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Trailblazing Innovation: James Peight on Revolutionizing Trailer Technology and Balancing Faith and Family
What if the secret to revolutionizing an industry lay in a story of youthful ambition and innovation? Join us as we sit down with James Peight, a trailblazer in trailer manufacturing, who traces his path from an 18-year-old shed delivery driver to a pioneer of trailer technology. James shares the pivotal moments of his career, including his invention of the side shift feature and the founding of Creekside Welding in 2002. His story offers a unique glimpse into the transformation of the shed hauling business, with a nod to how social media has shaped connections among industry peers.
Get ready to peek into the future of the shed-moving world! James enlightens us on the next frontier of trailer technology, where lighter and stronger designs promise to redefine efficiency. Discover the Shed Boss, an innovative machine poised to rival traditional methods like the Mule, offering a cost-effective solution for those managing shed lots. We'll also take a light-hearted look at the role AI might play in future deliveries, while acknowledging its current limitations in the face of human ingenuity.
Our conversation doesn't stop at trailers and technology. James opens up about the personal values that steer his life and business, from his deep faith and family ties to his passion for the outdoors. He shares his involvement with Christian Light Missions in Honduras and his evolving relationship with hunting, all while keeping his sights set on maintaining quality and affordability in the shed industry. With his son Marcus now playing a key role in the enterprise, this episode is a heartfelt exploration of how personal beliefs intertwine with professional ambition.
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All right guys, welcome back to another episode of the Shed Geek podcast. Friday fun day with Sambassador. I'm your host, Sam Byler, and here today with my good friend, James Peight. James, I feel like I have known you a long time and we really don't know each other that well. I see you on Facebook. I see you here and there. We've got mutual friends that, honestly, if you're friends with those guys, you got to be a pretty good guy. Yeah, so just to do a brief introductory you're in the shed industry but you're on the trailer manufacturing side. Just introduce yourself a little bit and tell me a little bit about what you guys are doing up there.
James Peight:Yeah, absolutely yeah. Well, I have a fairly long history with the shed industry. I don't know how far back to go, but I got my Class 3 license when I was 18 and started driving for a local guy. Just a very plain Jane trailer, very plain Jane trailer, old now, old Chevy ton truck, you know, big old blue revolving blinker on the top.
Sambassador:Oh, yeah, yeah, A real revolving light. So, when would have this
James Peight:That I am that would have been okay. So, five, about 86, 87, maybe. And then we started calling for Ashes Storage Barns here in Bedford Bedford,. Oh yeah, and so it was a part-time thing right off the bat. I did some of these deliveries, fill-in deliveries, and kept on going. I worked for him probably seven, eight years, something like that and towards the last it was a full-time shed delivery during the summer, of course, not the winter, but anyway.
James Peight:So, I worked for him, um, and yeah, we, all you know, delivered. We didn't go real far, 100 mile radius or less. Yeah, five, six sheds a day, you know, and uh, all gravel pads, of course, no blocking oh come on yeah, I don't want nothing to do with blocks, absolutely nothing. Not way back then already, oh, absolutely.
Sambassador:No wonder these Pennsylvania haulers nowadays are so daggum against blocks. This has been going on a long time.
James Peight:Absolutely. I mean that's yeah, blocking is totally. I mean, you just don't do that. That's not something you do. Oh my word. So have you known.
Sambassador:Woody back then.
James Peight:No, woody. I did not know Woody until just recently actually.
Sambassador:Nice.
James Peight:The whole Facebook thing opened up along that stuff. But no, I did not have much exposure to other haulers. I mean, the shed hauling industry today is very different than it was back there, both in many ways. I mean equipment, and then, of course, the whole social media thing is like yeah, I mean you have a lot more connections and stay in touch with a lot more haulers.
Sambassador:Well, I know, yeah, I know. Even up, even up until 10 years ago, I kind of felt like I was just out on an island by myself, which there's a lot more haulers now than there was then also, but we didn't know each other, we didn't know anybody. I knew there was a couple guys here and there around, but you never talked to them, never heard from them.
James Peight:Yeah, yeah, totally around, but you never talked to him, never heard from him. Yeah, yeah, totally anyway. So, I worked for, for his name was Dan Troyer. He's not living anymore, but he had the equipment.
James Peight:uh, he bought his first trailer and then he started building trailers, right, so he's actually the one that invented the side shift on the back. All these trailers that have side shifts today are because of him. And so, he a side shift, yeah, of course, and you got tongue extension, tail extension, you know all that stuff. So, anyways, yeah, it went from one thing to the next.
