Ok All you residential home builders ,If you had to rent just ONE piece of equipment to assist with setting trusses,roof sheeting,siding,soffit,facia and /or any other high work WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Thanks, Mike form Pa.
Ok All you residential home builders ,If you had to rent just ONE piece of equipment to assist with setting trusses,roof sheeting,siding,soffit,facia and /or any other high work WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Thanks, Mike form Pa.
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I never rent, I buy used and rebuild.
BTW, STILL am looking for a rebuldable 4WD 40 ft telehandler for under $5K, no luck so far.
Hands down it would be a good forklift and I don't mean a used up pos, but one with good controls, good reach and a rental yard with low delivery and pick up costs.
Every custom builder doing large projects out west should own a skidsteer, but unless you like to frame more than finish it would be hard to justify owning a forklift unless you also rent it out to others. Setting trusses is so much easier with a crane truck and at only a couple hundred a day including operator it's one of the best deals out there.