I quit my job a few months ago simply because I was making more money on my days off haulin junk than I was at work so I quit. I have an ad in the local paper telling people I will haul there junk car away for free title or no title. On good day haulin in around six cars I can make up to $800 but there are alot of slow days where I can only get one or two cars but Im still making more than I was at my 9 to 5.
People are always dumping junk off at my house as well, Ill come home at night and there will be mowers, fridges, stoves and anything else you can think of thrown all through my yard, I smash it all down with the high lift haul it in and get some MONEY!!
My last real job was working for Nabors Drilling, working the oil patch in ND. Quit working there to go back to school, but now it looks like I will be leaving for Iraq in January (second tour). Over six years National Guard, first tour with the 141st Engineers, this next one (prospective) will be with the 191st MPs. I will know more after this weekend, I will be talking more to my admin.
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"Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion." - Alice Cooper
I now mow 13 residential, and 4 large commercial yards myself, been mowing since i was 10 worked up to my 17 yards (i run all John Deere's), last summer i worked with another mowing service with two other guys mowing 48 places 90percent commercial. and right now its moving snow for spare cash. i am only 15 and get my licence in January. Ill need a winter job soon for the gas fund!
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Drew Nederhoff
'96 F150 4x4 351w(5.8) 33x12.50's
Custom Made Headache Rack, Tool Box
Custom Front Tow Hook setup
I know you didnt ask me, but all we run is John Deere on our farm, 4230 and 4630
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"Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion." - Alice Cooper
What Deeres do you run Drew? I have a 4310 tractor and a 160 lawn tractor that I just finnished restoring. I'm the biggest Deere nut around.
I have a 727A Zero Turn with a 54 inch and an older 245 with a 48 inch. Also one of the jobs i do provides an x485 with a 60 inch and a 318 to mow with. I also have the John Deere 10 cart. John Deere 14sz self propelled push mower, John Deere weed whip and a Stihl blower. Man i love the zero turn. Also i bale for a local farmer. Its about $600 for a week and a half.
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Drew Nederhoff
'96 F150 4x4 351w(5.8) 33x12.50's
Custom Made Headache Rack, Tool Box
Custom Front Tow Hook setup
Well during the summer i work on my family's 18,000 acre ranch. I firgured I work my a$$ during the summer that i don't need to work. During the summer i hay, work cattle and fix fench. I work between 60-70 hrs a week at
$7hr. Another thing i do is branding cattle. on a normal day i make at least $120 and thats about 200 head and with about 6 other guys. I made close to $1000 just doing brandings this summer.
I would live at my ranch during the school year but the education in the town isnt that good. The whole school system only has like 200 kids in it at the most. Where my mom lives at which is on the other side of the state.The school here is about 700 kids and has the best voctational classes in the state for high school. Plus we just lab tops.
That's cool. Where I used to work I got to use a 757 60" zero turn. Long day cutting a 25 acre field with that. Sometimes I used a Scag Turf Tiger diesel. That has been the only non John Deere machine I loved. I wish I could get in on some haying around here again. Not too many people do it anymore, but it's great money. I love the work. We just don't have enough hay fields.
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4" MBRP 304 stainless dual exhaust. No muffler. 5" stainless tips.
I tested and Exmark a while back and really liked it. It was a fun machine. The Deere has a 25 HP Kawasaki I think. It was slower than the Scags. That Scag diesel really kicked some butt. It was really loud and after an 8 hour day even with headphones my head still throbbed.
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2005 Ford F350 Crew Cab King Ranch FX4 4X4 6.0L PowerStroke V8 Turbo Diesel
4" MBRP 304 stainless dual exhaust. No muffler. 5" stainless tips.
Yeah that was a big problem. It didn't like to start when it was cold out and you always had to choke it. It was a nice mower. It liked to tip on hills becaus eof the short wheelbase. It had 525 hours on it when I left and was two years old, so it did get used. I worked for the town and we cut all the school playing fields. We had a 27 HP Scag that had over 1600 hours on it and was just beat to death. We could never get it to cut evenly. The 35 HP diesel Scag was a beast. I loved it. It was so hard on your arms though because the levers were so stiff and it liked to dig in on turns when because it was so heavy. Hills were scary because you were always on three wheels... sometimes two. It had about 275 hours on it. The day I left the got a brand new 29 HP gas Scag that looked pretty nice.
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2005 Ford F350 Crew Cab King Ranch FX4 4X4 6.0L PowerStroke V8 Turbo Diesel
4" MBRP 304 stainless dual exhaust. No muffler. 5" stainless tips.
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