Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Current list of items out of stock at Sam's Club

Did you mean to post a list or...?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Jiff Peanut butter is on recall.

That is 2 in the course of 2 weeks.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

ExxonMobil Baton Rouge refinery is closed due to steam until June 1. The Baton Rouge complex is the fifth largest in the USA, producing 540k barrels per day.

 

[NyQuilninja]

Did you mean to post a list or...?

yeah sorry about that I was going to post a list of the ever-growing items that continuously seem to be out of Sams but at this point it would be easier to show what is in stock.

 

[SCSI]

Update on the dire state of supplies of robotics/automation parts -- prices of a number of common NEMA17 motors are up 50% from many vendors, and the leadtimes on non-shit linear guide assemblies, especially from Japanese manufacturers, are ballooning, some hitting the 6+ month mark. Misumi has banners up on half their product catalogue warning about supply delays. Weird leadtimes on some timing belts as well -- short lengths are ok, but anything over 600mm? "Uhhh TBD." Getting plastic filament in the USA from EU manufacturers also continues to be a tardfiesta -- I've watched restock dates on a certain maker's stuff slip 3 times now, and I fully expect the current June estimate to be missed as well.

ExxonMobil Baton Rouge refinery is closed due to steam until June 1. The Baton Rouge complex is the fifth largest in the USA, producing 540k barrels per day.

It's probably not affected by this, but all the same, I feel like I achieved a tiny win by having ordered some Mobil machine grease hours before this news dropped.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Update on the dire state of supplies of robotics/automation parts -- prices of a number of common NEMA17 motors are up 50% from many vendors, and the leadtimes on non-shit linear guide assemblies, especially from Japanese manufacturers, are ballooning, some hitting the 6+ month mark. Misumi has banners up on half their product catalogue warning about supply delays. Weird leadtimes on some timing belts as well -- short lengths are ok, but anything over 600mm? "Uhhh TBD." Getting plastic filament in the USA from EU manufacturers also continues to be a tardfiesta -- I've watched restock dates on a certain maker's stuff slip 3 times now, and I fully expect the current June estimate to be missed as well.



It's probably not affected by this, but all the same, I feel like I achieved a tiny win by having ordered some Mobil machine grease hours before this news dropped.

I have probably 30k of oil stockpiled long before this regardless for most of my vehicles. I also have a some extra parts like a spare turbo, some suspension/steering parts, engine seals, etc.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

ExxonMobil Baton Rouge refinery is closed due to steam until June 1. The Baton Rouge complex is the fifth largest in the USA, producing 540k barrels per day.

It isn’t “closed”. It’s not a store or restaurant where you just hang a sign on the door and that’s that. I’m not clicking that link but I’m guessing that their steam generation unit is down and because of that they’re idling the production units until they get steam back online? Is this a planned event or unplanned? Either way, a few days shutdown isn’t a big deal but man, it sure makes for juicy clickbait.

 

[Bananadana]

ExxonMobil Baton Rouge refinery is closed due to steam until June 1. The Baton Rouge complex is the fifth largest in the USA, producing 540k barrels per day.

Spoiler: The culprit.

"Steam" problems huh? What a "coincidence"
Initiate operation "race" war.

Now you have no choice if you want to drive something.

 

[contradiction of terns]

Spring is always my busiest season, so I've been off raising chicks, learning how to grow mushrooms, and trying to get an apiary going (I'm picking up five pounds of live bees in a week, RIP).

Anyway, I'm still alive and have been trying to get caught up on the thread. I saw the news about the monkey pox and figured it'd be all hands on deck archiving it if they try to make it Lockdown 2.

It's not much, but I bring this Bloomberg article I saw earlier which is relevant to the Supply Chain thread.

Stressed-Out Supply Chain Managers Are Throwing in the Towel

 

[JustSomeDong]

Spring is always my busiest season, so I've been off raising chicks, learning how to grow mushrooms, and trying to get an apiary going (I'm picking up five pounds of live bees in a week, RIP).

Anyway, I'm still alive and have been trying to get caught up on the thread. I saw the news about the monkey pox and figured it'd be all hands on deck archiving it if they try to make it Lockdown 2.

