Dream Team

denick

If you could start a new excavation company and money to purchase equipment wasn't an issue.

What type of work would you go into?

Where in the country?

What machines would you purchase? This is the only catch you are limited to 5 machines in the initial investment.

What trucks would you buy? You are limited to 5.

How would you design your shop? and how would you outfit it?

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Nick

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" Albert Einstein

TMatt142

Wow..lets see...The place?? Minnesota just because I have 16 years experience up there so I know the area. Second because it is mostly sand and third reguarding area, I know the largest trucking company owners personally. (takes care of the truck issues). The work???? Highway heavy construction, Why?? There is tons of it..(3 seasons up there...Spring, Winter, and construction season. The equipment......5 pieces isn't much..but I'll give it a whirl. I'll need a 100,000lbs excavator, a Cat D6 widepad, a Cat D5 6-way blade, a JD710, and a Cat 950 loader. Trucks.....Just gimme 5 Sterling tandems. As far as a shop....It would be big....Say 6 service bays that were at least 70-80 ft long, a wash bay that was the same lenght but double in width. and at least two welding bays. all ceiling would have to be very high to house the track cranes which would have the capability of lifting a dozer. and be high enough so that a track hoe could raise up.....There would also have to be a track crane in the welding bay as well. Speaking of course from experience in a shop. Let me know if I'm off the mark with anything or am missing a key piece you think.....

PipeGuy

Heavy marine dredging.

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jazak

Machines:
Cat 305 w/ thumb, 3 buckets
Cat 314 w/ thumb, 4 buckets
Cat 430E IT, 4x4, ext hoe, forks, thumb, breaker
Cat D5G w/ laser level
Cat 908 or 262B w/ forks, bucket, broom, cold planer

Trucks:
F-350 Crew Cab, all opts, fuel tank (my truck)
F-550 ext cab, 10' aluminum dump, all opts
Peterbilt 335 all opts
Peterbilt 357 all opts, tri-axle dump w/ 20' tag
Peterbilt 357 all opts, tri-axle tractor w/ 55 ton lowboy & dump trailer

Building:
Aircompressors
Welders
Hydrolic lifts
My own office
Heated & AC
Insulated
Lift cranes
100' h x 400' l x 200' w keep all the stuff in it plus some
& all the little toys
4 Wash bays
2 Welding. fabrication areas
1 Painting area

The place I would service all of NJ some of NY and PA. The work any thing that isn't to big and anything that pays good. A while later I would get a F550 & Pete 335 service truck, a Pete 357 fuel and lube truck, a Cat 308, a Cat 321 ex, a Cat 330, a Cat 924G loader, a Cat 930 loader, a Cat CS-563E compactor, 2 Cat 740 arictulated dump trucks & 5 more of each 357 Pete dumps and 3 more 357 tractors.

jmic

Holy Moly, Nick can you get out your TI and tally up this list of Jazak's.

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Joe

jazak

Oh yeah I almost forgot a Cat d8

jmic

Jazak, ya better throw in a cat. skid steer

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Joe

jazak

Anyone else I like to see what equipment you guys like.
jmic your right forgot that one to

jmic

I'm content with what I'm doing now. No need to dream about owning all that iron, if the money for the equipment wasn't an option, I'd take it and retire somewhere north, maybe Canaan . The way I figure I have 10 - 15 more years to work Lord willing.

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Joe

Dirtman

Jazak

I copied your post and started looking up the equipment to buy. I'll probably need a little more but it's start. The equipment may not be a problem but I am going to need someone to run it. Not to many talented operators in Costa Rica. The dirtman knows.