You can make money with a Mechanical Bull with the right contacts in play. The key is to develop a plan and decide how much you’re willing to do to make it pay.
The best way is State and County Fairs . At a fair you pay a fee for the space of anywhere from a couple hundred to more than a thousand dollars. At a good fair, you could be making several thousand dollars a day is very realistic. But many of the fairs are already have established vendors. Do your home work and find out who will be a vendor at the fairs you would like to attend. If you do it right you can set up and make the big bucks.
Until you find the right fairs to be going to you may be required to stay open 12-16 hours a day for four days and make only $1000. Not bad to start but a lot of work for 1k. As time goes on you will find better fairs will open up and you develop a reputation life operation a riding bull gets better. Most amusement vendors, be they Mechanical Riding Bull, Rock Climbing Wall, Mobile Bumper Cars , etc… make enough in a 6-9 month season equivalent to a comfortable middle class lifestyle once they are establish