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Wrapping a 50ft tall concrete silo. Anyone ever done something similar? Pricing and time?
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Corwin Steeves
Large format printer to the stars
There were a lot of runners on this thread and only one doer. 
Nice job man, looks killer.
Here's one I did that made everyone nervous too. It's a historical landmark, so I had to make sure that the vinyl would not damage the surface of the stone which added a little drama.
Nice job man, looks killer. Here's one I did that made everyone nervous too. It's a historical landmark, so I had to make sure that the vinyl would not damage the surface of the stone which added a little drama.
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That's like a job we did when they filmed a reality show at an auction house here. They hired us to put a sign on the roof of the auction house, but they filmed the installation to look as if the employees of the auction house did it themselves. Middle of summer, cloudless 95 degree day. They had us show up on site at 6:30 am, so I thought the plan was to get it all up before it got too hot. But with the film crew and all the whole event took until 4 pm. They did feed us a catered KFC lunch. For all that, the film was used during the opening credits of the show, lasting maybe 10-15 seconds.
Yup. the set decorators, film crew and cast were out there near our property for over a week and paid the gas station owners $35k to get one 60 second scene in a pretty mediocre film. I think they even rented a FEDex truck to pull away at just the right moment to reveal the "Last Gas 200 mile" sign. Film production is big money for states that are able to attract it and outbid other places for the business. New Mexico is neck deep in it and we have several old friends employed in it. One still has the area rug and coffee table from Walt's apartment from Breaking Bad after he moved back home and the apartment got phased out of the story.
That's why major release films cost what they cost.
We did get to meet a William H. Macy and John Travolta while they were hanging around between shooting all the takes. I'm sure it's grueling work to do take after take until the director and production people think they have enough decent material to cobble it all together into a scene.
phoenix.emballages@gmail.
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Bonjour messieurs, j'aurais besoin de vos conseils si quelqu'un connaît l'imprimante Trojan T3op. Objectif chips les cartouches d'encre afin d'avoir un niveau d'encre toujours à 100% .
La tête d'impression est memjet
La tête d'impression est memjet
Elwood "Woody" Smith
New Member
$500 day, are you kidding, wholesale should be 3 times that, let alone retail, no vinyl is going to work. run and don't look back.
Stacey K
I like making signs
They did it. If you look a couple pages back the guys brother got about 1/4 of the way done and it looked really nice. I'm guessing they finished it but never came back to say one way or the other.
yeah.... it looks nice.
but graffiters would have it done sooner and cheaper.
see link
John Miller
New Member
This post has to be a spoof https://silo.org/storage-methods/
Johnny Best
Active Member
I know more about silos now than I did yesterday.
Stacey K
I like making signs
They did post of pic of the same kind of silo with a guy applying vinyl...maybe he just used that photo as an example? I never would have touched it. I really want this guy to come back now and see how it held up! (if it's not a fake post)
CSOCSO
I don't hate paint, I just overlay it.
Hey guys... this was long time ago. I don't even remember what went down exactly. I did not go back there. If I remember correctly, another crew went back or maybe my brother took another crew back there. I believe they finished it. Can't remember much of it to be honest. This was ages ago.
White Haus
Not a Newbie
That's too bad. Hard to imagine going through a shit show like that and forgetting about it.
To me this would be one of those important "lesson learned" type projects.
CSOCSO
I don't hate paint, I just overlay it.
We re dealing with this company for many many years and stuff happens all the time. My brother just traveled somewhere the day before and the frame they produced is the wrong size so job wasnt done. Because of all the people who evacuated from west coast florida all the hotels were booked so the cheapest hotel was nearly 300 a night. Of course he will be paid for the whole thing.
Btw just asked my brother about the silo. there was 3 crew there to finish it but he said the job was underquoted. for 1 crew he said it would have probably taken 1 week to finish it but it was super hard because you have to drop in the material behind the tensioning bars thats running horizontally and there are a millions of those. once you cut it and drop in the material behind it then you have to deal with the corrugated shape. lmao. nightmare.
Stacey K
I like making signs
Well, thanks for the update! I didn't expect to hear anything about this LOL
Sounds like a nightmare. Glad your brother didn't have to finish the job.
truckgraphics
New Member
There are a lot of easier and safer ways to earn $500 a day slinging vinyl...Unless you plan to charge $5,000 a day to remove it.
Run! This can't end well.
Run! This can't end well.
truckgraphics
New Member
...And I just commented on a five year old thread.