Payment for carrying bales - how much?

[Bev]

What would be fair payment in your opinion for this.
Cash in hand. Helping to load small bales onto a trailer and then unload into a barn. Probably a couple of hours work (depending on how many people I can get to help)

 

[Davey]

Depending on the amount of work it always just used to be beer and a BBQ in the evening when I was a lad?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£10 hour

 

[DeeGee]

If you can find the staff and they are worth having they are worth a minimum of £10/hour. Thousands of bales used to be carried by hand forty years ago before the availability of flat 8's and big bales; if the weather was really hot it was hard work to say the least. Whether, in this day and age, anyone is actually willing to manually throw bales around with temperatures in the 80's is another matter! Good luck.

 

[Kidds]

Depending on the amount of work it always just used to be beer and a BBQ in the evening when I was a lad?

Still is, and no promise of a BBQ.

 

[DRC]

Depends who is doing it, if it's friends and neighbours who you can repay a favour to, then they probably wont want much. Different if it's a proper workforce.

 

[Bev]

Its someone I know through someone else, he is a hard worker (works on a farm)

 

[Bev]

If you can find the staff and they are worth having they are worth a minimum of £10/hour. Thousands of bales used to be carried by hand forty years ago before the availability of flat 8's and big bales; if the weather was really hot it was hard work to say the least. Whether, in this day and age, anyone is actually willing to manually throw bales around with temperatures in the 80's is another matter! Good luck.

I'm still throwing bales about sadly, currently rowing up with a 58 yr old tractor and have blisters on my hands from steering (no power steering!) Keeps me fit though.

 

[Paddington]

We have had wwoofers in the past to cart and stack bales for free (well they stopped at the pub on the way home) borrowed from a wwoofer host.
https://www.wwoof.org.uk/

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Advertise the work on a local Facebook page as a 'Farm work experience day ' & get them to pay YOU for the privilege.

 

[KMA]

Agree with FT £10 an hour

or

a chip and a couple of beers after

Doing small haylage bales in the next week or two, put onto trailer unload in yard put onto wrapper, take off wrapper and stack............going to be a loooonnng day for a 57yr old Would take some beer with me but got to drive home

 

[EJS]

Agree with FT £10 an hour

or

a chip and a couple of beers after

Doing small haylage bales in the next week or two, put onto trailer unload in yard put onto wrapper, take off wrapper and stack............going to be a loooonnng day for a 57yr old Would take some beer with me but got to drive home

Know that feeling, baled 1200 small haylage bales 2 weeks ago but did get 2 blokes in to help wrap and stack, paid them £100/day for 10-12 hr days, have hay to stack now, not looking forward to that in this heat!

 

[multi power]

I never move any small bales till maybe 8 pm. Much nicer to work in the cool of the evening

 

[Paddington]

Advertise the work on a local Facebook page as a 'Farm work experience day ' & get them to pay YOU for the privilege.

There speaks a true Yorkshireman!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Two hours will cost you 20 quid, o would give a tip with that, those stories of the old git who worked you all day in the blazing sun for a loaf of stale bread never die

 

[DeeGee]

There speaks a true Yorkshireman!

They must be tightening up in Yorkshire then; the going rate used to be the same as North Wales; £1 an hour and as much hay as you could eat.

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

If I was to help a neighbour or a friend a few beers and a favour to call in would do it. If it was a more formal job for a stranger then probably £12-15 an hour depending how far away and how busy I am.

 

[KMA]

oh and a free session with a chiro

 

[Andyrob]

Never fir free

I'm sorry but any idiot can throw them in a shed bit takes skill to proselytising stack them.

 

[Bev]

I gave him £40 for just over 2 hours. He was a fantastically hard worker, never stopped. He was polish. He must be happy with the payment, he is coming back when I do the rest. To be honest its worth paying him a bit extra because I struggle to find people who are prepared to do a bit of hard work.