How to skip some number of rows in a selection in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

The selection goes through many filters, as a result we get a filtered and sorted $users.
And you just need to skip a certain number of first lines (number * page) and select the next few lines, i.e. this is custom pagination.
And then I ran into a problem: the limit(6)and methods take(6)work fine on $users, but offset(2)they skip(2)give an error that such methods do not exist.
What to do in such a situation?
Why don't the methods described in the docs and suggested (and marked with solutions) in similar questions about pagination work?
The code:

public function getUsers (Request $request) {
    if ( $request->drivecats ) {
        $drivecats = explode(',', $request->drivecats);
        $users_id = DrivecatUser::whereIn('drivecat_id', $drivecats)->with('drivecats')->pluck('user_id');
        $users = User::whereIn('id', $users_id)->get();
    } else {
        $users = User::has('drivecats')->get();
    }

    $users = $users->skip(1)->take(6);

    return view('pages.users', ['users' => $users]);
}

The error crashes:
Method skip does not exist.
either
Method offset does not exist.
Changing methods in some places did not help.

Answer 1

Removed ->get() from request and inserted it after "pagination".
$users = $users->skip(1)->take(6)->get();