Good discussion video 👍 A few years ago, while I was at work, we got a snow storm that dropped 18". My parents were elderly so I contacted a neighbor who had told me his son was doing snow removal. I told him to get my parents place done in case either of my parents had to go to the hospital. When I got out of work I went over to check on them and the neighbor kid had SHOVELED the entire driveway including the sidewalk to the house and porch. We agreed on $35 because I thought he was going to use his dad's snowplow and make a pass or two. I paid the kid $100 because he went above and beyond and still felt I underpaid when he wouldn't take more.
Never apologize. You made the investment and you're the one out there in the cold. This has started out to be a winter that I wish I had spent the extra for a cab.
When you get the kind of snow we get it’s good to have something like that on hand. Thanks for going out and helping people around town that was real nice of you.
If I’m going to give up playing in the snow with my son, or eating dinner with my family, I need to be compensated for that. Those are precious minutes I’ll never get back. Most people don’t look at life that way.
Great job Elliott that is hard work for you and your tractor! I was a mobile home park manager and plowed snow for hours and hour's! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I think it's in a pretty good spot. It runs like a top and ever since adding those caster wheels, I'm not chewing up gravel anymore. Thanks for watching!
@ those caster wheels also should give the folks in town confidence that you won't be causing any damage when you roll in to town after a 3' snow event!
You hit the nail on the head with everything. Plus your time in there and back. Cleaning up your equipment when your done. Great video. I think the kitty wanted a beer. 😳❄️❄️
You meant to say you snowblowed people out. Yeah, when I am snowplowing, I am too busy to video. You are in a different world of snow there. Good job Brother.
First off you can keep the snow! Glad you got the tractor back up and running in time. You should grab a bottle of Strikehold! Spray down the inside of snowblower, bucket etc. the snow won’t stick to it! Shoot me a message if interested love that stuff. You don’t force the people to pay it’s their choice.
I’ve actually never had the blower clog up, I usually give it a fresh coat of paint every year, but I have seen you use that stuff and it Seems to work well!
Great video. Always nice to hear how others price their work. I live at the bottom of the Tug Hill region so 2-3 ft in storm is easy to hit. I have 1 neighbor that shovels the driveway and I will drive my truck or tractor the 1/8 mile to help out if he wants as they are Amish. In the early 80s I sub-contracted my plow truck at $25/hr. Was great money unless it broke.
What I need to do going forward is figure out a price per sqft that way I know I’m being even across the board and not just eye balling it. Google maps makes life easy as you can use it to measure area
I clear snow here in Montana with my tractor (JD 5075E with a cab) and wonder if you’re ready to trade your tractor (a very nice machine) for a cabbed unit? I know I won’t deal with winter without it. I agree 100% on your pricing, I charge about the same. These machines are expensive to buy, maintain, fill with fuel , and the implements are expensive as well. Then there’s the cost of our time and experience.
I’d love a cab tractor but 2024 was an expensive year for me between buying an excavator and putting a new roof on my house. Maybe it’s in the 2025 budget
Its great to be neighborly but, people have to understand tractors and equipment!! If you and your customers agree on a price, then y'all should both be happy!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Greetings from Marilla. Regarding your comment about being prepared. I grew up here in and the one thing that can be counted in is snow in winter. I’ve lived in SoCal and the moment an earthquake hits is terrifying. There is no telling how severe the quake will be or how long. We have a plowing service but you’re right if the snow fall is heavy sometimes they can’t do the job. People close to you are fortunate you’re there.
The snow is just a fact of life, and I firmly believe people should budget yearly for snow removal. Even if you own a snowblower, we just get too many big storms that can easily over come walk behind snowblower
Great Video!! SPOT ON MAN!! I do driveways in my area also. Have 35k wrapped up in my machine, and they think ill do it for free or next to nothing. I have some others that realize the value.
From a guy who does snow plowing for a living and out for 12-36 hours at a time,Equipment cost money and if people want to use it then they help pay for it. If not they can shovel the drive.
