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Originally Posted by wdfifteen View Post
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.
Not quite, but: https://www.diggerlandusa.com/

I'd like to rig a racing seat & harness, to my mini-excavator. But I don't trust any other operators, and nobody would trust me at the controls......
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