I've always liked the FIFO model.
Fit In or Fuck Off.
I've always liked the FIFO model.
Fit In or Fuck Off.
Yes but they have a lot more dams and apartment buildings than we ever will. E.g 5 years after it fell down we will can't decide what to do with the christchurch cathedral so we still have a pigeon infested ruin.
Lucky for me we build software not dams so nobody dies when it goes wrong which is frequently. I follow Tikka7mm08's management philosophy.
You can get a Chinese company to stick to a standard, but it takes having someone checking on them constantly (this makes up about 1/3 of my work) and most western companies don't do this as they don't understand china. The other issue is that you contract with company A who shows you samples that meet std but when it comes time to actually make the production run they subcontract the work out to companies who can't/won't meet that std. This is often when I get called in, when the western company should have sent someone to check the factory before doing the big order as often it obvious they are just prototype fabricators when you visit them.
China is a cunt of a place to do business, well worth paying a little more to get something made on Taiwan if practical
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Yes, regular 'check ups' are required to maintain quality. The outfit I have been working with over there produces high quality items and have a good workforce who are well looked after, but I still have a language barrier and Chinese way of thinking to overcome. On my visits I have been able to see items in production and have been able to make changes on the spot, with the result that the final product is very good in both materials and workmanship. If you relied on an internet order with no ability to actually check the production then you are doomed to accept what they give you.
John Worthington knives for sure, have 3 of them and sold many to my clients. HGD Designs sheaths are pretty gd too 😉
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Check the finished product - clever buggers for sure.
I watched a doco recently on the building of a huge rollercoaster, by a Dutch company. They contracted a Chinese firm to build the steel frame and runners, and seeing the real old school skills used to get the curves etc spot on, was a real eye opener.
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We live in a world where there are more things we want to try, so we buy them all. in doing so we spread our income thin, so we have to pick the cheaper ones. Imagine people who were born in the 1920s and hunted in the 50s and 60s. Probably had just one rifle with ironsight, one ammunition, one knife. Today most of us have a target 22 rifle, a plinker 22 rifle, one varmint rifle, one large game rifle, a couple shot guns. everything either has a telescopic scope or red dot or laser. Assorted suppressors and brakes. at the least 1 range finder and a bino. probably 3 knives. GPS, iphone with ballistic apps... Point is, I dont think it is the locally made product that has gone so expensive, it is that we need so many different things local wage produced products seem expensive in comparison.
However, I do wonder why NZ barrels are so expensive compared to Lilja and other USA top end barrels.
Have a new truck and have fitted Rugged Valley cotton canvas seat covers. I think they will outlast the truck. Very well made in NZ of course.
Can I add a testimonial about Hardy Rifle Engineering? Well I am going to anyway. A while ago I bought an older Hardy can off a member for my brother. He has recently sent it to Hardys to have fitted to his new Tikka T3 Varmint 260 and Savage 12 .204. When they went to fit they found the iso tube was too small to fit over the heavy barrels. No worries they offered him a $200 trade in on a new suppressor. They then found their new ones wouldn't fit over the stupidly fat Savage barrel. Sheesh its only a 204 how much metal do you need, any way bugger. Then they came back and said ok well will make a one off custom suppressor to fit over the over weight barrel. Not bad service in my view. Go you good buggers.
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