Workers wanting more than Managers

[Frodo]

Tradesmen seem to be £200-£250 a day these days - that’s over £1000/week a “day” seems to be 6hrs long at most !

makes most farm workers look ridiculously underpaid really for more hours and just as skilled / hard work

I always wonder about them. On paper they should be making a decent living, but somehow they never come across as that flush.

 

[Scholsey]

I always wonder about them. On paper they should be making a decent living, but somehow they never come across as that flush.

From what I can see a lot of the younger ones snort a fair chunk of it up their noses!

 

[DRC]

He’s got just the one job 3 milking a day on one farm be around the 90 to a hundred hours I reckon but If they give him a day off he goes to the farm down the road and gets work there

How do these long hours sit with the health and safety policies that the likes of red tractor want to see.
Insane for anyone to be working those hours regularly.

 

[Lowland1]

From what I can see a lot of the younger ones snort a fair chunk of it up their noses!

Vicks Nasal Spray isn’t that expensive

 

[Cowmansam]

Dunno really but it’s spilt shifts so will have a good while in between milkings

 

[GeorgeC1]

How do these long hours sit with the health and safety policies that the likes of red tractor want to see.
Insane for anyone to be working those hours regularly.

I imagine cash in hand too so no taxes.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I always wonder about them. On paper they should be making a decent living, but somehow they never come across as that flush.

The older ones I know have property empires.

My mate is a jobbing builder. Just retired at 57 with a mortgage free portfolio of £1mil. Brings in nearly £1k/week passive income.

 

[Cowmansam]

I imagine cash in hand too so no taxes.

It’s all on the books you can’t get away with taking a couple grand a week out of a business and not having an answer to where it’s going

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

How do these long hours sit with the health and safety policies that the likes of red tractor want to see.
Insane for anyone to be working those hours regularly.

It's up to him how many hours he works, if they were his own cows nobody would bat an eyelid.

 

[unlacedgecko]

It's up to him how many hours he works, if they were his own cows nobody would bat an eyelid.

If the work involves driving tractors on public roads then I predict people will soon start to. Tachos in tractors within 10 yrs.

 

[Cowmansam]

Everyone goes on about long hours but half the junior doctors in a hospital can be pulling 20 hour shifts and you trusting them with your life

 

[B'o'B]

Everyone goes on about long hours but half the junior doctors in a hospital can be pulling 20 hour shifts and you trusting them with your life

I’d prefer to be treated by one in hour 1 of the shift than hour 19!

 

[DRC]

It's up to him how many hours he works, if they were his own cows nobody would bat an eyelid.

All I said was farm assurance are now taking a role in health and safety, so these things might get picked up on.

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

All I said was farm assurance are now taking a role in health and safety, so these things might get picked up on.

My mistake, by saying it was insane I thought you meant it shouldn't be allowed or done.

 

[ollandroverman]

I always wonder about them. On paper they should be making a decent living, but somehow they never come across as that flush.

Plenty of days you can't work, or the customer won't pay, or years of work have taken their toll and left you with a knackered body.
It's not all a bed of roses on construction

 

[Banana Bar]

This is why 12m CTF systems and direct drilling make perfect sense. Buy the kit, drive it yourself for a few weeks, don’t employ any moaners and have the winter off. It’s perfect.

 

[Banana Bar]

Out of interest what do you think I should be on per hour

Out of interest what do you think you should be on?

 

[betweenthelines]

Any skilled tractor driver could make more money driving construction machinery purely because the construction industry just passes down the required increase in wages to the customer,

I'm fed up with seeing that line trotted out whenever farmers talk about money. Do you think building firms just do everything on a cost + basis?

The reality is whether it's a couple of guys with a transit and a cement mixer putting up an extension or a National Company bidding for a multi million pound Hospital contract they're all competing in a competitive market whether it's through a tendering process or just the "Well builder Jones is £500 less" type of thing. I suspect that most people in the construction industry have a far better idea of their costs and likely margins than most farmers do though, how many farmers when buying or selling really know how much they should be paying for something or how much they need to get paid?

Lot's of comments on the livestock threads like "milkers were dear today, had to pay more than I expected" but I've never seen one that says "Didn't buy any cows today as they were more than I can pay and still see a profit from"

 

[Cowmansam]

Out of interest what do you think you should be on?

probably 12 to 15 an hour

 

[Cowmansam]

I make more per hour just milking somebody else cows