Winter operations

A big portion is marketing for me, I have had several calls last month were the people started of saying, "you probably don't work the time of year, but..."
People I see randomly also think we can not/don't work in the winter. When/if it slows down in a few weeks I'm going to start advertising again for frozen ground big removals and spring/early summer work.

Soon as the first 50-60F spring weekend comes after the snow melts in April and the rakes sell out at Lowes. Home owners are out in their yards looking around and thinking about what needs to be done, it's on!
 
It's all about marketing. Approach the golf courses and other summer recreation areas. This is the time to do their work. Condos and rental properties, specially around their playgrounds and pools. Cemeteries as well, not that people aren't dying in the winter, but you get my point. Start marketing to them during the early summer. Up in T.O. GCs were great clients for the winter with the added bonus that we didn't need to chip. Just get the material on the ground and stacked. they'd do the rest.
 
frashdog said:
Must be nice...
Of course I can't complain much, we are adapting to work through the winter due to demand. We are the only guys around still going full time. Now with a heated shop big enough for the bucket and chipper, we work days we never could have before. Yea the salt is terrible, next is a pressure wash/spray station inside the shop with a curtain to contain the spray.
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I actually have that. LOL!!!
 
frashdog said:
Sweet!
What kinda curtain did you use? Been thinking about transparent welding curtain. The stuff is wicked durable. I've seen people welding and grinding next to it with out damaging it. Yellow was the color the shop I worked at had. Let plenty of light through. Blocks 100%UV too.
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No curtains or anything special, just tarps over anything in proximity that should stay dry. My shop is really crude to say the least. All the same, a pressure washer and a drain in the middle of the floor is really sweet. I bet the welding curtains would be perfect. You really would only need a couple frames strung up and piggyback them around while washing.
 
oceans said:
No curtains or anything special, just tarps over anything in proximity that should stay dry. My shop is really crude to say the least. All the same, a pressure washer and a drain in the middle of the floor is really sweet. I bet the welding curtains would be perfect. You really would only need a couple frames strung up and piggyback them around while washing.
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Right on...

I used to work in a facility that had a water test area for the rail cars we manufactured, almost like a car wash. Got the idea from that. Straight up curtain rods along the ceiling at a width that allowed one to walk around the vehicles. I'd store them rolled up to the ceiling on a rods through the base, I have a portable garage/barn that the doors role up like that. We have sooo much salt and sand on our equipment now! If I let loose with a pressure washer in the shop it would be a mess.
 
Yup to all yous guys. I love working in the winter cold and so does my crew when it gets too cold all temperatures and wind speeds you mentioned are good measures depending on the work we going to the barn use that firewood we've made stuff the stove full watch training DVDs and fix equipment. I find my employee Moral is significantly improved after these cold shop days :-)
 
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