James Peight:He, of course, he's the one that actually started the business called Creekside Welding today, and so he was building trailers for a few years, had a couple guys working for him, uh, and then eventually pd bought the business from, I think from him, and uh, in the meantime, um, I went to some other work and eventually came back here to my home, was building small pallets and window screens, and then, when this business became available in 2002, I bought it from PD and moved in In 2002? Yes, 2002, yes, oh my.
Sambassador:That's been a while back. Yes, it has.
James Peight:Yes 20,. What? 22, 2002,? Yes, oh my, that's been a while back. Yes, it has. Yes, 20,. What? 22, 23 years 23 years. Yeah, this year is 23 years.
Sambassador:I had no idea it was that long ago. PD had to be a young guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was, I'm not trying to say he's not young anymore, but younger.
James Peight:Well, he was younger for sure, yep. Say he's not young anymore, but younger. Well, he was younger for sure, yep, so anyways, yeah, I was building trailers in a 30 by 40 shop. Uh, at that time I was working by myself and uh, you know, yeah, it, it, um, uh, whatever I was doing a year, I don't know, 10, 10 trailers a year.
James Peight:9, 10 trailers a year, doing everything answering the phone yeah you know, paying the bills and keeping the books and uh and doing everything. So eventually, Marcus, he was working away, he wanted to come work and so he came, came back into the business uh, I'd have to look when that was um, not sure what year that was. And then we added a building to our piece, put a bigger shop out the back.
Sambassador:Nice.
James Peight:Yeah, so kind of where we're at now. We have another guy working, it's three of us at work and so, yeah, that's kind of the rundown. Any more detail, go for it. There's three of us at work and uh, so yeah, that's kind of the rundown. Any more detail?
Sambassador:go for it there's three of you yes, three of us right now.
Sambassador:Yeah yeah, oh, wow, yep, that's, that's crazy. Yeah, um, before I forget, you were talking about, uh, the side shift, some of the, the trail, the tongue extensions and some of that stuff that came out. Dale Neuswanger had a trailer at the first Montana Bash. Actually, he had sold it. It was Dale's old trailer that he had sold to somebody out there, but he competed with it. It had a steerable tongue, for lack of a better word. The thing would go two and a half feet both directions in the front.
James Peight:Yeah, yeah, as far as I know, we invented that here and Jason, Jason, he's the one that talked us into it. We built a trailer for him, um, and on his trailer he wanted a steering tongue and he wanted leveling axles, and so, um, let me think, the leveling axles, the style that's out there now for the most part, uh, creek hill has had a leveling, leveling trailer. I don't know if you'd call it leveling axles, but it wasn't really what he wanted, and so we came up with the current design, um, the steering tongue that we build now scenic view also does the steering tongue is a little different one yeah doesn't have as much stroke as ours does, but neither does it twist the trailer quite as much.
Sambassador:Yeah, yeah.
James Peight:So yeah, that came from Creekside, Creekside and the current leveling axles style Pinehill uses we use. Also that came from Creekside as well.
Sambassador:Okay, I thought so. I was pretty sure that was Creekside as well. Okay, I thought so, I was pretty sure that was Creekside. Trailer
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Sambassador:So, Jason also has he? He touched the feather in his hat that he was the one that got tried to do the side shift to start with okay, yeah, yeah yeah, he feels like I need to ask him about that again and it might have been on our podcast and I forgot.
Sambassador:But the side shift, I think and the steerable tongue he likes, he and he. You know, Jason, he's man. If the if the guy ever gets out of building and hauling his own sheds, he needs a fab shop.
James Peight:The dude is incredible yes, when it comes to fab, he would. Would absolutely.
Sambassador:Well, yes, sir, and I've told him and told him that I said, man, some, some days, I mean he does great at what he does. But I said I think you missed your calling. You should be in a fab shop because he loves fab and stuff. And most people don't understand how far back he goes in sheds, in the shed industry. You know, they think it's just, he's this guy out in Montana. He's been in business, you know, since I don't know, 15, 16, somewhere around there. But he, he grew up, you know, with his dad doing sheds.
James Peight:Yes, yeah, he's a long experience.
Sambassador:Yes, for sure, yeah, yeah, he's been around a long time and I did. I did not know. I mean, we weren't five minutes in here and I learned something about you I didn't know. You used to haul sheds. I thought you came in from somewhere else and started building shed trailers.
James Peight:I know shed hauling pretty well.
