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Rental equipment for sale

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Quite often when you feel that the heavy equipment you were putting on rent is no longer liked by people and they are not accepting that machine on their jobsite, it is better that you sell it off after making few repairs on it. There is a possibility that technology installed on the heavy equipment has become outdated and people are looking for more up to date equipment that has its relevance in the construction industry. No one would like to pay any amount of money on something that has very less relevance to his work. He would rather want to go for updated items something that can help him to complete his work in less time and is also low on fuel consumption. In a situation like this, it will be wise to just sell the heavy equipment that you have been renting for a long time.

There are few important aspects that one needs to take into consideration before you put the machine on sale.

Give a new look by painting the machine:-

When you are up for selling an item, you can only sell it if it sounds appealing to the buyer. The buyer may not be able to know the intricacies of the machine just by having a look. But the impression he may take could be either positive or negative. Now if you clean up your machine, get it painted and repair the dents, the chances of it getting sold become high. The first impression that they will have is that you have taken good care of your machine and it will most likely not give them any issues after buying it from you. This positive impression will go a great deal and even if he feels that the equipment does not have a couple of features which other machines are giving, he may still go for your equipment/machinery. So the entire point in getting the machine painted is that you set such an impression on the buyer from where he should not have much reason to refuse the purchase.

Repair the internal parts and replace faulty parts:-

Selling heavy equipment that was once put on rent can be bit difficult. It is a no brainer that people who have the machine on rent must have used it the way they wanted and the overall health of the machine may not be in good order. Therefore, it is crucial that you first take help of an expert technician and repair the internal parts of the machine. If the technician finds any faulty part that needs to replaced, then do that immediately. No one likes to buy equipment that will not work for a long time no matter how cheap you sell it to him. They will always expect something better to come out of used equipment.

Ensure that you do not overprice the equipment:-

Selling the heavy equipment at its right price should be your focus. You should think about making lot of money but anything decent enough should be your motto. Hence, keep the price that you feel is considerable and is not overpricing it.

Proper agreement is required before you rent your heavy equipment

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Construction business is never constant. It will have a rising as well as a declining trend and it may hit you hard when the trend is declining. Therefore it is necessary that you be prepared to meet the circumstances when things are not going the way you want. First and foremost you need to do away with your heavy equipment that are sitting idle. By doing away, it does not imply that you sell them off but you can make use of another option and that is to rent it to someone who has work with him but no heavy equipment. You can meet his need by renting the machine to him and in turn you charge him monthly rentals. In this way, your machine will be in use and there will be inflow in income on a monthly basis.

Since we are talking about renting the construction machine, we also should be focusing on another important fact and it is forming an agreement with the taker. An agreement with the taker is very crucial when you are handing over the equipment on a temporary basis to an unknown person. It actually guarantees that you keep on receiving the money till the end of the agreement and once the term is over, you can either renew the contract or can get back the possession of the equipment. Whatever the case may be, a contract with the party assures that your machine will be in order and if there is any major wear and tear that happens with the machine, the taker will be liable to bear the expenses to get that fixed.

An agreement is often made only after you are done discussing the terms verbally and you want to put everything on paper. It also implies that both the parties are accepting the terms and therefore it is there on the paper. The parties will then sign on the dotted line and then they are bound to abide by the terms mentioned in the agreement. If any of the side goes against the terms, they will be accountable and may be fined by the law of the land. Therefore, it is very important that one must go through the terms mentioned in the agreement thoroughly before they sign on the dotted line. Once it is signed they can’t go back on the terms.

The giver should mention the amount he will receive each month for renting the equipment and the total period for which he is renting it to the taker. He can also mention the type of care that the taker should be taking while the equipment is in his possession. Things like the time when the machine should be given for servicing, how long you can keep the machine working etc. also forms a part of the contract.

Renting the equipment has always been a viable option for people who have several machines lying idle with them and need someone who can make good use of them and in turn pay them the rentals.

