There's quite a few jobs I'm happy to farm out. Just today for example:

Two guys, cherry picker, giant Vermeer wood chipper, one day, $1,200 later and the Live Oak in my backyard is all trimmed up. The one branch hanging over my pool cage was 20' long and 15" in diameter where it was cut near the trunk. It would have taken me a week and I'm sure at least $600 to rent the equipment.

I still change my oil, do my brakes, and generally keep my toys running.

I've given up anything requiring climbing.
No gutter cleanning, no high branch cutting, no roof work etc.

I pay to have people build AKs for me.

ARs I can handle, but not AKs!

I also pay to have my oil changed, like most people.

And though I'm not moving anytime soon, I will most definitely hire movers the next time I move. I've only ever moved myself 3 times and that's enough. I'm too old for that shit.

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Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
And though I'm not moving anytime soon, I will most definitely hire movers the next time I move. I've only ever moved myself 3 times and that's enough. I'm too old for that shit.

The last time we moved we used movers, which was a first for us. Four people’s stuff in a 1200 square foot house moving 25 miles cost $600 and it was done in 6 hours. I would have paid more.

I’m one who does a great many things that others pay for but as I get older I value my time and sanity more. I outsource lawn work (it’s once a week minimum for 9 months here in Florida so I’m buying back half of my days off), pool maintenance, and anything involving an electrical panel. I’ll trim small trees and whatnot but pruning my tall palms and oak trees - nope.

I'm 74 and there are a few things i have decided to delagate to others. One is climbing up on my roof to brush out the flue. I now pay a guy to do it.

Most stuff I can and still like to do. Some of them:

Change the oil and rotate tires for my wife's car and my truck.

I do all the regular maintenance on my tractor.

Cutting down trees and splitting up firewood. I do about three cords a year.

I do all the mowing on my zero turn. All told it's about three acres of mowing. Not too bad.

I enjoy fixing things if they break or just don't work anymore. Most of the time I am successful but not always.

Last year my lawn mower bit the dust. Rather than buy a new mower, I decided to hire a lawn service. Glad I did. Temperature has been 90 plus for weeks. Glad to let the younger guys do it.

I have stopped going on the roof. I'll pay somebody in the fall to clean out the gutters.

Just an observation. If you have the right equipment, any job is a lot quicker and easier. But it just doesn't pay, for example, to buy a commercial grade lawn mower for a lawn my size. Not to mention storing the thing.