Friday, February 08, 2008

I hate to always bitch....



but this seems like a good place to rant about stuff that pisses me off and let me tell you this last month has really tried my paitence, I have gone back to just doing all the plowing on my own, why you ask? well lets see, whenever I call someone to see if they want to come help all I get is "oh I got plans" well ya know what fine then I stopped calling people and just decided to do it all myself. For years I had loved to go plowing because it was fun, about 2 years ago it stopped being fun.... as I look back it also was the first year that I had more then one plow truck running. when I started plowing in 99' for Dan Wilson it was fun, in 2000 it became even more fun because I bought Brian Hayes old bronco, there are pics floating around on here somewhere, another friend helped me out and sold me a 8' Meyer snow blade and I layed out some brackets and another friend did all the welding for me, yea the truck was a pile of shit and the plow was hacked together but it was mine and I was making decient money with it. after that truck I bought a Jeep Cherokee and plowed with that for half a season before the shitty 2.8 motor blew up, and from there on I plowed with the durango until fall 2006 when I bought the 90 Chevy and put my brand new plow on that, it is also the year I got got the family video plowing account by lowballing it, biggest mistake of my life but it was a lesson well learned about how corperations are only out to fuck over their contractors and employees... I have always stayed away from residential work, I honestly don't know why, this year I took on 10 residential drives and I have not had a problem with no pays and nobody has bitched once. I dropped all but 3 of my commercial lots, I still plow and everyone loves the service I give them but unfortunantly I have decided that this is most likely my last year for snow plowing, when your passion for something turns into hating to have to do it then why do it? I don't know for sure just yet what next winter will bring but I cant keep plowing just to cover the gas and some mad money, I am going to start flyering for mowing work next week, I am going to take on strictly residential work, too much bullshit for commercial work, everyone wanting 1-2 mil in liability just to do a $20 mowing job!?!?! FUCK YOU!!! I have $100,000 in liability on my business and I doubt I could do that much damage if I tried, I have also decided to stop buying cars to junk, the steel market is too volitile plus I am not making any money at it now that my helpers are making more then I do after the cost of gas/fuel and the price of the cars, to hell with that, I will let the rig just sit out at Toms before I make $25 a day driving around hoping for a little piece of free scrap or someone to call willing to off their car for $200 when the junkyards are paying $300+ now, prime example: buy a chevy sunbird for $160, I spent $40 in gas to go get it and bring it to my place and then haul the body in, $10-$15 in oxygen/propane to torch stuff off of it, the body brought $222 in junk, the aluminum rims brought $60 in junk.... now lets do the math, I have $225 in this junk car that junked for $282. I made $60 NONOOOOO! I have to split it with my helper... I spent 3 hours doing that and made $30? whats the point of that? I can go work at autozone or Advantage Auto parts or Walmarts tire shop and make $10 a hour there, fuck that. As much as I am against working for the man, at this point I am ready to get something part time and just do it for some guaranteed income hell at $40 a day my bills are paid and then some! and that would still leave 4-6 hours in the day that I could go out and dick around mowing lawns or doing whatever I feel like.at this point I honestly don't know what the next turn will bring me but all I do know is that something has to change and it IS going to change, I am selling off all the shit that I don't use and condensing everything and getting to the point that everything can fit in my dumptruck and on my car hauler, grab mapledog and see where the winds blow us.