Good luck!! The last Deere dealership I worked at had a huge rental fleet. Crawler loaders, crawler bull-dozers, two log skidders, and wheeled backhoes. With the crawlers? It was pretty much a nightmare. I had to go out on countless service calls in the middle of the woods with machines that had thrown tracks off. Also several roll-overs, some sunk in swamps. Even had to rescue a few frozen solid in water. That because some people like to park crawlers in running water in severe cold weather - so the mud doesn't freeze inside the tracks - or so the tracks don't freeze to the ground.
There are many things to know when using a crawler. It's the nature of the rental business that you'll get many who want to rent, that know nothing. It's not always easy to "screen" the dumbos out. In fact, now adays who knows? Maybe you can be sued for "descrimination" for not renting to suspected dumb-bells. Not sure if dummies are a legally protected class yet, or not.
Note also that even when you get experienced operators, some are likely to use your machines a bit harder, since they don't own them and don't have to repair them.
That all being said, we kept the rental business for many years. So, I assume it somehow made us some money. But we had a 8 full time mechanics and two service vehicles with cranes. Also a big log Deere 740 skidder for pulling out crawlers sunk in swamps and ponds.
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