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10-19-2012, 04:19 PM | #2 |
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You can buy your own trencher/backhoe for that amount of money and go into bidness yourself
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10-19-2012, 04:23 PM | #3 |
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Excavation is $150+ an hour. The equipment used costs $50k+ in some cases. LiTability is high, insurance is high. Not surprising at all. But we are generally in the $5-7k range. It adds up.
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10-19-2012, 04:25 PM | #4 |
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10-19-2012, 04:34 PM | #5 |
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That's absurd. Who's getting the $150/hour that doesn't own the equipment? I never realized I could make so much money doing so little work.
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10-19-2012, 04:56 PM | #6 |
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Put backhoe in at Ebay and tell me what you see under 10 grand
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10-19-2012, 04:58 PM | #7 |
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10-19-2012, 04:59 PM | #8 |
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I don't know if it's the same thing, but we had to repair a drain line going out of our house about 10 years ago. It' was about 6 feet down, and it was perhaps a 10 foot section, and it cost about $7,000. I cried myself to sleep for weeks afterwards.
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10-19-2012, 05:04 PM | #9 |
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I don't know where you are, but "here" an 8k-10k quote on a simple 30' replacement would be laughed at and a 5k-7k bid wouldn't stand a chance in hell at getting the job.
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10-19-2012, 05:14 PM | #10 |
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wow. i just laid 1100' of 2" up from a well and set two hydrants for $7300. the guy i use with the excavator has a mid sized cat and he charges $90 hr. 8 k for 30' seems just a little on the high side. and yes i am fully insured and bonded and so is the digger. $2500 seems a little more realistic.
oh yeah we dropped in a 1 horse submersible pump, and a 1/2 horse jet in the house for a booster. prolly had 200' difference from the house to well. thought about running a wire from house to well for a starting relay so the pressure tank and switch would still be in the house, but that was going to come in $1000 higher than doing the booster pump. Last edited by plbrdude; 10-19-2012 at 05:18 PM.. Reason: in com plete |
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10-19-2012, 05:29 PM | #11 |
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I put a sewer pipe in that was about forty feet long and it cost me 1500 bucks. But I live in the country and people do shit like that basically almost for fun...
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10-19-2012, 05:47 PM | #12 |
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Yeah - you can get the good ole boy to do these things cheap. I agree, it's a lot of money. I don't fault OP but these things add up quickly. The guy on the other end has bills too. Once you start maintaining trucks, equipment and a shop, overhead starts cutting deeply into your profit.
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10-19-2012, 05:59 PM | #13 |
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Call the first guy, tell him you got cash, when he gives you your price tell him you need to call a couple of places to compare prices...
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10-19-2012, 06:01 PM | #14 |
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Providing there are no obstacles between the house and meter, you could get that job done here for around $1000. Of course the codes here are different . We only have to go 18" deep and are digging in sand for the most part so we don't need the backhoe. We also use PVC which is dirt cheap. I can easily see 6-8K given how much more is involved when you have to deal with cold weather
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