Posted by Mike (WA) on January 12, 2014 at 10:45:11 from (174.31.193.116):
In Reply to: Re: Mini Excavators posted by samn40 on January 12, 2014 at 05:00:29:
That's about the best way ever to get a kid interested in operating equipment. My dad and I moved a house onto the corner of our farm when I was about 16, set it up, and sold it with 5 acres. He paid $1 for the house, had about 10 K in moving and setting it up, and he sold it for $17,000. Not bad wages for a couple of months in 1963.
We rented a backhoe to dig the footings, pit down for the well (water was at 40 feet, and if we pitted down 10 feet for the pump, could use a shallow well jet pump) and dig the septic and drainfield. When the thing was delivered, dad told me to go out in the field, dig a trench and then fill it back in, and when I felt like I could operate the thing without killing anyone or wrecking anything, come back and go to work.
I learned to run it, everything went great. Except we rented it for 40 hours, and the hour meter was tied to RPMs- so when it idled, racked up time very slowly. Dad was determined to get his 40 hours worth, so I was almost down to "make work" projects by the time we were done.
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