[Stonehenge]

Do you try to manufacture things to do to keep your guys busy, working, and therefore working for you?

Or if it rains, do you watch your bottom line and let them stay at home?

[dan deutekom]

As long as there aren't too many of them at once it is a good time to do that often neglected equipment maintenance. I used to look forward to the occassional rain day. The crew would go out for a good breakfast, shoot the s***, and wait to see if the weather will break. Then the hardcore guys would fix equipment, get supplies and then at about 3 o'clock so that we could about and play a few For us it was that kept us It is kind of like a little

[Rex Mann]

Rainday....What's that?

Peace,

Rex

[Stonehenge]

Must be nice.

[Paul]

Not many rainy days off here unless it rains all day. Something always to do, equipment check ups, safety talks, minor repair time, check over trailer supplies.........

[site]

We usually find some sort of work unless its really raining hard. It's usually a good time to take the guys out to breakfast. After that we do odds and ends jobs that require lots of truck time (Replace small shrubs, etc) Sometimes we mulch, or deliver materials to future jobs. Luckily we haven't had too many big washouts lately

[Stonehenge]

Deliveries for future jobs...I like that. Seems obvious now that I read it.

[jwholden]

Perhaps I need to spend less time here and more time making plans. But I often don't have a plan B when the rain comes. I usually look at it as a good opportunity to catch up on some designs. Busy work for the guys ends up beeing busy work for me.

I like the idea of taking the guys out to breakfast. I think that might help us bond better and even relax me a bit.

I would love to make a list of rainy day maintenance but it seems that the guys are in such a rush to get done and head home it gets done half----- and I spend more time fixing stuff than if I had done it myself. This is one of my managerial quirks I need to work on and perhaps I'll give the guys an easy, but neccesary, list of maintenance to do and let them take care of it while I get some office stuff/design work done.

[Stonehenge]

I hear ya - I have a hard enough time devising a daily 'Plan A' for 2 crews (sort of), that also being organized enough for contingencies seems beyond the scope of my abilities most days.

Do you prepare the night before? Most nights I like to take about 1/2 hour to plan out the next day - who does what, what has to get done, what tools to not forget, phonecalls for me to make, etc.

[diginahole]

I have lived by this saying for a lot of years.... Rain at 7 gone by 11. Coffee, then bring in materials for the afternoon. When the clouds roll in around 11 we call them beer clouds. Most often it seems to hold off until we are ready to sand. I always find myself saying 'it couldn't wait just another 1/2 hour @#^&^**@!!!'. Last friday was the first rain day this year, day off for the guys, a short nap for the boss around mid morning before attacking the paperwork and overdue phone calls on the desk. I called it a rain day Thursday night, that was the first time I ever called a rain day before 11 AM.