While the golf course slumbers under a cozy comforter of snow, most six-month courses do machinery restorations, attend trade shows, upgrade employee certifications, and stock up for the coming Golf season.
Likewise, suppliers offer preseason special prices, and manufactures and dealers have special preseason pricing on new machinery.
If you didn’t take advantage of the end-of-season specials to replace your oldest machines and purchase consumables, winter is your last opportunity before the season begins.
Records of your past purchases can give you a good idea of what and how many of each item you routinely use. Buying ahead at special low prices on things you would be buying later anyway saves a lot of money, and sometimes additional discounts on future purchases are part of the deal.
At most of the six-month courses the maintenance shop is working full blast through the winter, saving money on modifications and repairs that would cost seven times the amount I am paid per hour if done by the dealership.
That is where the benefit of year-round maintenance shop crew’s true value is, in how much the shop can save on essential work compared to the cost of having the dealership do it.
Luckily, I get half the year off to contemplate my career trajectory, commit to volunteer work, home school myself on engineering subjects, and experiment in my own shop at home with all of the things I have learned during the active season.
As a side note, I call my home shop a "MakerSpace" so that I can feel that I am part of the MakerSpace Movement. As part of that I let kids and parents from the neighborhood use my shop twice a week to learn how to use tools and make things. The budget for your own MakerSpace can come from the money you would have spent on gifts throughout the year, if you make them instead of buying them.
Likewise, suppliers offer preseason special prices, and manufactures and dealers have special preseason pricing on new machinery.
If you didn’t take advantage of the end-of-season specials to replace your oldest machines and purchase consumables, winter is your last opportunity before the season begins.
Records of your past purchases can give you a good idea of what and how many of each item you routinely use. Buying ahead at special low prices on things you would be buying later anyway saves a lot of money, and sometimes additional discounts on future purchases are part of the deal.
At most of the six-month courses the maintenance shop is working full blast through the winter, saving money on modifications and repairs that would cost seven times the amount I am paid per hour if done by the dealership.
That is where the benefit of year-round maintenance shop crew’s true value is, in how much the shop can save on essential work compared to the cost of having the dealership do it.
Luckily, I get half the year off to contemplate my career trajectory, commit to volunteer work, home school myself on engineering subjects, and experiment in my own shop at home with all of the things I have learned during the active season.
As a side note, I call my home shop a "MakerSpace" so that I can feel that I am part of the MakerSpace Movement. As part of that I let kids and parents from the neighborhood use my shop twice a week to learn how to use tools and make things. The budget for your own MakerSpace can come from the money you would have spent on gifts throughout the year, if you make them instead of buying them.
