How much to charge per hour.....already searched
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JJT
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How big is an ASV RC100 ? Around here a 40 horse tractor with a 6' brush hog will run $50/hour.
Birdhunter1
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Figure out how to price per job instead of per hour and set a minimum price.
Or set a minimum price then add so much $ per hour, like a $300 minimum and then $70-$80/hour.
Or set a minimum price then add so much $ per hour, like a $300 minimum and then $70-$80/hour.
Boomerang1
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Years ago, 10% of the value of the machine used to be enough to cover overhead. Now it's not enough. Around here, you're lucky to get $275./ hr. for a $600,000 dozer.
I charge $40./ hr for a $23,000 tractor. Something like a 420 Cat Backhoe is around $80./ hr.
I charge $40./ hr for a $23,000 tractor. Something like a 420 Cat Backhoe is around $80./ hr.
I don't often do contract-type work but when I do it is at a variable rate according to what I perceive (rightly or wrongly) to be the person's ability to pay.
Till a garden spot for a 75 year old widow living in a little house in an old neighborhood or a farm--free.
Same job for Yuppie living in a gated community with a Jaguar sitting in the drive--not free, not even close.
Till a garden spot for a 75 year old widow living in a little house in an old neighborhood or a farm--free.
Same job for Yuppie living in a gated community with a Jaguar sitting in the drive--not free, not even close.
bill177
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Till a garden spot for a 75 year old widow living in a little house in an old neighborhood or a farm--free.
Same job for Yuppie living in a gated community with a Jaguar sitting in the drive--not free, not even close.
I like your style! That is a more than fair and equitable means of pricing tractor work.
Same job for Yuppie living in a gated community with a Jaguar sitting in the drive--not free, not even close.
I like your style! That is a more than fair and equitable means of pricing tractor work.
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rutwad
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I've just started uding my ASV. I can't afford to price by the job yet, or I'd go broke. I seem to be a bad estimater of time.
I bought the ASV primarily to run a forestry mulcher. Well, my first job was to mulch a road so large dump trucks could enter around back of the house. Then I used the ASV to bust up the concrete pool and filling it with sand. I know this machine cost alot of money, and the mulcher head seems nothing shy of abusive. It really works a machine hard.
What about man hours. I spent a couple hours on the job today not running the ASV. How much do you guys charge per hour, or do you just add something to your job total for these extras.
thanks for the help
I bought the ASV primarily to run a forestry mulcher. Well, my first job was to mulch a road so large dump trucks could enter around back of the house. Then I used the ASV to bust up the concrete pool and filling it with sand. I know this machine cost alot of money, and the mulcher head seems nothing shy of abusive. It really works a machine hard.
What about man hours. I spent a couple hours on the job today not running the ASV. How much do you guys charge per hour, or do you just add something to your job total for these extras.
thanks for the help
lawn_king
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Here in massachusetts everything runs sky high in costs & overhead. We charge $42.50 per man hour for labor. $85. pr hr for a cat 416, $75. pr hr for a cat 277. $65. pr hr for the kubota B3030. 8 hour minimum on the cats, 4 hour minimum on the kubota. Those are the going rates here.
AlanB
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If you do not know your operating costs at this point, and are trying other methods to find your pricing I would look at a couple of things.
1. What do other people charge doing similar work in your area ie, if you wanted to sub it out, what would it cost you to have it done?
2. What the rental cost of that machine would be, and what the minimums etc would be in your local area.
3. I am assuming you are operating above board with reference to taxes / insurance, licenses etc. It sounds like you are just starting in and getting a feel for it, but I will caution you that when you tell someone the price, remember that you will see between 35% to 50% of that price come into your pocket after taxes etc. Then you still have to pay your expenses (gas, maintenance, what you broke etc.) before you put any $ in your pocket.
It is very tempting easy for folks starting into a business like this to say, something along the lines of well, I was making $10 an hour at Wally World and I own my machine so if I charge $20 an hour I am making twice the money, all those guys out there charging $50 (or whatever) are ripping people off..... After they have been around for a while, they find they are charging those prices as well, or going out of business.
There will be a wide range of rates being paid, a general Contractor having yards done as a normal deal will pay a lot less then the one time homeowner who needs some quality work done.
I would talk to some landscapers in your area, we have a 610 Bobcat and a NH 1925 and we sub out a lot of our dirt work to a guy that we work with for $50 an hour. It is just more practical sometimes for us to pay him and have it done than for us to do it with our stuff. He has a Harley as well as a substantially larger Gehl Skid steer.
1. What do other people charge doing similar work in your area ie, if you wanted to sub it out, what would it cost you to have it done?
2. What the rental cost of that machine would be, and what the minimums etc would be in your local area.
3. I am assuming you are operating above board with reference to taxes / insurance, licenses etc. It sounds like you are just starting in and getting a feel for it, but I will caution you that when you tell someone the price, remember that you will see between 35% to 50% of that price come into your pocket after taxes etc. Then you still have to pay your expenses (gas, maintenance, what you broke etc.) before you put any $ in your pocket.
It is very tempting easy for folks starting into a business like this to say, something along the lines of well, I was making $10 an hour at Wally World and I own my machine so if I charge $20 an hour I am making twice the money, all those guys out there charging $50 (or whatever) are ripping people off..... After they have been around for a while, they find they are charging those prices as well, or going out of business.
There will be a wide range of rates being paid, a general Contractor having yards done as a normal deal will pay a lot less then the one time homeowner who needs some quality work done.
I would talk to some landscapers in your area, we have a 610 Bobcat and a NH 1925 and we sub out a lot of our dirt work to a guy that we work with for $50 an hour. It is just more practical sometimes for us to pay him and have it done than for us to do it with our stuff. He has a Harley as well as a substantially larger Gehl Skid steer.