Sambassador:Yeah, that's pretty good.
James Peight:I'm sorry, go ahead.
Sambassador:No, no, no go ahead.
James Peight:It makes a difference if you know shed hauling. It makes a difference. When you know shed hauling, it makes a difference when you go to build a trailer, because you understand how it works right.
Sambassador:Oh, absolutely, that's the same thing. When I first started hanging out with Merle Marlin, with the Challenger, it was the fact that I didn't know how long they had been, you know, in the shed industry, so to speak. Right, I knew they hadn't used mules much. I did not know that they had never used them. That was like how did you never use a meal? I mean, it's like you know, of course it's not that terrible.
Sambassador:Long ago I got a couple haulers ex-haulers that used to work for me that if I'd ever get them on a podcast they'd be like Sam Byler said he'd never own a mule, I'd never own a mule and I'd never own a trailer that costs more than 20 grand. And then somehow I got suckered into both of them. I'm actually right now, with what's going on in North Carolina and stuff. We're trying to get all these tiny houses put in so people have a warm place to be in the wintertime. I'm actually pulling one of Merv Miller's decked out Pine Hill trailers.
Sambassador:Really, yeah, he had it for sale and I talked to him and he let me use it. It's a really nice trailer and I got guys all the time they're like, hey, can we use the trailer? And I'm like no, no, no, nobody's moving that trailer unless you write me a check for 50 grand. You're not touching it. I hear you, but it's got more bells and whistles Now it does not have. I guess I'll just go on the air and throw him under the bus a little bit. He doesn't have leveling axles on these trailers, yeah really.
James Peight:Well, he doesn't know any better. Well, he lives in flat land, True, true, but even then there's so many things you can do with a leveling axle. Guys don't even think about it, I mean, even if you're in a flat.
Sambassador:Oh yeah, the other day I wanted to just raise up and go over top of some guardrails, mm-hmm, I didn't have nobody to wait. Well, he does at least have double frame, so I was able to shoot it up the front a little bit and get over top, but it was so yeah, I mean I started out with pipes, cables, block and tackle, lvl's, push and shove, and you know, I'm probably I'm having issues today, you know, with body. My body's give out, probably because I shove my sheds around too much.
James Peight:No doubt.
Sambassador:So, here's the one thing, and I was going to ask you about this when you said you were doing sheds in the 80s, what? In your opinion? What was the average size of a shed?
James Peight:Well, it would have been, so let me think we would have probably 12 by 24, maybe somewhere in there, Because it was a big shed when we started doing 14x32. That was big. That was a big shed.
Sambassador:I think that has something to do with the fact that our equipment changed, because you give me two pieces of plastic pipe and a big LVL and I can move a 12x24 if I have to. You're not going to move a 14x32 very far.
James Peight:Nope, yeah, exactly, yep, that does make a big difference, for sure.
Sambassador:I think that has something to do with it.
James Peight:Yeah.
Sambassador:So, what do you see coming in like so 15 years ago, you know we would have said what in the world is leveling axles, what you know, what is this or what's that? Sideways wheels have come so far. What do you see? What do you see in the what's the future of trailers look like right now?
James Peight:I don't know. I mean, I've thought about that quite a bit and I don't really see that there's know. I can't think beyond, much beyond what we have, um, I don't know, just get better at what we're doing. I, I guess, yeah, yeah, I guess. I mean, like Shannon and I were talking a little bit before you got on, he's talking about ai.
Sambassador:I said, well, yeah, I guess after a bit here, ai will do our shed delivery, you know I'd like to see that, if, if ai does as bad at delivering the shed as they do drawing pictures for me, we don't have nothing to worry about. Okay, no, they're going to land halfway on the fence exactly yeah, yeah, no, I don't know.
James Peight:I would say I mean there's some room for engineer trailers probably, where you get things uh lighter, stronger and you know more nimble, uh that kind of thing. But the basics, yeah, I don't see a whole lot changing really. Um technology, you know, maybe. You know maybe, but yeah.
Sambassador:So, what's up Are you, what's your affiliation or what are you doing with the Shed Boss? Can we talk about that?
James Peight:Yeah, absolutely, absolutely yeah. So I actually started building the a shed boss, probably in two I have to go back and look but maybe 2012. So, Marlon, you know, Marlon, he talked me into building a machine for him, and so we I had some time and we developed the machine because he wanted something that would lift the building without pushing on the vinyl siding and metal siding, and so that's what we came up with, and so I built a few then in that time frame I don't know how many, maybe half a dozen or so and then I quit because I had too much work, I didn't need that work. Maybe half a dozen or so and then I quit because I didn't, I didn't, I had too much work, I didn't need that work, and just quit doing it, and so here, about, here, about uh well, it was probably during the whole crazy 2020 fiasco.