Elliott I totally agree with everything you said. After all business is business, you don't invest all that money in equipment to do things for nothing. Like you said if they don't want to pay for your service then they need to buy there own equipment. Your 100% right in everything you said.. After all when your equipment breaks down who pays to get it fixed the money needs to come from somewhere.
exactly...the money I made from this storm didn't even cover my most recent breakdown on the tractor...I don't think the average person has a grasp on what it costs to purchase and maintain a piece of equipment.
Here is something to consider; three feet of snow at 100' can sometimes equal a heart attack. I think I'd pay the $100. That is a lot to shovel. I feel you can only really take advantage of someone if they don't have the mental awareness to understand the concept of money. If they are mentally sound and agree to the price then it's worth it to them. I do my whole neighborhood and never charge anything, the reasons are that I can do everything in less than an hour, I'll never use my tractor enough to wear it out, and I just love plowing snow. (And seat time)
I also do my neighbors for free, and would never expect them to pay me. But they are my neighbors and I know them. Doing it for a complete stranger is a different conversation.
Adam at Hometown Acres did the exactly same thing with his tractor and snowblower in the big snowstorm near Erie, PA. recently. As for pricing, if what you charge is agreeable to both the homeowner and yourself, who is to argue that was a price gouge scenario?
Who do you think he called to ask for advice before he went and did that?! haha I agree about pricing, and if someone doesn't want to pay what I'm asking, they can choose to not pay me, and instead pick up a shovel and spent the next 8 hours of their life shoveling their driveway out...that is their decision to make at the end of the day
@ and I have no problem with that lol. I follow more in Buffalo than I do in Ontario so see your weather all the time. I will gladly live vicariously through your videos lol
One way to calculate hours into dollars is to take the value of the machine ($43k) and say at 4,000hrs your machine would be shot. Divide $43,000 by 4,000. Roughly $11hr. Not including parts and maintenance to keep a tractor going for 4,000hrs.
I'd add margin there. Your blower won't run all 4k of the tractor hours...more like 1k. So...run the numbers separately and then add the maintenance cost..even if yiu do most routine maintenance yourself..use the shop rates. Here in Michigan a local guy is charging 80 bucks per engine hour to "rent" his machine to qualified and screened individuals. That seems like a reasonable cost per hour for running a smaller price of equipment. Then add operator cost and insurance. 100 an hour seems reasonable for a base cost to own, operate and maintain.
Theodore just wants some cuddle time, like he really wants it badly!!😂 2 to 3 feet of snow for the prices you said, and the size area, seems like a good deal for the homeowners, and for you ( and not on the high side for you). The time and effort to clear that much snow, especially your heavy wet snow there, even with a self-propelled walk-behind snow blower would be A LOT of work for the homeowner, and it seems they recognize that. And besides, if they think it is not worth it, then they aren't obligated to schedule you to do it, I'm sure you had plenty of other people who were ready for you to get to their driveways. Thanks for the cost breakdown, that was interesting. Have a good one!!👍
That's exactly true...the people that were not happy with the price were welcome to shovel their own driveway, that's the beauty of a free market. I had plenty of people willing to pay. And everyone that did pay me asked if I would come back out and do it again for the next storm. A Happy customer is a return customer.
@ l figured. They were gouging the old folks it was a blizzard and l saw thestory in the paper. I was on our dairy farm. We were spread out. So l have plowed a lot in my life Started with a ford jubilee and lH super C then a ford 4000/5000 most with a heat houser now a ford 7700 with a home built cab It has been a great time over the years. Thanks for your vids
Simple answer, I wouldn’t. No sense in me going out for a lesser storm, these people only need my equipment when they get to a point where they are overwhelmed.
I took the chains off because I was doing a lot of driving in highway gear and didn’t want something bad happening if they came loose. And I carried nothing with me. I find that the better prepared I am, the worse things go.