Rent your heavy equipment rather than selling them

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Heavy equipment can always fetch you a good resale value but before you think about reselling it, it is very important to understand if there are any other options available that you can take to retain the machine and also make some money during the course of time when it is lying idle. When you are full with work in hand, you do not have to think about renting any of your machines. On the contrary, you may feel the need of having more such machines in your kitty but there may be occasions when you may not have enough work with you and are compelled to keep few of your equipment idle. Well, keeping them idle is not going to help you in any way. You do not get anything if they simply lie down there doing nothing. It is always better to rent them so that you make some money in this bargain and also retain the equipment once the term of the contract gets over. Getting people who want to use the heavy equipment on rental basis will not be a difficult task as you will always find some or the other small contractors who are in the hunt of heavy equipment on rental basis. However the question is how you will know who needs what kind of machine and for this you can simply post an advertisement in a local newspaper. Mention a bit about the machine and give down your contact details so that the ones who are interested can call you up and pay a visit at your place. The other option is you can post your advertisement on internet. This is what majority of people are doing. The feel that posting an ad in a newspaper has become redundant in today’s time and since more and more people are attuned towards internet, they will get more visitors if they post the listing on some heavy equipment rental web site. So all you need to do here is register yourself with a popular online heavy equipment site. List your machine on the website and give the entire description of the machine. Here, unlike in a newspaper ad, it allows you to mention in details about the machine. So you can just put across everything you know, every small feature that people would like to know and help them take a decision. Once you get a taker, the next important step is to form an agreement with him where you will state the terms and conditions in detail. You can get in touch with your attorney who can help you to draft an agreement. The agreement should explicitly state the tenure for which the taker will take your machine on rent and the rental amount he will be paying on a monthly basis. If there are any other conditions that you have, you can state it all there on the agreement. Get it signed by him and keep the original with you. In this way, you can manage to get money on a monthly basis without losing the equipment forever.

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Rent a Bulldozer for Construction Purpose

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A bulldozer is a crawler that is available in the market in the form of large heavy equipment. It is attached with a metal plate that is used to push large quantity of soil, sand and rubble at the time of construction. This bulldozer is also equipped with ripper to loose the thickly squashed material. The ripper attached to the bulldozer appeared in the shape of a claw. The bulldozer can be found in various places like on the construction sites, mine and quarry areas, military base camps, in the heavy industries factories and in the farm. Nowadays there are many equipment rental companies that are providing expensive heavy equipment in rent to the required companies. Many a times the construction companies rent the heavy equipment bulldozers for their edifice purposes. The mining industry rent the bulldozers for drawing out applications.

Importance of renting a bulldozer

  • It is essential for any construction company to rent the bulldozer because it is utilised in removing a large amount of earth and soil at a time. It has the capability of pushing a large amount of weight by using the blades attached to it. It helps the workers in reducing their stress.
  • Bulldozers are often considered as the principal device for building roads. When the process of building road is going on, the top soil on the road is removed by the bulldozer. It also helps to make the structure of the fills smooth that is used in building roads.
  • For the purpose of demolition bulldozer is often used. It is very hard for the labourer to break the old house, in those cases bulldozers shatter the house at once.
  • This heavy equipment is also used in farming purposes.

Types of blades used in Bulldozers

There are different sorts of blades that are used with bulldozers. The attachment of the blade with the bulldozer depends on the quality of the soil. That is its depend on the moisture content, terrain, ambient temperatures of the earth. The diverse ranges of blades are as follows:

  • The full form of s blades is straight blades. The geometrical shape of this blade is straight that is connected to the tractor by bulldozer. These straight blades are mainly utilised in the material that are medium or highly condensed. These blades are mainly used in various activities like stumping, trenching, backfilling, shaping and stripping.
  • Another genus of blade is SU blade. The full form of SU is semi U blade. This blade is generally applied to take out the earth from the middle ground. This blade is also attached with the tractor. The distinct feature of this blade is the forward curving side wings that helps to obstruct the spillage of material. This blade is used for soft and medium hard soils.
  • U blade is appeared in the shape of “U” alphabet. Because of the unique shape of the blade, it helps to take out the material in scoop.
  • Angle blade is another sort of blade that is used for various activities such as stumping, nodding of soft to medium quality of soils, trail pioneering etc.

