#28 FOUR MONTHS IN - 9 JUNE, 2024

WHAZAMMO AND THE GILLIG #28  (Click the "MORE POSTS" link at the bottom to find Post #1)      


 "SO" much has changed idea-wise, it's like we started all over, one of the biggies is now deciding to close off the normal, right-front entry doors that all "busses" have...two main reasons, and many secondary reasons that we will explore later....   

Well.....we have survived four full months of this original 6 month build-it sentence by GILLIG, I think we may have to add a full additional month (200 man/hours) to our timetable due to our cabinet ordeals, it took almost three weeks to reconstruct the three cabinets aboard, waaay too much time... and we still have one more cabinet, the shower, and lotsa' counter work waiting to devour us (after... we do the electric and plumbing).

Then there is the always-forgotten fine tuning era to go through (the sea trial, the dry run, the proofing).

It was only a $5-600-ish dollar spend month, (we are choked with supplies and components purchased and brought on board last month), now, we simply need to start installing this stuff (after the cabinet projects), and pay off the credit cards that got us this far.  All in all, I am guessing we are at 45-50 % of completion.

As work month five begins, June will be a virtual no-spend, all-work, pay-it-down, eat up the building supplies month. and should take us to the 75% mark after the 4th of July.

120 DAY TOTALS:

"Actual" MONEY-OUT-OF-POCKET total TO DATE: $ 3,480.00-$3,800.00  remember, the ancillary support expenses TITLE-LICENSE-INSURANCE-TRAVEL-FUEL- (not including the purchase price of the bus, or any construction materials, there was a $ 900.00 chunk of change spent on B.S.). 

Making the actual on-board bus parts expenditures at $2,650.00 - $2,900.00 ($600 of which was for vinyl flooring alone, $450 for stove-reefer), this does not include unaccounted-for expenses like lunches, generator fuel, storage lot fees, and petty cash purchases ... guesstimate ?  another $250.00.00 ?

SO, at the outside,  $3,300.00 in 120 days, and lots of our "free" labor.

Time invested, (to date approx.) 790 man hours invested (at $50.00/HR = $39,500)

Remember we were at 300 labor hours invested back in March, we estimated still needing another 800-1,200 hours of labor to completion... or around 1,500 hours for the entire build, with the amount of changes and redo's, I think we will be off our target.








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