Man if I had to own a wheel loader, big trailer, big truck I'd really be sweating my bag worrying about taking care of all that.
I got my trailer setup now with a back door where I drive my loaded powerbarrow right up the grinder's loading ramp and dump inside the trailer. Only manual work now...
Well the way I look at it how do you explain $300hr to the customer to take out her maple stumps in her flower bed?
Like I said anything over 36" I don't clean up just grind at $4in. When the customer sees their saving $2 per inch or $72 they will take it on cleaning up. When I said I made $300...
It does get lonely being a one man show though, Brendon.
I miss the crazy conversations with my old right hand man Rob, laying him off was the best thing I did for him though. For the last couple yrs he's been up at the tar sands in northern Alberta driving one of those big dump trucks with the...
Alot of past customers have told me the same. He attempts to dig out the stump with a spade and axe. A couple of days later his wife calls me and tells me to take it out.
I arrive finding a nice cleaned out stump dug all around and the husband is no where to be found.:lol:
Sean, I have the only self propelled in my area. But I am setup to take out the little ones too. I lose on diameters over 36", so I just grind with no cleanup on those ones and only charge $4 inch. Majority of my stumps are 12-16".
Stumps are a big part of my business, I bought my Vermeer 252 new in the spring of '03 and the little guy has paid for it's self many times over. I charge $6 per inch diameter, stump core completely out with cleanup included. 700 series Greenteeth are the fastest setup to use.
I have made $300...
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