There's an article in the latest Farm Bureau magazine about a bb operation down there somewhere. Not you?
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No sir. That's probably Bounds in Wiggins. They're the largest blueberry farm around us.
Yea, they're a biggin'.
Where we do have several hundred bushes spread over a few acres, the majority large scale u picks will plant roughly 2500 bushes per 4 acres.
I've never been to bounds, but we frequent Amber farms in waynesboro for our "replacement" tifblue and climax varieties. Last I was there, they were up to 5600 bushes. Bounds is about triple the size of Amber. MASSIVE.
They have a harvester and the ability to sell commercially as well as the u pick side.
I prefer to not have random strangers wander into our farm and therefore, when we acquired the property in 2019, we stopped advertising as a u pick to the general public.
My wife sells weekly to two local farmers markets and the rest goes to friends, family, neighbors, and church members.
Discussing labor times yesterday with the boss on a '19 suburban that came to us from one of our local chevy dealers. She had a leaking evaporator. We do seem to see this more on GMs but is happening more often across all manufactures.
With dealers in the area having labor rates in excess of $150/hr (chev $165 ford $179, some folks will flee to reputable independent shops in efforts to save what they can. This suburban is no exception. We "float" our rate for gas, diesel, year, the job, the person, etc. but the average job like this will typically get put at $100/hr.
And an evaporator on one of these ole girls pays 18ish hours. So you see the amount one could potentially save.
Now, generally you'd hear me complaining about a 4 hour job paying 1.5 or a 10 hour job paying 5, you know something along those lines. Not working in the techs advantage.
In this case, The tech is actually making out good and the customer is gettin it put to em. Although gm dashes are not modular like ford and dodge, it's still no different from its predecessor. If you've done the 00-07.5s (which paid around 5-7hrs), or the 2007.5s up to 2013 (which got changed from 8ish hours to 11) then you got the 14+'s in the bag.
Either way in this case it obviously works in the techs favor. Took about 2 hours to go from this
to this
Then had her all set around 4pm yesterday. Touch over 8 hours in the job.
Then you get the flip side of the spectrum. I get hit with this classic 98 dakota first thing this morning for an evaporator. This classic jewel almost pays a whopping 5 hours to hike all its bulls@$t out.
Hour 4 I finally get the dash and case on the floor.
Would have been well into going back together with everything on the 18 hour evaporator job, yet the 5 hour job is trying to eat my lunch LOL
With dealers in the area having labor rates in excess of $150/hr (chev $165 ford $179, some folks will flee to reputable independent shops in efforts to save what they can. This suburban is no exception. We "float" our rate for gas, diesel, year, the job, the person, etc. but the average job like this will typically get put at $100/hr.
And an evaporator on one of these ole girls pays 18ish hours. So you see the amount one could potentially save.
Now, generally you'd hear me complaining about a 4 hour job paying 1.5 or a 10 hour job paying 5, you know something along those lines. Not working in the techs advantage.
In this case, The tech is actually making out good and the customer is gettin it put to em. Although gm dashes are not modular like ford and dodge, it's still no different from its predecessor. If you've done the 00-07.5s (which paid around 5-7hrs), or the 2007.5s up to 2013 (which got changed from 8ish hours to 11) then you got the 14+'s in the bag.
Either way in this case it obviously works in the techs favor. Took about 2 hours to go from this
to this
Then had her all set around 4pm yesterday. Touch over 8 hours in the job.
Then you get the flip side of the spectrum. I get hit with this classic 98 dakota first thing this morning for an evaporator. This classic jewel almost pays a whopping 5 hours to hike all its bulls@$t out.
Hour 4 I finally get the dash and case on the floor.
Would have been well into going back together with everything on the 18 hour evaporator job, yet the 5 hour job is trying to eat my lunch LOL
Yet another victim of the "odometer bandits". 2017 showing 81k miles, by far the worst chain slap i've heard yet. Poor guy aint had the truck 6 months.
Had the typical cam phaser rattle which is a deeper thicker sort of rattle you'll hear on the top end at start up, but then had a constant, lighter knock that I normally associate with a broken chain guide.
Unfortunately, most of the way through the tear down, and I'm finding nothing but alot of sludge built up. A nasty ole high mileage 5.0 with probably 250k miles on it. I feel for the poor feller eating this repair.
The most sludge i've seen that was built up right behind bank 1's primary tensioner. I saw similar months ago on a 5.0 with 225k ish miles if i remember correctly.
He could've had this truck inspected before purchase and any shop would've spent 2 seconds under this dude and said NOPE go pick another out guy.
Had the typical cam phaser rattle which is a deeper thicker sort of rattle you'll hear on the top end at start up, but then had a constant, lighter knock that I normally associate with a broken chain guide.
Unfortunately, most of the way through the tear down, and I'm finding nothing but alot of sludge built up. A nasty ole high mileage 5.0 with probably 250k miles on it. I feel for the poor feller eating this repair.
The most sludge i've seen that was built up right behind bank 1's primary tensioner. I saw similar months ago on a 5.0 with 225k ish miles if i remember correctly.
He could've had this truck inspected before purchase and any shop would've spent 2 seconds under this dude and said NOPE go pick another out guy.