Spot on ! Personally I thought you cut yourself short at those prices but honestly Thats what I would have done ... I was called one time by a friend to plow a driveway some story about how there plow guy wouldn't return there call . I get out of work go home put my plow on drive there and find out driveway hasn't been plowed in 3 storms over a span of 17 days I said over the phone about 100 bucks then get there and its hell a frozen nightmare I got it done but wasn't worth it ! I know how hard it was on my truck then I find out from a neighbor they do the same thing every year its why nobody wants to help them ... sucks I've gotten to the point now of just saying no ...
I will only let someone burn me once...after that they are on their own, seems like you have that same train of thought. I thought I was very fair with my prices as I saw some companies advertising north of $500 per driveway to do the same thing.
You did not take advantage of people. They gladly paid for your service. When I was 18 years old in the winter of 1993 we had major snow here in Northeast PA. My high school friend and I started a roof snow removal business to drum up some money. We probably did around twenty roofs and made a total of 3000.00. Folks were very happy we did the work so there roof would not collapse. When the odds are stacked against some people they are willing to pay for the needed help.
That’s some really good money back then! I also made a killing doing those odd jobs when I was younger. The more someone doesn’t want to do it themselves, the better it pays.
Not to worry Elliott, some people up here in Canada think snow removal should be free just because we are neighbors. Sorry neighbor, but I have a lot of money tied up in my snow removal equipment, and if I run over something in your yard that destroys my $7000.00 snowblower or tares up the $2000.00 dollar gearbox, "Are you going to pay for that repair"? my neighbor never thought about that. Now he wants me to do it for more money, but there's something a lot of people don't think about when helping strangers or neighbors out after a snowstorm and that is.... If you damage something on their property, are they going to sue you for the damage or repairs? I was told by my lawyer, to stay off others people's property unless I get liability insurance. I know it sounds stupid and it would never happen to you, but apparently it has happened to some and now you need to protect yourself, even if all you are trying to do is help someone out. The one time I helped out my neighbor, I asked him if the yard was clean of debris and he said oh yes we're good, I drove over a frozen 4 x 8 foot carpet that his kid left on the ground from working under his truck. That would have bent my auger without a doubt. Auger for my blower is $950.00 dollars and 6 weeks away. Just something to consider my friend.
I have a couple neighbors that I would absolutely do for free, but one hand washes the other. Those same neighbors have skills and abilities I will need on another day. There is no such thing as a free lunch. and you're completely correct, the person that expects their driveway done for free is the same person that would scoff at me when I send them the invoice for a new snowblower after sucking up a used tire or something.
I thought of that, but I don't have the electrical connection for the heated shield, so it would have just got covered in snow similar to my goggles did.
Hi Elliott I do hope you get reported for price gouging, I've be doing snow clearing for 23 yrs and even in the cities where everything is more expensive for a single vehicle about 100 Ft long the average price ranges about $35 to $40 sham on you for taking advantage of people in difficult time Yves from Canada
There’s no way you would go out and do a storm clean up of 3’ for someone you don’t have a contract with for $35. Not happening. You would have spent 45 min to an hour there with a plow truck. Not to mention tore up their entire lawn. The important part of the definition of price gouging that you skipped over is that supplies (plow companies) are limited. The customers I serviced had an abundance of plow companies they could have chose. I was one of the cheaper ones offering a better service. The average cost per driveway was $500 for that storm.
@@EverythingElliott We operate a Kubota with snowblower and snow pusher something like you have a single vehicle driveway about 100Ft long with 3 Ft of snow take me about 10 min 15 if the snow is wet and heavy I do realize you don't this for a living and would take you a little more but even at that.and I wouldn't have the heart to charge such a hight price sorry and just FYI we did got true extreme snow event true out the years
Theodore surely is persistent. He must really love you. If you took $100.oo/hour (your time) off your $1550. gross, that would leave you with $950.oo for your next toy.
Good discussion video 👍 A few years ago, while I was at work, we got a snow storm that dropped 18". My parents were elderly so I contacted a neighbor who had told me his son was doing snow removal. I told him to get my parents place done in case either of my parents had to go to the hospital. When I got out of work I went over to check on them and the neighbor kid had SHOVELED the entire driveway including the sidewalk to the house and porch. We agreed on $35 because I thought he was going to use his dad's snowplow and make a pass or two. I paid the kid $100 because he went above and beyond and still felt I underpaid when he wouldn't take more.
