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Great point!

A great laid back Saturday business advice session. I agree with you and mike, the real costs of doing business, insurance, workshop, tool repair and maintenance are squeezing initial project costs upward. Small jobs still the best profit.

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Same to you!

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Truth is I hunt the world of google but there is an online Bandit dealer and I will find it for you

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Pass it to a bigger guy but make a commission

@@mustangrebuilder Yei i kinda figured that might be the best bet.. although I would like to do one like that so I have a baseline idea how much time it would take with a small machine. Thanks

With our SG40 we don’t do anything over 50”. And if we do it’s cause I can’t get our big grinder close. I honestly don’t like doing anything over 30” with it unless I have to. My 80 horse rayco spoils me and using less power sucks lol. I do stumps all the time like this video where i can go from stump to Stump with my SG40. In Iowa My minimum is $75, if I’m at location and it’s a quick stump i pick up I would do for $50 - $100. Great discussion

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Oh the old regrind and I agree with you 100% but I have to say I do like regrinds ... have one for tomorrow and customer is begging me to come out ... I tend to take it easy on them because I am locked in as there guy for now on

@@mustangrebuilder My big question has always been how are these guys even getting the business in the first place. I still give some of a discount on a regrind. I'm not having to grind a stump down to grade that was potentially 8-10" above ground originally. Most of the trees we have to grind are Oak trees with lots of surface roots. So the customer can decide how much they want to spend I give them a price to regrind the stump down correctly and then a price to regrind the stump and chase all the surface roots out.

I own 4 stump grinders. The smallest is an SC252, the other 3 are large diesel units and my minimum is $100. That said, I would have to disagree that there are no more $50 stumps. I started as a guy driving a Ford Ranger with a small 13 HP handlebar unit. The costs per hour to operate a Ford Ranger and a small handlebar unit, is a fraction of the cost of operating a F350 and a $75,000 stump grinder. The relative cost vs profit comparison to operate each setup (big machine vs small machine) rarely gets talked about but it is an important consideration. The guy with a small handle bar unit can grind out a few bush stumps pretty much just as quickly as the guy with the monster machine, but the out of pocket expenses to do the same work will be pretty lopsided to favor the smaller unit. For the guy with the handlebar unit, the small jobs are their bread and butter. They may need to pass on the big stumps but there is plenty of very good money to be made on the small stumps. A smaller unit does not mean that they will do an inferior job, nor does it mean that they are not legitimate. On top of that, the comparison of older (inexpensive) vs new (expensive) is another discussion that rarely gets talked about. There are good advantages of an old "junky" unit versus a new unit. I could swap out an old Kohler engine for a brand new engine on my SC252, in an afternoon. The cost would be about $2,500 and have a good reliable machine for a bargain. My current setup would not work to do a stump for $50, but it might easily work for the guy hauling a handlebar unit in a Ford Ranger. Just my $0,02

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