality of M&R's engineering and steel to the test lol. I told this to Rich a couple months ago, and I never imagined I'd ever see him laugh at something so hard. I think he got a little satisfaction out of also knowing that their lowest end press is still built like a tank and truly field tested lol.
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I'm sure if I thought about it for a few minutes. I could out bonehead you. Many times over.
Really excited for you though. Look forward to seeing it all someday
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haha nice... ;D
Is that a rotor for a helicopter?! daaangggg....sucker's huge!
Dave...I'll take you up on your offer of bonehead stories over beers someday....
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I can understand the zero roof penetrations thing...I am constantly chasing leaks in ours. Had it sealed several times, blah blah blah. They are good for a couple years and then they are right back again...
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haha nice... ;D
Is that a rotor for a helicopter?! daaangggg....sucker's huge!
Dave...I'll take you up on your offer of bonehead stories over beers someday....
48" blades on those bad boys. 30,000 cfm each. They should pull that heat outta here.
You know I think they are worried with roof fants vibrating too much since the entire roof deck is steel and it's usually the screw heads that leak. I guess the added vibration can cause more premature leaks. Don't need that on our new gear for sure.
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Poke poke...wish there was a poke button on here. Pics! Updates?