Subsoiler hire

[Northdowns Martin]

Borrowed a gls sumo this autumn and need to work out a hire charge. Easier to base on acreage rather than hours. I supplied the wearing metal, collected and returned. Any idea of a fair fee?

 

[d williams]

Borrowed a gls sumo this autumn and need to work out a hire charge. Easier to base on acreage rather than hours. I supplied the wearing metal, collected and returned. Any idea of a fair fee?

1.5%of its new purchase price per week as a hire charge bit more if only hired by the day

 

[Pringles]

We charged £8 per acre for our 3 leg auto reset Sumo.

It was used to loosen up reinstated opencast land, so it was bloody tough going, perhaps you might be a pound lighter for easier going land.

 

[Nearly]

@RLC

 

[Flat 10]

Borrowed a gls sumo this autumn and need to work out a hire charge. Easier to base on acreage rather than hours. I supplied the wearing metal, collected and returned. Any idea of a fair fee?

Costs of wearing metal plus a decent hourly rate to fit replacement metal plus 10% plus £1 an acre. I don’t know

 

[Digester Man]

I hired one before for £120 a day, no idea if its dear or cheap. One day's hire convinced me to buy one!

 

[nick...]

Look on Ellis website as they now hire stuff out.will be a starting point at least
Nick...

 

[Still Farming]

I hired one before for £120 a day, no idea if its dear or cheap. One day's hire convinced me to buy one!

Depends how much you did with it in 24hrs?
£120 for a £9k machine ant bad is it?

 

[Lazy Eric]

Depends how much you did with it in 24hrs?
£120 for a £9k machine ant bad is it?

We hire a tractor for a week to shift straw to get the job done quickly. Think it’s about 530 quid a week. Other farmers say that’s a fortune.. it’s a JD 6120 r .id guess about £65 grand to buy??
Yeah that would make sense for me to buy one wouldn’t it