James Peight:I guess we had, we had a little more. We were going through more work because we have more guys, and so I decided to go ahead and build another shed boss.
Sambassador:Oh nice.
James Peight:Yeah, and so put it on Facebook. And wow, I mean, it generated a lot of chatter.
Sambassador:Oh yeah.
James Peight:So, I'm just doing them. I'm not really pushing it, I'm just kind of doing them because you know it's. It's so my, my philosophy is you have the, you have the. Oh, what's it called Easy mover? Yeah, easy mover, and you have the mule. So, you got you got the mule and the easy mover, but nothing in between.
Sambassador:No.
James Peight:And the easy mover is okay, but it's a lot more manual work so you know you got to jack the building up, put your, put your pot under it, let it down and do all. All of that. This machine won't. You don't have to do that, um, so it's just a kind of an option that's in between there. That fits for some guys. It's a good lot machine Like, if you a lot of guys want to freshen the lot, like their shed lot, and they don't. They don't want to buy a mule just for that, and so the easy mover actually or not the easy mover the shed boss works pretty well for that. So, it's both. You know, I usually say it's an in-between machine, both in performance and cost. I mean, you're paying way less for a shed boss than you are for a mule.
James Peight:Yeah, you're not going to be able to do what the mule does either, then yeah.
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Sambassador:How big a building can you move with it comfortably, like around on your lot or whatever?
James Peight:Yeah, I don't know. We should actually take it out and really try it out. I know I sold a few of them to Florida. One of the guys in Florida uh told me he was moving like a 12 by 32 um and I don't know that it was on a lot, particularly so. That's kind of what. That's kind of what I've been saying. It has one fork and, uh, you know, your shed has to be fairly sturdy um versus two forks and so, yeah, it's definitely limited. But I mean, yeah, I usually say 12 to 32, give or take depending on the edge built and all of that.
Sambassador:So it's a pretty good range. Nice.
James Peight:And small buildings, it works pretty well. It's a little of the same idea that the Challenger has, where the mule is not the best at small buildings.
Sambassador:Nope.
James Peight:You know how that works. So this, yeah, it's a handy little option for some people. It's not for everybody, but yeah.
Sambassador:So it would be considered in production right now Like it's something that's available.
James Peight:Yeah, yes, yes, I have one here sitting right now for sale, uh, ready to go. We can, okay, we can put them on a skid and ship them out and, uh, I'm trying to keep them here. Uh, right now I'm able. In the past, you know we we're still busy with trailers and so we give priority to our trailers, but yeah yeah, Not in between work. That's kind of it's nice filler work.
Sambassador:And what powers a shed boss? What's on it?
James Peight:It's a same things on a shed trailer 13 horse Honda electric start.
Sambassador:Okay, yeah, all right. Do you know what it weighs?
James Peight:It weighs 830 pounds.
Sambassador:Okay so with the dolly wheels, pounds. Okay so, all right With the dolly wheels. Yeah, with the dolly wheels. Yes, yes, are they smaller dolly wheels? Are they the same as what we're running?
James Peight:No, they're smaller, lighter. I actually buy those in from Creek Hill, the same thing that Creek Hill uses. Okay, all right, I just put them on. We should build our own really. Yeah, don't really have time, it's too easy to get them from them.
Sambassador:Yep, sometimes, yeah, I agree, sometimes you're better off doing that. Um, so let's okay. So, let's say, I call you today and I say hey, I want one of these, but I can't like you sold the one there. How long does it take to get one?
James Peight:So, we can I mean if we just, if we just, you know, drop everything and start building one and we could have one out. We could have one built. Depends a little bit on the painter, but yeah, we can. One building two weeks, we could have ready to go.
Sambassador:Okay, that's not bad. No, but you have one available right now.
James Peight:Yeah, and my plan is to keep them in stock. Oh, okay, that's good, you know, the Challenger is coming up now. We're going to be starting assembling those things here, hopefully in a couple weeks, and so I've been working ahead on the Shed Boss a little bit, yeah, for that reason. So yeah, we'll see.
Sambassador:Do you foresee you're going to have to hire somebody to help with the Challenger side of it, or are you guys planning on handling?
