I know what you mean about slow or no work. Dad has been in business for himself for nearly 25 years and I"ve been working for myself while basically working strictly for him and drawing a salary, for nearly 12 of those years. In that time we"ve had only one slowdown and that was back in "90 and then things actually just slowed down, but they didn"t stop. Until the first of "09 we always had at least 3 to 4 weeks, sometimes more, backlog of work. Things finally tapered off for us during the summer and about 4 months ago they came to a screeching halt. I"ve done one "company" job in all of those months. The rest of the time I"ve spent doing stuff strictly on my own and fixing up and selling things I"ve collected over the years and doing small jobs where I can just to keep the bills paid. In other words I"m making a living but dang sure ain"t making any money......
The bad thing is I"ve got a 175IH loader sitting in the yard that needs work, two 410 Ditch Witch machines that both need engines, a 255 Ditch Witch that needs a motor and all of the other parts we"ve robbed off of it to keep others going, just in side jobs. Then for the company there"s a 320BL CAT excavator that needs work on the electrical control/computer of the main machine, and then an engine, gearbox, and hammer built for the rock drill attachment that it carries, then there"s the NW crane in Chapel Hill that we"ve got the undercarriage and master clutch out of, a motor grader that needs work for the same guy, etc, etc, etc. Basically between my "side" jobs and "company" work Dad and I both have alot to do but the problem is that our customers don"t have the money to pay to have the work done, most because they are still waiting to get paid. The guy with the CAT 320BL is still waiting to get paid for jobs he did back in August and Sept of last year. They were all "government" jobs that should have been funded and paid right away but didn"t. Heck if Dad and I had all the money owed to us for past work on hand we"d be nearly $100,000 ahead, the problem is we can"t get blood from the turnips that can"t get blood from the other turnips...etc, etc,....... You get the picture.
Thanksfully I"m starting to see things slowly turning around and some of these customers starting to get new jobs to fund repairs needed now and so they"ll start breaking stuff so they"ll need future repairs....now if they can just get paid so we can get paid............
I guess all we can do is hang in there and hope things will get better again.
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