 

 

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Some of the biggest problems running a Heavy Equipment Rental Business

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Heavy equipment are not so easy to get especially for people who are budding entrepreneurs and do not have much experience in the construction segment. Unlike the big players who can afford to buy variety of equipments as and when they are needed, small construction companies have to struggle to even get a used one on rent. For the ones who have a project in hand but no equipment, situations become a lot harsher to such individuals. Knowing the fact that how expensive heavy equipment can be and how hard it may hit their finances, it become almost impossible for them to buy a brand new one. They have the option to buy a used machine but what after the ongoing project gets over. In case, they run out of projects, the one they have bought will stay idle. Therefore, it makes more sense to take it on rent.

There are people who understand the needs of such upcoming construction companies and have started their own business where they act as a middleman and try to meet the requirement of both the giver as well as the taker. However, many see this business in deep trouble as they are not getting customers directly walking in their offices and opting for other modes to take care of their business requirements.

The web provides it all:-  With the advent of internet, there are many things that took a change in their way of working. Internet was undoubtedly helpful to many but at the same time, it also became the reason for some to lose their business. People who were in the business of providing heavy equipment on rent are finding it hard to get customers as the customer manages to directly get in touch with the giver and makes a headway. This is in turn giving a hard time to people involved in these businesses and many had to shut their offices.

Now, we also have a smart bunch of people who have used the internet to develop their business. They simply put in an Ad stating people who are in need of heavy equipment on rent can contact them. They design a flashy website which incites customers to call them up or visit them and they in turn meet up with their needs.

Big fish swallows small fish:-  We all know the rule of the jungle. The smartest and the fittest survive. Same is applicable in this business. There are some guys who are in this business for the last many years and have strong contacts with their clients (with both the giver and the taker). These guys ensure that they swallow the business of any new entrant in their arena. When they see a new chap making an entry, they begin giving gifts and freebies at their cost which motivates the customer to stay with them. This makes business impossible for the new entrant and he eventually has to shut his business.

Looking To Rent Your Equipments In Texas – It’s A Must To Read This

There are times when we all go through a sluggish period and do not have much work in hand. At this juncture, we not only have to manage the recurring costs to keep the company going but also have to ensure that the heavy equipments that are lying idle are well maintained. We can’t just let them rust for doing nothing. Therefore, the maintenance adds up to the cost making things all the more difficult. Under this situation, it is wise to simply rent the equipments to someone who is in need of them and can also afford to pay the rent that you want.

Renting heavy equipment may sound complex but in reality it is pretty simple to do so. You only need to find the right guy for your machine. We may be a bit apprehensive with the thought that the person using it may not care for it and that might lead to the machine getting wear off in less time than it should have. Well, these are just apprehensions and things can always be worked to set them in the right place. For instance, you can rent the machine to someone you know or if at all you’re giving it to a stranger, you can make an agreement where you can state that you may do an inspection of the equipment after every quarter and if you find that they are misusing the machine, you have every right to cancel the agreement and take your machine back.

One of the simplest forms of renting the heavy equipment is by posting it on internet. For the ones living in Texas, there are several sites which can connect them with the prospects. These websites work as an intermediary between the giver and the taker. In order to post your stuff on their websites, you have to first register with them. There may be an annual subscription fees that they may charge you for your services or may bill you for only listing the item on their website. The fees may differ depending upon the price of the equipment. Higher the price of the item more would be their fees. You have to update your credit card information on their website and then are post the equipment. It also gives you the privilege to monitor the number of prospects who have visited your item and if needed you can also communicate the prospect or vice-versa.

If you find a party who is interested in your equipment, ask them to pay a visit at your place and if they want, they can check the equipment to ensure that it’s working. Once they are content with the stuff, you can draft an agreement and can ask them to credit the money in your bank account.

You can also opt to advertise in a local newspaper that is widely circulated all over Texas. You may find some success in that as well. However in this modern age, it is recommended to post things on website as that may give you more and better responses.

