What to charge ?

[Hesston4860s]

Need some advice from the collective here !

Been and baled 20ac of hay (nothing wrong wrong in that), but when I got there basically there’s less than f**k all !. I got an amazing 6 bales 120x70 8 foot quads and I only got 6 Cos I ejected the last un !. Now it took me an hour to get there and back and an hour to bale it and arse about getting the last un ejected !.
Now at 5.50 a bale £33.00 total I’m out of pocket, what’s the collective reckon ?.

 

[jimbo69]

I think you'd have to charge an hourly rate for that. Be upfront with them about it though and if they get arsey you'll know not to bother next time.

 

[theboytheboy]

£45 per hour

 

[livestock 1]

£150?

 

[Chae1]

Need some advice from the collective here !

Been and baled 20ac of hay (nothing wrong wrong in that), but when I got there basically there’s less than fudge all !. I got an amazing 6 bales 120x70 8 foot quads and I only got 6 Cos I ejected the last un !. Now it took me an hour to get there and back and an hour to bale it and arse about getting the last un ejected !.
Now at 5.50 a bale £33.00 total I’m out of pocket, what’s the collective reckon ?.

You've been had.

You'll know how many bales you average per hour normally. Just send a invoice for hourly rate based on a normal crop.

 

[d williams]

Need some advice from the collective here !

Been and baled 20ac of hay (nothing wrong wrong in that), but when I got there basically there’s less than fudge all !. I got an amazing 6 bales 120x70 8 foot quads and I only got 6 Cos I ejected the last un !. Now it took me an hour to get there and back and an hour to bale it and arse about getting the last un ejected !.
Now at 5.50 a bale £33.00 total I’m out of pocket, what’s the collective reckon ?.

Hourly rate based on your average day from the yard back to your yard sometimes your better off saying thanks but no thanks

 

[David.]

Is it somebody you work for regularly who has just dropped the ball this once, if it is you may have to take it on the chin, take the rough with the smooth etc, but let them know it is a pee-take that will not be repeated.
If not, tell them you cannot and will not work for nothing, and bill a fair sounding hourly rate, better to draw something than nothing so no point going in silly. Any reasonable person can see that you need at least £80 to even bother going.

 

[v8willy]

Discuss it with him, if the fella has any decency about him he will know you need more than the normal rate, he may give you more, or he may get you back to do some decent acreage to let you make a few quid....




...or he may just be an arse...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Was it a horse place...

 

[vinnie123]

@15 little bales per quadrant charged @£1/bale would come to the same money ?

£45 per hour

 

[tepapa]

Call out fee of £100??? + Bales on top for under 20 bales. Just say it with confidence when you tell the customer like you charge that all the time for small amounts.
Or set minimum charge on all jobs, let customers know when they book you, they can find someone if they aren't prepared to pay it.

 

[ILovebaling]

Most of the big contractors round here would charge £100 fee for anything less than 100 bales. You're still struggling make it pay doing that like. And if they complain its not like you are losing a good job.

 

[ILovebaling]

Also I'd charge a tenner per bale on top.

 

[Courier]

2 Hours with a DB780 and an IH430 baler got me £185 the other day plus a £15 tip. - Used less than 10 litres of diesel.

 

[caveman]

2 Hours with a DB780 and an IH430 baler got me £185 the other day plus a £15 tip. - Used less than 10 litres of diesel.

Naughty naughty.
You should of charged £45 an hour including travelling .

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I wonder if the contractor that baled it up for him last year got paid . That maybe why they rung someone up that is over an hour away !

 

[Fendt516profi]

£220hr got to be able to do 40 a hr in normal crops this year. One I've done this year would work out over £400hr baled and wrapped

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

take it on the chin,
you say you charge by the bale, so charge by the bale,
chalk it down to experience,

if it had been a mega crop, you would not of knocked off any money,

you charge the guys far to much, they will tell everyone, any word will get round you charge far to much, and that will do you no good,

if you don't like it don't do it again

 

[Tarw Coch]

take it on the chin,
you say you charge by the bale, so charge by the bale,
chalk it down to experience,

if it had been a mega crop, you would not of knocked off any money,

you charge the guys far to much, they will tell everyone, any word will get round you charge far to much, and that will do you no good,

if you don't like it don't do it again

I see where you’re coming from but in fairness he was asked to go and bale 20 acres, not sure how many bales he was expecting to do but I’d have thought at least 5 an acre, that would be 100 bales, the fact that it was only 6 means there really was fudge all on it, far less than a crop that didn’t live up to expectations.
Had he been asked to go and bale an acre he’d have probably said it wasn’t worth his while unless he wasn’t busy and they paid travelling time, yet that is effectively what he has done, lured there under the false pretences and expectations that he’d got 20 acres to bale.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I see where you’re coming from but in fairness he was asked to go and bale 20 acres, not sure how many bales he was expecting to do but I’d have thought at least 5 an acre, that would be 100 bales, the fact that it was only 6 means there really was fudge all on it, far less than a crop that didn’t live up to expectations.
Had he been asked to go and bale an acre he’d have probably said it wasn’t worth his while unless he wasn’t busy and they paid travelling time, yet that is effectively what he has done, lured there under the false pretences and expectations that he’d got 20 acres to bale.

if it had been a good crop
and while baling got a flat tyre, had to call tyre services out, then half hour later a pickup bearing went, had to go home fix and back to finish,
and the job was running at a loss,
would you charge customer for this,

its the same thing,