Help me price a job

[blueriver]

Try it ... heck folks with money will spend it. I would charge by the post and keep the post ... used t-post are worth some money.

Maybe like $1 a post to pull them and haul off the old ones free ... if they want them then charge a little more to pull them.

 

[Luremaker]

Yeah, I agree. However, you know how most college professors are (can't screw in a light bulb)....especially liberal college professors

Last night Canada decided to send one "Liberal" college professor back to college.

 

[The Tractor Guy 22]

Bad Idea... These posts are markers for engineering surveyors. They need to stay in the ground. If there is a dispute over property lines, a surveyor will need to come out.. which is 1,000's of dollars. Surveyors need multiple established points, they use top of curb at the street side and these posts on the back side.
- Just take a saws-all or grinder and cut them off at ground level. Period.

 

[LHS Inc]

Offer to take the post out and replace it with a more suitable marker. Not my area of expertise but I think they still make a concrete marker with an iron core in it. Thats what the surveyers put in on my property about 15 years ago as a PL marker. Put it flush with the ground. Ugly post gone, classy PL marker installed. Once you got rolling I'd give it 15-20 mins. per job done. I'd offer a group rate of 20 bucks for labor and cost of the marker if you could get enough landowners to go for it. Maybe 30 bucks if you just get a few. Even if you did just a few take some before and after pics spread some flyers around, I'm sure that would drum up some business. You know how it is in these type developements if one does it they all do it. As far as who pays for which marker I would think you start at the first house call that his marker and then the one in between is the next guys and so on. Maybe a waiver for them to sign against any liabilities.

 

[Bill Hoffman]

In some jurisdictions, it's illegal to pull survey posts.
You could be looking at large fines.
Bill

 

[gwjd]

what about cutting them off and pounding them below grade then they are still in place just not visible better yet you can charge more casue its leaving the post but it is a lot more work

 

[beenthere]

what about cutting them off and pounding them below grade then they are still in place just not visible better yet you can charge more casue its leaving the post but it is a lot more work

I sure like that suggestion. :drink:

 

[DAY]

Since it is a college town, I would go the high tech route, and replace the posts with GPS units at grade level.

 

[adjusterr]

As a retired, self employed claims adjuster, I can see a lot of legal issues and hazards in your proposed endeavor. Many previous posters have hit on most of the issues. You would be considered a business by your homeowners liability, or whatever policy you have, and as such, there would likely be no coverage for you should one of your customers decide you caused some damage and filed suit against you. You would need to purchase a business policy. You would need a written agreement between adjoining property owners as the post delineates a border for two property owners. These are just several of the many problems you could be faced with. Why not consider fabricating some nice looking wooden post to slip down over the existing post, to be used as a name post, bird feeder post, bird house post etc. Just a suggestion from a guy who has seen how nasty lawsuits and damage claims can be. Good luck.

 

[beenthere]

trook
All this grief when all you really wanted to do was get some good tractor time while showing off what your tractor can do for the neighbors.

Good luck.