we're starting a big big big huge retaining wall like this thing's massive
so we're digging digging digging and guess what we find out it's not dirt man
it's all rocks so now what do you do like what do you do in this situation is
in the contract it says dirt and that's what you estimated what do you go tell
the customer we got to get rid of big pile of dirt today so I had to go to the
tool rental place and I got a tooth bucket because this place is a little
too hard this bucket does not work and it looks
like it's working pretty well pretty well say we come here we dump in the
front
that let's go around the back shall we a lot of noise in the back
so I went and talked to the customers customer was really cool he was like
eight wait you didn't know about it I didn't know about it no one knew about
it it is what it is and I had to be very very transparent and you should always
be transparent when it comes to dealing with customers and especially a
situation like this I'm gonna charge you a fee for the extra labor and I'm just
going to show you all the receipts for the dump fees and all the receipts for
the trucking fees and he said all right let's roll so that was really cool of
him and I like that a lot
I said it before and I'll say it again life moves pretty fast it's not about
personality matrixels and charts it's all about the b-bumps in your heart
here we go my first end dump we got two trucks
one truck there and one truck over there yeah that's the way to do it man
no hauling just pay people don't do it yourself
just pay people I were stable - taught me that in school the one thing that
could have taught me would have been that
however better off but no they taught me Abraham Lincoln sometimes owning a
business can be very frustrating however it can be rewarding like making money
right getting things done according to plan however this was not done according
to plan new trucks coming today and they were
going to come and pick up all the dirt this was the main component however what
happened was
something went wrong what went wrong you might ask this one look at this man the
whole tire came off and there's a rim that's completely bent - on that side
how shitty completely useless now so not only did this thing cost me 500
bucks I had to go rent on different one that cost me $500 and then on top of
that a truck standing around for three hours that also cost me 500 all in all
lost $1500 12 2008 2009 lost two grand in about hour and a half two hours ah
what would people make what people make in two weeks I lost in an hour pretty
good pretty good man yeah well what else you gonna do this is
this comes with the territory owning a business
Jane your mom judges wait I can't
now we're at the weight station getting weighed out man see look at that big-ass
truck there's five of those man five of those trucks
am i right man look at this progress we got
this wall is crazy just a bed of rocks
this is the biggest changeover we've ever done so I originally calculated
$2,000 for disposal fees for dirt right and that would have been it however we
got rocks pretty heavy and rocks are not really that usable dump dirt is so they
kind of charge more and four times more than we originally anticipated
SATs ma'am but it is what it is actually the homeowner would have none but this
was all rocks he had never done the retaining wall because he was worried
that the wall is gonna like tumble over one day at the ain't going nowhere do
you have earthquakes we're good
front yard we installed a little gate we got over here and put some new grass in
that's looking good so unfortunately this concrete cracked because of all the
heavy equipment we had but when we when we tried to fix it we realized the
previous contractor before did do didn't even put rebar inside that I'm like do
you crazy alright the wall is done man we got
these little steps going up that was pretty cool
you got this drain tile on the back of the wall it's actually on top so when
the water first comes in it grabs it real quick and it gets rid of it this
thing is pretty high it's about 5 feet we got the steps the steps are the exact
same on both sides do this thing was real tough to build
and we did a really good job the concrete is done - that worked out
really good this thing was pretty pretty good build pretty fun this was
definitely the first job that we did that required so much dirt to get rid of
that was a lot like survived trucks full of dirt and rocks and this wall it's
like a mountain like this thing's never gonna fall over so that worked out
really nice oh no this is a really fun job the
homeowner was really cool he understood the change orders like we thought it was
dirt so but it really wasn't wasn't dirt was more than dirt he was really cool
about it he worked with me I worked with him and we did job