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S. Drew: 3 New Bus Wraps
Ex Blues Bus job, now advertising for a museum on democracy. Ironic as we have a ‘former’ paid up member of the communist party as prime minister now….
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Well done Shane – fantastic work.
I don’t know how you do it, that work must be physically exhausting on vehicles that size. I’m knackered just doing a small car 😕
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Thanks Phill,
It is exhausting on several levels to be honest.
Driving the 1000 klm’s to Sydney and being so far from the office if something goes wrong adds a level of stress, as well as the sheer size of these vehicles – nearly 16 metres long and almost 3.6m high. It can be very daunting. You have to have a fair bit of faith in your own ability for a start.
As you say tho, the physical fitting is exhausting. I never sleep well while we are away – strange bed, always going over the fitting in my head – and we usually work solid days. Then we have deadlines that can’t be missed, adding more stress.
My son sometimes gets overwhelmed with the magnitude of what is ahead if the fitting isn’t going as planned. But, I just take each step as it comes, I’m fairly methodical in that way. That is the key to doing these big jobs. It is all in the method,
The deadline for this one was even shorter than normal, so I had another fitter help me for 2 of the 4 days.
When I eventually get home, I usually get a massage and or a chiropractor. I ache all over. Especially working on a tresstle with prints that are over 3m each in length. Plus, I’m a bit pudgy which doesn’t help. 🙂
Come the weekend, I have been known to sleep for 18 hours after a big week.
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I second that phill…
Many folk will say wrapping an artic truck is easy as hanging wallpaper as its a large flat surface. not the case!
You get one go for alignment and if you are out by a few millimetres, by the time you get to the end its running off several inches. there are various other things that can easily make a truck wrap fail, ruining a job costing thousands of pounds.We do lots of buses, huge graphics and the like along the side. but i have never done a full bus wrap like shane appears to be doing almost daily! what looks relatively flat in those pictures, i bet has a multitude of obstacles all the way along the sides, rear etc. each one creating alignment issues as well as labour intensive. shane will face the same alignment issues because basically he has the same length and drop as an artic as his blank canvas but everything else thrown in to keep him on his toes. much more difficult than it looks, i bet!
as always, great work shane, love the orange one as it has its own form of impact with minimal amount of graphics/images.
thanks for taking the time to load your work mate, always great to see.
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Apart from the physical side the stress of being so far away from home and the posibility of something going wrong would be enough for me.
I work on the principal of – the posibility of something going wrong is directly proportional to the distance you are away from the workshop, this is the same logic as the probability of a piece of dropped toast landing buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of your carpet.
I need a lie down.Good work shane.
Alan D
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Thanks for your comments friends
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Hope you are earning a heap of dough for your comfortable retirement Shane!!!!
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