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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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[–] • 6 pts (edited )

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.

[–] • 5 pts

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.

[–] • 1 pt

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!".

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

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

[–] • 2 pts

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

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

[–] • 2 pts

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.

[–] • 1 pt

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.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

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