Operational Strategies and Industry Realities

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How to make $1,500 in 90 Minutes Doing Sewer and Water Work

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The video concludes with an exploration of the operational strategies and challenges of running a demanding service business. The crew highlights their practice of driving backhoes directly to nearby job sites instead of using trailers, a logistical choice that enhances efficiency. The discussion then shifts to the personal toll of continuous work, with the owner candidly sharing experiences of end-of-year stress and even getting sick from overwork. He humorously contrasts the physical and mental demands of excavation with the 'picky' nature of lawn maintenance customers, emphasizing that solving critical problems (like utility issues) often garners more appreciation than routine tasks.

Goal: Understand logistical choices and the human element in a demanding service industry.

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it's impossible cuz you go everything and do everything if some moment you knew that you have to be have the availability to do that to go everywhere and do everything yeah yeah Tommy Lee's track your deal on this one I got a whole 755 fork with a Hydra hemline busy bee Staters in the winner not very no emergency cell 31 so when did they usually cutoff for you well this week we're pretty much gonna be tapered down we don't have really much else say me or lined up up to Christmas you know yeah Christmas I always do the Christmas one of these like you know I worked my boys to Chris that's what we do yep and then your you need some needed downtime you know the boys are like no I want to work I don't wanna babysit it's just raining dude I talked to Jim Stewart Ian Stewart companies which is a big size and excavating company oh you're feeling end-of-year exhaustion and he's like yeah really sick yeah just wiped out everybody gets that way I know you this summer from just you know working and not staying hydrated and not eating and straight you know you know I mean just kept going and going and then it just hit me that was my babies off when I couldn't figure out what was wrong finally went to the doctor and they took an x-ray and sure enough he's June and a June I had it stress-related oh it is business running a business is not the cakewalk that people like know like to think it is man it's crazy it is one of the toughest especially the excavation I mean you have equipment and actually you know what I find even tougher than the excavator of it is lawn maintenance lawn and we do live we got a lawn maintenance division and it like click right now doing a French drain system in this guy's backyard I got the backyard tour digging drain town they lovely you're doing such good work and if I go out and I'm old that same persons bond you probably like you missed a spot on the telephone pole right what's the how do you how do you manage that fence and you got who takes run all of it yeah because I'm a madman oh god I don't know when to quit but you got to be a man you father - yeah we've got almost 2 million square feet of snow we fall we've got two back hoes like this we run poor skid loaders three pickup trucks a dozer that we push snow with a couple dump trucks we haul away one of these and - look at me you wouldn't realize I'm 15 years old

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