James Peight:it. There's a possibility. I don't know for sure how it's all going to go yet. Yeah, we're kind of feeling our way into it Now, since we're not fabricating the Challenger. That would make a massive difference.
Sambassador:You're just putting it together.
James Peight:Yes, we're just going to install the components you know get it ready to go final touches and we may be able to handle that. I'm not quite sure.
Sambassador:So tell us what your affiliation is with Challenger.
James Peight:Well, first of all, I'm in the family, right? So, I'm a brother-in-law to Marlon and Merle and so I have that connection. The way it's set up, Creekside will be handling all of the sales at this point, all of the sales nationwide. But if it goes as planned, there will be zones established eventually. But right now Creekside is going to be handling all the money, doing all the sales and paying, paying all the bills and uh all of that.
James Peight:So, yeah, yeah it's, it's, it's a joint effort. We have, uh, there's two other shops that are working together on the fabrication and, uh, then we'll be doing, like I said, the assembly, final assembly, sales and service as well. Um, we, we want to be prepared for that and you know, whatever all that means. Hopefully there won't be a lot of that, but obviously there will be some.
Sambassador:Yeah. Do we have a are we able to talk about? Do we have a date yet when we're starting to, when we're going from a prototype to an actual?
James Peight:Yeah, yeah, we are. We are right now. There are two, two machines being fabricated. Hopefully we'll be at the painter at the end of the month, which we're almost there. It's probably going to be probably going to be the first of February.
Sambassador:I'm going to say you sound like me now.
James Peight:Yeah, yeah. So, it's a little bit of a painful journey, frankly, but we are getting there. So, once those two machines are fabricated, our fabricators are going to know they're going to have all the drawings loaded up in their machines and after that it should really speed up. So, we have some machines on order. But as soon as we get, you know, those built, and once we're comfortable with where everything's at, we're definitely going to start pushing sales more. And yeah, we hopefully start picking up more orders and so on.
Sambassador:So yeah, but how close are you to, so I know when I talked to Merle.
Sambassador:Let's see how close are you to uh, so I?
Sambassador:know when I talked to merle. Let's see, I think it was in Texas. I talked to Merle and it was a little bit. We're still going back to the drawing board. We're finishing up a couple things yeah, feel pretty good about that.
James Peight:Yeah, yes, yeah, it's. It's. You know, once you get, once you get the program loaded into, or the programs or the CAD drawings into the CNC cutters, it's a piece of cake.
James Peight:I mean you put the bed on, cut the parts out and then it's just a matter of welding them together. It doesn't look like there's going to be a lot of changes. It doesn't look like there's going to be a lot of changes. The machine is going to be pretty much what you saw there at the Shed Expo. There's going to be. As we go along we're going to improve and hopefully we can get the machine even maybe a little lighter.
James Peight:It's heavier than what we'd like to have it. So yeah, just little stuff that we can improve and simplify. We're hoping that we can simplify some things, not, you know, not sacrifice functionality and simplify it and make it easier to work on whatever.
Sambassador:So yeah, yeah, electronics pretty much all pulled together.
James Peight:I believe we have that down pretty good.
Sambassador:I think so.
Sambassador:Yeah.
James Peight:It'll be interesting to see how the guys will actually like that. You know, cell phone, wireless, whatever it is. We'll see how that works.
Sambassador:Well, I know for me, coming from a guy that listen, I'm by no means a mule jockey professional I know how to run them. I can run them fairly well. I grew up around equipment my whole life. So, it kind of general shed hauler gets on there and if you know how to run a skid steer, you kind of figure out how to run it pretty quick. So, when I first had that phone in my hands I'm like this is going to be impossible.
James Peight:So when I first, when I first had that phone in my hands.
Sambassador:I'm like this is going to be impossible because there's, you just don't have the touch. You don't know that. You think you have to have. Yeah, and I think Merle Marlin will both tell you within two minutes. I could run that thing around wherever I wanted to without hardly paying any attention to it.
James Peight:Yes, I was surprised myself because I felt the same way, but somehow, the way that things laid out, the way it works it, it is actually very easy to get onto it yeah totally agree with that.
Sambassador:Yes yeah, I was. I was highly impressed with the fact that on a smooth screen I could run it as smoothly as I could. Um the. The only thing I regretted that day was the shed that they had. There had a window in the end of the wall and it did not have that thing to keep it from smacking the wall yet oh yes.
Sambassador:So I was a little bit worried about shoving that mast into that window, as to where, if it would have been a wall, just tapping on it, it wouldn't have bothered me so much.
