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    A good industry/ business question

    well its like this, my grandma has an acreage with gravel and topsoil my uncle was selling....but he just sold his D8, gravel truck and the screening plant to my buddies uncle who is in business with an old family friend who was running another gravel pit but got suspended or temporarily shut...
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    Pay rates in various parts of the world?

    my buddy is up in Fort Mac doing GPS surveying, makes $2k a week. When I was running a hoe in Fort St.John (oil country in northern BC, canada) I was making $22 an hour but I was grossing $12,000 a month, including $100 a day for my pickup and free fuel. Travel time as well, paid straight...
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    A good industry/ business question

    I agree. I will go about this dilligently and do my research before I dive in so to speak. My idea, to clarify, would be to find a contractor looking to expand by getting a few more pieces of equipment and operators...and work completely out of his business strictly doing his work, making him...
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    A good industry/ business question

    Average monthly rate on a rental there is about $8k, operator wage is about $26, working 5 10hour days thats about $5720 a month. Thats just under $14k a month, im sure I could offer a way better deal than that. I would be buying it cash, not financing so I wouldnt have to worry about payments...
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    A good industry/ business question

    Im looking into buying an excavator (used) and I would like to find someone to sub- contract off...so my question is if there is much opportunity for such a venture. Theres a big construction boom in my hometown and lots of development is going on. Companies are constantly expanding and...
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    new guy, old hoe- '70s hein-werner

    from what I was able to dig up on the net, I saw a picture of a '69 one and it looked just like that one. The guy we bought ours from said ours was early 70s, I think its more mid to late 70s
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    new guy, old hoe- '70s hein-werner

    way older that me
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    new guy, old hoe- '70s hein-werner

    the cabs not on the wrong side of the machine....the whole rest of the machine is on the wrong side of the cab :p haha
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    new guy, old hoe- '70s hein-werner

    I must say I sure miss joystick controlls and only having your feet move the tracks, not the stick and bucket. The thing was hard to get coordinated on, I still have troubles. Left hand swing, right hand boom, right foot stick, left foot bucket curl. Shes a character builder alright!
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    Loading mini excavator on beavertail trailer

    Ive never run or loaded a mini...but everytime Ive loaded a full size hoe onto a lowbed the bucket and boom are always towards the tractor, and the drive sprocket end of the tracks go up first also. This advances the breakover point, and I never let the machine breakover on its own, always set...
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    new guy in BC

    found the forum hoping to find some info on my old hoe. 70s hein-werner C-14 need to figure out what im going to have to use to tow it, wether it be a beefy trailer behind a 5-ton, or a full out semi/low bed. As well as any other general info on the machine.
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    new guy, old hoe- '70s hein-werner

    picked this thing up for $7500cdn. The old detroit stil purrs like a screaming, leaking sewing machine. Just doing some cut/fill in my front yard in that pic. Found the forum here hoping to find some info on the machine, google doesnt bring anything up.
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