Cards Against Humanity... Digging a hole

[Cecil Terwilliger]

It's not supposed to be profitable...that's kind of the whole point.

[Kjesse]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Maybe they hit bedrock.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but Bedrock is fictional.

[Ashasx]

It's definitely profitable. $85,000 for a couple days of digging a hole?

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by Kavvy

? They want the money, why would they do this?

Why? There is no why.

They're digging a hole. Fill it with something. Why? Because! It's a hole!

And I'm pretty sure that board game made more money than hole digging ever will.

Edit: wait a sec, who the hell is paying for this???

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

It's definitely profitable. $85,000 for a couple days of digging a hole?

That dirt isn't going to go back in that hole by itself. I doubt they make a profit to be honest. The rent on those machines is insane and they're going to need them for a little while after they stop digging. If they make a profit it'll be minimal.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

That dirt isn't going to go back in that hole by itself. I doubt they make a profit to be honest. The rent on those machines is insane and they're going to need them for a little while after they stop digging. If they make a profit it'll be minimal.

Pretty sure it's a publicity stunt and Cards Against Humanity can afford it. I'm sure $80k is peanuts for the ROI they're getting in market interest.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by cecil terwilliger

it's not supposed to be profitable...that's kind of the hole point.

fyp

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

That dirt isn't going to go back in that hole by itself. I doubt they make a profit to be honest. The rent on those machines is insane and they're going to need them for a little while after they stop digging. If they make a profit it'll be minimal.

A grand a day...give or take.

Add in the deisel at a couple hundred a day...they should still make out allright.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Pretty sure it's a publicity stunt and Cards Against Humanity can afford it. I'm sure $80k is peanuts for the ROI they're getting in market interest.

Radio. On. Internet.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Delgar

Population 2500? That place was huge and had the amenities of a big city, but only 2500 people?

[llwhiteoutll]

Originally Posted by transplant99

A grand a day...give or take.

Add in the deisel at a couple hundred a day...they should still make out allright.

About $9k a day for the one hoe and one rock truck. Includes operators and fuel.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll

About $9k a day for the one hoe and one rock truck. Includes operators and fuel.

And that's expensive Canadian rates.

Add 2k a day in lighting, safety and other expenseses and they are doing alright even with two sets of machines.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

That dirt isn't going to go back in that hole by itself. I doubt they make a profit to be honest. The rent on those machines is insane and they're going to need them for a little while after they stop digging. If they make a profit it'll be minimal.

Well... it doesn't really say anywhere that they're paying for any of the equipment. For all we know, Cards Against Humanity is just recording scenes from a construction site. The profit would be tremendous in that case.

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by transplant99

A grand a day...give or take.

Add in the deisel at a couple hundred a day...they should still make out allright.

You can't even get a dump truck for a grand a day let alone a machine worth close to a million dollars.

[btimbit]

Depending on where they are they can likely get a monthly rental on a Deere 350 for around 15k-20k. Probably even less since it's in the states.

It isn't a very efficient job though. Having that rock truck there is a money pit, I'd just bring in a bigger hoe to dig and have that cast dirt to the 350 who could throw it to the dozer. Or just use the hoe and the dozer since he's just waiting around most of the time anyway. And the guy digging is hard to watch, it's like he's doing it in slow motion.

That's all assuming they care though, which given the entire premise here, I don't think they do

[You Need a Thneed]

That dirt looks pretty soft... if they actually wanted to dig fast, they could halve put a much wider bucket on that excavator.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

That dirt looks pretty soft... if they actually wanted to dig fast, they could halve put a much wider bucket on that excavator.

For sure. It's like they were slowing themselves on purpose. With how slow that hoe was moving it was like they didnt even have it in high idle

[slots881]

And the website is now not working.
Holiday hole made their money and just disappeared.

[Fuzz]

Aaaaand it's done. I stand by my earlier post that this is a pretty pathetic hole.
If the website isn't working...

[slots881]

Must have just not been working on my phone.
I agree, it's a pretty lame hole, but they did move a lot of dirt.
Hahah, and people paid for it! Non sensical