Sambassador:But all that being said, it ran fairly Like I had fun. I was like, hey, this thing, I could see to where I'd want one of these things.
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James Peight:Yeah, as far as the mass running into the building, that eye is working pretty well. I think, if anything, we'll be improving on that, but it is working fairly well the way it is. So, if you don't forget to turn it on. I mean, you have to turn it on, make sure it's on, and all that.
Sambassador:Oh yeah, That'll be fun.
James Peight:Yeah, yeah, yeah, because there'll be times when you don't want it on. Yeah, true, that's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because there'll be times when you don't want it on.
Sambassador:Yeah, yeah true, that's cool. I did not know you could turn it on and off, so that's good to know. Yeah, but that's no different than you know. The first couple times you run a mule you forget to put the pin back in and you flop your mast over and there you go, yeah, yep, everything has a learning curve, learning curve. Oh yeah, that's cool.
James Peight:The other thing that they did was we're concerned about the speed of the machine. Merle told me they had it back at the shop and they did some fine tuning on it and really increased the speed quite a bit.
Sambassador:Oh, that's cool. That should make you guys happy.
James Peight:Yeah, that was an issue I was like I'd like to go just a hair faster yeah yeah, yeah, it's up there and I think they thought it might be up close to five, five mile per hour or something like that.
Sambassador:Okay, cool on the second speed, right, so that'll, that'll make a big difference absolutely, absolutely Huge difference. Cool. And you guys? If you guys are selling it, I guess you're going to be the service for it also.
James Peight:Yeah, we'll be. Service yeah, definitely, we're going to try our best to provide good service and, like I said, we're going to try to build our product. So there's not a lot of that needed, but it does happen.
Sambassador:Yeah, it does. And then there's, you know, the famous driver error we talk about all the time, that that'll have you fixing stuff too. So, it's just a given, that's the way we operate, and you know. You know, listen, my hat's off to any trade trailer manufacturer, the mule guys, you, you guys, anybody that's doing anything with shed haulers, because you are not a good shed hauler unless you know how to push boundaries. And it's, that's true. That's true. It's just a given that guys that are harder on equipment are good shed haulers, because sometimes you just cannot get it in there if you don't push it a little bit.
James Peight:You know absolutely and yep, there's nothing. I you can't push it a little bit? You know Absolutely and yep, there's nothing you can't build something for a shed or he's not going to break?
Sambassador:No, that's no, absolutely not. So, yeah, that's good. So where where are you? It looks like I mean it feels like you got your hands full. You got the shed boss going. You're going to take care of the Challenger. Keep your trailers rolling along. What else have you got in the burner over there?
James Peight:That's pretty much it. I mean, we obviously do a considerable amount of parts, we ship parts out, so that's kind of my thing. But beyond that we just did a repair job. We try not to do repair work here. Um, we do sometimes for you know, if it's a creek side sometimes we'll do it uh, but we try not to unless we need to work. And so, yeah, that pretty much sizes it up. Uh, trailers, you know the shed movers and then selling parts.
Sambassador:Selling parts.
James Peight:I spend a fair amount of time on the phone troubleshooting. That's all part of it.
Sambassador:Let's talk about parts a little bit Axles and all that stuff too.
James Peight:Yep, okay, I ship out axles, pumps, cylinders. You know we try to keep pretty good stock on everything that we use here, yep, and so obviously you know stuff breaks and things go wrong. So yeah, wireless units. I'm telling you somebody can figure out a big magnet to suck all these wirelesses in that are laying around. Well, you could maybe make a fortune.
Sambassador:And things are everywhere. So yeah, so, so my first. This is the part that I cannot wrap my head around whatsoever. The little yellow guys, I remember when they were 700 bucks years ago. How can you have that little jewel and not have your name and number on the back of that thing?
James Peight:Yeah, I usually try to put an ID on them, just like a keychain ID or something, because you really should have an ID on them. It does happen rarely, it doesn't happen much, but I think I got a call one time from somebody hey, I found this thing laying on the road, you know.
Sambassador:So, I mean we had drivers We've had it happen twice we put our you know, we had our company name and our number on the back and we had people call in and say, hey, found this thing, it's got a number on it, it looks like it's worth something. And we're like, oh yeah, it's worth a little bit, exactly, exactly Because you don't really want them to know what they really were. But now you have these honking big remotes that cost a lot more.
