Hedge Cutting.

[Seth470]

Just wondering how long it would take to hedge cut 330 acres of roughly 15 acre fields for a contracting job.

 

[FarmerFrank88]

3-4 12 hour days would be my guess but depends on hedge type, height and width and the the machine your using.

 

[Seth470]

3-4 12 hour days would be my guess but depends on hedge type, height and width and the the machine your using.

The hedge is always cut once a year and about 5 foot tall. I’ll be using a Bomford farm trim 435 and a case 844xln to power that.

 

[Fivedoors]

3-4 12 hour days would be my guess but depends on hedge type, height and width and the the machine your using.

Above sounds about right I work on 50 to 80 acre a day depending on field sizes but also depends on the size and how many boundaries with neighbours are yours to be cut!

 

[Seth470]

Above sounds about right I work on 50 to 80 acre a day depending on field sizes but also depends on the size and how many boundaries with neighbours are yours to be cut!

Have you got any idea how much diesel I would burn how much I should charge.

 

[Fivedoors]

Usually around one gallon per hour for your set up could be more or less and price is anything between £25 to £35 depending on area and competition

 

[Werzle]

Sounds to me like someones pricing up a hedge trimmer. Hedges will take some cutting this year with two years growth to go at around many farms after last winters ground conditions

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Racking my brain here but were the Farm trim ones using just boot flails? Were they strong enough for T flails?

 

[Kildare]

Is it worth the bother of owing a hedge cutter. Contractors will have long reach high capacity machines that small farmers can't afford. Awkward machines to fit and remove and store. Also maintenance.
I think you would get your hedges cut for about 4 or 5 pounds a acre and you might save a 1pound doing it yourself if you have spare time.

 

[betweenthelines]

How long will it take, how much fuel?

More appropriate question would be what sort of fool asks an idiot who has no idea what he's doing to cut his hedges?

 

[C.J]

Racking my brain here but were the Farm trim ones using just boot flails? Were they strong enough for T flails?

Usually fitted with the 1100LW (Light Weight) head.

Rotor plates are only 6mm so you need the collars with the thicker flange.

Flails Direct do a 60mm competition flail with bushes to fit 10mm bolts but they only fit the MW heads with 10mm plates.Both MW and LW use M10Fx 86mm bolts so there would be 8mm slack if you used the Flails Direct bushes on a LW head.

 

[ARW]

330 acres/15 acres = 22 fields.
2-3 hours a field, depends on hedge size, are you clearing ditches, cutting the grass margin.
Just give them an estimate and charge by the hour

 

[TripleSix]

Enough to sicken you is my guess

 

[Lofty1984]

330 acres/15 acres = 22 fields.
2-3 hours a field, depends on hedge size, are you clearing ditches, cutting the grass margin.
Just give them an estimate and charge by the hour

Shocking the amount of people that don’t clear ditches or grass banks