Business, that being the work load, is pretty much dead. I could use some inspirational ideas about right now. Something to draw in more work obviously. Anything to pay the bills.
What are some ideas y'all are trying to limit spending or earn money on the side?
We have two revenue streams for our company.
One is obviously land surveying in all it's facets.
The second is we own a bobcat T320 with the mulching head on it. Initially, we bought it to cut our traverse lines to speed up the job and add more value to the client in the way of lanes around rural property.
However, every time we drive that thing around town, we pick up another job to use it on for the individual either clearing shooting lanes or clearing land period. In fact, if we marketed it just a little bit more aggressively (we don't because the two operators are RPLS's here) we could probably have 200 hours worth of work a month for that puppy. We recently used it on cutting division lines on a family division. Now, there is a 10' wide lane running the length of the new tract lines for ease in fencing and maintenance and the clients REALLY like it.
We go to people's deer leases and cut all kinds of little roads and lanes. We use it for minor clearing (up to about 3 acres). It's a 100 horse machine with 97 at the head and it gets $125/hour with a 4 hour minimum.
Most of the time, it pays better than surveying and it's A/CHeat so weather really isn't much of a problem. Finding a good operator who won't tear it up is the biggest problem we have (hence only two operators).
In short, find another type of revenue stream that will dove-tail into that which you know very well.
I can dig it, that is a pretty cool rig!
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That's my rig!
Kris
If you are mulching with your bobcat you should look into one of these. No use in leaving money on the ground.
Kris
That silt soxx is great stuff. It's really good on impervious surfaces. We used it on the side of a mountain, on top of bedrock, where regular silt fence was not practical.
Kris
Yeah we are using it all over the DFWC. We are recycling everything that we possibly can, even the concrete that we are tearing out gets crushed and recycled into flex base on site.
Good idea, too bad I don't have a Bobcat. We often promote bush hogging a property before topo's if we are going to do a grown up pasture. And, too bad I don't have any topo's on the schedule. 🙁