Mowing Brush hogging rates

[Gale Hawkins]

Most charge $60-80/hr for machine and operator. You could cut him some slack at $45-50/hr. If you want to protect yourself and him/his property you need insurance against liability in case you throw a rock and do property damage or personal injury. No insurance- something goes wrong, you are on the hook.

Real numbers and good advice from my experience. For most they can never charge enough to cover full costs of tractor ownership but any reasonable rate helps with the cash flow.

 

[LD1]

Yep. Thats a which and easy formula. It assumes 82.5% efficiency.

Long form is mph x 5280 x width = square ft per hour

Divide that by 43560 to get acres per hour.

Then factor in efficiency.

So take the constants..(5280/43560) x 82.5% EFF and you get 0.1

So...mph x width x 0.1 ......or.....(mph x width)/10...same thing

 

[Grant1]

I charge 60 per hour. I usually can mow an acre within the hour. Remember the neighbor wont be around when its time to repair your equipment. If they are a good friend, then I would do it for free.

 

[JeffTerry]

I do bush hogging on the side. I personally charge the following: $60.00 for the first hour (doesn't matter if it takes me ten minutes) 35.00 an hour after that. its a little low but it gets me work,

 

[JeffTerry]

like Grant1 says, if they are a true friend and have been for a long time. do it for free or ask them to fill your tank. But make sure to ask, is there anything out there that might cause a flat. flat tire are expensive.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I charge $65 per hour with a 3 hour minimum. I have a 45 hp tractor with a 6' bush hog.

 

[fieldman12]

I think most will agree if you have not ever mowed a property before and it is tall there are tons of things out there to hit or possible holes to drop a tractor in. I have mowed since i was 12 and now I'm almost 40. I charge a minimum of $60.00 plus per hour. Most of these people don't want it mowed anymore than once a year and there are allot of them that have not mowed it in years and have a huge mess to deal with. I see these problems all the time they have the money to purchase the land but have no equipment at all to maintain it and want you to do the job for nothing. If your damage a back tire it can cost you big dollars. My dad when I was small ruined a oil pan on a tractor when he got it stuck on a small stump he did not know was there in the tall weeds. I was mowing a fence row for a buddy several years ago with his dads tractor in stuff at least 6' tall. It's a good things I keep the bucket low to the ground because I dropped the front tires in a whole just wide enough for the front tires to fall in that you never would know was even there. I'm confident if that bucked had not been on it would have been allot worse. I try to walk allot of places I mow but I understand that is not always possible and you have to deal with the bugs lol. In bad stuff I can only mow about 3/4 an acre with a 6' bush hog an hour.

 

[DT86]

I charge 60 per hour. I usually can mow an acre within the hour.

I charge $65 per hour with a 3 hour minimum. I have a 45 hp tractor with a 6' bush hog.

That would be way out of the question here.

What I'm getting at is rates vary vastly by the area.

For example I've been mowing with a 15' hog, about 4-6 acres an hour for $75/H. They act like I'm really f**king them over.

 

[Rayster]

There is a guy here that charges $30 an acre. I think it's $130 initial service fee (on arrival).

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Its worth about $100 an hour or more but i cant get that, but i can and do get $55 an hour with a 3 hr minimum.