- Location
- Cornwall
100% agree with this.... everyone is getting power happy these days !
What should I be charging per hour for tractor and man
- Thread starter RalphH
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100% agree with this.... everyone is getting power happy these days !
- Location
- Cornwall
Personally, I think I'd pay someone to let me spend the day driving a tractor , rather than doing all the management crap that I have to do these days !!
Give me my old fastrac back and I'd be happy as Larry !
Frankzy
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- Location
- Jamtland, Sweden
Yep, 0.25 to 0.3 m3 average tree size nearly 700 trees to get 200m3 per day... some pulp stems coming out at 0.09 to 0.15 m3 per treenot exactly perfect timber for a Waratah H290
That's the same average tree size as we go through with our Timberjack 1470 with a 758 4WD head and we routinely get close to 2m3/litre
Let me guess, it's a digger chassis rather than wheeled harvester?
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That's the same average tree size as we go through with our Timberjack 1470 with a 758 4WD head and we routinely gets close to 2 m3/litre.
Let me guess, it's a digger chassis rather than wheeled harvester?
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
I seen 1 off those working on moors wind farm,
Frankzy
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- Location
- Jamtland, Sweden
Ah, any particular reason for choosing a digger chassis over a regular harvester?
And whats the reason for delimbing the whole tree and then backing up? Ripping off bark?
Branches are tough to get off clean in a single pass, so easier to give it a clean first, it's mostly going for pulp anyway.
That was filmed in Dec17 @Badshot came all the way from the sunny climates of the bottom of Englandshire to our wee beautiful part of Scotland to get a shot of the harvester 
- Location
- North Notts
Although I don't really contract out with a tractor many round here do for as little as £18/hr +fuel £25 would be a good rate, now many are beginning to realise and putting prices up, although farmers seem to be going back to doing everything in house.
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
Some areas have to many contractors doing same job, i.e. Slurry hedges or baling to many contractors and not enough customers
Famous last words! A bearing can fail any minute, with no warning.. chew a few gears and shafts, then lock up the whole transmission. Happens often. Easy to spend 10k sorting all the carnage out, Easy for mistakes to be made while repairing which results in further problems. Can result in machine having to be sold at a great loss.. Been there, done that..
What planet do you live on? Yes plant hire rates are a lot better but there still not as much as they really should be per hour? When a sparky or a Plummer are charging similar or very close too to what your getting for a 8 ton digger per hour?
Yes these is exceptions priced work etc but that’s a whole different ball game
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Bet you had fun getting that back on its feet.
- Location
- south norfolk
I’d say plant rates are pretty poor too.mine need to go up by a fiver but there is allways someone cheaper.getting so I’ve nearly had enough after 30 plus years.
Nick...
8-10 on top of the rates would make it a lot more sensible. Folk are usually happy to pay a few quid more for a good job but I don’t think they would be impressed with it going up that much
- Location
- south norfolk
Too many running machines far too cheap.heard of 13 tonners out at £25 hour including fuel.plenty of jobs about offering £18/20 hour to operate them too.hire companies don’t help letting machines out on self drive for peanuts either.im pretty certain you could hire a 13 ton machine for £400 a week too.plenty of firms hiring out 1.5 ton excavators for £130 week and dumpers for less than £100.impossible for owner ops to compete
Nick...
Nick...
PuG
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- Location
- Languedoc-Roussillon
Its alright working for nothing until your having to roll up your sleeves and fix the inevitable break downs, not even including human error (like me driving into a tree with the mower day before last...). Every part these days seem to cost 1k, that's 156 hours working at 6.60 so I guess you would need your brains checking, soon goes your "living wage"..
25ph fuel supplied?[emoji15][emoji15]needs to be double that really!!
80 odd grand for a new 13/14 ton class machine last I heard
decent driver wants what 12-15 pph
Burning let’s say 6-10 litres pre hour roughly
Bit for service
Bit for wear on tracks/ buckets etc
Depression
Etc etc list goes on
What really annoys me is folk not charging for delivery of machine means the first days work is worth nothing because it’s paying for the machine getting there
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
What would a 13t slew with buckets cost new?