Got about 100 lineal feet of gondola shelving dismantled and in the box truck heading North. Three friends drove down to help - the five hours of work went fast. Lunch at MOD Pizza (great place) and then they headed back North while I am back home. Busy day tomorrow so stayed down here.
Here is a photo:
Twenty-foot box truck - the flat shelving pieces stacked up in the rear of the photo? There are two more stacks in back of them - this is about 80% of the way through the loading process. The stanchions and a bunch of the hardware have yet to be loaded.
We made out like bandits - this shelving is expensive. A 4' long double-sided unit, six feet tall is just under $500 for the base model with two shelves. You want more shelves with that? Plan on spending another $30-$40 per shelf. We spent just under $2K and got all this. If we had purchased this shelving new, our shipping cost alone would have been more than $2K. New price for all of this plus all of the fixtures would have been well North of $20K.
Today was a day full of win. Plus, I got some really good employees working for me and it was fun to spend a day together working on a project with them.
Now, to take a couple of aspirin and putter around the house for a while. Don't want to go to bed yet - need to stay on a normal schedule for tomorrow morning. Working then too. This retirement thing is for the birds...
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