What do you do for extra $ ?

jon f mn · Mar 4, 2013

A few days ago DBoll mentioned that he recently started driving truck and it got me to thinking how many were hurt by the drought and have started something to supliment their income. Or maybe you have a hobby that sometimes produces a bit of income. Or do you have a secret sorce that maybe SWMBO doesn't know about? When I want a little spending money but don't want to take an extra trip I will do some welding or maybe build a trailer to sell. I built this one last fall and sold it. I'm going to do another later in spring when it warms up.

John B. · Mar 4, 2013

Wow Jon that looks nice.
Is there much profit in a project like that one?
I sell paper on ebay and do some sandblasting for a little extra cash.

jon f mn · Mar 4, 2013

Not really if I have to buy all the material. This one is made from left over stuff from when I had the welding business. I have enough stuff for about 3 more trailers larger than this one.

Formerly PaMike · Mar 4, 2013

Listed from most to least profitable....
-Day job
-Fix and sell 6-10 skidsteers a year
-Sell manuals on Ebay
-Sell horse/heifer hay
-Raise 10-20 steers/year
-Sell firewood

Fawteen · Mar 4, 2013

I do a variety of small, general repair jobs that the professional mechanics don't want.

There is a lot of older equipment still in service around here. I've rewired an Army 6x6 from the 40's being used as a logging truck, rebuilt the fuel system on an old gas-engine chipper, fixed a multitude of small engine stuff, ATV's, lawn mowers, snow blowers, log splitters, small welding repairs, whatever somebody needs done.

Not a lot of money at my amateur shop rates, but it adds up, and it gives me something to do, and it's something I enjoy.

el6147 · Mar 4, 2013

I work from my own shop every day and there is no
extra money .

Erik Ks farmer · Mar 4, 2013

I work 2 days a week in a warehouse unloading trailers, probably some of your deliveries. :wink:

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

I do custom mowing sometimes but that dries up with everything else.

Dan in Ohio · Mar 4, 2013

I work two jobs, recently cut back to 50 hrs. a week, been
doing it for the last 12 years. My wife works more hours than I
do and I guess we both have since being empty nesters.
What I do to save money and just because I still can is heat
my house with wood from our woods. Think that saves about
$2500 per year.

johndeere720diesel · Mar 4, 2013

Currently have day job and am milking cows in them evening actually going to head there now
Wife works at a university and taking classes for free which is the only thing that makes that job appealing because the pay doesn't

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

Why, we do what we benn doin' fer years for a little extra folding money. we have a dandy little corn distillery.... best around. Recent corn prices have cut into the profits a bit tho'.
Abner

johndeerefan · Mar 4, 2013

I have a day job, but me and the wife have a custom embroidery business that we run at night and weekends. Makes for good supplimental income, but it does get old working from 7:00 a.m. until midnight during the week and all day Sat/Sun.

Flannelman · Mar 4, 2013

Lets see I fix and sell snowblowers, lawn mowers, various other small ope. Then I also do computer repair sometimes. Basicly whatever I am good at that I can make a little money on.

Greg K · Mar 4, 2013

Nothin yet, been thinking about doing a little dancing at night though

. really though I would like to do a little mechanic repair work.

HillsofTn · Mar 4, 2013

Well, as Jerry Clower would say, I am a go-getter. Every day the wife goes to her regular job and I go get her after work. She gives me a little extra spending money to supplement my social security. (She says that when I retired, I finally found something I liked to do and something that I was really good at.)

GeneMO · Mar 4, 2013

Dont know yet. But since I am retiring in May, I will have to find something else to make some spending cash.

That 40% cut in pay is not going to feel good.

Probably do some crop adjusting on the side. I have 3 offers.

Gene

Bruce from Can. · Mar 4, 2013

Kinda full time on the farm, but ... If I could find a job as a gigalow, I might find the time. So long as the Mrs don't find out. But hey, my wife has a job, that already mkes me a "kept man". Hard to beat that, EH!

John 37A · Mar 4, 2013

My full time job is a high school Ag teacher. In my spare time, I do all the maintenance on our county fairgrounds (mostly April-November, but really busy from June-September) and I teach several classes for our local community college heavy equipment program. Currently I teach GPS, welding and environmental science.

jon f mn · Mar 4, 2013

After I decided to close the welding shop the employees and I were sitting around talking about how to increase revenues and one of the ideas we tossed around was to put a couple of bunk beds in the back of the shop, for the lady customers that wanted a tip.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 4, 2013

I do a little estimating work for a spray insulation contractor. I'd like to sell a little fire wood next fall.

