Warehouse and Operations as a Career here, I\u2019m Marty back with ya and I\u2019d like to thank you for checking back in with us today. Oh my goodness, we received a lot of feed back from last weeks episode, It\u2019s exciting to see so many of us working our plan towards that next promotion and doing so well with our Savings! It was great hearing that so many of us are actually putting more away than we\u2019d discussed, some listeners wrote that they were doubling up their dollar amounts this first half of the year, that\u2019ll just be that much more in the bank in week 52!
\nThis week lets talk briefly about a few of the less know and operated pieces of equipment we\u2019ll find in the warehouse, maybe lesser talked about tasks but vital to our well ran operations! An important task within the warehouse is keeping the floors clean. The warehouse is a dusty and grimy place. Boxes are dirty, pallets break, splinter, loose nails, they may have been stored outside in the elements at some point making them transport agents for no telling what! All the equipment we use have load wheels that leave tracks everywhere, and that hydraulic oil, maybe there\u2019s no leak but somehow hydraulic oil is everywhere. I hate trying to wipe down my dashboard on a lift and find theirs that fine mist of oil on it, where\u2019s all that stuff come from? And then of course we\u2019re going to have those occasional spills that\u2019ll of course be cleaned up immediately, or I hope they are, but as selectors and forklift drivers, do we really do a great job getting it all up? That\u2019s why we have the experts on our shift, our sanitation departments, and one of there tools is the floor scrubber! The seated industrial warehouse floor scrubber is an amazing piece of equipment! You\u2019ll see them in all sizes, units with 20\u201d discs, 28\u201d, 32\u201d, 36\u201d, and there\u2019s many different scrubber pads available too. The reservoir tanks on these smaller units may hold something like 16 gallons, 21 gallons, even 28 gallons of water or cleaning solution and recovery tanks that\u2019ll hold 11, 17, and 24 gallons. The larger units can be Sweepers and Scrubbers having dual discs, sometimes even 3 discs, a debris tank or bag for dust and dirt, they\u2019ll even pick up small pieces of wood and cardboard and all those nails we leave laying around. A unit like this may have a clean reservoir tank of close to 80 gallons and a recovery tank that\u2019ll pick up or hold something like 65 gallons! These units are awesome, you can make a pass through your facility, sweep all the floor and then go back through and scrub or clean the floors. There\u2019s a lot of different manufacturers and probably thousands of models, I won\u2019t mention any specific brands but you can search your browser using the words warehouse floor scrubber and get more results than you\u2019d thought possible! And prices can range between 7k and 81k or so. There\u2019s that much difference in their capabilities and all bells and whistles you can get.
\nThese are a blast to drive, they can turn on a dime, the larger units can be a bit tricky but there all really work horses and will get the job done, I\u2019ll add when used properly to that sentence I guess, When used properly they\u2019ll certainly get the job done. I was fortunate enough to be trained on one of the largest units available at the time by probably one of the best Sanitation managers I\u2019ve ever met. We were cleaning around 500k sq ft of racked area with a 65 foot deep dock area and we had several thousand feet of pedestrian traffic footage too. I felt like I mastered it\u2019s sweeping function but the scrubbing and recovery part of it, I don\u2019t think I ever did it properly, at least not like he could! He\u2019d scrub that warehouse and leave the floor practically dry after he\u2019d ran back over it with the squeegee. I\u2019d leave little lines of water on the floor after every pass.
\nSo how it works, well, the sweeping is pretty straight forward. The sweeping discs rotate with an uplifting motion towards a...