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How hard is inflation going to hit, or has hit?

arse_sidewards said:
That's why they ship syrup around and bottle it all over the country.
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Funny thing is we had both a Pepsico and Coke bottling plant here the next closest is 500 miles away give or take. For some reason they both shut down in the mid 80's and now they will ship the product to the old bottling plant and then ship it out from there. If I buy a coke at our northern border that thing has been shipped aprox 1200 miles.

I suppose shipping is cheaper than a plant full of union employees.
 
Thatg9659 said:
Hershey shipped all their production to Mexico based on sugar prices, so they said.

About 30 years ago 12 ounce soda prices in the vending machines were creeping up to $.75 then Walmart came around and suddenly they were $.35 everywhere, that didn’t last long. Store brand was .25
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Not for nothing, but an entire 53' trailer full of Twix, (Mars, not Hersey), burned to the frame on one of our freeways yesterday. It was an impressive fire.


 
Just to add to the thread.

Building prices increased around 10% after Katrina. I wonder how much This hurricane will affect building prices in the south east region along with the docks being shut down.
 
From my reading hurricane cleanup, due to the speed necessary, typically goes to landfills, seems like there could be a fortune made from recycling. provided you had a big enough area to dump it all in and then process it, the bacteria present could provide challenges.
 
Only thing i can think of is katrina was during a boom, accelerating to 2008?

But ya good point, we will get fucked deeper
 
Thatg9659 said:
From my reading hurricane cleanup, due to the speed necessary, typically goes to landfills, seems like there could be a fortune made from recycling. provided you had a big enough area to dump it all in and then process it, the bacteria present could provide challenges.
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The shipping and land costs would eat most all of the margins up, plus price gouged fuel costs for being in the wrong location. :laughing: It probably would be lucrative if you had the land there and contracted through the local recyclers and they just pay you rent for the land for the overflow.

Levigarrett76 said:
Only thing i can think of is Katrina was during a boom, accelerating to 2008?
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Compared to 2008-2016, we've slowly built back up into a boom, then 3% interest skyrocketed that. My question is how long will it last.

Once Harris gets "elected", they are wanting to create like 3 million more homes or something like that to keep all of that going. I think the US deep something is just prolonging inevitable crash by creating more wars. You can't have Great Depression Tokyo Drift if US factories are making products. I think we are in a Depression now, it's just not called that buss word anymore.

Levigarrett76 said:
But ya good point, we will get fucked deeper
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Divers Do it Deeper - DAC :flipoff2:
I've been slowly decreasing my future shop while adding more money to the pile. :flipoff:
 
bad zuki said:
Just to add to the thread.

Building prices increased around 10% after Katrina. I wonder how much This hurricane will affect building prices in the south east region along with the docks being shut down.
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During the supply chain fiasco nee COVID, PVC plumbing prices went up 65% in a little under 2years. I assume other materials did similar.
 
bad zuki said:
I've been slowly decreasing my future shop while adding more money to the pile. :flipoff:
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This sucks
Been there done that. Do you own the land? How much can you get away with before having issues with municipalities?

Iirc it was spring of 21 and materials were shooting up, my shop was getting further and further away by the day. I finally got a concrete guy to show up and talk numbers, 20x30 was my starting point, his numbers were fair, we went for 32x32 and he started in the morning:laughing:

I used cut up mobile home frames for the structure and sheeted it with $1 sqft AG panel and wired it with leftovers:laughing:

*in hindsight the time spent working with free beams might have been better spent buying purlins and shit. But it was sturdy:laughing:


It wasn't a dream shop, but it was a hell of a lot better than working in dirt and sun for 10 years saving for something getting more expensive by the day.
 
Roc Doc said:
During the supply chain fiasco nee COVID, PVC plumbing prices went up 65% in a little under 2years. I assume other materials did similar.
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I'm just trying to hedge my bets on future rates of stuff. These factors plus the next rate drop will definitely be interesting to watch prices.

Projectjunkie said:
This sucks
Been there done that. Do you own the land? How much can you get away with before having issues with municipalities?

Iirc it was spring of 21 and materials were shooting up, my shop was getting further and further away by the day. I finally got a concrete guy to show up and talk numbers, 20x30 was my starting point, his numbers were fair, we went for 32x32 and he started in the morning:laughing:

I used cut up mobile home frames for the structure and sheeted it with $1 sqft AG panel and wired it with leftovers:laughing:

*in hindsight the time spent working with free beams might have been better spent buying purlins and shit. But it was sturdy:laughing:


It wasn't a dream shop, but it was a hell of a lot better than working in dirt and sun for 10 years saving for something getting more expensive by the day.
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I've got land and I've got a nice shop that I lease now. Talking it over with my brother, he's going to be doing a 40x60x16 this year and its gonna be around $45k with him doing most of the labor. I've got to get everything permitted though so probably another $10k. Once you go concrete floors, you don't go back.

[486] said:
no cap frfr
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on gawd fam
 
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Honestly, you could buy a 2010 and PAY someone to build it into a faster car than that for half the money and get the same MPG. :laughing:
 
bad zuki said:
Honestly, you could buy a 2010 and PAY someone to build it into a faster car than that for half the money and get the same MPG. :laughing:
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no one gives a shit about MPG that is buying and driving an escalade.



$166k for a caddie burban.... makes a nicely built restomod for around $100k seem sane comparatively. atleast its got a soul.
 
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