I know several GC's in the southeast area that build "box retail", the small chain stores and they have projects all over. They can be profitable and it's my bread and butter. If you want I can PM you a few if you're interested. It requires some BS paperwork, contracts, insurance, etc. but it's worth it IMO. They are always looking for site guys and if I could travel and make money, I'd have more work than I could do. However, us excavators can't take our traveling circus on the road like an electrician or steel erector can and make money at it.
Typical scope of work is - erosion control, demo, grading and storm sewer.
Yes please pm me the info the ones I have found only are bidding the jobs then you spend all the time bidding them and to come to find out they don't even have the job
I just cleared a lot very similier to the one I lost the bid on and really paid attention to time labor materials fuel etc. I bid about the same I ended up with 9 hrs on my 943 8 hrs on my bobcat 16 hrs labors it took 8 cans and I was there 3 days and two trips each way moving equipment which ends up being nearly a days work I think I ended up making 1200 for 4 days of work plus the time I spent looking at it and locating property lines with the builder prior to starting the job
If you mean you pocketed $1200 (or $300/day) after paying rent on all your equipment, mobilization, dump fees, labor, etc., I'd say you did pretty well. Just a rough estimate, I'd guess you made in the neighborhood of 20%. $1200 (after all the bills are paid) for 4 days of work doesn't SOUND like a lot of profit, but if you look at it from a percentage standpoint I think you did alright.
I completely disagree.
$300 a day is great for your personal wages. But its a business, you have to make money to cover the cost to purchase and maintain equipment, transportation cost (machines and yourself), insurance, licensing, advertising, office expenses, ect.
No offense to the OP but it sounds to me like you were close to upside down on that job.
A 20% profit for the company would be great, but the company didn't make $500 on this project.
Company profit is calculated after all expenses including projected maintenance, repairs and paying yourself a wage for your days worth of work.
I think you might have misunderstood me. When I said " if you made $1200 after all the bills are paid" I meant ALL of them, including what you described. The only way we'll know for sure is how much was billed for the work. With the description of the time and labor it took to complete this work if 6k or less was billed, then I would agree it would be extremely tough to make $1200 free and clear. But we don't know without more information.
Maybe I misunderstood, I thought I read the total job cost listed at $2,500.
Can you pull out the top pins and chain the gate so it's like a tailgate on a pickup? Hook the chains so the gate is at about a 30° up-angle?Sorry to dredge an old thread up but I it seems better than making a new one for just a few questions. I have a customer that wants me to clear a half-acre lot for a mobile home and haul everything off. The numbers I'm seeing in this thread and others are somewhere around 300cy of tree debris to a typical acre. However I think my job is smaller potatoes than most. There's no stumps involved, and only a handful of mature trees. The majority is >3" brush and scrub that I can push out with my 7000lb skid steer (the large trees are already on the ground).
What I need to know is should I plan on less volume because there's no stumps? Or more because it's mostly smaller brush? Or about the same? I plan to haul it in a tandem dump with a regular gate. I have virtually no experience hauling brush so any tips are appreciated (especially about not getting the load stuck).