Gotta love a good worth ethic in kids...it's not a trait you see very often anymore.
Never apologize. You made the investment and you're the one out there in the cold. This has started out to be a winter that I wish I had spent the extra for a cab.
I’m really hoping a cab tractor is in my 2025 budget, because boy oh boy was I chilly
Prices seem very fair Elliot. Great analogy of a snow storm not being a national disaster. Keep warm!
Thanks!
Watching you I’m glad I have a heated premium cab with stereo , defrosters & wipers lol 😂
are you trying to make me jealous? because its working...
When you get the kind of snow we get it’s good to have something like that on hand. Thanks for going out and helping people around town that was real nice of you.
It’s almost a necessity when you live in the snow belt. Thanks for watching
I appreciate how you look at “time is money”
If I’m going to give up playing in the snow with my son, or eating dinner with my family, I need to be compensated for that. Those are precious minutes I’ll never get back. Most people don’t look at life that way.
Your prices were very reasonable. I can only add one thing “Cab”!
No Kidding! I wish I had Tractor Cab money right now...after the excavator and a new roof on my house, 2024 was an expensive year.
Great job Elliott that is hard work for you and your tractor! I was a mobile home park manager and plowed snow for hours and hour's! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
It seems like its never ending when we get a storm like this! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!
Your tractor and snow blower are awesome. It’s been fun watching you put it all together over time.
I think it's in a pretty good spot. It runs like a top and ever since adding those caster wheels, I'm not chewing up gravel anymore. Thanks for watching!
@ those caster wheels also should give the folks in town confidence that you won't be causing any damage when you roll in to town after a 3' snow event!
@@jeffmcbride469 They sure did, not a single piece of sod was destroyed!
Look for an after market cab
My Dad had what they call a heat houser , basically fit around motor and directs the motor heat back , worked good
They only make soft side cabs for my model. That doesn’t excite me. I’d want a hard side cab.
Bidness is bidness. It’s all about the hustle. People can always say no and get to shoveling
Just trying to live the American Dream...
You hit the nail on the head with everything. Plus your time in there and back. Cleaning up your equipment when your done. Great video. I think the kitty wanted a beer. 😳❄️❄️
Thanks! I think Theodore just wants to hang with the boys
You meant to say you snowblowed people out. Yeah, when I am snowplowing, I am too busy to video. You are in a different world of snow there. Good job Brother.
Sometimes, I just need to get stuff done, rather than document it all with a camera.
First off you can keep the snow! Glad you got the tractor back up and running in time. You should grab a bottle of Strikehold! Spray down the inside of snowblower, bucket etc. the snow won’t stick to it! Shoot me a message if interested love that stuff. You don’t force the people to pay it’s their choice.
I’ve actually never had the blower clog up, I usually give it a fresh coat of paint every year, but I have seen you use that stuff and it
Seems to work well!
@ literally the best spray in a bottle I’ve ever used.
worth the $100 to me. This snow was super heavy normal snowblowers were struggling so the heavy equipment is well worth the charge.
And I believe a lot of people had the same thought you did...
Great video. Always nice to hear how others price their work. I live at the bottom of the Tug Hill region so 2-3 ft in storm is easy to hit. I have 1 neighbor that shovels the driveway and I will drive my truck or tractor the 1/8 mile to help out if he wants as they are Amish. In the early 80s I sub-contracted my plow truck at $25/hr. Was great money unless it broke.
What I need to do going forward is figure out a price per sqft that way I know I’m being even across the board and not just eye balling it. Google maps makes life easy as you can use it to measure area
100% agreed! You invest a lot of money in snow clearing equipment. you have to charge that much because it will wear out and break down.
That's the truth!
