Shepherd At War 👨‍🌾🪖

☕️📖🕯 Business the American way - part 2 That spring of 2017 we had good success building 4 machines on time; within the deadlines that we had given our customers; farmers from the US and Canada. When time came to think about painting the machines, I discussed my options with our new partner. Usually I would outsource the painting process to a local powder-coating operation. I had found a local company near Mansfield that could do the job, but my new partner was eager to do the job using wet paint. He showed me his work, demonstrating it's durability and fine appearance. I had seen powder-coat paint jobs that looked worse, and were less durable. He also assured me that I wouldn't have to spend the 8000$ on the job which I had budgeted. No, he could do the job for 3000$ - 5000$. I would save even more money than that by letting him wet-paint the parts, since I wouldn't have to transport the parts to another company many miles away to be painted.