James Peight:Yeah, yeah, that cost a lot more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that will be the. That's one of the big advantages the Challenger has you know, cheap little cell phone that's going to, that's going to be near as painful to replace, for sure.
Sambassador:True, that is good. That makes a big difference.
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Sambassador:What is up? What are you guys about? As far like we know where you are, business wise or whatever, but, um, what, what are you guys? Let's, let's go back to when you like took over from PD or whatever, cause I know PD and I know a lot of his family and stuff and the values they have. What does, uh, what does the paid family like? What do you guys do when you're not working Community-wise, or what are you guys all about?
James Peight:Yeah, so well, I was thinking about when I was on the podcast with Shannon myself. All of our family are strong believers, believers in Jesus Christ, and so that is really what we're about at the core is doing everything we do to honor him and so on. That's that side of it. I grew up, I was born old order Amish and went through, went through the new order conservative men and I, and then now, whatever we are, now, so yeah, and uh anyways, yeah, so if we're not working, uh, generally, um, uh, Mary and I, my wife and I are probably traveling.
James Peight:We do quite a bit of traveling.
Sambassador:That's cool.
James Peight:Yeah, we're part of Christian light missions in Honduras and our married daughter lives in Honduras, so we have, you know, we make trips down there and then both of our families are scattered around. So, we'll be, we'll be done traveling. I'm I personally am an outdoors person, love working outdoors, you know, planting stuff and growing stuff and that kind of thing. Aviation is one of my fascinations. I'm an enthusiast. I'm not a pilot, but I'd love to watch planes and all that stuff. So, I don't know if that answers what you're asking.
Sambassador:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm getting at, yeah yeah. I'm kind of the same way when it comes. I love flying, but I hate flying commercial. I just I don't know why you want to be with 100 people in a pop. Can that you can't get away from?
James Peight:Exactly.
Sambassador:But I do it when I need to. It's like a necessary evil, but I absolutely love flying, even in a commercial plane. I love going up, I love going down, I love like my wife and kids will tell you. He says like my daughter started flying she's she actually moved to Denver now, but when she was still just tripping back and forth she'd be like every time she get the river she'd take a picture of it, send it to me. Which river is this? Because it's like, oh, dad knows exactly where this is. And it's like you know when I'm, when I'm flying, I'm, if it's dark, I'm watching the cities. I'm like, oh, I bet that's, you know St Louis. Oh, there goes Kansas City, and now we're coming over Dunbar.
Sambassador:You know, totally yeah I love doing that, but um, yeah, I don't, I, I guess I never, I don't know. I never wanted to do it bad enough to where I wanted to be a pilot myself but, I, love having pilot friends there you go so it works out, as long as you can talk them into going, yeah exactly that's kind of where I'm at. I used to love, I mean I still outside is much better than inside. I haven't been hunting in a while, because every time I go hunting I fall asleep.
James Peight:Yeah, I hear you.
Sambassador:Yeah, I don't know.
James Peight:I always say, if I get, the only reason I shoot deer is because I'm mad enough Because they come around our property, you know, and eat all our stuff, and so I'm going to have to eat them every now and then.
Sambassador:That's right, you got to get your stuff back.
James Peight:Well.
Sambassador:I love eating deer meat. That's great. I mean I love the stuff, but oh, the dedication to hunting. Anymore I just don't have it in me. So, I don't know if you remember or not, but at the Pennsylvania Bash, you know Jason got a whole bunch of guys to go together and they bought me that uh, 45, 70, uh sharps the buffalo gun okay no, yeah, one of the reasons. One of the reasons they bought me that thing is I always said I want to shoot an elk with a buffalo gun oh, wow so sometime along the line, Jason, I don't know if you ever heard this story or not.
Sambassador:At the Utah Bash Jason auctioned off a mule deer hunt to raise money for the Shed Hauler Brotherhood. Jonathan with Cardinal Leasing bought that thing, and Jason ended up putting him in an ambulance and I'm like I'm not so sure I want to go hunt with this Kaufman dude anymore if he's going to put people no kidding. So luckily it all ended up okay. We can joke about it, but at the time he about killed the poor guy.
James Peight:Oh, wow, yeah, I didn't hear about that.
Sambassador:Yeah, it's a crazy long story and we talked about it a little bit when we got. I finally got Jonathan to do a podcast.
Sambassador:We talked about it a little bit on there, but I want to take that. It's a single shot, octagon barrel really long, 45-70 sharps. And I want to take that. It's a single shot Octagon barrel really long, 45-70 sharps, and I want to take that thing. I've never killed an elk and I always thought when I'd go I'd take my .308 or my 7 mag and I'd go shoot one. But then after I watched Quigley Down Under it's a Tom Selleck movie, it's known to be a long-range rifle I'm like I want to use that.
