Whats a 'farm' welder worth an hour?
- Thread starter Mr Onions
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Whatever it costs you plus margin
s line
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- Gloucestershire uk
£45 per hour.
Suckndiesel
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- Newtownards
Just hold on there this is not the how much should I be getting an hour relief milking thread
If you are making gates I think it would be better for both if it were a price per gate then you both know where you stand. I am a fabricator, rarely work by the hour, usually each job priced.
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- North West
Sounds about right to me, £45/h + vat and consumables.
quite pleased with that ,
....... thinking how much ive saved over the years.
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- North West
It’s repairs though so the amount of work it takes to sort each gate could be different so hard to do for a fixed price.
I’d be on an hourly rate for any repair jobs, could do 3-4 gates in an hour if they don’t need a lot but on the other hand they could be in right state.
serf
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- warwickshire
If it's anything like my welding , fek all ...
I’d have thought £30 but sure everyone likes to rip the arse out of things these days
I'd agree for a "farm welder", fabricator would be considerably more.
(Assuming Mig Welding) Power, all consumables, wire, tips, shrouds, liner, Gas etc, Cutting/Grinding Consumables, blades, disks, belts, drill bits, PPE - coveralls, safety glasses, hearing protection spread across you operation at cost +20% (make sure you have liabilty insurance in case anything goes wrong with your repairs) & whatever you value your time at.
A good job is not cheap & a cheap job is not good.
A good job is not cheap & a cheap job is not good.
I do find these “ how much” threads seem to be maned by the get every penny you can brigade. Ag really isn’t the same as other industries like it or not. The margins ain’t there to sustain “ I won’t get out of bed for less the 250 quid folks. £45 an hour probably is ok if your work rate and quality matches it. No disrespect to the OP I’m sure your worth every penny.
I just know as a livestock farmer I can’t keep sustaining these high prices for every thing for the foreseeable future.
I try and do as much as possible myself lately.
I was paying €40 plus vat 5 years ago. However his work was extremely high quality and precise, and very quick. You'd tell him what you wanted and he was able to suggest improvements to make stuff better.
Seemed very expensive, but actually worked out cheaper than lads working for half that rate.
Seemed very expensive, but actually worked out cheaper than lads working for half that rate.
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
80-90k a year for doing farm welding , im a crap farmer i couldn’t afford that .
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- North West
£45/h isn’t expensive for anyone who’s worth their salt!
By the time you take your equipment/running costs, electric, building maintenance, insurance, tax and NI plus all the other little bits that add up out of that £45 there’s not a massive amount left as a wage at today’s prices. And you need to make a “profit” otherwise how do you replace your welder or grinder when it goes pop (they aren’t cheap!) Trust me I’ve been doing it long enough and my phone wouldn’t be constantly ringing if it was too expensive. If anything it’s to cheap in today’s money.
Local Nissan dealers want £108/h just to open the bonnet and look at a fault that’s not even to fix it.
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Can get a 250hp 200k tractor, driver and on there fuel for £45/HR!
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- Aberdeenshire
Exactly which is why they should be getting £50/HR!
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- North West
That’s usually because a farming business has bought the tractor and they’re working of nothing!
A 200hp+ tractor and easily burn through 40+l/h of fuel so where’s the margin after depreciation, labour and service costs?