Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers
by ty6853 on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:38PM
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Unless you live in a remarkably remote area, rental yards carry pretty much everything you can need. I've even rented $100,000 excavators I needed for a day quite easily, and it eats into the value of your labor maybe 20-30% at worst.
Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers
by Balgair on Monday May 12, 2025 @04:07PM
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I mean, not a lot of handymen are able to eat 20%; that a pretty big cost.
Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers
by pasttense01 on Monday May 12, 2025 @10:58PM
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Apparently you are not a homeowner--as they have large numbers of these small jobs.
Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers
by Balgair on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:40AM
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Oh, I very much have a lot of these jobs at the house. It's just that I tend to call a specialist [0] as the handy men around me tend to, well, not really exist anymore. Besides, most of the smaller things that don't require the really tall ladders, I can do myself.
[0] who then never shows up on time and charges too much. But that's a whole nother story about where I live...
Like, tying rebar is really hard to do by hand, but they make a gun that will do it for you in seconds: https://amsalesinc.com/products/rebar-tying-gun-makita-xrt01... . You can do a whole pad of concrete in an hour that would take you days otherwise. But that gun is thousands of dollars (supply and demand baby). So having a truck of these time saving gadgets for a bunch of job types isn't feasible. Hence the specialization.