$20 an hour for skidsteer work..
http://cleveland.craigslist.org/grd/1947306329.html
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http://cleveland.craigslist.org/grd/1947306329.html
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Indeed but even if the machine is paid off after paying for diesel fuel ($3 bucks a gallon here) and the fuel to get to a job site plus maintenance on a older machine...one must be eating ramen.Hmmmm.......he says "all locations". Might have to give him a call and see when he can be here......wonder, just wonder if there is any truth to his advertising? At any rate, one will do what one has to do to eat.....
And that sir is job profit management "Creativity Inspired By The World We Live In."just picked up a patio demo, 1 truck of concrete and 3 trucks of bricks/fill to go out, might as well give him a call to come do it, ill just sit and drink a beer...
I can have all the laborors I want for $8.00 a hour. I probably won't be able to talk to them put I can point and show what I want dug:laugh:Some people must be really desparate in the USA for work there is no way you would see that around here working a machine for 20 dollars per hour you can't even get a labourer to use a shovel for anything less than 20 per hour.
A labourer for 8 dollars per hour here is a kid that wears baggy pants that don't stay up and wears a hat backwards.I can have all the laborors I want for $8.00 a hour. I probably won't be able to talk to them put I can point and show what I want dug:laugh:
Pay the insurance with cash, do your own maintaining and book keeping, oh yeah, it's possible.truck, trailer, insurance (truck and liability), TAXES (20 percent minimum) deprecation, maintaince, ect. . .
TAXES, INSURANCE, MAINTENANCE EXPENSES, FUEL TO GET THE LOADER TO THE SITE????You people and your low baller hating.
Here's the math numb nuts.
22 working days, weekends off- 22 x 8 hour days = 176 hours.
176 hours x $20 per hour= $3520.00 income.
Caterpillar has skid steers for as low as $400 a month financed amount.
$3520.00 - $400 monthly payment= $3120.00 left to use.
Fuel- $3.00 per hour x 176 hours = $528.00, now it's even cheaper to use off road with bio-diesel mix here.
Now you have $2592.00 per month.
If the "low baller" bought a cheap good running machine and everything they own is paid for, and they have investments on the side, trust me, it's a good living.
Geebus Christ, do the math before you start hating the low ballers, even I am a low baller to get the work.
Last May Dirtman posted the correct way to calculate equipment costs...You people and your low baller hating.
Here's the math numb nuts.
22 working days, weekends off- 22 x 8 hour days = 176 hours.
176 hours x $20 per hour= $3520.00 income.
Caterpillar has skid steers for as low as $400 a month financed amount.
$3520.00 - $400 monthly payment= $3120.00 left to use.
Fuel- $3.00 per hour x 176 hours = $528.00, now it's even cheaper to use off road with bio-diesel mix here.
Now you have $2592.00 per month.
If the "low baller" bought a cheap good running machine and everything they own is paid for, and they have investments on the side, trust me, it's a good living.
Geebus Christ, do the math before you start hating the low ballers, even I am a low baller to get the work.
So I've been playing around with all the stuff I've learned in school over the years
I've came up with how to calculate what a machine costs per hour to operate
Here's a Example on a new Takkie 250 skid steer
How to calculate the ownership cost of a Skid Steer
Lets use a new Takeuchi TL250 skid steer for example
Engine: 100 HP
Operating factor ( average engine speed throughout its life): 60%
Purchase price: $62,000
Estimated salvage value ( what its worth when sold) : $18,000
Useful life: 5 years
Hours used per year: 750
Maintenance and repairs: 110% of annual depreciation
Equipment overhead rate 15%
Diesel fuel Price $ 2.65 per gallon
Average annual investment = (Total cost + salvage value) / 2
=$62,000 + $18,000/ 2
= $40,000
Fuel Consumption 100X.04 (thats the diesel conversion decimal) x 60
= 2 gallons per hour
Annual costs
Depreciation= Initial cost- salvage value/ useful life
$62,000 $18,000/ 5
= $8,800
Maintenance and repairs
= 110% of annual depreciation
1.1 ( $8,800)
= $9,680
Equipment overhead 15%
= 15% average annual investment
= .15 (40,000)
=$6000
Total annual costs =$24,480
Hourly cost=
= total annual cost/ hours used per year
Machine cost=
$24,480/ 750 hours
= $32.64
Fuel costs = Fuel consumption x fuel cost
= 2 gals per hour X $2.65 per gal.
= $5.30
Lube/ oil 10% of fuel cost
=.53
Total machine cost per hour = $38.47 per hour
This does not include operator costs.
Tell me your fuc$ing kidding.Who gives a flying f*ck about Depreciation= Initial cost- salvage value/ useful life annual depreciation if that's what you are worried about, start wrapping rubber baby buggy bumpers on your skid steer because the second you get a scratch on it, you'll lose money!!!!!!
Just run the god damn sh*t out of the machine and the hell with all the other crap, make money instead of worrying about crap that only accountants think about!
You have to factor in the truck and trailer and there is other business stuff. But at those numbers you could do better working at Menards(or somewhere else...) and taking a bunch of overtime, you would make more money.You people and your low baller hating.
Here's the math numb nuts.
22 working days, weekends off- 22 x 8 hour days = 176 hours.
176 hours x $20 per hour= $3520.00 income.
Caterpillar has skid steers for as low as $400 a month financed amount.
$3520.00 - $400 monthly payment= $3120.00 left to use.
Fuel- $3.00 per hour x 176 hours = $528.00, now it's even cheaper to use off road with bio-diesel mix here.
Now you have $2592.00 per month.
If the "low baller" bought a cheap good running machine and everything they own is paid for, and they have investments on the side, trust me, it's a good living.
Geebus Christ, do the math before you start hating the low ballers, even I am a low baller to get the work.