How much to charge for clearing light to small brush off of a 1.8 acre lot?
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MESSMAKER
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I would think a min. of $75 per hour. I would also charge a hauling charge to move equipment.You probably will need to stay while it burns so you will get several hours out of the job. Some of the hours will be easy.
Rocky Hoffler
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If you are not responsible for burning then it would be a lot less but in some places you have to get permit and have certain h.p. equipment on location and your liable also. I wouldn't do it for less than 6 to 7 hundred dollars people usually don't want to pay by hour for you standing by so I would give a job price bid Good luck
Fallon
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The answer to that question always starts with "what are your operating costs?". Question 2 is what is the minimum your time is worth. Beyond that its a crap shoot with many variables.
boomer1025
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What would you be willing to pay to have that work done ??
Citydude
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^^ very good question.
Kenneth in Texas
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hard to say without seeing a pic or visiting the place in person.
Capricious
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In the fall of 2010 I paid a flat fee of $750.00 for someone to clear off about (8) years of growth from about 6 acres. He thought it would take him (2) days and he spent (4) days on it, and he got about 4 to 4.5 acres of it done.
He was just starting out in the brush hogging business, he said. In fact, he looked at the property by himself on Friday, I meet him at the property and made a deal on Saturday. On Sunday he went and picked up a brand new Mahindra 4530 with FEL & Rotary cutter, and started in on it on Monday Morning.
I have not seen or heard from him since, but I would think that he never again "firm priced" anything other than the simplest of jobs. I think he learned a bunch about the brush clearing business on that first job.
I know that I did.
EDITED TO ADD: Just prior to hiring the brush hog man, I had a quote from a brush clearing outfit (with skid steer-mounted mulchers). Not a firm price, but they estimated about $3,000.00
I also had a quote from a bulldozer guy; Run over everything with a D5, bury rocks (lots of rocks), burn stumps, drag a harrow of some sort over the whole place and seed with fescue; $5,000.00 firm price.
EDITED A SECOND TIME: And, just for fun, there were the very first guys I hired to deal with this property. 2 'good ole country boys with a beat-up tractor & an equally beat up rotary cutter. They said they could do the job in a day for $250.00
I told them to "have at it." They went a tearing out through the brush for about 30 minutes before they hit this big rock and broke their cutter. Loaded up and left and I never heard from them again.
He was just starting out in the brush hogging business, he said. In fact, he looked at the property by himself on Friday, I meet him at the property and made a deal on Saturday. On Sunday he went and picked up a brand new Mahindra 4530 with FEL & Rotary cutter, and started in on it on Monday Morning.
I have not seen or heard from him since, but I would think that he never again "firm priced" anything other than the simplest of jobs. I think he learned a bunch about the brush clearing business on that first job.
I know that I did.
EDITED TO ADD: Just prior to hiring the brush hog man, I had a quote from a brush clearing outfit (with skid steer-mounted mulchers). Not a firm price, but they estimated about $3,000.00
I also had a quote from a bulldozer guy; Run over everything with a D5, bury rocks (lots of rocks), burn stumps, drag a harrow of some sort over the whole place and seed with fescue; $5,000.00 firm price.
EDITED A SECOND TIME: And, just for fun, there were the very first guys I hired to deal with this property. 2 'good ole country boys with a beat-up tractor & an equally beat up rotary cutter. They said they could do the job in a day for $250.00
I told them to "have at it." They went a tearing out through the brush for about 30 minutes before they hit this big rock and broke their cutter. Loaded up and left and I never heard from them again.