I clear snow here in Montana with my tractor (JD 5075E with a cab) and wonder if you’re ready to trade your tractor (a very nice machine) for a cabbed unit? I know I won’t deal with winter without it. I agree 100% on your pricing, I charge about the same. These machines are expensive to buy, maintain, fill with fuel , and the implements are expensive as well. Then there’s the cost of our time and experience.
I’d love a cab tractor but 2024 was an expensive year for me between buying an excavator and putting a new roof on my house. Maybe it’s in the 2025 budget
Its great to be neighborly but, people have to understand tractors and equipment!! If you and your customers agree on a price, then y'all should both be happy!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Hit the nail on the head, if I’m happy with the price and the customer I’d as well, all is good
Greetings from Marilla. Regarding your comment about being prepared. I grew up here in and the one thing that can be counted in is snow in winter. I’ve lived in SoCal and the moment an earthquake hits is terrifying. There is no telling how severe the quake will be or how long. We have a plowing service but you’re right if the snow fall is heavy sometimes they can’t do the job. People close to you are fortunate you’re there.
The snow is just a fact of life, and I firmly believe people should budget yearly for snow removal. Even if you own a snowblower, we just get too many big storms that can easily over come walk behind snowblower
Great Video!! SPOT ON MAN!! I do driveways in my area also. Have 35k wrapped up in my machine, and they think ill do it for free or next to nothing. I have some others that realize the value.
I had a lot of people telling me I should do it for free. There are a lot of people just disconnected from the real world.
From a guy who does snow plowing for a living and out for 12-36 hours at a time,Equipment cost money and if people want to use it then they help pay for it. If not they can shovel the drive.
I also have a waste oil heater. Do you have a way of cleaning your waste oil or do you just burn it how you get it?
Burn it exactly how I get it. I empty the water out of the tank once a year, and clean the strainer and suction filter once a year.
Good job, I sit here without much snow on my 5th winter in Montana with my tractor.
The snow never ends here…it’s just a fact of life for us
What make and size blower are you running on there
It’s a Normand econor 7’ snowblower
I agree with you on your pricing and I live in Oregon
Heard you guys get some snow out there too! sounds like you might know a thing or two about snow removal.
Elliott I totally agree with everything you said. After all business is business, you don't invest all that money in equipment to do things for nothing. Like you said if they don't want to pay for your service then they need to buy there own equipment. Your 100% right in everything you said.. After all when your equipment breaks down who pays to get it fixed the money needs to come from somewhere.
exactly...the money I made from this storm didn't even cover my most recent breakdown on the tractor...I don't think the average person has a grasp on what it costs to purchase and maintain a piece of equipment.
Here is something to consider; three feet of snow at 100' can sometimes equal a heart attack. I think I'd pay the $100. That is a lot to shovel. I feel you can only really take advantage of someone if they don't have the mental awareness to understand the concept of money. If they are mentally sound and agree to the price then it's worth it to them.
I do my whole neighborhood and never charge anything, the reasons are that I can do everything in less than an hour, I'll never use my tractor enough to wear it out, and I just love plowing snow. (And seat time)
I also do my neighbors for free, and would never expect them to pay me. But they are my neighbors and I know them. Doing it for a complete stranger is a different conversation.
Adam at Hometown Acres did the exactly same thing with his tractor and snowblower in the big snowstorm near Erie, PA. recently. As for pricing, if what you charge is agreeable to both the homeowner and yourself, who is to argue that was a price gouge scenario?
Who do you think he called to ask for advice before he went and did that?! haha
I agree about pricing, and if someone doesn't want to pay what I'm asking, they can choose to not pay me, and instead pick up a shovel and spent the next 8 hours of their life shoveling their driveway out...that is their decision to make at the end of the day
Packing Snow!!
It was great snow to build a snowman!
Your price is more than reasonable. If people don't like it they can buy their own tractor or shovel it out themselves.
What a difference 15 minutes north of the peace bridge makes. We have had about 2 inches so far this year. Lasted about 2 days
Yeah you’re just outside of the dreaded snowband!
