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>In other words it is commonly expected that professionals come equipped with the tools of trade Not always. Construction firms hire a lot of what they need fo

>In other words it is commonly expected that professionals come equipped with the tools of trade Not always. Construction firms hire a lot of what they need for each job, because it is not economical for them to store and maintain the enormous variety of tools/machines that they need over the course of a year. They'd need a huge warehouse and a whole team of people to manage and maintain all the equipment, and at that point you may as well start running a hire company. They don't invoice you for each rental fee in an itemised fashion, for the same reason they dont invoice you for each screw, each nail, the fuel for their vehicles etc: you don't give a shit.

alexqgb 16y ago
The same model applies in film production, where (literally) tons of very expensive equipment get used for brief amounts of time by people who are hired based on long-standing personal relationships, then equipped by rental shops that can afford to maintain the massive inventories of often peculiar parts that are needed on any given show. Actually, it's not the parts that are peculiar, it's the amounts and configurations that tend to vary. In any case, it makes good economic sense for everyone involved to handle labor and kit separately.