Sometimes business is just too good.

That’s the unfortunate situation Mike Frolander of Sundance found himself in at the end of December when he was forced to shut down his family owned repair business after 42 years because he could no longer keep up with demand.

While he had plenty of customers at Robert’s Machine and Repair, a shortage of workers made it impossible to keep up with the work in the small town of just over 1,000 residents.

“We just kept growing and were expanding so rapidly,” the 60-year-old said. “We could hardly keep up with the work and workforce, and ultimately we didn’t have choices.”

The shop did a little bit of everything, from repairing cars, trucks and other equipment to welding, fabricating and rebuilding parts and specialty work for area ranchers and other businesses.