@ and I have no problem with that lol. I follow more in Buffalo than I do in Ontario so see your weather all the time. I will gladly live vicariously through your videos lol
Gee, now that you posted this, you will have to pay full tax on it! 😂😂
That’s ok, the transparency to the viewers is worth it.
One way to calculate hours into dollars is to take the value of the machine ($43k) and say at 4,000hrs your machine would be shot. Divide $43,000 by 4,000. Roughly $11hr. Not including parts and maintenance to keep a tractor going for 4,000hrs.
That’s an excellent tip, thank you! I’ll start using that from now on!
I'd add margin there. Your blower won't run all 4k of the tractor hours...more like 1k. So...run the numbers separately and then add the maintenance cost..even if yiu do most routine maintenance yourself..use the shop rates. Here in Michigan a local guy is charging 80 bucks per engine hour to "rent" his machine to qualified and screened individuals. That seems like a reasonable cost per hour for running a smaller price of equipment. Then add operator cost and insurance. 100 an hour seems reasonable for a base cost to own, operate and maintain.
The IRS is expecting their cut.
I'll just show them my write off's for the year...
Theodore just wants some cuddle time, like he really wants it badly!!😂 2 to 3 feet of snow for the prices you said, and the size area, seems like a good deal for the homeowners, and for you ( and not on the high side for you). The time and effort to clear that much snow, especially your heavy wet snow there, even with a self-propelled walk-behind snow blower would be A LOT of work for the homeowner, and it seems they recognize that. And besides, if they think it is not worth it, then they aren't obligated to schedule you to do it, I'm sure you had plenty of other people who were ready for you to get to their driveways.
Thanks for the cost breakdown, that was interesting. Have a good one!!👍
That's exactly true...the people that were not happy with the price were welcome to shovel their own driveway, that's the beauty of a free market. I had plenty of people willing to pay. And everyone that did pay me asked if I would come back out and do it again for the next storm. A Happy customer is a return customer.
Agree. Thats a lot of your money tied up 👍
How quickly people forget that when it’s not their money tied up…
Plow trucks are doing parking lots
Back in the day. Maybe the ‘80’s eastern Pa the plow Trks charged 75$ on a 100ft drive two pushes and the entrance. Big snows back then
Dang, if they were charging $75 in 1980, according to the inflation calculator, I should be charging $304 for that same driveway in 2024!
@ l figured. They were gouging the old folks it was a blizzard and l saw thestory in the paper. I was on our dairy farm. We were spread out. So l have plowed a lot in my life Started with a ford jubilee and lH super C then a ford 4000/5000 most with a heat houser now a ford 7700 with a home built cab It has been a great time over the years. Thanks for your vids
Any comments on how you charge for lesser storms? Your time isn't that much less.
Simple answer, I wouldn’t. No sense in me going out for a lesser storm, these people only need my equipment when they get to a point where they are overwhelmed.
No tire chains this storm ?
What do you carry with You ? Sheer pins? Well done time is money
I took the chains off because I was doing a lot of driving in highway gear and didn’t want something bad happening if they came loose. And I carried nothing with me. I find that the better prepared I am, the worse things go.
Spot on ! Personally I thought you cut yourself short at those prices but honestly Thats what I would have done ... I was called one time by a friend to plow a driveway some story about how there plow guy wouldn't return there call . I get out of work go home put my plow on drive there and find out driveway hasn't been plowed in 3 storms over a span of 17 days I said over the phone about 100 bucks then get there and its hell a frozen nightmare I got it done but wasn't worth it ! I know how hard it was on my truck then I find out from a neighbor they do the same thing every year its why nobody wants to help them ... sucks I've gotten to the point now of just saying no ...
I will only let someone burn me once...after that they are on their own, seems like you have that same train of thought. I thought I was very fair with my prices as I saw some companies advertising north of $500 per driveway to do the same thing.
You did not take advantage of people. They gladly paid for your service. When I was 18 years old in the winter of 1993 we had major snow here in Northeast PA. My high school friend and I started a roof snow removal business to drum up some money. We probably did around twenty roofs and made a total of 3000.00. Folks were very happy we did the work so there roof would not collapse. When the odds are stacked against some people they are willing to pay for the needed help.