It's not much, but I bring this Bloomberg article I saw earlier which is relevant to the Supply Chain thread.

Stressed-Out Supply Chain Managers Are Throwing in the Towel

Apiaries are awesome. My best friend started with 10k bees and is up to 30k. He actually weighs them to count them. He has enough honey for family and friends and also make a nice bit of scratch selling it.

 

[SCSI]

Spring is always my busiest season, so I've been off raising chicks, learning how to grow mushrooms, and trying to get an apiary going (I'm picking up five pounds of live bees in a week, RIP).

Anyway, I'm still alive and have been trying to get caught up on the thread. I saw the news about the monkey pox and figured it'd be all hands on deck archiving it if they try to make it Lockdown 2.

It's not much, but I bring this Bloomberg article I saw earlier which is relevant to the Supply Chain thread.

Stressed-Out Supply Chain Managers Are Throwing in the Towel

Honeybees are total bros sisters.

Spoiler: Bee Tism

You're going to have fun. Honeybees are intelligent, chill little fuzzballs, and can be playful when they're not busy. They can learn to recognize faces and remember them, just like crows and ravens do, and some can even be taught how to solve simple problems and pass on what they learn to other bees. PL but my mom's kept Italian honeybees for a couple years now, so if you have any questions or want recommendations for beekeeping classes or books, I can ask her for tips to pass along to you.

 

[contradiction of terns]

Apiaries are awesome. My best friend started with 10k bees and is up to 30k. He actually weighs them to count them. He has enough honey for family and friends and also make a nice bit of scratch selling it.

Honeybees are total bros sisters.

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Spoiler: Bee Tism

You're going to have fun. Honeybees are intelligent, chill little fuzzballs, and can be playful when they're not busy. They can learn to recognize faces and remember them, just like crows and ravens do, and some can even be taught how to solve simple problems and pass on what they learn to other bees. PL but my mom's kept Italian honeybees for a couple years now, so if you have any questions or want recommendations for beekeeping classes or books, I can ask her for tips to pass along to you.

We're getting Italian honeybees and I'm both very nervous and excited. SCSI-- if you have book recommendation(s) please PM them to me. I will absolutely try to hunt them down.

We planted a bunch of fruit trees and finished off our garden plot, so we're doing it for pollination purposes, but if I can figure out how to handle them without spazzing out then I'd like to try to get some wax/honey. Candle-making seems fun.

I missed all you guys. Kiwi Farms is like the band + people having a party while the Titanic sinks underneath them; there's no one else I'd rather watch the world burn with.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Honeybees are total bros sisters.

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Spoiler: Bee Tism

You're going to have fun. Honeybees are intelligent, chill little fuzzballs, and can be playful when they're not busy. They can learn to recognize faces and remember them, just like crows and ravens do, and some can even be taught how to solve simple problems and pass on what they learn to other bees. PL but my mom's kept Italian honeybees for a couple years now, so if you have any questions or want recommendations for beekeeping classes or books, I can ask her for tips to pass along to you.

Italian honeybees are considered to be the most 'retarded', in that they are so domesticated, they will just let threats wander right in and destroy the colony. But otherwise, they are super awesome and good producers. I don't have any bees yet, but I do have some chickens and cats affected by this level of domestication. They are super sweet and great as pets, however, god forbid they hunt and eat their own food. The neutered male cats I have had don't establish territories and tend to be such pansies that they can't even escape a blackberry briar without screaming for help. My neutered male has never hunted anything besides flies when he was younger. My young spayed female has established a territory and keeps other cats out at loud cost to the neighborhood (her territory is our yard), but doesn't seem to hunt yet (yes, both cats are Feline HIV/Leukemia vaxed, along with the other series). My ISA chickens are very, very domesticated and love human attention. They tend to be far more chill around other chickens than most other breeds (chickens are cannibals, for real, u all). Some even like car rides, lol.

 

[SCSI]

We're getting Italian honeybees and I'm both very nervous and excited. SCSI-- if you have book recommendation(s) please PM them to me. I will absolutely try to hunt them down.

