Equipment is expensive, diesel fuel costs and you have to have an operator that knows what they are doing. It's not an entry level job, and equipment costs are not in the $1,000's, they are in the $100,000's.

If it's a middlin' sized job, it's easy to have half a million dollars just in equipment on the site.

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