It’s Pointless to Rot the Idle Heavy Equipment – Better to Rent It

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A person has to strive a lot to establish his business. Right from gathering the right men for the job to acquiring the right set of heavy equipment, you put a lot in your business. After having done so much, the last thing you would want is to see the old equipments rot on a site which could have otherwise been used to do something productive. You’d definitely see no point in keeping the machine idle and watch it die its death. Therefore, it’s ideal for you to look up for options that will keep the machine active and will also earn a fixed amount on each and every month. You would simply rent it out to someone who is ready to pay its price.

While we speak about renting the equipment, the thought of “Why don’t we sell it” is quite evident to hit our mind. Well selling the machine may give you the price it is worth of. However, that will be the end of the story. You can further reinvest the money and buy new equipment after adding few more bucks to it. But the point is you have to add some extra cash from your savings. On the contrary, if you rent the equipment and contemplate to buy a new machine, the rental earnings can be used to pay the monthly installment to the bank. At the end of the payment term, you end up having 2 machines with you.

It’s not always so easy to find a party who agrees to take the equipment on rent at your quoted price. Especially if it is a used one, the taker tries hard to negotiate and bring down the rental price. Therefore, it takes a good deal of time to rent it off to someone. You can follow the below gives methods to rent the machine.

Talk with people you know:- It’s prudent that you talk with people about the thought of renting the heavy equipment. The word of mouth might spread and might reach to the person who is in need of the equipment. You both have to meet and agree with each and other’s conditions. If this works for you, you make a deal without losing a penny on advertisements.

Use of social media:- Social media is used by good chunk of people for many business purposes. They out their stuff on the advertisement section and in this way reach out to the larger section of the society. However for this, you need to have a website of your own so that people after clicking on the link would directly enter on your site and get a taste of things you have for them.

Put it on classifieds:-  You can advertise about renting your heavy equipment on newspapers as well as on internet. While selecting a newspaper, ensure that you put the ad with the newspaper which has a wider circulation in the city. This will allow your advertisement to reach a lot of people and thus increases the chances of renting the stuff at your price. You can also put the ad on classified websites which also fulfils your purpose.

Following the above stated methods can certainly work for you as far as renting the construction equipment is concerned.

Wanting To Rent a Motor Grader – Follow These Important Steps

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There are many people who want to set up a construction business of their own but they are often deterred knowing the price of heavy equipments as they may not afford to spend whatever they have procuring heavy machineries and then have nothing to pay to the workers or take care of the other expenses. Most of the people who dared to enter this industry had to shut their business as they were unable to take care of the operating expenses. Things were becoming pretty unmanageable for them which compelled them to take up something else.

Well, this kind of a situation definitely leaves a good scope for people who have their heavy equipments sitting idle. They can certainly put them on rent and can generate good money to keep their business floating. There are many big construction houses that have wide range of heavy equipments with them and may not need them all the time. They have come out with the splendid idea of renting it to small construction businesses which serves both the purpose of the giver as well as the taker.

We would be talking in detail about the different mode where a person can list his motor grader on rent and can make some money out of it.

Listing it on classified:-  If you want to rent your motor grader within your city, then listing it in a local news paper would be the most suitable option for you. That will allow the listing to be seen by people living in your city and those who are interested can then get in touch with you. It’s advisable to spend some more money to buy descent space in the newspaper which will make it visible enough for everyone to read it. Motor Grader is expensive heavy equipment and therefore you can expect a good rental price for it.

It’s important to mention your contact details so that people interested in the stuff can reach you and the ones who are ready to take it at the stated price can also meet you in person to seal the deal. You can also list the motor grader in online classifieds but that opens the window for people outside the city to go for it. In order to avoid that, you can mention in your listing that you’re willing to rent it to people from your city.

Putting it on online selling site:-  There are sites which provides a platform to both buyers and sellers so that they can trade. In the same perspective, there are sites which allow lessor to list their items for rent. You can make use of such sites and list the motor grader on rent. You can take few pictures of the grader and put it on the listing. Mention the specifications and things that are important for the taker to know. State the rental amount in bold and if you’re not ready to negotiate, you got to mention that clearly on the listing.

Signing the contract:-  This is perhaps the most important thing before you let out the grader. You should state all possible points in the contract which will serve yours as well as the taker’s interest. Once the contract is signed, you can give away the grader.

