Is the economic stimulus helping you?

[all ferris]

We are bidding on 60 acres of seeding right now that is part of a stimulus project. Any of you guys getting work from the stimulus?

[stuvecorp]

60 acres, that's awesome but would need a serious nurse tank there.:) What do you have for a hydroseeder?

On one, the clients got more back on their taxes so they expanded what was to be done so that did help me.

[RockSet N' Grade]

Nothing here yet........but I am hearing rumblings that hill air force base is getting some $$ and they are gonna be running trucks, breakers and excavators......I have been making calls trying to secure a piece.......

[ksss]

The Forest Service got/is getting big money, I have not seen any of it, but I have been trying. Gotta follow the money.:drinkup:

[RockSet N' Grade]

Stimulus down here seems to be for the big boys who do the major infrastructure.......how to fit in and grab some crumbs is my task. Good news: got two bids the other day from homeowners. Bad news: both called and said they had no money to start with the projects........so what does that tell ya? Sheesh!

[Scag48]

The short answer is that the stimulus will definately be helping me out as an operator for hire. I've been following the money trail, so to speak, since its arrival here in WA. I've watched the project list, which lists all the stimulus projects and their bid status, since that list became available. There are 180 projects, somewhere around that many, and the first 9 or 9 have been awarded and are awaiting a start. I've been told by dispatch we should be crazier than all hell come the middle of May, however I am waiting on the out of work list in the single digit area currently. Ready to get after it, I've had a week of being unemployed and I'm bored already.

Things are picking up, slowly, but it's happening. I made a trip back to the Seattle area this weekend and noticed quite a few dumps driving around yesterday. Not as many as last year at about this time, but that can't be expected. Very little equipment moving around, I haven't hardly seen anything in transport along sections of highway that I normally would but the dumps moving around is encouraging.

[AintNoFun]

since we do 98% public work the stimulus is def. helping us out.. im pretty sure we will double our bottom line for the next upcoming few years... great time to get into govt work!

but the paperwork involved with stimulus projects is crazy.. they want up to the week payroll reports on how many people you had on site, how many jobs were created, etc.. this way they can say hey look we had 5 landscape laborers on this stimulus project, mission accomplished, lol...

[all ferris]

60 acres, that's awesome but would need a serious nurse tank there.:) What do you have for a hydroseeder?

On one, the clients got more back on their taxes so they expanded what was to be done so that did help me.
This job will not be hydroseeded. Prep soil, fert, imprint seed, and straw. 20 acres per year for the next 3 years.

If we were hydroseeding, the job is on a huge lake. Hows that for a nurse tank:weightlifter: There is no way we would try to hydroseed 60 acres with the 500 gallon unit we have. Although, we just finished a 2.5 acre hydroseed job today. Sucked all 12000 gallons out of the lake behind the house. I rigged up a suction hose on site and had to use a 2 liter soda bottle (read float) to keep the hose off the bottom of the lake. I'll start another thread on this job when I get time. Right now my interest seems to be more on beer than LS:laugh:

Stimulus down here seems to be for the big boys who do the major infrastructure.......how to fit in and grab some crumbs is my task. Good news: got two bids the other day from homeowners. Bad news: both called and said they had no money to start with the projects........so what does that tell ya? Sheesh!

The seed job we bid on is part of a bigger contract. We would be subs. So I would imagine that you might be able to get in on a job as a sub????

[Gravel Rat]

Not much money being spent in B.C. yet the gov't isn't giving any out either.

Economist keep saying Canada's economy is getting worse the bank of canada keeps dropping its interest rate and its not doing anything.

Oh well all you can do is wait and see what happens.

[stuvecorp]

This job will not be hydroseeded. Prep soil, fert, imprint seed, and straw. 20 acres per year for the next 3 years.

If we were hydroseeding, the job is on a huge lake. Hows that for a nurse tank:weightlifter: There is no way we would try to hydroseed 60 acres with the 500 gallon unit we have. Although, we just finished a 2.5 acre hydroseed job today. Sucked all 12000 gallons out of the lake behind the house. I rigged up a suction hose on site and had to use a 2 liter soda bottle (read float) to keep the hose off the bottom of the lake. I'll start another thread on this job when I get time. Right now my interest seems to be more on beer than LS:laugh:



The seed job we bid on is part of a bigger contract. We would be subs. So I would imagine that you might be able to get in on a job as a sub????

For 60 acres I would definitely buy a bigger hydroseeder.:laugh: That's cool to have easy access to water like that. You did that 2.5 acre job all today?

[TimTim2008]

SOD it!!.........

[all ferris]

For 60 acres I would definitely buy a bigger hydroseeder.:laugh: That's cool to have easy access to water like that. You did that 2.5 acre job all today?

The whole job took 3 of us 2 days. The first day we did all the prep work. The place used to be a pasture so it was in pretty bad shape when we got it. I had to sub out a local farmer to run a disk over it a few times.