Larry

Rick Kr · Mar 4, 2013

I have a day job that makes money, I have a tree farm on the weekend that takes the money. I do some welding and machining for others on occasion.

The trees do turn a little money here and there. If I didnt have something to do I would go crazy in my free time.

Rick

Vito · Mar 4, 2013

I bought and sold antique tractors and parted out tractors for extra
money.Went pretty good but that has dried up lately with the
depressed tractor market and supply being limited in our area.

Vito

RalphWD45 · Mar 4, 2013

My area south of Tacoma, used to be timber and farms. Nowadays it is mostly small 5 to 10 acre hobby places with mostly horses. These folks work day jobs, and comute 1/2 to 1 1/2hours every day. most of them were city dwellers, who finally bought their dream home in the country. I put up a good Illinois type woven wire fence, with 2 strands of barb on top, around my perimiter, and started neighbors wanting a simular fence, instead of their elect white ribbons, on cheap steel stakes I get a lot of requests to build field fence, and do cross fencing.My AC B has a posthole digger on it, and I will dig their holes with it, but they have to set and tamp the posts. I will roll out the wire, with my 3 pt wire tool, and show them how to fasten wire to the end posts, streach the wire, an staple properly. I ask $40 per hour, actual working time, and except for some gasoline, the only overhead in the last 3 yrs has been one PTO U joint. Fencing was something my people took for granted, and I had no Idea, that not every one knows how! I raise 3 calves a yr, which takes care of the grass, that I used to mow, and gives me a little feeder calf money in the fall. I do occasional bush hog mowing in the area, and don't hold anyone up on labor.I had a guy in my road assn, observe me spreading chicken poo on my pasture, and asked the wife if I could come over and spread his big pile of horse poo, on his 8 acres. I got to figgure out how much to charge him, I have never thought about spreading manure, and it will also require the minnie and loader.

jm. · Mar 4, 2013

There are a lot of FACTORY (so called ) trailers sold that do not look as good as yours . Nice project.

Jim in MN · Mar 4, 2013

I have a few things to bring in some extra cash; small engine repair, snowblowers and lawn tractor sales, welding, machining, auto repair, carpentry, roofing, hauling, landscaping, mowing, handyman, snow removal, pretty much whatever comes along.

55deere70 · Mar 4, 2013

I learned to trim my own horses hooves, now I trim for other people on the side for some extra spending cash.

Rollie NE PA · Mar 4, 2013

I sell fire wood and wild animal corn, gives me some cash so I can play with my tractors.

oldtanker · Mar 4, 2013

Little brush cutting, dig rocks out of fields with the TLB. Sell a few eggs, sometimes a finished cow or a few pigs. Got a couple of people who have ask about learning how to shoot but gotta talk to my insurance agent first. Liability issues could make that a no go.

Rick

JerryS · Mar 5, 2013

You might have to start moonlighting at the Skunk Works.

JerryS · Mar 5, 2013

I'm assuming all of this extra-curricular activity is off-the-books, i.e., "tax exempt".
Sure would be for me.

oldtanker · Mar 5, 2013

(quoted from post at 00:03:48 03/05/13) I'm assuming all of this extra-curricular activity is off-the-books, i.e., "tax exempt".
Sure would be for me.

Nope, I claim everything on my taxes both income and expenses. I try to pay my fair share even if it's only several hundred dollars a year.

Rick

showcrop · Mar 5, 2013

I have a decent day job that is flexible enough that It allows me to make hay to sell to the horse people. Problem is that due to major repairs two years running I have lost money making the hay

W_B · Mar 5, 2013

Too busy to have more jobs. We both work full time in the city with an hour commute each way, on a good day. We have 43 llamas to feed and clean up after and show during the season and shear their fiber, and we run a llama show in the spring. We have an older house we are fixing up and old farm buildings and tractors to keep in repair and the wife spins and weaves and belongs to a guild and I'm on the Board of two non-profit associations... so no time for anything income producing, outside of the normal jobs. Whew, no wonder I'm tired!

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