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Want to Take a Track Loader on Rent – Find out Here

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In order to run the construction business smoothly, it is very important to have the right machines put them to do the right job. You can’t imagine buying the machine only after you get some projects in hand, because projects are also given on the basis of confidence the giver has on the taker. But what happens when you have just started the business and you already see a financial crunch in buying machines. More to this, heavy equipments are known to be very expensive and not everybody can afford to buy one. Therefore, it’s advisable to take them on rent and when you are approaching for a new project, ensure that you win the confidence of the giver by stating that you’d be taking the equipments on rent and that there won’t be any halt in the work due to non-availability of machine.

We would be discussing how can one locate a lessor and take a track loader on rent.

Other construction companies:-  If you know someone who has a construction business can has a track loader idle, you may approach him and check if they are willing to give it on rent. The price could be negotiated depending upon the quality of the machine and since how long it has been working. You can also take help of operators/heavy equipment mechanics who has information of people holding track loaders and wanting to give them on rent. You can imply this mode to find the equipment quickly and taking the help of a mechanic would also ensure that you get the right stuff.

Searching it online:-  Internet has become the medium which can bring millions of people at one place, which is undoubtedly your computer. Well with the help of this technology, people have started using it as a platform to buy and sell products. Right from books, clothing and shelter to cars and heavy equipments you name it and you can buy it on internet. All you have to do is mention what you’re looking for in the search engine and it will throw desired results. You can easily check the model of the track loader you want for your business and the amount of rent you need to be paying.

These online selling sites give you the freedom to check what other lessor has in store for you. For instance, if you’re not happy with the rent amount of one lessor, you can look out for someone else. The option never easily dries out. Alternatively, you can also go through the features of the track loader and check if this is what you are looking for. It definitely makes your job lot simpler.

Newspaper classifieds:-  Newspapers are filled with advertisements from people looking out to rent their machines. You only need to check who wants to rent a track loader and get in touch with him. Try to fix an appointment with him and while you go to meet him, take an expert along with you who knows every in and out of track loader. You can request the owner to allow the expert to test it and only if you’re convinced, you can crack the deal.

 

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Need a Dozer for Your New Construction Project – Better Take It On Rent It

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It has never been so simple to start up a new construction business. There you need able manpower who knows how to work things out, you need good competent operators who can operate the machines and also get the work done without any error and you need skills to operate and administer your business. But most importantly, you need good machines because unless you have good heavy equipment, it will be very hard to see growth happening in your company. One major obstacle which many beginners come across is of finance. They enter this business with limited finance and have to establish their business by money coming from various projects. However, they fail to understand that in order to complete a project they need machines which are pretty expensive and might make a big hole in their pocket. Well, as every problem has a solution, this one too has a solution and that would be to take the stuff on rent.

Here we would be talking about how one can take a dozer on rent and what are the things one needs to understand before he goes for the deal.

Search online:-  This could be perhaps one of the better option to search a dozer. With the help of the internet you can look for people willing to rent a dozer in your city or in your area. If you’re lucky, you may find someone in your area and that will help you fulfil your cause. It also helps you to know more about the history of the machine. For instance, for how many years this machine was in use and if there were any accidents that happened on this machine. You may also get to know the frequency after which you need to service the dozer. Overall, you get to know almost everything about the dozer if you try to search it online.

Moreover, it also gives you the option to see more lessor who want their stuff to go on rent. They may quote different rent and you can pick the one you find convenient to pay. Once you have selected the dozer you would be going for, it’s time to contact the lessor and get the deal settled. There you might request him for a trial and check if you should need to know anything more about the item.

Check classifieds on news paper:-  You can grab a local newspaper which has wide circulation throughout your city and check the classified section. There you might come across many such advertisements where people would want to give their dozers on rent. Unlike searching it online, here you may not find plenty of options, but it should suffice your cause. You may then want to contact the lessor and fix an appointment. Go to his place and check the dozer. If possible, take an expert with you who understands the intricacies of the machine and can guide you if you should take the stuff or leave it.