Part time tractor business

[Spiffy]

Thanks for all the input guys!

For an update: crazy or not I just had to let a PT2445 follow me home [see character pic; one I downloaded, but just slightly cleaner than mine]; figured worste case I have enough of my own tasks to pay for a year of intrest and insurance and a pretty good chunk of depreciation.

First paying job Saturday: about an hour's worth of stumps, but until I get that stump cutter reversed I don't want too many of those. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif The week there after I have a much larger job that will likely take all day and use half the attachments on the trailer.

On the immediate response, it looks like I may have guessed alright: the 2445 trailer package being more versital than most of the skid-steers & CUTs around here, and gets into areas the "construction equipment" can't. Of course, I may tire of jobs where the actual task would be so much easier with 10ton of steel and 100hp but is either physically or financially too small for them. Until then, I'm open for business!

Oh, unless the insurance agent really messed up (I should re-read all the fine print); I'm covered on the hoe and trencher as well. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Jstpssng]

Good luck. Hopefully you'll make some money. More importantly I hope you have some fun.

When you started this thread I read my tractor insurance policy for the first time (up for renewal this week); it turns out that for the last year I've had everything BUT liability.
Not that I plan on an accident, but my main skid trail is up the town road in front of my house... we're rewriting my policy.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Rental fees are stiff, and when a homeowner realizes that you can do far more work for your 1/2 day charge (equipment delivered to site, 4 hours of operating, removal of equipment) than he/she could possibly do for the small amount they would save just paying for the rental, and suddenly the lights go on. Not to mention the liability insurance that the homeowner doesn't carry (and hopefully you do!). )</font>

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Makes me wonder just how <font color="red"> DANGEROUS </font> is the practice of the rental companies supplying equipment to customers who have no experience operating such equipment.