YoungDaphThere are certain tools that you never loan out to people haha. A bunch of other departments will come to the shop and ask to borrow shit and at this point we just deny them. Everything either comes back broken or never comes back at all. All of our rigging is locked up in a big cage and we make people sign it out and keep the lock combo very secret. If ski patrol breaks another chain hoist of ours I might kill someone
Yeah I have no cage, don't loan anything out but it's the main person in that shop so it's staying local. Other people snatch stuff though. I liked other places where people weren't sketch, or we had a cage.
MLBDude....you use your own tools at this fucking place?!!?!?!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck them. Fuckem. Honestly everytime I see one of your posts I just feel so bad. That shit should not be going down. I have never used, or ever had to use my own tools at a resort ever.
As a matter of fact I told the last out door ops manager that if he couldn't afford to buy the proper tools to keep up his rail fleet, then he shouldn't have rails or a terrain park to begin with.
Yeah, it sucks. I have a bunch of tools over there. Easily 1k worth and that's just in the power tools. But I had no choice. I have work to do, and my name is on the line. I don't honestly care about it as a job. It's not a job to me. I don't care about working it in terms of getting yelled at or getting fired. All I care about is giving the kids a good park.
I'm working myself dead to make it happen. Have 1 guy full time under me and nobody else at the moment lol. And building new features, putting together the park, doing sketchup work, putting together 1,900 feet of fencing that didn't show up till 4 days ago, and probably a bunch of other stuff.
That said fuck it. I came here to build a good park and I'm going to build a good fucking park.
Ran out of snow a bit for what I wanted on the jump kuckles but they're still way better than anything the place has seen. I can clean em up a bit. Rail setups should be sick.
I think after this next week and I get fully built out, I'll try and slam out 3 or 4 new rails I have in mind.
Just doing a ton of stuff.
Hopefully I don't burn out. But right now it's getting nuts. No sleep, lots of mtn dew, and hoping it all comes together. I mentioned that I HAVE TO hire at LEAST 1 more person when everything is finished getting built.
Honestly it's just that these kids have never had a good park ever. They can't go anywhere else. This is where they ride. I just want to give them a good park, even if it's just for the season.
I never had a park for the first 10 years I was into it. just built my own jumps and rode a park twice a season at other places. Some of these places are just too big of a project, but I feel in some way compelled to do it, regardless.
Hopefully our park ends up nice, people like it, and I can get some sleep. 7 days a week with several 12+ hour days of full out is wearing me out a bit.