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well to those who dont know i have recently bought a bobcat and tipper and started my own buissness however im still learning all about the bobcat getting tickets ect so for 6months i was going to conitnue as a tradesman plasterer on wages however i have been thinking about leaving my current employer and going out on my own doing the insulation as im qualified and have 6years exeriance, does anyone know if it will still be going on for anather 6months or is the money about to dry up are there still plenty of people needing insulation, i was going to do that do plastering work that i get and any small bobcat jobs i pick up am i trying to hard or do you think im aiming in a direction that is realistic
Watching some footage this morning about the installation industry and there are cowboys in it. 4 deaths of installers, by electricution .
Govt is putting in new guidelines.
CFMEU union reckon 6 hours at Tafe is not enough training to qualify . They want confined space, electrical safety and proper training before issuing a permit
ForumSage
SupporterThis doesn't answer any of your questions and may be of no interest to you, but a friend of mine a few years back had a bobcat and a tipper for several years and was doing OK until he made one bad decision.
He regularly did the usual jobs for builders in Sydney; backyard pools, foundations for houses and flats and so on.
He was offered a huge job on a big site in Sydney that needed lifting points welded onto the bobcat so that it could be lowered into the pit with a crane. The job took several months and paid well enough, but when he came out, he found that all his regular builders had found someone else to do the smaller jobs that he had been doing for years. It more or less ended his business.
I have no idea whether he was just unlucky or whether that is a real issue. Maybe if your business depends on little jobs you have to be available to do them with little or no delay, so you can't risk going off to do a big job even if it is well paid.
Maybe that isn't usually true or maybe you knew that anyway or maybe you plan to do different sorts of jobs, but I just thought I would mention his experience.
1973 Series III LWB 1983 - 2006
1998 300 Tdi Defender Trayback 2006 - often fitted with a Trayon slide-on camper.
The industry has gone from Legitimate to now cowboys, complete with the Government doing interventions (P Garrat) .....
Usually by the time you hear of fortunes being made in a industry, that is when it's at it's peak, and it's all down hill from there
Take vnx205 story to heart .......
Been in the building industry for 35 years,
IF you want to hear a better story than that tho .... Tip truck drivers that can get their rig up North , are getting $130ph + receive free accommodation / fuel / servicing ..... I have a friend who brokers trucks and flogs em off to these hopeful soles, only to see them come back highly disappointed
Mike
Last edited by mike 90 RR; 12th February 2010 at 08:36 PM. Reason: miss spelt words ... whats up with Ron these days??? ... I mean, do I have to do all my own spell checkin now?? ....
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