130hp tractor costs

Fendtbro

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So are you the man that sends a 130hp tractor out with driver for £20 per hour ?
No.. £45 for bare tractor, £50 with trailer. Old fendt's and mb tracs that have doubled in value in 10 years. They are costing about £3-4 an hour in parts and about the same in labour to repair. Can't see how contractors can make anything much running new premium stuff on hourly rates?
 

Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
No.. £45 for bare tractor, £50 with trailer. Old fendt's and mb tracs that have doubled in value in 10 years. They are costing about £3-4 an hour in parts and about the same in labour to repair. Can't see how contractors can make anything much running new premium stuff on hourly rates?
What about tyres, insurance, service work, all this adds up to more than £3 to 4 per hour
 

Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
Mitchy's

Your right, add 65pence per hour for tyres and 60pence for service work. Insurance cost per hour would take a fair bit of time to work out
So you get about 7600 hours out of set of tyres, And you can do a your service work for 60p , the question is how may hours a year you doing ?, we cost every machine & tractor out from start to finish .
 

Fendtbro

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So you get about 7600 hours out of set of tyres, And you can do a your service work for 60p , the question is how may hours a year you doing ?, we cost every machine & tractor out from start to finish .
Yea, 8000 hours and Mitchy's are at 10%. As you know front tyres last great on the fendt with a proper locking front diff. 600 hours odd each main machine.
 

jg123

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Mixed Farmer
Part ex'in the tractor for new every 3 yrs and its always still worth what you paid so costs you nothing is the greatest invention machinery dealers have ever created. People tell me this then when I ask so have you paid finance payments every month for the last 20yrs and they say yes we have to agree to disagree.

Possibly if its your last ever tractor and then you retire it may have cost you very little as inflation has been on your side.
 

BRB John

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BASIS
Location
Aberdeenshire
313 fendt 2015 - £75,000
Servicing - £1500 per year
Depreciation average £5,000 per year
Tyres - £2000 (ish) should last 10,000 hrs
Maintenance - warranty first 3 years but after that probably put aside another £1500.
@1000hrs a year that's £8.20 per hour. Plus of course....
Average fuel £5,000 per year
Average worker @£15hr £15,000

£30hr for driver and tractor should cover all reasonable costs.

Again these are just my figures feel free to disagree.
 

Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
313 fendt 2015 - £75,000
Servicing - £1500 per year
Depreciation average £5,000 per year
Tyres - £2000 (ish) should last 10,000 hrs
Maintenance - warranty first 3 years but after that probably put aside another £1500.
@1000hrs a year that's £8.20 per hour. Plus of course....
Average fuel £5,000 per year
Average worker @£15hr £15,000

£30hr for driver and tractor should cover all reasonable costs.

Again these are just my figures feel free to disagree.
Insurance ?
 

jg123

Member
Mixed Farmer
313 fendt 2015 - £75,000
Servicing - £1500 per year
Depreciation average £5,000 per year
Tyres - £2000 (ish) should last 10,000 hrs
Maintenance - warranty first 3 years but after that probably put aside another £1500.
@1000hrs a year that's £8.20 per hour. Plus of course....
Average fuel £5,000 per year
Average worker @£15hr £15,000

£30hr for driver and tractor should cover all reasonable costs.

Again

313 fendt 2015 - £75,000
Servicing - £1500 per year
Depreciation average £5,000 per year
Tyres - £2000 (ish) should last 10,000 hrs
Maintenance - warranty first 3 years but after that probably put aside another £1500.
@1000hrs a year that's £8.20 per hour. Plus of course....
Average fuel £5,000 per year
Average worker @£15hr £15,000

£30hr for driver and tractor should cover all reasonable costs.

Again these are just my figures feel free to disagree.

Wouldnt disagree with the above but on the plus side these figures are based on writing the tractor off at 15yrs when in reality it will have a value. ...... to budget tho your probably right to do it as you have rather than guess it will be worth 40k and completely skew the figures.

Edit. I personally wouldnt include fuel and the driver as thats not really cost of owning the tractor. Fuel could vary massively depending on the work and the price of fuel could change a lot in a few year. If driver needs costing it can easy be added after as its usually a set figure per hour and wont vary from machine to machine
 
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Spud

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Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
Insurance is hard as it's a whole farm insurance policy so there's no break down of how much is each thing costs but if I had to guess probably £500 a year so another £0.50 an hour.
£10 per Thousand isn't a far off yardstick for insurance.
2 20.8r38 BKT's were over £800 each last year, so a full set of Michys will be near double your 2k
You obviously have kind land and very little roadwork to get 10,000hrs out of them
 

BRB John

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BASIS
Location
Aberdeenshire
£10 per Thousand isn't a far off yardstick for insurance.
2 20.8r38 BKT's were over £800 each last year, so a full set of Michys will be near double your 2k
You obviously have kind land and very little roadwork to get 10,000hrs out of them
£10 per thousand hours? where do you get your insurance?
I probably do have kind land compared to others and I certainly don't do much road work. If I were I'd have a Fastrac...

Did OP say why he wanted to know? You reckon he is first time buyer or just trying to justify that shiny new wheels?
 

Spud

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Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
£10 per thousand hours? where do you get your insurance?
I probably do have kind land compared to others and I certainly don't do much road work. If I were I'd have a Fastrac...

Did OP say why he wanted to know? You reckon he is first time buyer or just trying to justify that shiny new wheels?
You ten quid per thousand in value
 

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