Claimant says: "Over Charging for an ATV recovery operation. He charged $1500 for the recovery plus $1650 for 4 men where 2 men spent most of the time just standing around or fetching tools he neglected to bring out to the job site. He also attempted to charge $1200 for a rig he built from scrap I beam and was taking with him when he left. I split the difference in the cost with him on the rig. He attempted to cut bolt holes in the rig with a defective cutting torch that kept catching fire, so what should have taken ten minutes took a ”
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Claimant says: "Over Charging for an ATV recovery operation. He charged $1500 for the recovery plus $1650 for 4 men where 2 men spent most of the time just standing around or fetching tools he neglected to bring out to the job site. He also attempted to charge $1200 for a rig he built from scrap I beam and was taking with him when he left. I split the difference in the cost with him on the rig. He attempted to cut bolt holes in the rig with a defective cutting torch that kept catching fire, so what should have taken ten minutes took a half hour. He attempted to bring the rig to the job site with a little 2 wheel drive ATV that didn't have the power or traction to haul the metal out to the site, so he wasted another half hour in that attempt. Once assembled , he had no way to lift the rig, had to send someone for blocks back at the van, and wait for a couple of spectators to help lift the rig. the rig had no gussets to support the corners, so people had to try to hold it to steady it, and he had to send someone back for a strap to tie the top together. He cut back the ice to expose the sunken machine, but had no one to go down and attach a line to the ATV. If the local fire department rescue squad hadn't been training out there, one of his people would have had to go in without proper equipment. Once he started to lift the ATV, instead of cutting the ice back where it could come straight out of the water under the framework of the rig, he wasted almost two hours cutting little blocks of ice out, and trying to pry the ATV out around from the center of the top of the rig. His chain saw ran out of gas and he had to wait again for one of his people to go back and bring more gas out. The time wasting also included various trips back to the shore for shovels, pry bars,and a sledge hammer I'm glad they didn't use. They're lifting device was this chain falls that was probably 100 years old, and they kept getting the operating chain tangled up with the chains they were using to lift the machine. So my complaint is everything the crew did extended the amount of time it took to do the job. Had they had the right equipment, and paid attention to the laws of physics, the job would have been done two hours sooner. I believe I was gouged because I was charged the time for all the mistakes they made. It would also be interesting to know if he actually paid two of the people $412.50 each for that afternoon to stand around, hold things, and get tools from back at the shore. I believe I paid for skilled labor that he didn't have. I believe I should receive half the cost of the job back because I was charged for all the mistakes he made, and faulty equipment he attempted to use in the execution of the project.*” ...Show less »