10 cents a foot

[shvl73]

F that guy

FORGET that guy.
Lets not get posts deleted on this family friendly site.

 

[curtisfarmer]

Yeaaahh...that is what I wanted to say. Try thinking that when you break your Kubota for $5!!!! Hah! Send him a thankyou note for being so kind to hire you as well.

 

[IH3444]

Tell your neighbor its not 1980 anymore. He can look all he wants but I doubt he'll find anyone to do a 250' driveway for $5. I plow some close neighbors and don't charge them. But I have a few customers (cheap) that only want me to come when they call after they have 4' piled up and nowhere else to put the snow and want me to move it with the loader. For those customers I charge $50 an hour. For regulars I charge $35 an hour. My tractor is a 26 HP with a 5' loader.

Try like 1960....

 

[dex3361]

All it would take is for this neighbor to shovel this drive by hand. It would take days to clear. Then he might think about how much his time is worth and how much your machine is worth. On second thought he probably wouldnt get it.

 

[powerstroke444e]

We have some bone heads around here that don't have insurance that do driveways for $15 to $20 per snow, on one commercial job about 8 acre lot a guy got the bid for $50 per hr just to get work, or piss us off, hope they don't hit any curbs. I think this is a good winter to let the plows set in the shed and save wear and tear on the equipment. And to date we have not even gotten a snow worth pushing.

 

[Ace3]

I guess I'm selling myself short. I plow two of my neighbors driveways one 100' ant the other 400' feet for nothing. I also plow the quarter mile road we are all located on. The deal is that I plow the road and they salt and sand it as its very steep. The tractor is new this year and I like to play (I mean work) with it. I'll see what happens next year.

 

[LBrown59]

LOL Five dollars is a bargain. considering. They are most likely not gonna find a better price.

They might by june.

 

[FullBucket]

Perhaps your neighbour has done you a good deed. He has given you an easy way to turn down future requests that you would neither profit from nor enjoy. Without needing to be offensive, you can reject future inquiries with, "I'm sorry I'm pretty busy and I don't think we could agree on a price that would make both of us happy anyway." Why become the bad guy; he sounds like he's much better suited to the role .

 

[PILOON]

And probably the guy has 2 cars, calls you to come back as his wife has gone to work so you can clean that spot, or calls back to advise you that the city just passed and you can now clean what the city just filled in!
Or leaves his car in the drive, waves at you as you do your best not to scratch his new Jag all while he sips a coffee BUT expects you to come back to clean where his car was parked!

Now you know why I don't contract plow anymore.

Had one that it was always 'come back tomorrow' 'til I heard (grapevine) that he was moving in 3 days!
We had a record dumping and his drive was drifted in 4 ft deep.
Well 3 days later I honked and waved at him as I drove by.

 

[BANDAMAN]

I always figured if I didn't charge, then they couldn't complain if I didn't do the job right!


....but if I was doing it for money, I would just do some research and see what the going rate is.

Most of my neighbors have methods of clearing snow and I am pretty busy anyway, but if we get a good dumping, and I have the time, I will go plow a few out.....I like to do it when they are out to church or still at work. Its a nice surprise when they get home. I've had a few cases of beer dropped off on the door step for my "troubles". Hope they don't find out how much fun I am having! My bro-in-law lives nearby and does a bunch of driveways with his ATV, but I would be upset if somebody did mine for me and I didn't get the seat time.