Equipment Primer » nursery http://www.equipmentprimer.com Your one stop for business equipment info Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My Wifes New Nursery http://www.equipmentprimer.com/construction/my-wifes-new-nursery/ http://www.equipmentprimer.com/construction/my-wifes-new-nursery/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:01:54 +0000 Primer http://www.equipmentprimer.com/?p=51 Growing plants has always been a hobby for my wife.  Last year she decided to open a small nursery to start making money at something she enjoys.  We leased a small building on some land in town, and opened up about eight months later.  Being a small operation, we forgot about some of the big things we were going to need to be effective, and not kill ourselves in the process.

I told her we needed a used fork truck, as we couldn’t afford a new one at the time.  She did a net search for forklift in Texas, and came up with a few options that fit our price.  My job was to go look at it, learn to use it, and bring it home.  A week later, we had just what we needed without paying an arm and a leg for a new one. 

We have not been open for a year yet, but business is going pretty well.  Since people can’t afford new homes right now, it seems that they want to make what they have looked better for a while.  As a result, we are moving more stack than we figured, and that has made our delivery schedule heat up.  Without that new forklift, I would probably be in the hospital by now.

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