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hey mr Slow, get your sht togever BEFORE you make unwatchable yet clickbait vid for people!!!!!

Great video. Interestingly, now you realize how you were getting over on the system. I commented on another video questioning how you had "not for hire" and no DOT # on the side of your truck while delivering aggregate to customers

dude, just let me do it

I buy my road base crushed stone from a company that has skilled drivers.. once I lay in a drive and order stone I save myself a lot of time and money buy letting the truck to tailgate dump my stone.. picked up my grader attachment for my skidder for 3200

I feel like all I do is pay taxes and insurance, and you can't circumvent the insurance system as it was done in days past. I think some agents of the past pushed clients to disclose as little as possible about their business so they could write an affordable policy. I'm sure Insurance companies have paid out losses and have had to cancel people for not disclosing the full scope of their business and once an accident happens, all the details emerge. Company/person x should not have been using their dump truck or dump trailer (or you name the equipment) for paid deliveries or X services, otherwise, they would have been covered for x incident. That said, it is hard to remain competitive when you are "by the book" vs. "what can I get by with", and I see so many with the latter. I get quizzed every renewal season on what exactly I do with trucks, trailers and equipment (very annoying). Commerical insurance is extremely expensive, as is workers comp, if you have any employees and need it. All I can do is add that to the cost of the job and remind my customers I am fully/properly insured should something happen. Hence, why I am not the cheapest. A reality of being self-employed that most customers (or side hustlers) don't understand.

Buy and old car and next time the insurance guy ask for a load give them a big ass bill and when they ask why just when if we had insurance on the water tankers I woukd have been cheaper show up in a old willy jeep and 3 5gal buckets of rock tell them we'll have it done by next winter

Upstate NY here. I took my trucks off the road about 10 years ago. If the 2 trucks weren’t running every day they didn’t pay. I have a contractor move me and haul my materials. It can be an inconvenience at times, getting the equipment moved, but I would never have a truck on the road again. DOT inspections are the worst part. I had a NYS Trooper spend 40min trying to find a violation on a brand new truck, BRAND NEW! 60 miles on it. He gave us an unsecured load ticket for my drivers lunch box on the passenger side floor! The worst part the judge upheld it. $500 with surcharges. I had an overweight ticket once, had my driver go to a certified scale at the local truckstop immediately following the stop. Both the ticket at the quarry and truckstop indicated not overweight. The judge admitted the city’s portable scales were probably wrong, but he wouldn’t throw out the ticket. Pay it or go to jail for 30 days.

I’m in Florida running a single axel 34700 gvw , not for hire through progressive about $1600.00 per year

MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

Great video! You mentioned that it does not get rid of pot holes. I have the same Landleveler but a 72 inch, Kubota one or at least it looks the same. Mine has spikes on it that you can lower up to 6 inches or so to dig in and get rid of ruts and potholes. Then after, raise them up and smooth out.

Thanks for sharing, your dilemma about insurance.

I've been through this years ago. If you bring material in as part of a job you are doing, you are not a for-hire carrier. You are saying "having other equipment on the job" Equipment on the job can be hand tools. If you tailgate a load of stone and dress it up with a shovel or a rake for 5 minutes, then you did a paving job. Personally I am a for hire motor carrier, just because I work my dumps for other contractors on occasion. But if I didn't sub for other large contractors, I would never have a MC number or the insurance required for the MC number

Good explanation. It’s so hard to build a sizable business with all these issues (by design I 100% believe). With my little business (small tractor work) I have what I do tailored to thread these needles. For me it’s a side gig type situation supplementing other income, but I would be so frustrated in your shoes. Thanks for another good one!

Currently I use a dump trailer. I don’t haul much just to dump and go. A lot of wear and tear on my 2500 for slim margins. At a point a dump trailer is ineffective or would cost more than one dump truck. There’s a niche I been looking for, landscaping has been what I been staying busy with. I agree tho if the insurance won’t work with you, you’re gonna have to adjust your plan.

It all boils down to money

Gotta love our insurance system 🤦🏼‍♂️. We have a similar setup to you with primarily excavating but we have a single axle dump truck too. The way my insurance rep explained it to me was; as long as the material I am hauling is owned by me “on my account at the gravel pit or haul off from one of my sites” then I am safe to get the lower rate.

