Thats a lot of feet

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 01/31/2020 at 12:47 • Filed to: random

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Visited a warehouse that is 1.2 million square feet of covered floor space. Thats 27.5 ACRES of air conditioned warehouse. It has DRIVE in freezers and fridges that are bigger than my house.

for scale - 27 acres

This entire room is -10F, shown is one row of 10.

Whats really interesting is more than half the volume of food and supplies is volunteer picked/made and packed. They have their own farms, dairies, canneries, soap factories, etc etc.

Even more amazing is 100% of the product in the warehouse is charity and will be given away.

Crazy.

smobgirl > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:02

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The largest site I’ve inspected was 160 acres total with 900,000 feet of factory space. Took two days because they rushed me through everything . I drive past buildings the size of the one you mentioned and have nightmares.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:03

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I wonder what the monthly utility costs are for tha t place, beyond the obvious of if you have to ask...

HammerheadFistpunch > smobgirl 01/31/2020 at 13:04

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This one is split into 2 buildings so that must help a little. but yeah, its a lot of ground to cover.

HammerheadFistpunch > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/31/2020 at 13:04

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I wondered that myself.  

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:05

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Yeah, big warehouses are crazy.

A mindboggling place I went recently was a textile (clothing) recycling facility.

All those donation bins and stuff for charities ? Typically those bins are owned by one or two large companies who pay a fee to the charities to keep their logos on the bins. The clothes are then collected and shredded to make things like cloths/towels/whatever.

These obviously are not pictures from where I went, but very similar. Makes you think how wasteful and shitty humans are.

Also, the sound of loose change hitting the concrete floor was a near constant thing.  Who donates pants with money in them?

HammerheadFistpunch > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/31/2020 at 13:13

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My takeaway is that there are a lot of people on this planet.  This whole warehouse can get emptied for one large natural disaster and not come close to meeting the need.

66P1800inpieces > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:14

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This is a former Toys R US warehouse in NJ. 1.43m sq feet on 230 Acres. I worked on some of the fire and CCTV systems back in the day. It was before IP cameras really took off and remember wiring it with RG-11 which is coax similar to RG-6 but about 10mm thick. 

For Sweden > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:15

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Pros: many hungry people will be fed

Cons: These volunteers  may have religious beliefs which interfere with my euphoria from being enlightened by my own intelligence.

Sovande > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/31/2020 at 13:15

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What’s the part that makes people shitty in this scenario?

HammerheadFistpunch > For Sweden 01/31/2020 at 13:20

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No religious person is intelligent . Got it.

HammerheadFistpunch > 66P1800inpieces 01/31/2020 at 13:21

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That sounds...awful . Coax is terrible to work with in its own right because of how inflexible it is.

Ash78, voting early and often > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/31/2020 at 13:24

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Wow....I always try to donate locally, preferably to a place to gives the items to its residents or beneficiaries directly (instead of just re-selling it). That means a little more legwork to find the right place, but typically it will go to better use.

Longtime Lurker > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:36

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Wow that big. I can picture it in my head because it's 4 times bigger than my workplace.

For Sweden > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:40

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Do religious people even own fedoras?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 13:52

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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Sovande 01/31/2020 at 13:58

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The amount of pointless waste we all (including me) generate

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Ash78, voting early and often 01/31/2020 at 13:59

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Better to donate to thrift stores, shelters and hospices I think.  Take it direct to where you want it to go.

vondon302 > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 14:04

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Wow about twice as big as  my work and cleaner too. I still get l ost in the old part where the signs are incorrect or missing.

For Sweden > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 14:11

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I’m realizing my inside joke is 7 years old and I cannot expect people to know it.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-this-moment-i-am-euphoric

Under_Score > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 14:41

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I passed the Delta complex yesterday. My goodness that place is a unit. 

E90M3 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/31/2020 at 14:48

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That’s why I let my CPA handle things like that.

Urambo Tauro > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 14:52

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I’ve never even thought about it before but d o they keep forklifts in the refrigerated area? I guess I just always assumed that even the ones used outdoors in winter were always brought back inside and ultimately spent most of their time indoors at (more or less) room temperature.

HammerheadFistpunch > Urambo Tauro 01/31/2020 at 15:06

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They don't store them there

Urambo Tauro > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 15:15

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Aw bummer, I guess they’re not interested in starting a YouTube channel full of cold start video s...

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 15:18

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66P1800inpieces > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 15:26

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Yes I guess that part was bad,  but it was a union job and we had to be on site at 7:30 but the electricians wouldn’t turn on the electricity until 8 or 8:30.  Then our break would come up that we had to take, and then their break I feel like no one could work or it would look weird so we ended up with a lot of down time. 

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > HammerheadFistpunch 01/31/2020 at 16:35

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I am curious how much energy it takes to keep a space that large at that cold of a temperature. Its gotta be astronomical in the summer. I am thinking about how my electric bill in a 600sf apartment went up by 4-5x in the summer just keeping me at a nice 73 degrees. Thats the most mind boggling part of this place to me!

HammerheadFistpunch > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 01/31/2020 at 17:04

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yeah...I can’t imagine the electric bill.  Hundreds of thousands.

JMKarstetter > HammerheadFistpunch 02/01/2020 at 00:48

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The facility I work in has a workroom floor of 500,00sq/ft, but the whole building is 800,000. We also sort anywhere from 1.5-2 million pieces of mail every day of the week. We are a 24/7 facility, whether we are running the equipment or have them down for maintenance during the morning. We also sort thousands of magazines and packages every night. Our mechanics have tricycles with baskets to carry their tools and spare parts, and supervisors and managers have access to golf carts to drive around.