schmism
Super Member
there is little that i rent because i can usually buy said equipment for what i would pay to rent it once or twice and then i get to own it for ever....
I really didnt want to rent the trencher but i did because i was under a time crunch. Cost me $200 for half a day.
In the next 5 years i for see the use of a trencher comming up about 5 or 6 more times. that puts me at $1000-1200..... for what? I might as well buy as used trencher for 2k and then i get to look at it when im not useing it, and or make some money on side jobs.... or sell it 5 years from now for 1500 and then i SAVED money and didnt half to hassle with makeing it to and from the rental place 5-6 times.
I love the favor/barter system. Ive been known to buy a tool to use once, but knowing that my neighbor might need to use it also in a few months, and that that would grant me a favor of something i need from him down the road.
(a quick example) Our neighbors behind us have a family cabin out in the woods along a butiful creek (southern MO, . ITs a great place to go for a long weekend, and they have been kind enough to invite us twice and we have had a spectacular vaction for nearly no $$ spent. So when they needed the post holes dug for a fence, i jumped at the chance, or help planting the new tree in the front yard, i jumped to help them. (hopeing to get invited a third time)
I have about 6 stumps (6-8" diam) that badly need to come out as they are cut flush to the ground but not quite flush enough and if your not watching closely its a real cringeing experience when the MMM hits them.... but i cant bring myself to rent the stump grinder for half a day for $300.... (could i fab one up on the back of the tractor for that?.... could i just dig them out by hand.... should i just wait for the backhoe and fix my stump and trench problem at once...
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This past winter the basement on our "scarry house" got compleatly filled from a leaking pipe (ya dont ask) i could have rented a 3" pump for $90 for the day, but instead i bought a 2" sump pump for $200 and i have it forever.... (and continue to use it to pump the sump pit i found in the basement)
I have more but i think you get the point....
I really didnt want to rent the trencher but i did because i was under a time crunch. Cost me $200 for half a day.
In the next 5 years i for see the use of a trencher comming up about 5 or 6 more times. that puts me at $1000-1200..... for what? I might as well buy as used trencher for 2k and then i get to look at it when im not useing it, and or make some money on side jobs.... or sell it 5 years from now for 1500 and then i SAVED money and didnt half to hassle with makeing it to and from the rental place 5-6 times.
I love the favor/barter system. Ive been known to buy a tool to use once, but knowing that my neighbor might need to use it also in a few months, and that that would grant me a favor of something i need from him down the road.
(a quick example) Our neighbors behind us have a family cabin out in the woods along a butiful creek (southern MO, . ITs a great place to go for a long weekend, and they have been kind enough to invite us twice and we have had a spectacular vaction for nearly no $$ spent. So when they needed the post holes dug for a fence, i jumped at the chance, or help planting the new tree in the front yard, i jumped to help them. (hopeing to get invited a third time)
I have about 6 stumps (6-8" diam) that badly need to come out as they are cut flush to the ground but not quite flush enough and if your not watching closely its a real cringeing experience when the MMM hits them.... but i cant bring myself to rent the stump grinder for half a day for $300.... (could i fab one up on the back of the tractor for that?.... could i just dig them out by hand.... should i just wait for the backhoe and fix my stump and trench problem at once...
)This past winter the basement on our "scarry house" got compleatly filled from a leaking pipe (ya dont ask) i could have rented a 3" pump for $90 for the day, but instead i bought a 2" sump pump for $200 and i have it forever.... (and continue to use it to pump the sump pit i found in the basement)
I have more but i think you get the point....
