Birdseed, regardless of the ball busting that you get on here I respect your attitude. I might not agree with some of your whole train of thoughts but you come across as a hard worker if nothing else. Make due with what you have and when you can get better stuff remember what it was like when you were just getting by.
Now that doesn't mean I won't bust your balls when I see a shot...
I completely agree, and do respect how hard your working to get your company off the ground.
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Originally Posted by birddseedd
over 100 an hour is enough to make progress
I don't mean to knit pick or anything, but in another thread you state that your working for $35 an hour and making $26 profit. I do get that you need to make that money, I do. What I don't get is how you can consider that making money, I only plow my neighbors, myself, and a few friends in town, but my overhead while I'm plowing with MY truck is $35 an hour. Thats Fuel, wear and tear, and insurance. Thats why the few driveways I do, I charge $30 for, because their friends and family, otherwise it'll be at least $35.
Yes you have your own drives, and thats $100 an hour, and yes, thats enough to progress, but you should also consider getting a part time job. I personally have a part time job that takes me about 2 hours a day, and get paid $120 a day to do that. That alone makes more then enough to pay my fuel, basic maintainence, and makes sure that I have the finaces to fix anything that breaks, or buy the parts.
I have no bone to pick with you, but you need to think more about some of the prices your doing things for. If your truck breaks, ie transmission, brake lines, motor, frame being bent, the list goes on, at $35 an hour, you cannot fix that. What if a pump goes out? Thats $800 roughly. The easiest and best way to start a business is to do it in your spare time, while you work for someone else. It sucks working for someone else, I get it, but sometimes it's what needs to be done to pay the bills on time, feed the family, and pay for your business to expand.
so i hit something. it grabbed my box extension and pushed it bending and ripping my mold board. also ripped off one of the mount points for the mounting pin fixing it was easy enough, heat up, hammer back, weld and paint.
the confusing part. i cleaned reall nice in that area today. i could find no object. there is kind of a 5 x 5 foot "sag" or "dip" in the pavement. but doesnt look like anything float wouldnt take care of nicely.
the heck did i hit?
I didn't read all post
I use to run what I called sideboards Mine would let the plow trip
One thing you always had watch is seams The sideboards would fall in the seams I fix that problem I welded 4'' shoe on the bottom that stop sideboards falling in seams
Curb wasn't a problem either sideboards would hit and tilt back
I didn't read all post
I use to run what I called sideboards Mine would let the plow trip
One thing you always had watch is seams The sideboards would fall in the seams I fix that problem I welded 4'' shoe on the bottom that stop sideboards falling in seams
Curb wasn't a problem either sideboards would hit and tilt back
thats interesting. ill check out the lot when the lot when the snow melts and see if that was it. tho mine have rubber on the bottom several inches so that shoudlnt happen. but ill check it out and do that modification if i need to. thanks
I completely agree, and do respect how hard your working to get your company off the ground.
I don't mean to knit pick or anything, but in another thread you state that your working for $35 an hour and making $26 profit. I do get that you need to make that money, I do. What I don't get is how you can consider that making money, I only plow my neighbors, myself, and a few friends in town, but my overhead while I'm plowing with MY truck is $35 an hour. Thats Fuel, wear and tear, and insurance. Thats why the few driveways I do, I charge $30 for, because their friends and family, otherwise it'll be at least $35.
Yes you have your own drives, and thats $100 an hour, and yes, thats enough to progress, but you should also consider getting a part time job. I personally have a part time job that takes me about 2 hours a day, and get paid $120 a day to do that. That alone makes more then enough to pay my fuel, basic maintainence, and makes sure that I have the finaces to fix anything that breaks, or buy the parts.
I have no bone to pick with you, but you need to think more about some of the prices your doing things for. If your truck breaks, ie transmission, brake lines, motor, frame being bent, the list goes on, at $35 an hour, you cannot fix that. What if a pump goes out? Thats $800 roughly. The easiest and best way to start a business is to do it in your spare time, while you work for someone else. It sucks working for someone else, I get it, but sometimes it's what needs to be done to pay the bills on time, feed the family, and pay for your business to expand.
I understand what you mean. i think you guys are thinking i work for him more than i do tho. i only do a couple small lots for him. enough to cover my gas for the day. or a litte more. in fact i leave his work by 4 am no matter where im at.
I understand what you mean. i think you guys are thinking i work for him more than i do tho. i only do a couple small lots for him. enough to cover my gas for the day. or a litte more. in fact i leave his work by 4 am no matter where im at.
next year i wont even do that.
No I get that your working for him for a few hours and thats it. I do. The thing about that is that I did the same thing. Not snow related, but farm related. I used my own equipment to work for someone charging WAAAY less then I should have, and then when my equipment broke he said "Tough luck, hope you can fix it."
I had the money to fix it, but not because of him, because I'd already made enough doing my own thing. I made $150 doing that job for him, should have made $300. I spent $873.48 fixing what broke while working for him. Just an example. Do your people first, then do his lots, that way if anything breaks, it's his lots not getting done on time.
No I get that your working for him for a few hours and thats it. I do. The thing about that is that I did the same thing. Not snow related, but farm related. I used my own equipment to work for someone charging WAAAY less then I should have, and then when my equipment broke he said "Tough luck, hope you can fix it."
I had the money to fix it, but not because of him, because I'd already made enough doing my own thing. I made $150 doing that job for him, should have made $300. I spent $873.48 fixing what broke while working for him. Just an example. Do your people first, then do his lots, that way if anything breaks, it's his lots not getting done on time.
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