Can the Leica 2d be easily swapped between you machines so they can all use the one set up? I have an Idig 2d which is wireless so you can stick sensor holders to all your machines and it will remember them or it takes about an hour to set up a hire machine. Don't know if they have it or something similar available to you? https://www.idig-system.com/idig-4/
Sorta, the screen can be easily moved, the rest stays with the machine. I’m not a big fan of Idig
Yea! If it sells I’ll get a cat or JCB 3.5 toner.
How much does a 140 grader cost where you are? Not something you see here much outside of quarries or big new road jobs
new there crazy money, The used 140 cost us 80 grand or so.
youve bought it? As in yourself? You’ve gone from a mini to now backhoe and few big cat hoes and now a grader all in a year or two good work mate
yes sir, I did, its not as cool as it sounds, but it's been fun. I don't really pay myself, and work 100 hours most weeks, often driving hours from home, chasing the bigger jobs.
How much do you finance and was it a business you took over from your elders?
no, my parents have nothing to do with earthmoving, and haven't helped with the business. We use financing when it makes sense, but not excessively. Hard to buy any machines brand new these days without, but its been smart to pay them off aggressively.
Mind you, they got the cheap houses.
Nice job and good setup for that kind of work- I like that with these kind of grabs its easy to grab a load of soil too for chucking behind the rocks plus can scrape out footings etc for the basestones. If you were in UK I'd be very keen on that wee cat your selling.
From what I’ve seen around the going rate is somewhere around $120 an hour for minis/midis smidsteersI think we've been here before, but what is the day rate in dollars for something like the used grader or the backhoe?
So many people in England are running mini diggers for the same money or less than a plasterer charges for a trowel and some elbow grease.
I'd personally disagree with being smart to pay the finance off aggresively, unless you are on a variable tarrif. A five year fixed deal at an interest rate below the current official rate of inflation (and way below the real rate) has given me leverage in a way that would have been unthinkable back in the eighties when most of the old codgers here started
I always hear that, but the guys that chase rate work here, rarely get more than 15 hours a week, and have to do a lot of driving around to get it. In the US, hourly rates only really come into play with change orders or strange circumstances. Nearly everything here is what you would call price work, and it's also very competitive, although not as much as in England it seems.
Massive cat envy
