Do you have experience running excavating equipment, NTCPA? I really enjoy it myself, but one indisputable fact is that my excavator is 5-10 times faster and (at least) 2-4 times more accurate than I am. Fer instance, he can use a hoe to clean dirt off of a surface that I would (rightly) be afraid to get closer than a few inches to.

For smaller jobs (ditching) it may pay me to rent. Bigger work I have no qualms that hiring out is the right way for me to go.

Last edited by Theo Gallus; 04/13/09 08:36 PM.
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