Bozeman Build Report #2

Howdy builders of the North, East, South, and West,

Welcome back to the Bozeman Build Report, where this is our second edition, fool me twice shame on me. Today Monday 03/04/24, we are dipping our toes into some hot cake, concrete, tinder box insurance, and an update from OSHA. Enjoy the next few minutes of some blue collar gossip.

Keep the saw sharp,

-Daniel Not your financial advisor or building contractor. I source everything from wikipedia.com 

BBR #2 Table of Contents

• Prices, prices, prices (As of Saturday 03/02/24)

• Commodities that bring power to the people!

• Concrete Deltas (CD’s)

• Forested Insurance

• PPE - We only have one pair

Happy Casimir Pulaski Day (Celebrated the first Monday in March) - A big hitter in the Revolutionary War (no I didn’t doodle in his mustache)

Prices, prices, prices (As of Saturday 03/02/24)

Next time you fill with diesel consider driving to Oklahoma $3.56, Missouri $3.67, or Kansas at $3.68, man the Midwest is underrated.

Try to avoid Washington $4.67, California $5.41, or Hawaii $5.63

Funny seeing how CA and HI are total outliers noting a premium of 16% in CA and a 21% in HI (compared against WA) and a premium of 52% in CA and a 58% in HI (Compared against OK (the cheapest place in USA to fill-up)).

AAA Gas Prices

Commodities that bring power to the people!

Uranium might be melting down after melting up 83.57% YoY. Uranium is down 7.95% WoW. Yellow Cake is currently trading at $95 USD/Lbs

I’m in love with the Cocoa hovering at $6,769 USD/Ton up 145% YoY compared to coal at $131/Ton down 32% YoY.

Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Concrete Deltas (CD’s)

I called batch plants in major West Coast Cities including San Diego, LA (Irvine), San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle (Bellevue). Here’s a sample of the quote requests.

Here are some concrete titles for kicks:

• laborers dig & pour

• carpenters form

• lathers and rodbuster do rebar

Forested Insurance

Insuring homes in forested neighborhoods aint easy or cheap (especially if you live further than 5 miles away from a fire station or are within 1 mile of forest service land). I called up a few insurance providers around the State; two of them said that only 3 of their 6 providers are willing to insurance for homes located in forested neighborhoods/HOAs.

PPE - We only have one pair

About 60% of workers use PPE during work. Main reasons for non-use are discomfort, lack of knowledge on how to use it and poor fit. Occupational accidents in the last 12 months were reported by 64.3% of workers. The main accident types were: being hit by falling objects, falls from height, and tool related accidents. National Library of Medicine PPE Study

Which piggy backs into my contractor learning of the week, “don’t drop things on the GC’s head” I had a foldable Milwaukee knife that fell out of my pocket while crouching down falling 8 feet below onto the GC’s head while installing some cedar siding. He wasn’t impressed. After the fact, the GC mentioned that every worker that’s learned under him has dropped something on him, that’s enough times to justify a helmet. I’m not the pinnacle of safety by any means however if you have access to PPE might as well wear it, regardless of what your peers think or say.

Ian Dodds runs a local concrete business and is diving headfirst into a trade workflow marketplace pilot project matching Bozeman work with qualified workers. Submit a job below and will try to fulfill it in house or pair you with a vetted contractor. Bozeman Operations

Jobsite song of the week: Boom Boom by Big Head Tod and the Monsters

Hats off but on to all the year round framers.

Again this is not financial or builder guidance.

Stay tuned, next Monday has some great stuff instore, thank you for reading!

Daniel