That’s some really good money back then! I also made a killing doing those odd jobs when I was younger. The more someone doesn’t want to do it themselves, the better it pays.
Not to worry Elliott, some people up here in Canada think snow removal should be free just because we are neighbors. Sorry neighbor, but I have a lot of money tied up in my snow removal equipment, and if I run over something in your yard that destroys my $7000.00 snowblower or tares up the $2000.00 dollar gearbox, "Are you going to pay for that repair"? my neighbor never thought about that. Now he wants me to do it for more money, but there's something a lot of people don't think about when helping strangers or neighbors out after a snowstorm and that is.... If you damage something on their property, are they going to sue you for the damage or repairs? I was told by my lawyer, to stay off others people's property unless I get liability insurance. I know it sounds stupid and it would never happen to you, but apparently it has happened to some and now you need to protect yourself, even if all you are trying to do is help someone out. The one time I helped out my neighbor, I asked him if the yard was clean of debris and he said oh yes we're good, I drove over a frozen 4 x 8 foot carpet that his kid left on the ground from working under his truck. That would have bent my auger without a doubt. Auger for my blower is $950.00 dollars and 6 weeks away. Just something to consider my friend.
I have a couple neighbors that I would absolutely do for free, but one hand washes the other. Those same neighbors have skills and abilities I will need on another day. There is no such thing as a free lunch. and you're completely correct, the person that expects their driveway done for free is the same person that would scoff at me when I send them the invoice for a new snowblower after sucking up a used tire or something.
Get yourself a skidoo helmet!!! life saver when you dont have a cab
I thought of that, but I don't have the electrical connection for the heated shield, so it would have just got covered in snow similar to my goggles did.
Great but why would you post how much? Big brother is always watching.
Meh, I've got enough right offs this year to offset it. Transparency to my viewers is worth more than making some money under the table.
Hi Elliott I do hope you get reported for price gouging, I've be doing snow clearing for 23 yrs and even in the cities where everything is more expensive for a single vehicle about 100 Ft long the average price ranges about $35 to $40 sham on you for taking advantage of people in difficult time Yves from Canada
There’s no way you would go out and do a storm clean up of 3’ for someone you don’t have a contract with for $35. Not happening. You would have spent 45 min to an hour there with a plow truck. Not to mention tore up their entire lawn. The important part of the definition of price gouging that you skipped over is that supplies (plow companies) are limited. The customers I serviced had an abundance of plow companies they could have chose. I was one of the cheaper ones offering a better service. The average cost per driveway was $500 for that storm.
@@EverythingElliott We operate a Kubota with snowblower and snow pusher something like you have a single vehicle driveway about 100Ft long with 3 Ft of snow take me about 10 min 15 if the snow is wet and heavy I do realize you don't this for a living and would take you a little more but even at that.and I wouldn't have the heart to charge such a hight price sorry and just FYI we did got true extreme snow event true out the years
I’d pay that all day long!!!
Let alone the risk of damaging their property and risking yourself..
Seems like a small price to pay to not have to go shovel your driveway in a snow storm!
Everything you said sounded far to me. I know I snowblowed 4 times on Thursday to Friday morning. Just to keep up
All of the driveways I did weren’t touched since the start of the storm. Theres no way someone could have shoveled and survived.
Good Job, but Theodore just wants some scratches, living breathing creatures need love not just thrown onto the ground because he's bothering you. :(
Trust me, he gets plenty of love...just not when I'm trying to film a video. He's very well taken care of
@@EverythingElliott I can see he is not starving, my 2 are not either, just at the moment it struck me as something I would not do.
Too cheap
I feel that price is fair for myself and the customer, what would you charge?
Theodore surely is persistent. He must really love you.
If you took $100.oo/hour (your time) off your $1550. gross, that would leave you with $950.oo for your next toy.
lets just call it $950 towards a cabbed tractor...because it sure was cold out that night.