Fert spreading per hour

[valtraman]

As title says what’s people charging for spreading fert PER HOUR. Customer supplies fuel. Southwest Scotland

 

[Clive]

£50

 

[Bald Rick]

As title says what’s people charging for spreading fert PER HOUR. Customer supplies fuel. Southwest Scotland

Lot of variables though ...

Rate/ha
Forward speed
Field size
Bout widths
Loading speed/distance

Interesting concept to charge by the hour

 

[valtraman]

Lot of variables though ...

Rate/ha
Forward speed
Field size
Bout widths
Loading speed/distance

Interesting concept to charge by the hour

Rate varying from 1cwt to 3cwt. Hilly grazing ground and hilly silage ground. 12 metre spread . 13k speed. Farmer loading side of field

 

[Bald Rick]

Rate varying from 1cwt to 3cwt. Hilly grazing ground and hilly silage ground. 12 metre spread . 13k speed. Farmer loading side of field

Contractor would be charging £6/ac on level ground. Guess you could work out how many acres you would expect to cover per hour ?

 

[puppet]

Never understood why it is not just by the hour as then it does matter if you are level, steep, 50 or 150 kg. Unless you know your hourly costs then how can you calculate per acre and vice versa?

 

[kiwi pom]

If you're on by the hour I guess it covers any dead time running back to fill.
Are you all GPS'd up, with weigh cells and able to offer a copy of application etc. Or chuck it in gear and guess? One service would be worth more than the other.
With the cost and complexity of tractor engines now and the way some farmers store fuel, I just cant get my head round the customer supplies fuel thing.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£2-50 /Acre is going rate for West Wales

 

[deleted user 837354]

Never understood why it is not just by the hour as then it does matter if you are level, steep, 50 or 150 kg. Unless you know your hourly costs then how can you calculate per acre and vice versa?

For a job like fertilising spreading, I would agree. Same with spraying.

 

[KB6930]

All done by the acre here £2.50 if it's loaded in the field £3 if it's to haul from the yard . 24m at 14k you can cover good acres in a day but a 3 mile haul can fairly cut output.

12m spread your looking at 25 acre/hour ish I'd say at a guess in decent sized field

 

[buffalo_soldier]

My fert chap been charging by the hour for years, much better way of doing it.

 

[valtraman]

I was spreading an average of 25 acre an hour. In my head I though £30 ish an hour . It’s not a big fancy spreader with gps or anything. Any fuel we ever take from a farm comes out of proper fuel stations with filters wouldn’t take from old steel tanks nowadays would just meter off when home and charge accordingly

 

[Will 1594]

Charge £40 an hour to do bird cover and grass paddocks on two next door , and that’s with a 2 k tractor and £150 waggler If you charged £50 an hour for what you doing still cheap per acre

 

[Fendt516profi]

I was spreading an average of 25 acre an hour. In my head I though £30 ish an hour . It’s not a big fancy spreader with gps or anything. Any fuel we ever take from a farm comes out of proper fuel stations with filters wouldn’t take from old steel tanks nowadays would just meter off when home and charge accordingly

£50hr if they think it's to much just charge 2.50 a acre

 

[Mouser]

I was spreading an average of 25 acre an hour. In my head I though £30 ish an hour . It’s not a big fancy spreader with gps or anything. Any fuel we ever take from a farm comes out of proper fuel stations with filters wouldn’t take from old steel tanks nowadays would just meter off when home and charge accordingly

Mental if you only charge that. It's one of the jobs that actually pays if you have the gear. Like tedding and mowing with doubles or triples. Everybody wins at £2/acre so charge £50/hour

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£50hr if they think it's to much just charge 2.50 a acre

£50 hour is a lot cheaper . But my man likes to chat a lot so £2-50 and no charge for yapping

 

[Fendt516profi]

I know that but I priced a man per hour for baling and he nearly fell over so told him per bale price and he was fine (was same amount total)

 

[Lewis]

I was asked if id do a neighbours silage fields after 1st cut, be about 100 ish acres and took best part of 8 hours to do as I was travelling to fill my self and fields a bit hairy in places and not overly smooth going. Not using super tech gear either just standard spreader with bog standard gps. Was also wondering what I should charge.

 

[Fendt516profi]

£50 hour is a lot cheaper . But my man likes to chat a lot so £2-50 and no charge for yapping

I was asked if id do a neighbours silage fields after 1st cut, be about 100 ish acres and took best part of 8 hours to do as I was travelling to fill my self and fields a bit hairy in places and not overly smooth going. Not using super tech gear either just standard spreader with bog standard gps. Was also wondering what I should charge.

£50hr not cheaper here

 

[KB6930]

I was asked if id do a neighbours silage fields after 1st cut, be about 100 ish acres and took best part of 8 hours to do as I was travelling to fill my self and fields a bit hairy in places and not overly smooth going. Not using super tech gear either just standard spreader with bog standard gps. Was also wondering what I should charge.

The price is what it is doesn't matter if you're full GPS etc that's only making your life easier. As long as you're making a good job of it you could be spreading with 20k worth of gear or 150k makes no odds to price per hour/acre