Tractor + driver going rate ?

[JP1]

It’s court you then.

Legal?

 

[PI Stsker]

[QUOTE="PI Stsker, let’s be fair they are only trailer drivers,

Sayings , sayings like this is only doing the farming industry bad and not very flattering to the young lad or young girl that is driving the machine ,they are learning to be a skilled operator, this old saying is from the past ,
no wonder people don’t want to come into farming, when your employer just thinks of you like this.
[/QUOTE]

How much would you or do you pay your trailer drivers or as they would be classified as, unskilled workers?

 

[spin cycle]

worlds away from me but sounds like contractor's can't charge enough and still be affordable for the customer

thus is the job worth doing?....ergo the 'elephant in farming room'

economies of scale being reached so not even that can pay?

 

[Drillman]

not much in the wrecker's thread. maybe he wanted to give the fendt some exposure after carting spuds

That’s not gonna work putting up pics of a Fendt upside down and spuds scattered across half of Staffordshire wen in a few years time he wants to advertise the tractor as immaculate and lightly used to sell on here

 

[britishblue]

I have a self employed young relation who is carting tatties on farmers tractor but he is sensible,would stop if their is a problem and he is getting£18/hour. You certainly wouldn't buy a tractor to do it for £36/hr when you can get that for sitting on someone elses!

 

[Bossfarmer]

you might start having to work out your cost to change price @Clive if you like the fendt and want to rack up hours doing tatties, out of interest how much is a new fendt 724 currently?

 

[Bossfarmer]

i see guys in 15 year depreciated and paid off masseys/cases hauling tatties for people and in the same field new fendts carting the same amount of boxes, are the fendts getting a special rate to cover the cost?

 

[L P]

£60/hr plus fuel measured from your tank. If there is lots of road work involved then add £10/hr.

So you can get £84/hr at 30l fuel burn? I'll have a bit of that

 

[Tim1989]

you might start having to work out your cost to change price @Clive if you like the fendt and want to rack up hours doing tatties, out of interest how much is a new fendt 724 currently?

£200k

 

[Bossfarmer]

£200k

seriously? i thought nearer 180

 

[Princess Pooper]

We recently paid £55/hr for carting big bale silage and £58/hr for carting big bale straw, contractor supplies fuel. Obviously flat bed trailer not tipper, but tractor needed foreloader for loading/unloading.

 

[PI Stsker]

seriously? i thought nearer 180

728 = £240k
6R250 = £175k

 

[digger64]

seriously? i thought nearer 180

but you dont need a 200hp or 200k tractor to cart spuds usually- price hour and use their fuel , not the growers fault if you choose to run over capacity £ and power needed for the job

 

[PI Stsker]

but you dont need a 200hp or 200k tractor to cart spuds usually- price hour and use their fuel , not the growers fault if you choose to run over capacity £ and power needed for the job

But the flip side of that is that tractor is used for the drilling and cultivations and now has nothing to do. You wouldn’t purposely go out and buy a 150hp tractor to go carting with.

 

[Boomerang]

If anybody else had started this thread it would have died after 2 pages .

 

[Tim1989]

seriously? i thought nearer 180

Yes Really 🫣 madness

 

[ollie989898]

I wouldn't personally risk damaging a £4k tyre or a £150k tractor on someone else's work for bare £100/day profit...

Think I'd leave it in the shed as well.

 

[yellow belly]

5 loads a day carting own grain self loading
20 minuets loading sheeting paper work 20 minuets testing and tipping 8 miles on the road equivalent to loading 3 trucks
How much a day is it worth to deliver

 

[Bossfarmer]

728 = £240k
6R250 = £175k

i though they were meant to be similarly priced JD and Fendt??

 

[Clive]

you might start having to work out your cost to change price @Clive if you like the fendt and want to rack up hours doing tatties, out of interest how much is a new fendt 724 currently?

no idea - i've not bought one lately, a few odd days on spud carting is going to make no difference to my need to change timing

i will cost tractors on what they actually cost me - not what some event in the future might cost me