Mr Earthmover Upgrades Regularly.

As I told you, many years ago my friend and his wife decided that farming was not the way they wanted to end their lives and so sold the farm and moved into earthmoving as a sole operator business.

Although he is quite mechanical minded and more than able to do much of his own maintenance on his own machinery, he does not overwork his equipment until it drops. He uses his equipment for two or three thousand hours each, and then replaces them. Sometimes, like in the early years, he used these times to upgrade the size of his equipment, now simply to replace like size with like size. Using this policy of not over working his machinery and doing his own regular maintenance, he has an exemplary reliability record, with very little time lost to mechanical problems, which leaves him highly sought after, as people know that there will be very few “lost working hours” when he is on their jobs.

What about you? Are you looking after your equipment, whether it be actual tools or your own body? Or do you work yourself and your equipment into the ground and then wonder why you have so many problems?

Mr Earthmover upgrades and maintains his equipment regularly and it pays off for him and I can see no reason why it can’t do the same for us too, if we follow his lead! Can you?