3,000.00 sounds like a lot of money until you realize theres probably 400,000.00 worth of equipment sitting there if you had to buy everything new. I think that was a pretty fair price for as much work as you did. The project came out really nice Sam!!
Honestly if you looked up the price to rent that equipment for 4 hours it would be probably more than 1k alone. Let alone a trailer to bring it, and travel time.
Or think of the man hrs it would take with just hand work and a chipper. Or the pile of brush/trunks you'd have if you don't have a chipper. Whatever way you slice it, 3k for this size job is more than fair.
It’s awesome to see a blue collar guy doing his thing. Making an honest living. Sucks all the shit you have to deal with in Cali with smog and carb emissions stuff.
Sam no matter how good you think you are, take it from an old retired operator you can always learn new tricks! keep on learning son! Love your channel.
It is an awesome machine, the Bandit. I have a 4" Wallenstein PTO powered chipper with hyrdaulic feed, and I get worn out just hooking it up to my tractor, the workout I get using it is significant. Nice video, thank you for sharing. Hello from New Brunswick Canada.
Great work , quality operators . The remote chipped is a brilliant bit of kit . Here in Australia we don't = can't allow much fuel for fires near our homes .
I love that chipper! That is amazing with the remote control! I didn't know they made them with remote. I could really do some damage with the two. Great job!
Yeah it's so frustrating people don't understand how much things cost and they just want to go with the cheapest bid and then be mad about the product they get.
@@BlackCatSkidSteerServices LITERALLY, I averaged at least 10-15 call backs a year from ppl who turn down my proposal/bid and go a “cheaper route” and then they want me to clean up someone else’s mess for CHEAPER because they expect you to feel bad that they got screwed or were disappointed with the work the crack head did for a fraction of the price. Never fails, but definitely gets old.
@@Doogie_Causey what my dad says he does construction and been doing it before I was alive obviously. And his rates are expensive but your paying for experience. Don’t have to worry about screw ups get the job done efficiently and can eye ball a job site tell you what it cost w materials.
It is so nice that you can have the chipper follow you around. That is a real time saver. Agreed on feeding large end first when ever possible. Just curious, did you remove the stumps or are they just cut close to the ground and left? Anyone thinks that your rates are too "whatever" have probably never run their own business for more than a year and not gone bankrupt. You and your dad are the only ones that know what it takes to make your business profitable. Don't listen to the haters.
You charged a very reasonable price IMO. Nice job,and like you said you aren’t hurtithose feed wheels .we have a 280HD brush bandit at work it’s a monster 185hp John Deere 18” feed , those things make light work out of the biggest trees.
Excellent job . I have 19 inch bandit 1990 track chipper , 1990 tow behind tandem axle chipper with knuckleboom loader and 14 inch 3 point hitch pto chipper with winch for my utility tractor
Sweet set up, I am soooo jealous. I am working with Jim on a few things and hope to be in full swing by the end of the month. Thanks for all the great information 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Bandit content is awesome! hope to see it more. I also love the job quote info...I understand the $ amount is all circumstantial and for that matter regional but I very much enjoy the process of how to bid a job considering its factors
Awesome job, and super good prices. People do t always realize what they’re paying for. Once they realize that with the equipment, operators and expertise all put together, they really aren’t getting a bad deal. I’m in Florida, and I own and operate a tree service here. I sell my chips for $50 a chipper box full. Probly wouldn’t made an extra $400 at least on that job.
Anyone criticizing how you are feeding the chipper has never done it with an excavator. I feed mine with a bucket and thumb configuration and I am very jealous of that rotating grapple. I don't have to be as "clean" as you because my clearing is for new construction. I definitely have more crap left over when I'm done right by the inlet, It's hard to grab all the little pieces with a 44" bucket and thumb. P.S. also jealous of that track chipper, I have a Morbark 17 I usually pin it to a dozer when I feed with an excavator. The chipping part works very well, the feed system leaves a little to be desired.
Great job the property looks good the track chipper has made yinz so more efficient at clearing trees 🌲. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
Bud been watching u for a while thats 1 of your better investments no doubt im way out here in vt and I could live a good life with a set up like u got. Keep up the good work boss and god bless
Right on Sam, always a good feeling when a plan comes together as good or better than you hope on a somewhat "untested" in how you did this job compared to your normal program. Now you can buy diapers 🤣, just kiddin but since I'm such a shit and caught up with everything...........Congratulations are in order for the third gen V-belt and son little mulcher man!!
Man this is pretty cool. My father worked in the timber industry as an operator until he passed away. Your use of the mini excavator reminds me a lot of my dad’s operating with very smooth and precise movements. I love the content!
Neat to see. Rate completely fair, people forget that you pay yourself and have to make that last till the next job is actually paid too. Looks great hard to believe 200 trees are gone...
