Four acres on Scribner. A walkthrough.

6:30 AM. Mike unlocks the gate. The yard cat (Forklift, since 2017) shows up at the bollard expecting attention. The dispatch board for the day's outbound is on the wall in the office — three or four scheduled pickups, two or three outbound deliveries. The first driver arrives around 6:50.

7:30 AM. Wash bay 1 starts its first cycle. The previous day's load of inbound tanks — tagged at intake, queued by prior fill — moves through the rinse stage. DeShawn or one of his techs starts a caustic batch if any food-grade tanks are queued. The morning meeting happens at 7:45 in the break room. Everyone present, five minutes of route planning, ten seconds of complaints.

9:00 AM. Outbound truck loads if it's a Mon/Wed/Fri. Reyna walks the yard with the dispatch sheet, confirming counts. The fab corner spins up — Jamie is on whatever custom build is in the queue, usually with his headphones on. The phone doesn't ring because we don't have a phone. Email pings from the night before get answered.

12:00 PM. Lunch break, staggered. Tank intake from morning pickups starts going through wash bay 2. The intake clipboard fills with the day's new arrivals — quantity, size, valve type, prior fill if available, condition notes.

3:30 PM. Last wash cycles of the day kick off. Reyna does the chain-of-custody tag printing batch for tanks finishing through. Outbound trailer (if it's a dispatch day) closes at 4:00 and rolls at 4:30.

5:30 PM. Yard closes. Forklift the cat picks a different bollard. Mike does the next day's dispatch board. Office lights off by 6:00 most days.

Stop 1: the intake stack. Behind the building, where tanks arrive and get logged before wash. This is the messiest part of the yard — tanks of varying condition, yellow ribbons tied to cages with intake notes, the bone-pile in the back corner. We show this first because we don't want to hide it.

Stop 2: wash bay 1. The fast lane. Hot rinse and caustic for Grade B and C reconditioning. DeShawn or one of his techs is usually here.

Stop 3: wash bay 2. The tri-stage line. Slower, more chemistry, more documentation. This is where Grade A happens. The pH probe station is visible from the bay floor.

Stop 4: the chain-of-custody desk. Where Reyna prints tags and updates the digital record. The QR codes are printed here. The recipe-box index cards from 2009 are still in a drawer.

Stop 5: the fab corner. Sparks. Half-finished rain catchers. A mash tun in progress. Whatever Jamie is currently building.

Stop 6: outbound staging. The drive-through gate, the loading dock, the routing whiteboard. Sara's routing software is on a screen above the desk.

Stop 7: the captured-drain wash water tank. Underground, 6,000 gallons, the part that separates real wash bays from steamy garden hoses. Not visible — but we'll show you the access port and the maintenance log.