Cant haul sand and gravel but can haul dirt and logs? Makes no sense lol

But u can still haul gravel for yourself?

I don't have a CDL. We have a 304 and 257 skid we move ourselves. We also have a 312 that we just pay to have it moved. All the materials come and go on jobs via subs. I'll never own and operate big trucks. I won't even buy a diesel pickup...too expensive to buy, operate and maintain

Getting harder and harder everyday to keep the money in our pockets.

Overhead just keeps growing 😢.

My friend who has a wrecker service does non concent towing ( police towing ) has found it almost impossible to get a believable price for insurance .

I had the same issue. The way I was told is at the end of the year that if it made up to 20% of your profit then you are in the clear. Unless you hauled a lot and didn’t work a lot with the machine then you would have an issue. But most times you would be fine.

Insurance of any kind is off the chart expensive. Seems like every six months it goes up 10-25 bucks. I can understand why some people don’t have it. Good topic. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!!

Man! Sounds like you live in Romania :)) Everything is super complicated regarding paperwork, documents, and things like that. I quit doing a lot of things because of this paperwork madness. I wouldn't say I like it and the worst thing is that looks like is the same even on the other side of the planet :)) About the video :D You made me again to feel like I am doing the job with you and having a chat with a friend :) PS - The end is crazy good :))

Float mode is key

Great video! Hey what’s your opinion on back dragging with the blade? And I mean putting max force on it drying to pull dirt, not float. Hard on tracks? Thanks

Looks great

Looks great keep up the great work and appreciate the commentary thanks for the awesome video!!👍

Question, did you use the "float" feature in the skid steer when grading? And how much gravel did you grade in the video? Thank you

The place you are cleaning up is looking so nice and quiet. Working in the nature and finishing satisfying projects I guess is a pleasure every time. This video makes me think about spending more time in nature :) Thank you!

Glad to see you have the A/C going while you are making money !!! Its been super humid and hot here in Arkansas.

Always good to see a new video from you. Love the down to earth way you explain things .

Such a versatile tool. Not everyone needs a huge machine .

Awesome video. Looks great to me.

I don’t comment much as I watch on TV and I am technology deficient. But I wanted to let you know I enjoy your videos. Thanks and God bless

Missed ya brother hope all is well. Glad to see you working, and making videos.

Great video. Looks like it cuts good!

Some people don’t understand that you have to charge to make a living. Pay for your equipment, fuel, etc., etc. Last time I looked they were not giving it away. Great video. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!! Edit it also cost a lot of money to keep the equipment in tip top shape!!

Thank you

I'm an ex-gravelhauler ,why didn't you just have the truck spread the limestone first and then use the skid to dress it up?

Thanks for the video. Looking at this tilt and the mongo and diesel. Trying to decide now. Thanks again for the info.

Tilt bucket, 4-way blade and hydraulic thumb, it's like your cheating. LOL. Here I am with my old Kubota KX 161-3 with a weld on thumb and fixed blade. 😭

I'm having a hard time grading 3 inch gravel rock any advice

Thanks for sharing... the quality of your videos is great!👍

Welcome back !!!! I had to drop a pretty large oak tree this weekend myself, it had been hit by light twice and i decided it needed to drop in a controlled manner .

Glad to see you back !!!

Hey young man. I was getting a little worried about you. Haven’t seen you for a while. Hope everything is good with you. I hate them pine trees they make a mess. Thanks for sharing and have a great week!!

Good to see your back. Hope everything is going good your way.

One of the things that gets overlooked is the visual cues that allow an operator to kinda eyeball the grade and then come in and fine tune by hand. It can take longer with the hand tools but it gives a little better control at times. At least for the fine tuning. An inexperienced operator can spend a whole day just trying to level out a pad with the bucket when a rake can make it flow faster. And you dont have to be all that perfect....there are some areas where it will be close enough. Not that you want to be shotty but you want to be close and it's not exactly perfect. It is often hard to get exactly perfect off a long stretch. An inch in a long grade is not always a big deal unless you are doing small sections that need the perfection vs the long road or long area that needs to be close within a .3 percent of the actual grade.