Posted on 05/27/2025 7:12:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
You are spot on. Extremely good post.
If he's got more work than he can handle, it sounds like you should talk to him about working as his assistant, even if just doing the pick-ups and drop-offs.
Wow.
“The homeowners are reaching out on Facebook because there isn’t a viable market in place”
OR, they do not want to PAY what they are hearing from real contractors who carry insurance, have all the right tools and charge accordingly to cover that overhead. Like you point out.
The issue is that the days of hiring some local teenager to do some odd job around your house is over.
There was just a lady yesterday looking for someone to mow her 1/4 acre lawn. HEr mower was broken. It had probably not been mowed yet this spring. It sounded like you would need a bush hog instead of a 22” walk behind mower.
“””””“ But he couldn’t call his parents for comfort because his dad voted for Trump…”
What a pussy.
L”””””””””””
He sounds like a homo, Jim.
No, thanks. I already have a full time job, plus a 53 year old house with 12 acres to take care of.
He is filling a nitch. The local John Deere, Kubota, Exmark, Toro, Stihl dealerships who do service charge more than he does and are always 2+ weeks out on service.
In the last 8 years, we had a local guy deliver topsoil. It had way too much gravel.
We hired a guy to do a 15X8 deck. Did a crappy job and took 2 months to do it and he wanted payment in full when he wasn’t done.
Hired a local guy to build us a greenhouse and gave him money to buy materials. He skipped.
Hired a guy to install a dishwasher. Took him a week to get around to it.
Etc.
In the future - we will have contractors from Lowes or Home Depot do the work. It’ll cost more, but it will be done and done correctly or else it will come back against Lowes or Home Depot.
"Politics in America is the binding secular religion." - Theodore H. White
My Craftsman tractor circa 2001 is still running but the 10 gauge deck rotted just enough on top where the belts attach so they no longer could hold the tension. So it's just another cart tow vehicle now. I liked the tractor for mowing rough areas that I wouldn't use the zero turn for, so that's for the DR brush hog now.
I've seen some bad jobs.
Not that price is a guarantee, but the real pros know their worth.
Yes, this was my beater mower now. I bought it new at the local dealer in 1999.
The deck has been welded 3X. However, that is probably the most valuable part on it($250).
The hood is also worth $150.
The seat has a cover.
The front tires are bald.
One of the back tires I just put a tube in($25).
There is a guy here that will buy old JDs and part it out.
The Kohler engine is not worth rebuilding if it needs new rings. If it just needs a head gasket then it is worth repairing.
I just sold my 72” Landpride finish mower for my bigger tractor too. It became redundant when I bought the Skag 52” Zero turn last year. I still have a 5’ Bush hog Squealer to cut the trails out back. Plus two Stihl and one Echo straight shaft trimmers. One of the Stihl has a blade on it.
I did have success in having a local guy build me a privacy fence 125 feet long. He insisted I go with him to Home Depot where he would select the material and I would pay for it. Great.
He starts pulling posts and 1X6X6 boards off the shelf and inspects them to be sure they are straight and not warped. After a while, with some 30 or more defective boards on the floor, he has an associate get a forklift to bring down more wood off the top shelves and he goes into it again.
I was blown away. When we were done, there were stacks and stacks of fencing material left on the floor. He wasn’t embarrassed. He said they should buy better material.
This guy built a killer fence for me. Neighbors saw his work and he built some 10-15 more after that.
welcome to the party pal
But most require real (vice fake) work.
They also might not be for as much as a fired GS-10 would like
But they're out there. Get some kind of job that brings in something and keep looking for a better one
Bottom line, don't despair. You'll get through it.
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WTF?????
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The only rational response to the idiocy and insanity that grips a large part of this Great Republic.
Oh, and “Caitlyn Cross-Barnet” appears to have bats in her belfry.
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