Yikes. Where's my Tecate? Need to wash Steve's post from my brain.. Jaime Solorza
On Feb 21, 2018 7:03 PM, "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > whats your operator and equipment doing when hes not costing you? are you > pimping him to the other boys on the street? > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> Lets say you have an equipment operator that earns $20/hour. I always >> double that for loaded cost. >> That operator can dig probably 50 foot/hour reliably. So say 320 >> feet/day with start up and shut down inefficiencies. 8 x 40 = $320. So >> $1/foot just for the labor. More if we pay for a health insurance plan. >> >> Then equipment allowance. $100K used excavator. 10% time value of money >> = $10K/year >> Depreciation expense, say $20K/year. >> So $30K/year. If you kept it busy half the time, say 1000 hours, that is >> $30/hour. >> $240 per day. >> >> We are up to $560/day for 300 feet of ditch. Round it up to $600 and you >> have a minimum of $2/foot. >> And knowing my estimates are generally off by half or 3x, perhaps $5/foot >> is a good planning figure for the true cost of digging a ditch. >> >> *From:* Chuck McCown >> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:33 PM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *Subject:* Excavation costs >> >> Anyone figured out what it costs them per foot for excavation using their >> own machine? >> I am working to figure out the real cost. >> What does it cost to have a contractor do it? >> > >
