Within a year of launching his sewer and drain cleaning business, Mark Joski began to diversify. He first added excavation services and rented excavation equipment as needed — a skid-steer, a mini-excavator — until he began to question the economics of renting the machines.
“I decided if I was going to use a piece of equipment more than two or three times a year, it didn’t pay to rent it,” says Joski, owner of Joski Sewer Services in Green Bay, Wisconsin, featured in the September 2021 issue of Cleaner.
Today Joski’s excavation equipment includes a John Deere 50 mini-excavator, a Komatsu 138LC excavator, a Ditch Witch FX30
Knowing When to Pull the Trigger on an Equipment Purchase
Sometimes renting equipment for a job is a good option. But there comes a time when making an outright purchase would be better.
