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Had a blowout on the highway after picking up a massive bolt. Cannot find a 35" All Terrain in the south east. Had a distributer tell me if you can find any, buy it because there is not much out there and won't be for a while. So now my work truck sits for a week at the Ford dealership because of a fucking tire. If you're on the edge about getting new tires, go ahead and pull that trigger now. It's only going to get worse.

Had a blowout on the highway after picking up a massive bolt. Cannot find a 35" All Terrain in the south east. Had a distributer tell me if you can find any, buy it because there is not much out there and won't be for a while. So now my work truck sits for a week at the Ford dealership because of a fucking tire. If you're on the edge about getting new tires, go ahead and pull that trigger now. It's only going to get worse.

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This has been going on for several months. I have shit tires on two vehicles because of it. When I looked into it earlier it seemed to be because of manufacturers closing down their production facilities for 2 to 4 week periods because of COVID-19. Apparently there wasn’t much excess production capacity so it is going to take a while for inventory to catch back up. And of course the container ship situation is contributing to imported tires.

There are a lot of shortages that are not being reported in the news at all. Everyone knows that the price of a 2 x 4 stud has doubled but nobody knows that there has been no white oak hardwood or veneer on the market for the last four months. Soft maple just disappeared from the market also.

Edit; I went to a few different big box stores yesterday looking at air conditioners. The inventory at all of the stores was pretty slim and a lot of the offerings were covered in a years worth of oily warehouse dust Meaning that it is old inventory that did not sell last year. Maybe we will see a shortage of air conditioners.

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My refrigerator went out in jan... the new one is scheduled for delivery in July if all goes well.

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Freezers went because of the vaccine requirements to stay cold. That's what we were told when looking for a large chest freezer. After two months, we finally found one.

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That's obviously not the real answer. It's because they needed somewhere to put the six gorillion bodies we've had from "Death-Plague 2020!".

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We had to get a fridge last year and it was bad.

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Everyone knows that the price of a 2 x 4 stud has doubled

Closer to 3x-5x in much of the country.

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China and Taiwan are the biggest shippers and manufacturers of tires. China fucking with Taiwan is bad for the tire market and eventually it'll cost China billions and billions of dollars. Just to protect their ego.

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Smoke em if you got em.

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PUT EM OUT! PUTEM OUT! PUT EM OUT!

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Put em out and vaccum seal em. Fuck, with the way things are going, it wouldn't be bad advice.

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I know the price went up on lumber but I think the shortages may be regional. The shop I work at is swamped right now with demand. Running between 30-40k LF per day on 3 moulders. About 60% pop, the rest is a mix of maple, cypress and white oak.

https://pic8.co/sh/pyFV9n.jpg this is my average daily moulding schedule.

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Doubled! I wish it's almost 8x more for a 2x4

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Call around, there are often small tire shops that deal in used tires, and you may be able to get going with that. While you're at it get a used rim and another tire as a spare.

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Do not spread this news.

Seriously.

People have stop telling the world where cheaper things are because then they aren't cheaper anymore.

Let the smart people prosper.

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Hey, one of my fellow Poalers needed help, so I gave it. Not like many people browse here. Or will find this on a certain most-popular search engine.

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Every liberal group in the world monitors this place.

Use private messages to help an individual out.

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If you're too dumb to need to read this "advice", chances are you're too dumb to follow it. So don't worry about it

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Someone on this site tried to get me to tell them how I get xfnitywifi hotspot without a login screen for free for the past 4 years. Yea, sure, I'll let that slip. I figured it out on my own.

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I mean if you want to help a worthy person then that's one thing.

But spreading info openly on message boards simply destroys the advantage. It either raises the price or closes the loophole.

It's like telling everyone the entrance to a hidden gold mine.

Only tell this you know who will help you defend it with their new found wealth.

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Prices are way up as well. They are going to hyper inflate everything one item at a time. Gas, Lumber and Tires are done. Food is inching up steadily, a little "supply chain snafu" (wink wink) and it will be next to skyrocket.

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Like the government paying farmers 1.5x the market price to plow their crops under?

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There are shortages of black dragon dick dildos too.

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Damn, sorry to hear, I hope your mother makes it through these difficult times.

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food is next. theyre creating a shortage. Eventually water. Its about control.

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My cigar guy says butane as well

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And I was going to buy tires next week... dry rot on one and low tread. Damn.

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You won't have trouble. OP has an absurd size.

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Not absurd, not even uncommon, just not popular.

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Every person I know driving a diesel has 35's. Not uncommon at all where I'm at.

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LMAO I told YOU this shit was going to happen, TW is a major tire hub for shipping, and China is fucking with TW and this is fucking with international tire shipping. Eventually this will filter back to CH costing them billions, I thought Chinx were good at math.

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20% of the Chinese economy is exports. 20% of Chinese exports are to America. If China wants to wage economic war on America, that's a real option and America can realistically do fuck all about it except live frugally while we build up our own manufacturing base again.

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TSMC is moving manufacturing to USA. Fuck China. Fucking Joe "technocrat bitch nigger" biden is doing the bidding of absolute fucking morons.

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the scuffle hoe i bought like 3 weeks ago is still on backorder. my god when will it end!

if you needed to buy a scuffle hoe, you might be too late!

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Because, like tires, everyone needs a scuffle hoe, amirite

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apprently they do, cant find one anywhere and i have been waiting 3 weeks!

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Lol, I bought a new tractor and several implements back in October. It finally arrived two weeks ago... 5+ months later when they spent all of December telling me they were expecting it by January at "the latest"

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that really grinds my gears

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A welder, a grinder and some miscellaneous steel and you could make your own.

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well, with a casting equipment, some rubber, and some steel rings with a little ingenuity you could make your own tires too

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I don't think I'd want to take tires I fabricated out on the highway without a whole lot of experimentation. That hoe thing though? That's something you could slap together, and modify if it didn't work quite right.

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Put a more common size on your truck and you won't have that problem. Why do you have 35x12.5 tires on your truck? Do you go mudding? If not, put the stock rims and back on.

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My work requires a 4x4 to get to where I need to go. The ride on 35's vs stock 33's is much better as well, imo.

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