what's the market like for rock movers? i'm seeing if i can start a business that just involves picking up loads of rocks by hand and moving them for people. like rock slides on embankments that people don't want to frick with just because of how daunting it seems.
just go out to some guy's property or place that he needs rock, load it into the back of a trailer and haul it where ever.
we can lift any stone under 1000 lbs. we can haul gravel, we can do just about anything as long as it's rock and it needs moving from point A to point B
i have a 515 deadlift and have worked the majority of my life has a day laborer for moving companies, how profitable could this be? i'm thinking of charging like $100 an hour, 2 hour minimum. i can work in any condition and offer same day service.
where/how should I advertise this and how good of an idea is this?
I want to say this is a dumb idea, but I can somehow imagine a small, small niche. I feel as though there would be very few cases in which you couldn't just fit a loader, or wrap a rope around the rock and just tow it out.
That's a big of struggle but usually what a person could do. However, the requires a lot of personal equipment just to load one or two large one ton rocks. I'm talking more like 30 to 60 lb. rocks on sides of hills or in large amounts in unwanted areas. Sure, most people could just do it themselves, but why should they? Same reason why we have moving companies, moving companies make almost 250k a year just from moving shit that people don't have the time or energy to. Big difference is you don't need to organize it or worry about damaging the rocks.
Sorry if I wrote this like a moronic illiterate, my eyes are very tired and I'm very tired.
It just seems like it would be way more economical to use equipment, by-hand movers are a thing precisely because they're handling fragile goods. I think you would need to calculate the moved-weight-per-hour of a loader vs. by hand and see which is more dollar efficient, even if it's just smaller rocks. I would be extremely surprised if it were cheaper to do it by hand given first-world wages.
Go by the project instead of an hourly. Instead of telling people it'll be by the hour and the hour is $100 with a 2 hour minimum. Go out, take a look, tell them it's gonna be in the ballpark of like $300 to $500 dollars. At least they'll know what they're getting and you can still offer the hourly. It's like $345 to $440 for a daily rental of a rock hauling truck, a small one at that. And you're sweating all day doing the heavy lifting.
So say in this example of a $300-$500 project, which we'll take to be equal to the cost of hiring a vehcile to do the same. The standard rule of thumb is apparently that 3 men can load 1000 lbs an hour. So let's say best case one man can move 400lb of rocks in an hour. I want to say more like 250lb, because it will likely be rough terrain and heavy items take a greater toll. I'm fairly certain a small loader can move many tons in a day way faster than by hand, and without destroying your body in the process. Only in the absolute smallest cases would it be better to not have a loader.
This exactly. Renting a loader or mini ex is $100 a day, cost of ownership probably lower. It will move rocks at least 5x as fast so your break even point could be as low as 800lb.
> The standard rule of thumb is apparently that 3 men can load 1000 lbs an hour.
Does this scale to 10 hours a day? The 1000lbs sounds plausible but 3 men 10000lbs in a day doesn’t to me
Charge by the weight of the rock, go to a decorative rock seller or a waste station and use their giant scale pad. First weigh your vehicle before going to the job, than after. Charge like $1 per pound of rock maybe a little under or over.
just use your antigrav unit you moron
>at last, shrugged!
Id imagine there's more money in a business where you carry middle aged women around in your arms in a bunny outfit.
Pretty moronic if you’re serious. That could be one service you offer if you’re really starting a business, but I’d be surprised if you could make any decent money from just randomly hauling rocks and nothing else. You’d have to diversify into either landscaping or general bulk hauling and delivery like for mulch and gravel.