Wow, what a remote work horse chipper. Put the grapple bucket on the skid steer or bucket & thumb. Gather them into piles, where you can get 6 trees into the chipper at once with the log grapple. This chipper could do a lot more than 200 trees in 5 hours. Good alternative for the tops of trees, when logging. Recycle the CO2 back into the soil, instead of burning. Good $$$$.
You guys are a impressive outfit. I have a 080-4 and love it. Bet that rotating grapple wasn't cheap. And that chipper! ,all I can say is I'm envious 👍
I don't do what you do, but i do custom hire for brush hogging along with other ranch work. Different but many the same costs. Thats great money i only wish i could touch in my area. Last job i did was 7 acres for $300 about a week ago. Person didnt want to use their tractor and straight mower so called me and my batwing in. Roughest ground I've ever cut and certainly took every but of 7 hours not including the 2 hours of hauling, loading and unloading twice and 2 more hours of maintenance. Still made money in the end when costs were out.
I’m sorry but this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. So you only charged them $40/acre ??? And 11 plus hours. You can’t run a sustainable for $25/hour
@@curtismoncus4118 in my area, its better than nothing. Highest paying job is the Sheriff’s Office to which i was let go from at $17hr. The stress wasnt worth the position being a dispatcher. Next highest paying is fast food or TSC at 8 to 12. Biden killed all oilfield work. Keep in mind. Going rate for field shredding (using a brush hog) is between $30 to $70 an acre dependingon deck size. I am lower on the lower end by $10 as my little shredder failed and was forced to use my big one for the job window, but my costs are extremely low unlike his costs to run and other equipment. You also don't account that the lowest person paid is the owner. You do a typical 9 to 5 or whatever type job. As a business person, your job is around the clock with repairs, paperwork, ect. Though it sounds like i only made $25hr because of servicing, in reality it was $42 an hour which is around going rate for a farm tractor in my area. You did forget i said this was "last job". I've had others, but that one was the worst. Was supposed to take at most 2-3 hours, but even though i walked the field it was rougher than i figured with hidden ruts from an idiot not knowing how to plow. I didnt quote wrong, but i did quote lower than i should have. I also worked with the owner since it was a new area with competition in it. Not every job you will make money. Others you will loose. I didnt loose. But in turn at least made a customer happy who in turn will spread the word to family, friends and neighbors.
Here in ok cedar is a problem. They spread like wildfire and then burn like crazy during wild fires. U can’t chip them like that. They do get big quick
Honestly, i expected you would make more then that in a day with two machines running the whole day. But i guess the American dollar is worth more. Wouldn't spreading the chips make the soil acidic?
Bargain! what I spent to take down 1 large 100ft pine and 3 smaller trees, and deadwood the rest of the property (smallish) was nearly double that. And they where done in about 5 hours. And half the equipment.
Hell yeah brother, that little chipper is money! Job turned out great, way better than a stand of over crowded pines. Don't mind the keyboard lumber jacks... haters gona hate. I like the financial aspect of the jobs, however I understand that's personal.
It’s funny because here on the East Coast pine is by far the king. We have plenty of hardwood but the real money is in cutting pine. Cali is a totally different world lol...keep up the vids bro I been a fan since the beginning
Good work on video. The wood chips will break down and help make the soil much better. Love it. Too many trees in small are is a fire hazard. Carry on love the channel. Even get to see old muscle cars sometimes.
Here in Arizona doing finish work John Deere 333G and a Bobcat E55 excavator Tilt 62" grating blade. We're Is billing at 400 and hour Usually don't charge for transport because everything's within 15 miles.
Dang, you need an app so that Bandit will just follow you around based on your phone location. I've done that with drones would be cool if you could do it with that chipper. 😁 Likely not practical but it's cool seeing one operator running two machines with no ground crew!! 👍
As I always say haters gonna hate so ignore the hate, if the idea is good try it but at some point we are watching you work so you probably know more than me... I enjoy the content so thanks
We have one. Definitely sweet but sometimes it’s not worth the trouble for smaller jobs. We have used it on this site before. Took a hundred trees with it and staged them. Would be nice in a bigger job for uste
We’ve used a mulcher on like 60% of the jobs lately I just didn’t film those jobs. And if it’s easy to feed to the chipper I’ll take it. Bunch of small crap all over we will mulch
i think that sound good to me my dad was in business for himself and that is exactly what he was doing you always have to charge for the equipment has well for all labor
V-belt And Son, the text in your tumbnail, its not "oporator" it's operator. Not sure if you missed that before you uploaded your video or just didn't know.
WOW that is a lot of firewood in my parts. I love the chipper epic impressive. I didn't know they were remote control make it almost too easy for you in the excavator... hard to call you "working"
