heavy equipment mechanic, 421A RED SEAL. Go remote and work 6mths and get paid for 12. you can make 150k and up
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If you are doing heavy equipment mechanic, I would only do it the way you said. Local heavy equipment mech is a shite job. Lots more investment in tools than auto mechanic, working with heavy ass dirty stuff all the time and not substantially different pay than auto mech. Last time I talked with people in a heavy repair shop, most were budgeting a few thousand a year for tools their d-bag colleagues stole from them.
Back when Sheridan College had a heavy equipment operators school north of Milton , my Dad worked there. It was a controlled environment with the best tools and diagnostics for the mechanics, in a heated shop. They learned in a goldfish bowl, towing machines from the field into the shop.
6,000kms from Toronto, -25c and a foremen screaming to get a loader back up? Not for me thanks
6,000kms from Toronto, -25c and a foremen screaming to get a loader back up? Not for me thanks
Trials
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Big stuff is easy enough to work on you just need really big hammers and levers and come along's and a willingness to get so dirty yer mom wouldn't recognize you.
lol my wife and I replaced the front idler wheel on our excavator when it was stuck in a mud hole and frost was setting into the ground.
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lol my wife and I replaced the front idler wheel on our excavator when it was stuck in a mud hole and frost was setting into the ground.
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Trials
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Or a good supply of replacement parts.
and a sledge hammer.
Any body ever have to work on one of those diesel engines with the pneumatic starter?? she wont go, get the compressor.... and my favorite, cables to move the blade because the hydraulics didn't get invented until the 1920's . I'm not that old, but my idiot farmer family is.
Trials
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unless you are at my house,
I get to do ALL the dirty sewer stuff :| always have.
J_F
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yup, when you get up into 12 cylinder range
electric starters don't have the torque to roll them over fast enough
still some current production cable operated equipment
I've been off the wrenches for some time
but these things were my specialty when I was a tech
Trials
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But seriously, unless you have no sense of smell and there were not so many other occupations to choose from would you really want to make people poop your lifetime occupation? I'd rather be a zoo keeper, then at least it's not human poop :|
******! Lol
Between my HVAC, electrical and plumbing friends (all owners) the plumber has the most money, the electrician has the most dangerous and biggest demand and the residential heat/vent guy laughs at them both.
No one young wants the crap jobs but they should. No one wants to deal with their own **** and you'd be in high demand
Mad Mike
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The richest tradesman I know are those running 1 man home services businesses. That's not for everybody -- you have to find or acquire a customer base and you need the discipline to be self employed. If you're open to thinking out of the box, there is some good money to be made. I help a couple of young kids with their business plans and financing. Here are a couple of stories I know of directly:
Self employed Arborists, urban tree maintenance is a 12 week certificate course at Humber. After that you can work with a tree service for a year, make $20-25/hr to learn the tricks of the trade. Go on you own and with a small investment in tools you're able to pull $100-$175/hr and be busy non stop.
Carpet and floor maintenance, carpet cleaner. No college for this, start with a firm like Service Master to learn how to use industrial bonneting equipment. After a year of on the job training, going alone pays $7.50 to $10/m2 which works out to about $150/hr. The kids I know doing this well are pulling $1200/day.
Pool service and maintenance. General maintenance is about $90/hr however there is a huge markup on supplies and parts which brings the average hourly rate to $125. Seasonal employment pays $20-25/hr, I've seen university kids working on their own pulling in $35K from May 1 to Labor day. Again, no ticket required. This work is seasonal, April to November however it pays very well and there is always spa jobs over the winter. If you're young enough, pool builders often go to supervise work in the tropics over the winter - -pay isn't great but it's all inclusive for 3 mos and you earn about $500US per week.
Self employed Arborists, urban tree maintenance is a 12 week certificate course at Humber. After that you can work with a tree service for a year, make $20-25/hr to learn the tricks of the trade. Go on you own and with a small investment in tools you're able to pull $100-$175/hr and be busy non stop.
Carpet and floor maintenance, carpet cleaner. No college for this, start with a firm like Service Master to learn how to use industrial bonneting equipment. After a year of on the job training, going alone pays $7.50 to $10/m2 which works out to about $150/hr. The kids I know doing this well are pulling $1200/day.
Pool service and maintenance. General maintenance is about $90/hr however there is a huge markup on supplies and parts which brings the average hourly rate to $125. Seasonal employment pays $20-25/hr, I've seen university kids working on their own pulling in $35K from May 1 to Labor day. Again, no ticket required. This work is seasonal, April to November however it pays very well and there is always spa jobs over the winter. If you're young enough, pool builders often go to supervise work in the tropics over the winter - -pay isn't great but it's all inclusive for 3 mos and you earn about $500US per week.
