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This has been refunded and it was a pain to make happen... All details were shared with the customer and I am pretty sure he now knows how tough it was to refund from accounts that were closed and a business name change plus from moving... Apologies here as it should not have taken this long and this processor kept cancelling the refunds and it took multiple phone calls and emails to accomplish. We are happy though to say it has been handled...
Newline took 4.5 weeks to build mine, (which is exactly what I was told to expect). Unfortunately, in Cali it's very difficult to get a crew (and keep them), that are both talented, reliable, and that can keep on knocking out those parts. I'm always impressed by any business that can survive here doing steel fabrication. DOM is up to $5/ft for 1-3/4" .120wall, I'm sure chromoly is 2-3X. Nitrogen, (the most abundant gas on earth), got stupid expensive, as well as argon. P&O steel is double what I paid before the plandemic, while any shop owner is seeing both rent & insurance hikes too. I'm surprised more guys don't throw in the towel and just start selling weed instead (half joking), because at least the shipping is cheaper!
Good looking bumper. I remember the days we could knock stuff like that out in 4-5 days. We simply cannot do that here with orders stacked up and half staff. We finally made it to the full staffed point last week for the fist time in over a year. We felt the pain in California due to rent almost doubling and moved to Nevada. The issues in Nevada are not worth the move and we should have stayed in California. The issues here are 3.5 hour round trips for material and powder coating services. The other issues are the lack of qualified employees and the ones that are qualified are asking for 1.5 times the wages of California employees. This is sometimes double and the cost of living is way less. SMH
In California we could find guys who knew how to weld and they could hit the ground running. We were also able to pull newbies out of the Fab Schools there who just learned to weld and could teach them pretty easily. Here in Nevada, we can barely find anyone who can weld good, and we have no schools to pull from so it is a teach it type of hiring here.
Now we understand why the Chinese companies found it easier to hire barefoot children and chain them to the workbench, paying $4 for 15 hour days (kidding.... a little bit).
Being from Iowa; welding, casting and fab was and still is taught in my high school to help with the family farm equipment.
Unfortunately out here everyone is taught computer stuff and all of the hands on is non-existent.
I started high school (trade school) in 1974. Very different world back then. There were 7 different trades: Automotive, Building Technology (my major), Electronics, Metallurgy, Mechanical Technology, and Photolithography. I was lucky that I found something I enjoyed, and found work in the construction industry for 35yrs.
