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10-22-2014, 06:39 PM
Garbage and recycling business are very successful in Finland and in the Nordics aswell.
Everybody need to have a trashcan,and you have to pay a monthly fee for it whether is empty or not.
Doesn't matter what kind of trash you are sitting on, people will compete to get their hands in it. And they will pay for it.
Huge money to be made in collecting garbage and recycling the shit out if it.
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10-23-2014, 01:34 AM
^ Yeah. Where I live there isn't much money to be made in recycling iron and metal because everyone are aware that iron = money.
But with wood there is still money to cash in. Everything that burns,not only households also big schools, hospitals and factories are going over bio heating.
Usually with wooden chips.
In fact, at todays market you get paid more for selling all wood except decent timber to these small powerplants who have invested in gigantic top modern fire chambers.
They pay more than the paper factories who used to be Finlands economical engine.
You get a decent tax cut if you convert from oil or electricity or Polish coal to biological fuels. (Wood, tarf)
However, when it comes to recycling.
How come countries like US,UK or even fucking Russia haven't started with this bottle and can recycling system?
It's keeping the streets clean like nothing else.
There are always someone ready to pick them up.
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10-23-2014, 05:16 AM
Quote: (10-22-2014 06:35 PM)Chaos Wrote:
I have harvester myself (mechanized logging) for my own forest and others, but I mostly use it as a toy for fun when I want to fuck around.
I love all those American/Canadian logging series and it always struck me how goddamn lazy those people are in those series. I understand that the reality must be different from what we see on TV, but on the series on TV they are having a break every 5min meanwhile the rest of the team are watching them pausing.
And old equipment.
Anyways, I would love at anyday to try working as a helilogger.
However, Dr.Howard makes logging sound like a piece of cake to make easy money.
Maybe in North America, but in the Nordics it's another story.
More than " just putting lights on the logger and drive in night time"
You can't just get hands whenever you want on such easy contracts that you can have your machine going 24/7.
Unpredictable winters ( not frozen ground) , Russian timber tolls, recession in the paper industry, high fuel costs, mostly private owned forests and if the paper industry are shutting down factory after factory, it's a nasty competion for logging contracts and then we have greenpeace and other green activists who do everything they can to make a problem. And so on.
Yes, its a difference of location. Canada has more than 10x the forest area of finland and its continuous blocks owned by the government and leased out at millions of hectares at a time. Machines don't need to move very often and its easy to get contracts. Harvest areas are too remote for greenpeace to do anything meaningful. Haul distances are long and road conditions are poor though.
When its worthwhile for europe to buy shipload after shipload of wood from canada to burn for fuel...its clear to me that the logging business is better on this site of the atlantic.
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10-23-2014, 05:45 AM
Building kitchen stuff.
I watched a documentary the other day, "Brits Get Rich In China" on youtube. There was one guy who made millions out of sourcing taps and cabinets for ready-made kitchens. He travelled the world looking for materials to source and bought his own quarry and forest and stuff.
There was another guy who had a cushion factory, and another who made air conditioning units.
Those are things that I'd never have thought could be big business, but were.
Then you've got to think, "What about the guys who make nuts and bolts and those plastic bits on the ends of radiators?" and the like.
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10-24-2014, 11:17 PM
Of my circle of high school acquaintances, the one who did the absolute best dropped out (eventually got it just because, but a few years after everyone else).
He started around grade 10 doing basic yard work on his own. From there him and a few buddies started doing small scale landscaping, which got bigger and bigger. He did a decent job, word of mouth spread. He's bought a few pickups, got bigger jobs, now has dump trucks and a few snow plows 15 years later. Got a huge winter contract this year for the city for snow removal, bringing on a mechanic, has like 10 guys. Has low 7 figures of sales annually now.
This was great in my opinion. No barrier to entry, and fairly easily to scale and expand at least to the point of upper middle class. But he's never gonna be on the fortune 500, but he's sitting real pretty.
Another guy I know a few years older, but not in my circle really, but family friend. Similar thing but paving driveways. Higher barrier to entry, but also was able to grow it from driveways around the neighbourhood to parking lots etc. Also very scalable, just higher more guys and buy more trucks, and you've doubled your capacity.
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10-24-2014, 11:19 PM
This is another reason why at least in the west trades pay so well. Everyone born after 1970 or so it seems was brought up on the idea that that is low class work, and "you're going to collage mr!". What happened? 30 years later glut of ppl with worthless degrees, and no one who knows how to weld.
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10-24-2014, 11:35 PM
A new thing came to my head last evening that I might stick my head into.
Changing,repairing and selling tires for big machinery.
There is only one guy who is doing that in this region and he's 71 year old.
All tractors and heavy machines have increased extremely in size in the last two decades here and there are a shitloads of different entrepreneurs.
When they are operating and a tire breaks down, they need quick service.
Their machines are so expensive so they can't afford having them standing still.
I already own a pretty big garage and warehouse where this could be done.
The equipment I need is affordable.
There is plenty of workers to hire for this since you don't need to be a Einstein to handle big tires. These workers can be hired for a minimum wage.
If not, I can always hire some Poles. They are usually good workers and are very eager to work for Finnish wages.
There is a hole in this market here, and the hole can be filled.
I just need to do some research to see if there is any major profits in it.
Only looking at the 71 year olds yard, he seem to be doing pretty well.
Damn I like the buzz when I have a new business opportunity to check out.
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10-31-2014, 05:32 PM
I was recently at the canton fair, and spent quite a bit of time in the heavy machinery area.
Machines that purify and bottle water. Machines that make the water bottles from rolls of plastic.
Machines that make shampoo. Or soap.
Machines that make cookies, and then the packaging, and then put 20 cookies in the package and seal it. All in one machine.
Machines that make milk. Or yogurt. Or soda. Lipstick machine. Eyeshadow machine.
These were all things I never thought of before, but the machines nowadays aren't that expensive. And in emerging or third world markets where import costs are high, you could create a nice niche for yourself in manufacturing a product that's equal in quality to the imported version that you're able to sell for less.
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10-31-2014, 06:06 PM
I've heard the people that have their own trucks doing power washing of oil sands equipment in Canada make crazy money. You'd have to be prepared to work crazy hours though.
