Custom brush hogging

Toland88 · Aug 19, 2018

Thinking about starting a little side job brush hogging around where I live. I was just wondering what a normal price is and would it be better to charge by the acre or per hour

grandpa Love · Aug 19, 2018

We use a Ford 640 and get $40 an
hour.

flying belgian · Aug 19, 2018

I charge $65/hr. Do not, I repeat, Do not charge by the acre.

grayrider · Aug 19, 2018

I would charge by the hour if it was me

charlie n · Aug 19, 2018

335 Ford ,MX5800 Kubota, 6' cutter $65.00 hr with a 3 hour minimum . Got my liability policy bill in the mail yesterday. Gonna be $75.00 next year.

37chief · Aug 19, 2018

A lot depends in what part of the country you live in. I get 115.00 an hour for my 7 1/2 ft flail mower,or 6 ft rotary. By the time I pay ,business license, truck insurance, truck license, lilability insurance. I need to clear close to 1,500 before I start making anything. Then you hope nothing major brakes. Stan

Eldon (WA) · Aug 19, 2018

$85 an hour with 8' Bush Hog, average around $35 an acre but based on the hourly rate. I advertise an acre rate as $85 an hour tends to scare people....and guys are out there charging $60 and hour and cut less than an acre an hour. 10 acres and bigger fields I cut 3 acres an hour.

showcrop · Aug 20, 2018

I get $65.00/hour here in NH for my five footer.

Phil 25 · Aug 20, 2018

If I am mowing Alders and small trees to re-claim a field or first time mowing, its $75 per hour plus half
cost of damage from "un known" surprise /hidden items.
To do a grass or mowed before field, its $50 per hour, and each job is tagged with a $25.00 float charge.
hope it helps

JWA · Aug 20, 2018

Average $50/$60 per hour around here in W. TN.

INCase · Aug 20, 2018

around here a fellow i know bought a big zero turn mower and to help justify (wife??) and pay for it he started to do mowing on the side but refuses to do less than 1.5 acres. He's getting $250 for 1.5 acres and has all the business he wants.

i figured with every Tom Dick and Harry out there with a lawn mower doing landscape work 1/2 of them must be starving but i guess not. Economy must be good.

and/OR i know a couple "millennials" that bought a house but NEVER leave the house except to go to work. i saw him try to mow a couple times but they ended up paying someone to do it. must have been too hard. didn't help he'd let it get 10" tall before he try to push mow. pretty sad to not be able to run a push mower (he has no physical issues). shoot the ammmish have their kids pushing a mower as soon as their tall enough to reach the handles. (not safe,.. bare foot too).

ss55 · Aug 20, 2018

Do you have any luck collecting half the damages, or does it help guys suddenly remember the rocks, broken off t-posts, down fence, and rolls of wire scattered about the field that they didn't tell you about before then?

RobCons · Aug 20, 2018

Use a 6 foot cutter and get $50 per hour with 2 hour minimum. Travel at $50 per hour one way if its over 1/2 hour away.

Phil 25 · Aug 21, 2018

Been lucky so far to date I only had to collect on a front tire repair,and customer also gave {his offer} a doubled float charge to go for repair and return, But it makes it known to all where we stand if things go bad. especially on new fields.
And that has made a few owners do a field walk about..

Phil 25 · Aug 21, 2018

forgot about the fence wire ~~i found...no damage but cutting it out went as high rate mowing time regardless.~~

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