My grandfather owned a excavation business many years ago. As ive gotten older ive wanted to do something great. One day i was digging through my grandmothers toats in the shead to throw old christmas stuff away, lol. I found my grandfathers old corporate records. Thought about bringing his legacy back alive. Looking foward to learning more from your channel. Thank your for your effort and time. Well done sir 🤘
Currently working on starting up my own excavation business here in Indiana as well. I’ve got a fb page and been passing out business cards to the local dairy farms. So far only have two people interested in me clearing about an acre of wooded land for them. But hopefully if I do those then more work will come.
I hit a natural spring once, not fun. Customer didnt do anything to help me either. Always write good contracts that include "Unexpected Encumbrance's"
How did you come up with so much to write off? Unless you fudge some numbers to cheat the irs that’s a lot of lost money? 200k with only 17k in profit? I know you rent stuff and pay people but still that don’t seem worth the extra time unless you paid off a machine or something
Advertising, marketing, office supplies, travel, work clothes, taking customers out to dinner, fuel, break downs, security cameras. Being an LLC that debit card is like my personal card. I don’t pay myself but the business pays for 95% of my “living” expenses. I also bought an investment property this year that I’ll write off for 2024. 3/10 jobs pay in cash also so you gotta factor that in. I wrote off everything.
About how long did it take you to do this culvert job ? You may have said I may have missed it
My grandfather owned a excavation business many years ago. As ive gotten older ive wanted to do something great. One day i was digging through my grandmothers toats in the shead to throw old christmas stuff away, lol. I found my grandfathers old corporate records. Thought about bringing his legacy back alive. Looking foward to learning more from your channel. Thank your for your effort and time. Well done sir 🤘
That’s awesome!
Appreciate the kind words
Random question, but what laser level is that in your truck? Do you recommend it or wish you had a different one? Love your videos!
Thanks for watching! It’s a spectra!
Currently working on starting up my own excavation business here in Indiana as well. I’ve got a fb page and been passing out business cards to the local dairy farms. So far only have two people interested in me clearing about an acre of wooded land for them. But hopefully if I do those then more work will come.
Let me know how it goes
How did it go?
Can't really hear anything in the truck the exhaust and road noise is taking you out.
I’ll try to fix it! Thanks for letting me know
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Great work 👍
I hit a natural spring once, not fun. Customer didnt do anything to help me either. Always write good contracts that include "Unexpected Encumbrance's"
I'm 35. I just got laid off from my corporate job for the 2nd time in 3 years. I am a handy person. Looking forward to taking the leap.
100% recommend finding a good church, put God first and he will guide you! I love every day I get to work for myself
Really wish I could hear this
I’d be happy to answer any questions! I’m not the best when it comes to editing videos
The noise from your truck is drowning out your voice...can't hear what you're saying.
I’m gonna redo this whole video soon
Thanks for teaching me how to build stuff for my mini track
What's the number one way you find jobs?
Word of mouth and Facebook is the only way I personally get work.
Did you have to get any kind of training to become certified?
No sir. Not where I live
do you have work through the winter with equipment?
Yep i stay busy year round
I’m 19 really trying to get into excavating just got a f250 super duty just like most people I’m scared to take the leap lol!
Have you ever worked around the trade?
Dont be scared, biggest mistake you make is waiting. Guaranteed.
How much did you charge for that culvert job? And what part of the country are you in?
Indiana. It was around $8500 with everything we are doing.
Is your equipment paid off? Just curious on your cash flow if you didn’t have equipment payments? Great video!
I rent the excavators and I have a loan on the skidsteer
@@MORE_DIRT great thank you! How do you find jobs when starting out?
Please redo the video the Sound Is overpowering
Look at my newest one! Just redid it l!
What would you typically charge for a job like this ?
This one was right around 10k it was extremely difficult to access.
9 days a month; that’s about how much time I have away from my day job to make my mini ex business work.
That’s how I started. Turned into working 60 hours a week with both my jobs. Something had to give
@@MORE_DIRT As long as it doesn’t lose money, I won’t be disappointed.
How did you come up with so much to write off? Unless you fudge some numbers to cheat the irs that’s a lot of lost money? 200k with only 17k in profit? I know you rent stuff and pay people but still that don’t seem worth the extra time unless you paid off a machine or something
Advertising, marketing, office supplies, travel, work clothes, taking customers out to dinner, fuel, break downs, security cameras. Being an LLC that debit card is like my personal card. I don’t pay myself but the business pays for 95% of my “living” expenses. I also bought an investment property this year that I’ll write off for 2024. 3/10 jobs pay in cash also so you gotta factor that in.
I wrote off everything.
Suggest the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”
@@MORE_DIRT awesome thanks for the response I was just curious so I had an idea in my plan
@@MORE_DIRT thanks I was just curious for when I started
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