Anyone here have bulldozer experience?

[Big Barn]

Or rent the machine. Then hire a local dozer operator to run it. Pay him handsomely. Maybe $50 per hr?? You might get it back by only having the dozer one day rather than all weekend?

Around here 50 bucks an hour may get you a handsome operator but you’d have to pony up more bucks for a competent one.

 

[aczlan]

Around here 50 bucks an hour may get you a handsome operator but you’d have to pony up more bucks for a competent one.

That would depend on as the operator is a retired friend doing it to get a chance to plan a dozer again on somebody else's dime, or someone who has ridden a dozer all day at work and is doing a favor for a friend.

Aaron Z

 

[4570Man]

Around here 50 bucks an hour may get you a handsome operator but you’d have to pony up more bucks for a competent one.

What does a dozer operator get in your area? $50 an hour cash to run someone else’s machine and burn their fuel ain’t bad.

 

[PILOON]

Sorry, I'm not all that special but I do have hand to eye co-ordination.
Not a gamer either nor a texter but I did learn a dozer driving in a very short time.
As I posted earlier it took me very little time to get fairly proficient I have also operated many small tracked hoes and willing to match up to anyone.
Shucks we were laying a pipe line in the rain and I suddenly decided that I could use the bucket to bail out the excavated hole. Worked great! The city worker thanked me!
All to say, some have it and some never will.
I shared a dozer with a partner and he simply could do nothing other than do whoppie doos, within a mere 1/2 hr I corrected his 'doos.
Perhaps I'm blessed but few mechanical devices stump me.

Simply to say, to each his own. You know (by now) your capabilities.
If U feel comfortable, Go for it!

 

[Big Barn]

Some contractors around here need to pay up to $40 an hour for an unskilled laborer to just SHOW UP regularly.

 

[ovrszd]

Some contractors around here need to pay up to $40 an hour for an unskilled laborer to just SHOW UP regularly.

Oh wow. I'm in cheap labor land. Doubt if there's an operator in my County making $30.

 

[Big Barn]

Oh wow. I'm in cheap labor land. Doubt if there's an operator in my County making $30.

It’s very sad. Nobody around here wants to work anymore.

 

[D2Cat]

Buy a land plane and use your tractor. land plane - Google Search

 

[dlctcg]

Some contractors around here need to pay up to $40 an hour for an unskilled laborer to just SHOW UP regularly.

Here too... A company here needs to plan $400 - $500 per day for a contract laborer (not an operator $$$) It is not uncommon for general laborer to be in the $30 - $35 range

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Most of the highly skilled commercial/industrial construction workers on the west coast are making 6 figures + when you include fringe benefits. And that is a forty hour week. There is a drastic shortage of workers so overtime is plentiful. Unions are on the comeback due to their training programs that the non-union doesn't have. Union journeyman training is free to the members.

Ron