We planted a bunch of fruit trees and finished off our garden plot, so we're doing it for pollination purposes, but if I can figure out how to handle them without spazzing out then I'd like to try to get some wax/honey. Candle-making seems fun.

I missed all you guys. Kiwi Farms is like the band + people having a party while the Titanic sinks underneath them; there's no one else I'd rather watch the world burn with.

Perfect choice for your first colony -- Italian honeybees are usually considered the most docile of all honeybee breeds. My mom's reliably been able to get colonies of Italian bees to become so comfortable with her presence that she can open the hive box and touch them with her bare hands. She always wears a veil, but that's mostly for their safety, not hers - they're nosy little critters, and they like to come up to eye level to look you in the face when they want to know what you're doing. (It's not a threat, they're just curious -- if they headbutt you though, it does mean you're scaring them and they would like you to back up.) Definitely do and wear what makes you comfortable though, especially while you're getting used to the whole thing (it's definitely an experience the first time you walk up to a hive box with 50,000 bees around!) -- if you're calm, they're calm, and everyone learns to trust each other. It won't be long before you'll get them riding on your shoulders or buzzing alongside you while you work in the garden.

And you're going to have so much fruit -- a good honeybee colony will get every single flower on your trees. Depending on where you are, you might want to look up "Blue Orchard Bees" sometime -- they're a species of American wild bee that is so insanely good at working fruit trees, arborists in Utah and other parts of its range are setting up nesting habitats to encourage them to get their babies on. If you're in their range, you might be able to attract some to visit your land (don't worry, they don't fight for territory with honeys). And honeybee wax makes excellent candles -- I have one burning a few feet away right now, actually.

I attached a guide on pollinator-oriented planting for you that I had handy -- it's oriented towards Utah and the Great Basin environment, but a lot of the plants listed in it will grow practically anywhere (Russian Sage says hello -- I'll feed bees all summer and early fall, and I'm nigh-indestructible!). There's one beekeeping textbook I'll shoot you in just a sec to get you started, while I wait for my mom to send me more to share.

Italian honeybees are considered to be the most 'retarded', in that they are so domesticated, they will just let threats wander right in and destroy the colony. But otherwise, they are super awesome and good producers. I don't have any bees yet, but I do have some chickens and cats affected by this level of domestication. They are super sweet and great as pets, however, god forbid they hunt and eat their own food. The neutered male cats I have had don't establish territories and tend to be such pansies that they can't even escape a blackberry briar without screaming for help. My neutered male has never hunted anything besides flies when he was younger. My young spayed female has established a territory and keeps other cats out at loud cost to the neighborhood (her territory is our yard), but doesn't seem to hunt yet. My ISA chickens are very, very domesticated and love human attention. They tend to be far more chill around other chickens than most other breeds (chickens are cannibals, for real, u all). Some even like car rides, lol.

Lol that's also an accurate way of describing Italian honeys. Yeah, they're lovers, not fighters, that's for sure, my mom lost one hive last year when a wild colony took advantage of hers being weakened by an especially bad mite outbreak that tore up the domestic bee population in the region. The rival bees attacked and overwhelmed the guards, and the survivors threw in the towel and flew away to join the wild hive.

Also, I almost died picturing chickens going for a car ride like a dog. They're cute little monsters, I would love to pet one that liked to cuddle.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Perfect choice for your first colony -- Italian honeybees are usually considered the most docile of all honeybee breeds. My mom's reliably been able to get colonies of Italian bees to become so comfortable with her presence that she can open the hive box and touch them with her bare hands. She always wears a veil, but that's mostly for their safety, not hers - they're nosy little critters, and they like to come up to eye level to look you in the face when they want to know what you're doing. (It's not a threat, they're just curious -- if they headbutt you though, it does mean you're scaring them and they would like you to back up.) Definitely do and wear what makes you comfortable though, especially while you're getting used to the whole thing (it's definitely an experience the first time you walk up to a hive box with 50,000 bees around!) -- if you're calm, they're calm, and everyone learns to trust each other. It won't be long before you'll get them riding on your shoulders or buzzing alongside you while you work in the garden.

