Don EMS

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My wife has a pair just like those.....hahahahah just kidding, Are thay chemical resistant, and how much$$$

Thats some good advice Doug, but I would not walk away from a job and let someone else do it (never leave money on the table). It sounds like the GC is a friend of yours and your going to have to try to do whats best for the both of you..Again we dont know the whole story, he might be selling the building as soon as its painted, or he might be planing on painting it again in 2 years... Figure out whats going to work best for you and your customer and do it.... Its as simple as that.

Troy good luck on you upcoming job. Check out the gutters and see how bad thay are, gutter zap works good for them. Also try a house wash and see if it'll get the stains off the wall. Like I said I would spend tops 2 days at that sight, make it easy, dont get to involved in details if there just going to paint it the next day. And dont under charge

Spot clean it, hit the gutters and let the painters paint it.. 2 days $2200. Easy in and out.

Troy tell us a little about what kind of equipment you'll be using. Are you saying that after the building is cleaned its to be painted?? If he just wants it spot cleaned before paint $80 per hour plus $1 per ft on the gutters. Call a supplyer like sunbrite and tell them what your cleaning, thay'll take care of you. Or mabye some one else can chime in and give you a few names who to contact ... Good luck

Ask for a cash discount, 10% off of $12,000 =$1200.

Russ and Thad< you guys are more then welcome to give me a visit in Jan. Who knows you might like it.....(lol)

Why have it if you can't share it.

Congrats on the quiting philip, its been 10 years for myself and its the best thing I could have ever done. Give it about 6 months and you wont even remember how hard it was to quit.......Rick, dude???? 14pks of smokes and 2 case's of beer a week????? Take it easy Bro, hate to see a guy go out early.

I liked it

"Wow, look at all that brown sludge coming off of the roof. It must really be cleaning it!" HAHAHAHA I think Thad was being funny.....(but then again.LOL)

1 BigMac and a bottle of Jack.......and a few bandaids I guess

Sounds like a nice truck Tim. Just a little food for thought, the going rate around here for subs is $55 per hour. I'm not sure what it is around you but I would think $35 is a bit low. Take a look at www.plowsite.com and ask a few ?s. Good luck

Tims right with the $20-$25 per drive but we do mostly commercial. In a normal we have around 18-22 events which are at least 2". ( 3" this last sunday night ) but so far we have only been out 4 times. We try to work it out so each truck pulls around $20,000 per season and the skid around $18k to $20k but not this year. The pay can be good but the stress level on those days are crazy. Salting and sanding is really where the moneys at. Tim, you going with the duramax? 1500, 2500 or 3500 glad to hear your getting back to play'n in the snow. Good luck

After fishing opener 4-15-05

Its kind of a cool place. It used to be a brewery up untill a few years ago ( pigseye, schmitt, landmark and a few others ) now part of it is the plant and part of it is a warehouse for Ford. I think it was built in the 20s. You can bring a jug and fill it up, but only with spring water.

Its been a slow year up here for plowing. We got out earlier in the year for an 2" event and then a couple of weaks ago for an 8" event. That 8" was one of the worst days in a long time. 2am, I got the bobcat behind the F250, about 6" on the roads so it takes me about 1hr to get to the first site. Just as I pull into the houseing development ( 60 driveways and 12 townhouse fingers ) the tranny goes on the truck. I leave my help with the truck and go at it with the skid with 30 mph winds, blowing snow, 15' visibility. 1/2 hour into it I get sick, pop a few motion sickness pills, good to go. 2 hours later the plow breaks on our F350. ( took 1 hour to fix ) 15 hrs later, development done, 12 jiffy lubes done, 4 town house assocations done, local airline maint. hanger done and the ethanol plant done. Some times it make you think " is the money really worth it " OOOOOOOOOOOOO YA. It would be nice to have a few more storm's before the winter is over. Now that the bugs are worked out.

Push snow and ice fish.

If you can find a service that other can't OR don't want to do then your in the money. We all do a service that otheres don't want to do and make a good living at it. It graduation time we run an ad for pre-open house cleaning. Interior/exterior, lawn service and triming. ( I'll be adding poop pick up next year ) thanks for the insight. Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money.

Having the smell and look of a real tree, and spending all night with family decorating it makes up for having the extra cleanup at the end. Pumpkin bread, spiced cider and a little bump now and then. Life is good

Well, it turned out this time all thay wanted was the insides pwed. Thay do there own disenfecting through their overhead sprayers. Thay also had the area's scraped for us when we got there. Next time we'll be doing the scraping (nasty) and the pwing. All we used was a little bit of powerstroke as a presoak and then hit everything hot. Walls, ceiling, cages and floors, we even got out the rust stains on the walls with a little bit of rust-a-way. (thay loved that ) I thought it was going to be worse but once you get used to the smell its all cake. We did use respirators, glasses and rainsuits. We'll be going back in march for another round, it sound like this will be a 3 times a year gig, hopefully we can grab a few others. 5 49x198 barns in 2 days at .07 psf. Still need to figure out how much to charge for scraping next time. Thanks for all of your help and replys to my question.

Matt, you right about the risks. Just to name a few theres Swine flu, Salmonella, E-Coli and Strep, all pretty nasty stuff. Safty will play a big roll in this one. I've got a call into these guys http://miracle2.net/agriculture/agricgallery_hogs.asp hopefully I can get some info from them. I'll be looking at the barns tomarrow and should be able to get a little better feel of whats going to be involved. If this goes good this could be a new market for us.$$$$$$$$$$

Thanks Scott, I'll let you know what I find out tomarrow. I think your right adout the chlorine and then something for the odor. I think you have to look out for what chems. you release into the waste lagoons also, so not to kill or bother the bacteria in those ponds. I wouldent give up living in the country for anything. I grew up in the city and it would take alot to get me back. But then again haveing a Taco Bell under 15 miles would be nice. lol

Thanks Scott, I'm in the process if looking also. Suits/boots and respirators onr on my list. Dealing with airborn animal waste and just the smell makes them a must