$90K Cart Path & Ruined Septic Site 

Hopefully not, but yea, all it takes is a split second.

Get it!!

I do a lot of work and after all, if you do the math one small machine like yours will cost you about 50$/hour to run. 50 bucks before you break even on the machine, then you want 50 for yourself (don’t forget taxes) and 20 for the rest. Comes out to 120/hour I would charge at least. Trailer and Truck time should be twice that and once a dump truck is involved cost explodes! Trust me any less then that is not worth your time, you’ll lose money and that’s only if you get paid by the hour. If you do bids you need to think big or you will lose your head quick, there is no way you can put in cheap bids and not either lose money or do a crappy job because you don’t have X-ray and don’t know what’s in the ground or the weather next week that’s why it’s so difficult to price it cheaply. What if you hit utilities, machine breakdown etc bad material, bedrock it all happens so it’s advisable to bid higher. The only way to undercut without losing your head is to be extremely good at what you are doing. Like if you can grade MORE then 1 kilometer of 12ft wide gravel road with your excavator in one day, turn 1 mile of rough gravel into the Autobahn in 10 hours. Smooth as if a grader did it, absolutely perfect compaction, crown and ditches - So perfect, that a hand rake could only make it worse! If you can do that with an excavator or maybe both then you are probably good enough to seriously undercut people in the grading business but I haven’t seen many that can do it like that and you need a ton of experience in order to be consistent. Like you are good enough when you can level concrete with your bucket on the first swoop, get the work done without laser and spread 10 yards of gravel 600 ft long in one hour, then you can offer half price and still come out on top. Either way its 70$/hour and you do the work for free, 120$/h and you can afford dinner. As a company I might have to pay 4 people, the boss and the office btch plus materials, no you see how you end up with a few grand/day to run a crew just to break even. But on the bright side you get professionals and experience, it’s expensive if you can’t do it yourself. Good luck! And you know whats really expensive? Government paid jobs, prevailing wage. Ridiculous haha. I had quite a few days in the last year where we got paid between 20 and 30.000$ in a single day, for the work my crew of 4 did with a backhoe, a 5 ton digger and a few shovels in 10 hours digging a little 3 ft trench 😅 but we are kicking ass too nobody expected us to be that fast. Too bad I’m employed 😅

Sure is, swapped a service bed on it so it'd be a little more useful for what we do.

@@officialjohnseaman That’s what I am looking to upgrade to hopefully soon

Did I hear that right? 600$

@@jrob4204 Yep!

Did I hear you mention West Jefferson when you were talking about the Jobber schedule? That's where I'm at. If you are coming up here let me know if you need any help from a local boy! Lol I have equipment and do hydroseeding if you need any help!