Sambassador:That's what I want to use Somewhere in me, I still got one hunt left.
James Peight:Nice.
Sambassador:I got to do that at some point what do you want the shed industry to know? I'm basically giving you a mic. What do you want them to know about you?
James Peight:We are not big business. My goal is to while we probably could be my goal is to provide a product that functions well, is a little more economical and is easy to work on. That's kind of my thing whenever I'm out there. I'm not doing as much of the welding as I used to. Marcus, my son does most of it, in fact he'll probably be doing. He's pretty much got the shed trailer down. He can pretty much do all of it, in fact he'll probably be doing. He's pretty much got the shed trailer down. He can pretty much do all of it.
James Peight:Anyways, but whenever I'm building something, I'm always thinking of having to work on it, because I'll tell you what when we've worked on enough stuff. I'm like, why in the world would you build it this way? I mean we could build that right. Easy to get to simple, simplicity, easy, right.
James Peight:So easy to get to uh simple, you know, simplicity, easy to work on, uh cost effective and functionality and uh durability, uh I mean those are all the things that we, we shoot for and, uh, we don't, we don't do it perfect, um, when we don't necessarily try to do it perfect, but we try to do our best, yeah, so, yeah, we're, we're, uh, and I, you know, I try to answer the phone when it rings. Um, yeah, that's a big deal these days. It's a huge deal. It's a huge deal, I realize, you know, depending on the size of your business, know that you can't always.
James Peight:But and we don't always get, get, get it done either. But we try and so, yeah, we're just, we're out there, you know, like everybody else trying to, trying to uh make a living and uh trying to do it, do it well and be a blessing where we can.
Sambassador:So yeah, yep yeah well, I I sure appreciate, um, I appreciate what I've, what I've seen from day one, but I appreciate even more what I've seen the last couple of years, to where it seems like you've I don't I'm not. So when I say this, I'm not saying you did it bad before, but I like the fact that you're around a little more. Yeah. It's nice, it's nice to have you around.
James Peight:Yeah, we got pushed out into it some I'm you know, we and it's again. It's like I tell keep telling Shannon, look, we don't really need advertising, we don't oh no yeah, we don't really need the exposure.
James Peight:But on the other hand, I realize it's good to be out there, good to be, you know, be there. As another option, I would much rather work with my competition than try to put them out. I have no desire to put people out of business. I'm like hey we can work together. We'll do much better if we work together than if we try to work against each other.
Sambassador:I think it's just like the shed, go ahead. We need everybody.
James Peight:Yes, so far it's been plenty the shed. Good yeah, it's, it's we need everybody. Yes, yes, yeah, and so far it's been plenty of work for everybody, so oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sambassador:I don't see that, isn't it? So, talk about that just a little bit, isn't it a little crazy, though that you know, so I know guys that said in the seventies is that we're going to saturate this whole business.
James Peight:Yeah, yeah it is crazy. And here we are. Yeah, exactly. Well, as long as people keep buying stuff, you know how that goes.
Sambassador:They got to put it somewhere.
James Peight:Exactly.
Sambassador:And I keep saying we're always going to have stuff, but it's just a given.
Sambassador:Yeah, cool. Thank you so much for letting me do this one. I know Shannon had talked to you about it and then he said something to you about is it okay if I do it? And he told me. He said look, you're the guy that knows more about trailers. I'd love for you to sit and talk with him a little bit. So, thank you for doing it. Really enjoyed it today. One last thing If somebody wants to get a hold of you, how do they get a hold of you?
James Peight:Yeah, the best way. Well, we have. I mean, stuff is online anymore, right? So creeksidewelding. com, Facebook, you tube has some stuff. And then our phone number, which is 814-624-0814, and my cell phone is listed there.
Sambassador:Okay, cool.
James Peight:Yeah.
Sambassador:All right, that's good.
James Peight:Yes, sir.
Sambassador:Well, thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it. Thank you for everybody out there that listened. Hope you enjoyed these episodes. Always feel free to reach out to us. You can either reach me or Shannon, either one of us. We're doing good. Shannon's working at getting his third podcast set up again. I guess I'll throw that out there just to give people a little something to chew on to get the third one rolling. Thank you for joining us today. I'm Sam Byler, your host with Friday Funday, Samb assador Style. See you guys next time.