Storage Wars on A&E

[thirty-two]

Anyone watching this show? I am so addicted to it. Pretty interesting to see what people put in storage lockers and how much money can be made for them.

 

[azsportsfan01]

Someone just told me about this shows yesterday and it sounds somewhat interesting. Hopefully I'll have a chance to take a look at it at some point.

 

[Russ Smith]

Anyone watching this show? I am so addicted to it. Pretty interesting to see what people put in storage lockers and how much money can be made for them.

Yeah we watched it once and got hooked. I'm sure the hit to miss ratio is a lot lower than they show on tv of course, but some of the finds are amazing.

It seems like most of the main people own thrift stores so even if they don't find great stuff, they can sell it in their store and presumably write it off as a loss on their taxes.

that one guy Dave(?) is so bad he constantly bids on things he doesn't want to drive up the price for everyone else.

 

[sundevilscott]

My wife and her dad did this for a while about 8 years ago or so. They would just sell most of their stuff in garage sales if not valuable. She said she very rarely did not triple the money spent but there was a lot of labor to it.

 

[MrYeahBut]

For the company I own I go out and do estimates to repair and replace the type of doors they use in these storage units. It's amazing some of the stuff I've seen inside these units....everything from useless junk to very expensive furniture, antique cars etc.

 

[Russ Smith]

For the company I own I go out and do estimates to repair and replace the type of doors they use in these storage units. It's amazing some of the stuff I've seen inside these units....everything from useless junk to very expensive furniture, antique cars etc.

I assume you mean rollup doors, I was always curious what percentage of that business is people who hit the door with a forklift? 2 different places I worked at had that happen and had to get repairs, one was so bad we had to replace the door. At one place 10 days after getting it repaired a kid backed right into it, he thought he'd opened the door but hadn't.

I would assume with storage places the problems would be far less common because I assume the doors get used less often? In a warehouse environment rollup doors get used so much more.

It seems like it would be pretty reliable work though because there are so many rollup doors around.

 

[MrYeahBut]

I assume you mean rollup doors, I was always curious what percentage of that business is people who hit the door with a forklift? 2 different places I worked at had that happen and had to get repairs, one was so bad we had to replace the door. At one place 10 days after getting it repaired a kid backed right into it, he thought he'd opened the door but hadn't.

I would assume with storage places the problems would be far less common because I assume the doors get used less often? In a warehouse environment rollup doors get used so much more.

It seems like it would be pretty reliable work though because there are so many rollup doors around.

Service work is alot of what we do. These big warehouse doors get crashed all the time by some accident or something. It keeps me in business. (I buy all my customers fuel for their forklifts for Christmas..) We have some food distribution warehouses where there are 80 or more doors in them. We also service the loading dock equipment that seals the doors and creates a bridge for forklifts to travel across to get into the semi

Car dealerships are the most common problem doors because they go up and down 200-300 times a day and take alot of maintenance. They also have motors with special opening devices and timers to close them and special safety equipement to keep the doors from closing on cars..etc

Storage doors are as you say, very low cycle so they don't wear out quickly...but that doesn't preclude people from being stupid and hitting them with their truck or trying to break in.

As far as a percentage, let me put it this way...sooner or later almost every door that has forklift or vehicle traffic thru it gets crashed especially if its motorized. Businesses generally are trying to save a buck and don't put the proper safety equipment on them. It's not as common, but residential doors get crashed as well. Some guy will come home drunk and, well...bye bye garage door

ps, Russ I didn't respond to your thread about lever locks for pass doors as overhead doors are my area of expertise and I didn't want to steer you in the wrong direction. My mechanics can fix them, but I don't know that much about them myself.


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[Russ Smith]

Service work is alot of what we do. These big warehouse doors get crashed all the time by some accident or something. It keeps me in business. (I buy all my customers fuel for their forklifts for Christmas..) We have some food distribution warehouses where there are 80 or more doors in them. We also service the loading dock equipment that seals the doors and creates a bridge for forklifts to travel across to get into the semi

Car dealerships are the most common problem doors because they go up and down 200-300 times a day and take alot of maintenance. They also have motors with special opening devices and timers to close them and special safety equipement to keep the doors from closing on cars..etc

Storage doors are as you say, very low cycle so they don't wear out quickly...but that doesn't preclude people from being stupid and hitting them with their truck or trying to break in.

