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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
You are not alone.
Over drinks one night a friend and I put together plan to build a rent-by-the hour gravel pit. It would basically be a fantasy camp for wannabe heavy equipment operators. Get some of those big-ass dump trucks, some cranes, lots of bulldozers, backhoes, pan scrapers, etc, and charge per hour per machine to let people come in and play with them. It would have involved a lot of up front investment - more than we had - but I still think it would have worked.
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Rented a smaller dozer/backhoe combo one weekend to level a chunk of the back yard so I had a flat pad for the kids jungle gym. #1 was 6 at the time and I let him sit with me and operate it. I live on a hill - yard slopes off in 2 directions and there was no way to install it without levelling.
He had more fun playing with that thing than he ever did on the playground after it was installed. I should have bought one of those instead...