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I love to go do an estimate after doing irrigation repairs or concrete work, filthy dirty and tired, but clean shaven and clean cut. My customers know the owner is the estimater and is going to personally oversee the job. any ideas or changes are simple, no phone tag I am in the yard. If we were larger then that would not be possible, but I take great pride in what I do for a living. My wife and I were talking last night about what we would do if we were to win the lottery, I told her after a long vacation I would buy every fancy tool possible and still do landscape installs. If I liked the customer I'd probably surprise them at the end of the job with,....don't worry about payment, we don't need the money and love what we do. How about a snapshot of that face. wow thats way off topic.


we are on to something here, I have heard it told about several local guys "I don't want to pay for that fancy truck" or "He charges too much, look at that high dollar equipment" there is a mixed message here, some of the high end customers (which I like to work for) appreciate the flashly look and want that nice stuff in front of their home for the neighbors to see. while the conserative ones may share the quotations I have presented.

We have tried to stay updated while not wasting precious overhead on flashy items. 1988 dump(reliable), 1999 F350, 2000 F250, but 2005 S250, 2005 L4630 Kubota,2006 Kx161-3 excavator. Some of the valuable equipment we depend on day in and day out we feel necessary and most of the time nobody sees it until we arrive and work it. If my 1999 F350 with 180,000 miles on it lays down well we can work around it, if the dump lays down we can sub out trucking while it is repaired. Just my $0.02