03-16-2013, 07:26 AM
I also used Earth Karvers... They tried to soak me for another 2.5K for bringing in a D8 after I told them I wanted it ripped and rolled. Ah well, careful about them and stick with the written estimate. Don't pay them a penny more. I found it almost laughable they told me it would cost 3K bucks to get rid of the green waste yet.... Didn't even tell me the D8 was gonna cost 2500 more! They just conveniently forgot to mention it or even bother to give me a change order or anything in writing. Amazing. At any rate, I paid them the 11K bid for what they were suppose to do. I kinda wonder if they thought I was just a stupid white guy and figured I'd pay it... Uh..... NO!!!! I won't....
Other than that BS, they seem to do OK work. I would have told them I wanted the lot to be graded for water run off. Ah well.
And if you are gonna get it rip/rolled install the septic / cesspool at the same time.
What's even more laughable is after about 6 months the green waste pile shrunk Down by 50%. There was one of those little kaboda tractors working on the few lot's down ... I asked him how much it would cost to neatly stack the big logs I had and crush down the green waste even more... So after it was all said and done, 300 bucks plus a half rack of beer and good talks later I now have happy banana / avocado / star fruit / pine apples etc...etc... growing in the rich soil left behind and at the rate it's going the wood that got stacked up will be composted up in another 6 months for more dirt to be spread around. Never remove your green waste...
ALSO... If your only doing a drive way and a house pad? Consider just 3-4 truck loads of cinder to fill in the puka's. It's about 160 bucks a truckload and you can spread it yourself. Depends on how deep the puka's are.
You might want to just bring in material for about 500-700 bucks, then build your house... And wait around till your hear a D9 working in your neighborhood. Then go talk story. Better yet, go bring some beer! Might do em for real CHEAP!
Best way to go. since you will save on transportation fee's and he's already there so can get it done cheap... Also don't be afraid to ask if they can do it even cheaper!
Other than that BS, they seem to do OK work. I would have told them I wanted the lot to be graded for water run off. Ah well.
And if you are gonna get it rip/rolled install the septic / cesspool at the same time.
What's even more laughable is after about 6 months the green waste pile shrunk Down by 50%. There was one of those little kaboda tractors working on the few lot's down ... I asked him how much it would cost to neatly stack the big logs I had and crush down the green waste even more... So after it was all said and done, 300 bucks plus a half rack of beer and good talks later I now have happy banana / avocado / star fruit / pine apples etc...etc... growing in the rich soil left behind and at the rate it's going the wood that got stacked up will be composted up in another 6 months for more dirt to be spread around. Never remove your green waste...
ALSO... If your only doing a drive way and a house pad? Consider just 3-4 truck loads of cinder to fill in the puka's. It's about 160 bucks a truckload and you can spread it yourself. Depends on how deep the puka's are.
You might want to just bring in material for about 500-700 bucks, then build your house... And wait around till your hear a D9 working in your neighborhood. Then go talk story. Better yet, go bring some beer! Might do em for real CHEAP!
Best way to go. since you will save on transportation fee's and he's already there so can get it done cheap... Also don't be afraid to ask if they can do it even cheaper!