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Do you mean that you furnish a Tractor the plow and points and fuel for 35 bucks an hour ? The old Amish Man used to say if all i'me a gonna make is nothing then all I want to do is nothing. . Old Scovy
 
He is only using 3 bottoms, so charging more will be tough. That's not far from half the 6 bottom rate in the chart I posted.
 
I don?t see where bottoms have any bearing on a per acre price now on an hourly rate I can see it . I had a 5 bottom one way and it wast a whole lot faster the 3x16 buy the time you drive from land to land not plowing finishing up lands and finishing the headlands takes a lot longer as well
 
In the hard rocky ground have to run about 2.5 or 3
or plow parts scatter . Good ground I can run about
5.5 or 6
 
In good plowing I can see charging by the hour but on rocky ground you can spend to much time repairing the plow to be fair charging by the hour
 
I charged $35 per hour with the 1650 and $50 per hour with the 1955 regardless of the implement being used. That was almost 30 years ago.
 
That is exactly why you charge by the hour. Per acre doesn't account for the varying conditions that put more or less stress on your machinery. Doing custom work pretty much assures you get hired to do the crap they don't want to beat up their own machinery with.
 
That's exactly my point. You charge by the acre and you get into a rock garden where you not only have to slow way down, but beat and break up your equipment for next to nothing with the per acre charge.
 
I would be the other way, their rocks their expenses. You certainly can't afford to do more damage for less money.
 
yes I have been doing custom work for over 40 years,, that job I had 150 acres to do, fuel was under 2 bucks, plow lays was 1/3 what they are today,, I still made plenty of coin as I ran two tractors plowing it 1 1/2 days to do the job,, 2670 pulling 7-18" and a 2290 pulling 6-18",, some jobs I only do by the hour,, some by the acre today I would still do it by the acre it would a whole lot higher rate is all about 20 acres of it was all that was really rough going,, and it was all in one field not much turning and you can cover the acres in a hurry,, the day and 1/2 included moving there and back also that job filled my 1000 gallon fuel tank and bought two sets of shares,, i doubt it wore 15% off the one doing the job, I made plenty of coin,, I just do not like doing custom work when I have my own to do and then I was farm 2500 acres myself, the big plus was the tank of fuel from it, it took a gallon a acre plowing it, I have been at this game a while not some green horn, this was done for a customer of mine then that spent 15,000 or more a year on repairs so I did not rake him too bad even though I did not want to do it,
 
Here it runs about $15 an acre but fields (rice / beans) are typically 100 acres or more.
We don't have rock and don't use moldboard type plows. Most ground has been plowed the previous year
so its usually an intermediate tandem disc 24 - 35 feet wide. 10 acres an hour easily.
 
(quoted from post at 19:02:34 05/23/19)
(quoted from post at 17:47:07 05/23/19) 35$ an acre or about 100$ an hour .
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3 16's at 5mph is only about 2 a/hr. You weren't anywhere near 5 mph in those hard ground videos.
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DITTO back when I plowed with a 6 bottom 14'' plow my radar on my tractor showed I was plowing 2.5 acres per hour going round & round not in lands.
 
Even going around and around you still have at
least four corners to finish and that?s on a square
field If you get in an odd shaped field you can end
up with a lot more really easily that?s why I went
from the five bottom semi mount plow to a rollover
 
Donald That rocky field the bill to plow was 1200.00$ and the parts bill was 1300.00 the customer paid both bills in full and also a 500$ bonus . I get 150 or 200 acre out of set of hard surface shares that?s 3.00$ an acre . I burn 2.5 gallon consistently on every acre plowed
 
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