And you're going to have so much fruit -- a good honeybee colony will get every single flower on your trees. Depending on where you are, you might want to look up "Blue Orchard Bees" sometime -- they're a species of American wild bee that is so insanely good at working fruit trees, arborists in Utah and other parts of its range are setting up nesting habitats to encourage them to get their babies on. If you're in their range, you might be able to attract some to visit your land (don't worry, they don't fight for territory with honeys). And honeybee wax makes excellent candles -- I have one burning a few feet away right now, actually.

I attached a guide on pollinator-oriented planting for you that I had handy -- it's oriented towards Utah and the Great Basin environment, but a lot of the plants listed in it will grow practically anywhere (Russian Sage says hello -- I'll feed bees all summer and early fall, and I'm nigh-indestructible!). There's one beekeeping textbook I'll shoot you in just a sec to get you started, while I wait for my mom to send me more to share.



Lol that's also an accurate way of describing Italian honeys. Yeah, they're lovers, not fighters, that's for sure, my mom lost one hive last year when a wild colony took advantage of hers being weakened by an especially bad mite outbreak that tore up the domestic bee population in the region. The rival bees attacked and overwhelmed the guards, and the survivors threw in the towel and flew away to join the wild hive.

Also, I almost died picturing chickens going for a car ride like a dog. They're cute little monsters, I would love to pet one that liked to cuddle.

I highly recommend ISA Browns as lap chickens. They are incredible layers and love to be around humans. Mine started flying on my shoulder like parrots at around 3 months. They were bred to be an industry breed and are sex linked, so you know at hatching what sex you are getting. I'd consider an ISA rooster, but I decided to slightly Segway into a meat/egg cross with a Bielfelder. ISAs are not meat chickens and some of mine are hard gainers despite all the feed and kitchen scraps they seem to eat. I don't want broilers per se, but I would like chickens that can gain weight and lay and not be crippled either way.

All chickens have their own quirks and personalities. Just know with chickens you eat, they are all broiler slaughtered at 8-10 weeks. It is considered inhumane to let them live longer because they have severe health problems if they do. They are only bred to eat, fatten, and die as fast as possible. They are not bred for intelligence or companionship as other breeds might.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

We're getting Italian honeybees and I'm both very nervous and excited. SCSI-- if you have book recommendation(s) please PM them to me. I will absolutely try to hunt them down.

We planted a bunch of fruit trees and finished off our garden plot, so we're doing it for pollination purposes, but if I can figure out how to handle them without spazzing out then I'd like to try to get some wax/honey. Candle-making seems fun.

I missed all you guys. Kiwi Farms is like the band + people having a party while the Titanic sinks underneath them; there's no one else I'd rather watch the world burn with.

Check out this bee farmer's Youtube page:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-xczyljpDKuM00-45OUrvg

He's done a lot of experimenting with hive designs and he appears to be having great success with custom insulated langstroths.

 

[Colloid]

I have noticed the quality of potato products have dropped considerably. Multiple bags of name brand frozen french fries have ended up in the compost pile. We have stopped buying most frozen potato products as a result.

Even the basic Russet potatoes have been more gnarly than usual this year. Be prepared to commit some garden space to potatoes if shit gets real bad and you like french fries.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1528874266308902912

Hey look more food production stuff being disrupted

hahaha a coincidence i'm sure

hoard ammo and food

 

[Kane Lives]

Maybe something, maybe nothing. But Malaysia just halted the exports of chickens until further notice.

Source

Surely just a coincidence. (Food prices have been increasing noticably around these parts, by as much as 20% and I get the feeling the government is getting nervous.)

 

[Never Scored]

Even the basic Russet potatoes have been more gnarly than usual this year. Be prepared to commit some garden space to potatoes if shit gets real bad and you like french fries.

I noticed this last year. I'm in Eastern Canada and most out grocery store potatoes come from PEI, so I assumed it was because of the potato wart the US blocked PEI's potatoes over last year and PEI insisted totally doesn't exist. Do yours come from PEI where you are? Like, it was really bad; I couldn't buy a bag of potatoes without throwing half of them out and I had to start buying from a local farm where they cost twice as much but are excellent potatoes.