Hey all.
Curious if anyone has an opinion on this here.
I am a mild mannered white collar guy by day but do all sorts of projects at the house. I also used to run heavy equipment as a youngster.
I rented a “bobcat”, actually a little tracked Tackehuci, last weekend to move a bunch of stuff around in the back yard and do some cleanup and had an interesting turn of events.
Had it for two days as the rental place is closed Sundays.
4 different neighbors saw me running around in it and next thing you know, I more than paid for the rental doing very little for them in their yards. They all tried to pay me money more money than I would accept but I did take a bit to cover the rental.
One neighbor had me dig up some old hedges. Another had an old dry creek bed that was overgrown that I re graded. I cleared out some overgrowth for the last and moved a bunch of small boulders. He would have had me do more but I wouldn’t dig deep as I had no idea where electric and fibre cables were in these yards.
It was actually a fun weekend.
Like I said every neighbor was trying to pay me real ass money for this. I figure I could have made $2k easily. Any one of them could have rented one but in my hood people don’t even mow their own lawns. I am sort of the neighborhood anomaly because I do all this **** and am good at it. I even change my own oil.
Now if I were actually doing a little business there would be a higher cost like insurance and machine maintenance, but anyone in GA running a little skid steer business? Making any money?
I figure an excavator might even make more.
Thinking OT may have a few folks that get dirty for a living.
Thoughts?
Curious if anyone has an opinion on this here.
I am a mild mannered white collar guy by day but do all sorts of projects at the house. I also used to run heavy equipment as a youngster.
I rented a “bobcat”, actually a little tracked Tackehuci, last weekend to move a bunch of stuff around in the back yard and do some cleanup and had an interesting turn of events.
Had it for two days as the rental place is closed Sundays.
4 different neighbors saw me running around in it and next thing you know, I more than paid for the rental doing very little for them in their yards. They all tried to pay me money more money than I would accept but I did take a bit to cover the rental.
One neighbor had me dig up some old hedges. Another had an old dry creek bed that was overgrown that I re graded. I cleared out some overgrowth for the last and moved a bunch of small boulders. He would have had me do more but I wouldn’t dig deep as I had no idea where electric and fibre cables were in these yards.
It was actually a fun weekend.
Like I said every neighbor was trying to pay me real ass money for this. I figure I could have made $2k easily. Any one of them could have rented one but in my hood people don’t even mow their own lawns. I am sort of the neighborhood anomaly because I do all this **** and am good at it. I even change my own oil.
Now if I were actually doing a little business there would be a higher cost like insurance and machine maintenance, but anyone in GA running a little skid steer business? Making any money?
I figure an excavator might even make more.
Thinking OT may have a few folks that get dirty for a living.
Thoughts?
