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Old 03-18-2009, 06:05 PM   #1
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What Trade Has The Lowest Equipment Cost?

Out of all the trades which trade has the lowest equipment cost?

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Old 03-18-2009, 06:07 PM   #2
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It aint the framers. Probably the painters.
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Old 03-18-2009, 06:12 PM   #3
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Laborers
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drywallers...they are always borrowing my stuff
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I have a competitor in the next town that does crawl spaces with a wheel barrow, shovel, trowel and some twine string.

He might have a level, but you wouldn't know it from the looks of the walls.

I wouldn't be suprised if he will lay them for .50 cents.

oh yeah, he has an ice cream pail for measuring sand and mortar.
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Craigs list trades
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Old 03-18-2009, 06:51 PM   #7
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Rusk - please tell me you didn't open up this can of worms again

Laborer wins, each trade has a low cost of entry for basic hand tools - but just as framers get air guns, forklifts, etc... the cost goes up. Same with drywallers with automatic tapers, painters with sprayers, etc...
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Paper GC... Checkbook and pen
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I am not talking about 'lowest entry cost'.
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I would say that drywall hangers have the lowest equipment cost.
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I have a competitor in the next town that does crawl spaces with a wheel barrow, shovel, trowel and some twine string.

He might have a level, but you wouldn't know it from the looks of the walls.

I wouldn't be suprised if he will lay them for .50 cents.

oh yeah, he has an ice cream pail for measuring sand and mortar.
Ive seen him. He puts his equipment in his 1976 Ford Maverick
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Old 03-18-2009, 07:11 PM   #12
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is there really a purpose behind this question?

drywall finisher. 6" knife and hock.

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I would say that drywall hangers have the lowest equipment cost.
I thought of that for a minute, but they need screw gun, T-square, utility knife, and a big dube hanging out of their mouth.

edit: oops, finishers need sanding pad. back to square one.
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Out of all the trades which trade has the lowest equipment cost?
why?
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i would say painters
sprayer: 2000
brushes and rollers:750
Ladders: 1000
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i KNOW!!!! aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA pIMP!
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why?
Expanding? Putting someone in business?
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Paper hangers by far
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other then laborers,

insulators:
hammer staplers
staples
ladders or stilts
dust masks
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Expanding?
and to go into a trade simply because it is the lowest start up is already getting off on the wrong foot
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