As far as a percentage, let me put it this way...sooner or later almost every door that has forklift or vehicle traffic thru it gets crashed especially if its motorized. Businesses generally are trying to save a buck and don't put the proper safety equipment on them. It's not as common, but residential doors get crashed as well. Some guy will come home drunk and, well...bye bye garage door

ps, Russ I didn't respond to your thread about lever locks for pass doors as overhead doors are my area of expertise and I didn't want to steer you in the wrong direction. My mechanics can fix them, but I don't know that much about them myself.


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No sweat I think I got that satisfactory with just graphite lock fluid.

Yeah people with forklifts keep a business like yours in business

When I was volunteering at a place that gave out food to underprivileged people one of the things I would do fairly often is go in for a few hours to work in the warehouse moving pallets of food around etc. They had all manual pallet jacks until a few months ago they got an electric one, I think someone gave it to them as a donation or something, not sure. the 2 guys who ran the warehouse(volunteer) had a devil of a time with it because other people always wanted to use it because it's easier to move a pallet of rice with that than with a manual pallet jack. the problem is electric ones are not easy for a novice, harder to make subtle adjustments etc.

I was talking to the 2 guys and said with no loading dock you could really use a forklift and the first words out of their mouth was "we're scared to death someone will hurt themself with the powered pallet jack, give them a forklift and they'll be slamming into the rollup door, putting holes in walls and running other people over." It was pretty funny.

I hadn't thought about someone backing into a storage locker door but you're right that could happen.

Back to the show I really like it so far I think I've seen 5-6 episodes now they always have something interesting.

 

[Covert Rain]

For the company I own I go out and do estimates to repair and replace the type of doors they use in these storage units. It's amazing some of the stuff I've seen inside these units....everything from useless junk to very expensive furniture, antique cars etc.

I assume you mean rollup doors, I was always curious what percentage of that business is people who hit the door with a forklift? 2 different places I worked at had that happen and had to get repairs, one was so bad we had to replace the door. At one place 10 days after getting it repaired a kid backed right into it, he thought he'd opened the door but hadn't.

I would assume with storage places the problems would be far less common because I assume the doors get used less often? In a warehouse environment rollup doors get used so much more.

It seems like it would be pretty reliable work though because there are so many rollup doors around.

A good friend of mine owns a commercial steel door business in AZ. They replace two things constantly. First the motors that drive the big ones up and down. His company has worked at the ASU Football stadium, Cards new stadium, Grocery Stores, Warehouses, Fire stations). He also does some residential and smaller commercial. There is a ton of money in it and they do steady business.

P.S. I just caught a few episodes and I like this show.

 

[sundevilscott]

This guy Jarrod is such a complete schlub!

 

[thirty-two]

This guy Jarrod is such a complete schlub!

His wife is sooo annoying and domineering. She drives me nuts.

 

[Bert]

His wife is sooo HOT. She drives me nuts.

FTFY

 

[Russ Smith]

What amazes me about these guys is how connected they are. no matter what sort of crazy thing they find in a locker they "have a guy" who's an expert. I really wonder if that's legit or if it's somehow setup by A&E.

I realize with Google and stuff it's much easier to find an expert in flare guns or Elvis memorabilia, but I saw one last night where he found an old moonshine still(the older guy with the glasses) and he had an expert friend on that. And the thing with him showing up with a little person once and 2 psychic sisters another time just seems a bit staged to me?

Still like the show though.

They had another one I think was A&E that we saw about people obsessed with couponing that was amazing. Walk out with 4-5 carts worth of groceries and pay like 12 bucks because of all the coupons. They were semi hoarders though they'd all turned their houses and garages into huge storage rooms they buy far more stuff than they need. Was really interesting though.

 

[conraddobler]

IMO these things are all staged.

Either that or only year one is the real deal, after that the filming and such starts to make sure it changes them.

I really like this one a lot, but yeah you have to start wondering if it's all legit.

This one Jared hit's the home run with the toys in the locker he got bid up on, that was nice to see.

 

[Folster]

I like this show, but had suspicions that it was staged. I googeld it and it appears to be scripted. That sucks because I liked the program. I was also disappointed when I found out Operation Repo was staged as well.