Fine balance between cost of job ,profit and if customer can pay. Obviously those that pay sooner get preferential treatment.
Are Contractors rates having to go up.
- Thread starter texelburger
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ollie989898
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Topping for £10/acre, is that really profitable as a job if you have to go out and buy the tractor and topper just to do it?
If you had enough of it to do then yes why not?
Am I cheap? i thought that was the going rate tbh
Works out £60-70/hour for a 90hp tractor with a £3k topper which im happy with
obviously if it was only a couple acres and there was travelling involved i would charge accordingly
ollie989898
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I was just asking the forum in general. I don't know the going rates for contracting for anything as I am way out of date since I ever got involved even in a conversation about them. The cost of a tractor and even a topper today, with the associated price rises in diesel and the like made me wonder how much you would need to be charging/earning per day to make ownership a realistic proposition?
I know truckers talk about having to earn so much a day but even that I would be out of date on. A modern tractor unit must be 120K plus? £500 a day, would it be enough?
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Nope.
8 wheelers want to earn £6-700 per day. They can get £800 on HS2
Artics needing nearly £1000 per day now to leave some fat on their backs.
46-47 weeks of the year
8 wheelers want to earn £6-700 per day. They can get £800 on HS2
Artics needing nearly £1000 per day now to leave some fat on their backs.
46-47 weeks of the year
- Location
- South Molton
One minute your mention the "going rate" next it's your cost.
Dump trailer rates will have to go up next year as will be on DERV
- Location
- South wales
Shall I end this thread in one comment ? If your contracting charge what you charge to suit your business got bog all to do with anyone else
Tubbylew
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Just to add a bit of perspective.
Used to look foward to being able to afford a twenty year old tractor. Worlds gone mad imv
Used to look foward to being able to afford a twenty year old tractor. Worlds gone mad imv
Enry
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- Location
- Shropshire
3 wagons to do1100ac..?.sounds like hell of a businessman
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Paid a guy with a 7.5 tonner £895 for a day’s London and return - added our 20% and invoiced - everyone’s happy with a job well done ….
hagar
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- Location
- Sunny Ayrshire!!!
You must be on some bloody good smooth ground and only shot grass to be doing 6-7 acres an hour,
I do a wee bit on rougher ground with some heavy rushes and to do about 11 acres takes 7.5 hours and I'm charging it at £25 p/hr.
About 7-8 acres/hour plus travel time and field changes as my topper needs unhitched to go through anything smaller than a 12ft gate. Pony fields usually bare so just thistles etc. Get 5-6 acres/hour on my own ground as there's usually a bit of grass about
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
What a load of rubbish. So someone that does a job for you should be cheaper because you don't earn enough? Then why is fertiliser through the roof, surely the customers can't afford it?
If you are a contractor and you are waiting for the farmers to come to you to tell you are allowed to increase prices because he is finally getting a "fair price" (whatever that is), you are an idiot and deserve to go bust.
Know your costs, charge accordingly.
Also, if you are paying for the use of comma's, I've got a great idea to save some money.
fieldfarmer
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I think you may have misunderstood the point hes trying to make,
Not aimed at Soms. Farmer .
but theres plenty of farmers that geting acres worth of Bps money , rented cottages income, no problem buying the next couple of cars etc
. But also try hard to pay the lowest contractor price.
Thats a fact.
but theres plenty of farmers that geting acres worth of Bps money , rented cottages income, no problem buying the next couple of cars etc
. But also try hard to pay the lowest contractor price.
Thats a fact.
- Location
- Ceredigion
There will be a percentage of farmers that are price chasers, loyalty is not in their vocabulary, they are the same with everything they buy ,
Another example.
Not a large contract but a farm uses a chap to do this particular job on contract for a few years , then when the contractor puts his rate up a pound an acre to cover increases in metal wear farmer despite the job being done to a better standard than the farmer can do himself ( no machinery aptitude) stops the contractor and with windfall from old quota money or the like buys a brand new machine ( tax avoidance benifit of course) to do the job themselves and not insuch a skilled , thoughtful and experienced way.
Simple but True story and not unique I'm sure.
I'm not a contractor btw.
surely theres more to it than that for £895? or should i be rushing down to the iveco dealership?
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
I have said it for years that many contractors are working for the machinery manufacturers and the financial industry.
Without a decent payday off some type of utility work most are going backwards in the current climate.