Brad Primeau Dave Adamovich
WHAT’S THE SKINNY, MINNIE?
Reorg, reorg., what is going on? The Maintenance Department is changing. The challenge of trying to provide maintenance support for two shops, organize Blue and Yellow volunteers, keep supplies coming and equipment running mandated a change of how the department was organized and conducted its business. Supporting two facilities requires standardizing how work is performed and organized. The least efficient approach would be to have each maintenance shop work independently but each one would still require its own budgeting, parts ordering, scheduling and record keeping and maintaining repair histories etc.
More importantly, there are only so many volunteers. The club has many functions that need volunteers but the maintenance department needs someone with mechanical ability and willingness to, as they say, ‘do the time’. There are only so many that have these characteristics and who want to volunteer. Standardizing the department’s functions, procedures, duties and business activities maximizes the productivity and ability of those who volunteer to "get'r done".
The organizational chart displays how the department is going to be structured starting March 1st. You will notice Rolling Acres (RA) is broken out functionally in greater detail. That’s because the Club is fortunate enough to have more individuals with in-depth experience at RA to lead these areas. As Brownwood operations continue to mature and volunteer staff increases, the same RA breakout will be establish there. Bottom line, it’s a work in progress BUT the club is lucky to have the individuals designated in the org chart that want to take on the task and challenge. They stood up and said “I’ll give it a try” so help them and the Club to be even more successful in the future!
BROWNWOOD MWH SIGHTING!!!
No it wasn’t a white balloon drifting over the building. It was a sighting of a Member Who Helped without be asked sighting! Details are: the assembly room floor was covered with fine sawdust (as usual) and someone with a wet rag dripped water all over the floor. Other individuals walked throughout the drips creating footprints on most of the floor in front of the finishing room and halfway up the center isle creating a large mess.
The MWH was captured in a photograph and identified. Gary Deutsch was caught mopping the assembly room and cleaning the mop! If other sightings occur they will be posted in future department reports.
WHAT THE ??
An orange towel was sucked up the vacuum collection hopper behind the flapper/inflatable drum sander by the sanding downdraft table. How can that happen without someone noticing it or REPORTING what happened to a Monitor or a maintenance person? YCFS!
YOU CAN’T HAVE ENOUGH CLAMPS
There are videos manufacturers have on their web sight (Bessey for example), explaining clamping pressure, pounds of pressure a clamp applies and others showing how clamping cauls can be used to eliminate using a large number of clamps. Woodworking is a craft and developing skill and knowledge about it is part of mastering the craft. It’s not just cutting and gluing up a few boards and moving on to another project you’ve seen in a magazine. Learning and understanding the techniques you used and why you they are used is part of what woodworking is all about.