Tractor, rear discharge and telehandler charges?
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
£40/hr for 200hp tractor, spreader and manitou to load up here.
we are charging-
£45hr for 240hp with 12cu
£50hr for 300+hp with 12-14cu
£120 per day for tele driven by the above drivers
or £34hr with driver
all plus fuel & travel time
this is at the upper limit of what people are prepared to pay in this area but it cant be done cheaper without loosing money or just covering costs.
£45hr for 240hp with 12cu
£50hr for 300+hp with 12-14cu
£120 per day for tele driven by the above drivers
or £34hr with driver
all plus fuel & travel time
this is at the upper limit of what people are prepared to pay in this area but it cant be done cheaper without loosing money or just covering costs.
Ali_Maxxum
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- Location
- Chepstow, Wales
- Location
- Norfolk
I paid £35/hour recently one man with their loader 12ton bunnings on a 150-200hp tractor.
solo
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- Location
- worcestershire
£45/hr gets me two 10t rear discharge spreaders on 140hp tractors including fuel. All I have to do is provide loader which they look after. That's why i gave up hiring. Now i just steadily plough up to date behind them.
Alright then, how much for a 200hp tractor with a Howard 150 barrel spreader, loaded with a 2wd loader tractor, to include another 150hp tractor to drag it out the heap everytime it gets stuck ?
Mad For Muck
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- Location
- Midlands
£135/hr for 2x 15t spreaders both with weigh cell systems fitted loading with a shovel or 360
£125/hr for the same above just loading with a telehandler
Pulled by 200+hp tractors
£125/hr for the same above just loading with a telehandler
Pulled by 200+hp tractors
d williams
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£45/hr gets me two 10t rear discharge spreaders on 140hp tractors including fuel. All I have to do is provide loader which they look after. That's why i gave up hiring. Now i just steadily plough up to date behind them.
Hope you don't have to go to steady on the plough
But at that money you could never justify buying them
Interesting to see the variation around the country. Mid Cornwall you'd get any number of spreaders for far less. One 150hp tractor an 12 ton rear discharge £28/hour. An the contractors fuel. Then a few 2800 gallon west type spreaders £34/hour an contractors fuel. Never realised how lucky we was.
Ali_Maxxum
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- Location
- Chepstow, Wales
Contractors here are £30 to £35 per hour plus diesel for 150hp tractor and 9t spreader.
Loader is £25/hour plus diesel.
Instead of eight days a year of a contractor, i bought a rear discharge spreader. After three years the spreader was mine outright, and my balance sheet was thousands a year better (there's more than eight days spreading here).
Some like the convenience of getting a contractor in to do the job, I prefer to have the money.
Loader is £25/hour plus diesel.
Instead of eight days a year of a contractor, i bought a rear discharge spreader. After three years the spreader was mine outright, and my balance sheet was thousands a year better (there's more than eight days spreading here).
Some like the convenience of getting a contractor in to do the job, I prefer to have the money.
I know. I can't work it out. I imagine they draw no wages or living costs. Just enough to put food on the table. These rates are offered by quite professional setups. Not all farmers sons. Although I feel they are partly responsible for the competitive rates locally. That and Cornwall has far too many contractors to they small amount of farmers in comparison. I think most of them just "like" tractors.I don't know how they do it.
solo
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- Location
- worcestershire
It's a lot better than spreading 300t in a day and then trying to plough it before rain makes it greasy on top. I can now plough it at 5.5 mph instead of just browning it over
Everyone around here are about the same price as you. Lots of contractors at it. I see big price differences on here but sometimes what people on here say and what they actually invoice for could be worlds apart. I don't know how they can do it @ £28 an hour but they do.
Doesn't it all depend on how many loads an hour each spreader can do ? 15 ton spreaders take some loading with a telehandler especially approximately 1 hour into the job when it can't find grip on the midden bottom, so could be easily down to 4 or 3 loads each per hour....