bluemeate
Member
so heres the backstory, skip if you want:
okay, so im a just a college kid and ive never done any real ass hard labor but some guy is paying me a thowow (he was saying some **** "well i put the bid at about 2000 for the trench", gave me 4dollars per foot and did a little math on the linear footage and came out with a little over a thousand for what he'd pay me) to dig a 2 foot deep trench around the house to place the drainage... well its on sandstone that ****ing is ****ing rediculously hard... like hard as ****ing ****... today was my first day on the job and i was just pounding away alll day on some tiny ass rental electric jack hammer (no power at all? doesnt even have the third ground thing in the plug ((pardon my lack of proper terminoligy)) and weighs about 20-30 lbs) and got a total of about 20 feet in like 5 hours
so im wondering how much out my own pocket it would cost to rent the smallest mini-excavator available to dig the trench myself and how much a hammer attachment would run me... also could someone give me an estimate on the time it would take to go through 230 feet of some hard as **** sandstone(the kind that a pickaxe wont even dent)....
also since this is just a rebuild of a burnt down house in a residental area with a 3 man contracting (company?) do you think they wont have permits or there will be some other reason i wont be able to bring in a little excavator? also how would I approach him with this...
also hes one those old fashion "be blunt/******** to the new guy" and like i know im gonna come off as a retard saying this to him... so any advice?
okay, so im a just a college kid and ive never done any real ass hard labor but some guy is paying me a thowow (he was saying some **** "well i put the bid at about 2000 for the trench", gave me 4dollars per foot and did a little math on the linear footage and came out with a little over a thousand for what he'd pay me) to dig a 2 foot deep trench around the house to place the drainage... well its on sandstone that ****ing is ****ing rediculously hard... like hard as ****ing ****... today was my first day on the job and i was just pounding away alll day on some tiny ass rental electric jack hammer (no power at all? doesnt even have the third ground thing in the plug ((pardon my lack of proper terminoligy)) and weighs about 20-30 lbs) and got a total of about 20 feet in like 5 hours
so im wondering how much out my own pocket it would cost to rent the smallest mini-excavator available to dig the trench myself and how much a hammer attachment would run me... also could someone give me an estimate on the time it would take to go through 230 feet of some hard as **** sandstone(the kind that a pickaxe wont even dent)....
also since this is just a rebuild of a burnt down house in a residental area with a 3 man contracting (company?) do you think they wont have permits or there will be some other reason i wont be able to bring in a little excavator? also how would I approach him with this...
also hes one those old fashion "be blunt/******** to the new guy" and like i know im gonna come off as a retard saying this to him... so any advice?