serf
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- warwickshire
Tractor driver rate
- Thread starter Farmer555
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With or without the Wench?Spend a lot of time in bed eh !
Ring hitch bitch'Drawbar shiners'
£25 an hour for Forman type who can fix the kit…. Dream on!!!
You can easily earn that figure…. I do! If you are professional. Do a good job and work hard it’s relatively easy moneyWasn't it a bit of a giveaway when he turned up ....View attachment 1176541
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
I'm not professional , that's where I'm going wrong ...
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
So what's your skill set that demands best part of £40 HR ?
Basic hard work. Have all my owm tools, (drills, mitre saws, levels. Mowers, hedge trimmers and ladders oh and a trailer and waste carrier licence. I don’t demand either. I give excellent communication. I quote and stick to that quote. I turn up when I say I’ll turn up. I leave a clean area after every job. Today transformed a garden ready for estate agent photos (third this week ) I was there for 3 hours and easily added thousands to the price. There is a big world outside of farming. For that price I have to buy and run all my own tools, buy and run my own car, pay my mortgage, pay my insurance. Save for growth and investment . Save and hope I don’t get injured.
serf
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- warwickshire
Takes the P!SS out of running around in a £150K tractor for 45£hr ...
Exactly, who are the bigger mugs?
Yep….
It’s not about being a mug. It’s about running a business that makes money to pay the mortgage . Nobody forces anyone to buy a tractor on finance then go contracting a
I’m agreeing with you
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Or about doing something you enjoy. I'd rather earn less sat in a tractor than raking leaves and pushing a lawnmower.
Yes but aren’t many that can afford to do that Chae….
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
I suppose it takes all sorts, and things change. My daughter works at a country estate open garden, with large green houses etc. She sends me pictures of work etc .
Forgetting money, I am sure I would happily do her job rather than working with cows, tractors and tractor machinery… and then add in the responsibility
… raking leaves and pushing a lawnmower sounds great
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
I suppose it takes all sorts, and things change. My daughter works at a country estate open garden, with large green houses etc. She sends me pictures of work etc .
Forgetting money, I am sure I would happily do her job rather than working with cows, tractors and tractor machinery… and then add in the responsibility
Mind you, she is smart enough not to want to change places with me
When you grow up and responsibilities you soon realise working for nowt is less fun
In what way ? I know self employed mechanics using there own vans and tools on £25-30/hr and a self employed chap working for contractors who ten years ago was on £18/hr because there wasnt anything he couldnt do, hgv licence, vg welder, drive and maintain beet harvesters,combines, drills etc. Goodness knows what hes earning now
yorkie
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- pe34 norfolk,but not born there
not really 8 years ago I was on £16 an hour , house and council tax and phone and broadband all in went as a tractor driver on the contract