That's the thing. We're geared toward homeowners and the lighter end of contractor rentals. Homeowner needs to unclog his drain? Covered. Contractor needs to put in a trench for utilities? Done. Stuff like that has just really slowed up. And it's been like this for us all year. If we're lucky, we might tie December 2008 for rental revenue.

We've been slow enough lately that we've cut an hour off our workday and are on a rotating type schedule to cut back on labor to ease the business' financial pain.

On a four man crew: two of us start at 7:30am and end at 3:30pm while the other two start at 8:30 and end at 4:30.

I may sound ridiculously pathetic for whining about only having around 43 hours per week, but when you're used to 50-60 per week it's quite a change.