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Butcher

09-03-2003 18:39:06




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What would be a fair price for brush hogging 26 acres? The land belongs to my mother in law and is to far away for me to haul my stuff to. It was corn 2 years ago but has not been touched since. My wife and I want to keep the ground up and not let it go to heck.




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Custom Farm rates

09-04-2003 19:18:54




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 Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 18:39:06  
This website has a wealth of information on custom farming rates, Ray,IN



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Indydirtfarmer

09-08-2003 04:24:27




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 Re: Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Custom Farm rates, 09-04-2003 19:18:54  
Don't let my "customers" see these prices! most of what is on this web-site, is large scale farm work. Smaller mowing jobs must take all things into consideration. I have done several this summer, where I spent more time moving to and from the job, than I actually spent mowing. I do a lot of bush hogging for a local real estate company. Some of their property is in the city. You never know what you're going to encounter. That has to be considered. I've hit rocks, old lumber, a sawed off telephone pole (Left 8" out of the ground), a couple of bicycle frames, fence wire, and a dead dog. You never know what will be under 4' tall weeds. When bush hogging other peoples ground, you will get the "pleasure" of discovering all this junk. I end up buying a new bush hog every 3 or 4 years. That has to be factored into the price you charge everyone. Then there is the "old guy down the road, with an old tractor and nothing better to do" factor. You won't beat his price, so don't even try. If you can't make a buck, just stay at home, and watch TV. Location has much to do with the price also. Way out in the boonies, people will not pay as much as you can make in the city. Law of supply and demand. (There is a big supply of tractors and mowers in the country, and not so many in town)

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kyhayman

09-04-2003 12:55:39




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 Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 18:39:06  
$85.00 per hour gets me with 86 hp tractor and 15' batwing on good ground; pipeline right of way, and ground not mowed for over 2 years is $100 per hour. Get 5 acres and hour or so. Clock starts when I leave the house, stops when I finish your job. Minimum is 4 hours.



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Frank

09-04-2003 05:10:58




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 Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 18:39:06  
where is this place located



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Butcher

09-04-2003 19:18:00




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 Re: Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Frank, 09-04-2003 05:10:58  
Right smack dab between Jesup and Dunkerton Iowa.



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Indydirtfarmer

09-04-2003 04:10:59




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 Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 18:39:06  
By the sound of things, you probably have a nice, clean, fairly easy to mow, field. Just like the one I mowed on monday. On the second round, I hit a cut-off telephone pole, left about 8 inches out of the ground. This is in 3 foot tall weeds. BANG! Thank God for slip-clutches. I do all the bush hogging I can get at $60.00 an hour. This is for a 60 HP tractor, and a 6' mower. I stay as busy as I can handle. (I work a 40 hr job and farm too) If you do this kind of work a lot, you have to make enough to cover the liability, and the potential loss of equipment when you figure your price. I get $60 an hour, plus $35 an hour travel time. If it's close enough to home that I can just drive the tractor, with out involving the trailor, I might knock it down to $45 or $50 an hour. I live on the outskirts of a major city, and the prices are higher than "way out in the country". A lot of things play into what someone might charge you.

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stan

09-04-2003 01:13:24




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 Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 18:39:06  
25.00 an hour seems a little low. With gas pushing 2.25 a gal. here in Calif. I just paid 1.85 for diesel. I charge 75.00 an hour. Insurance, workers comp. all add up.When blades start turning the clock startes. I dont have a min. or travel time. Beers dont pay my bills.



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Aaron

09-03-2003 18:49:52




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 Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 18:39:06  
I charge by the hour. I really don't like to do it at all, but some people insist once they know you have a brushhog mower. My rate is $25 per hour. (With a $50 minimum if I have to haul the tractor and mower a distance, like 20 miles)



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Butcher

09-03-2003 19:03:09




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 Re: Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Aaron, 09-03-2003 18:49:52  
I know what you mean. I would have to hual or drive a machine almost 25 miles and then back to home. $25 sounds pretty resonable around these parts though. Most of the guy's around my neck of the woods want me to help them out for "I'll buy you a few beers". But when I need help it's "Oh shoot my girl has to have new jogging shoes and the wife is out of town and..."



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Sparky

09-09-2003 09:59:38




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 Re: Re: Re: Fair price for mowing in reply to Butcher, 09-03-2003 19:03:09  
I mow pasture on 110 acres that is in a grass program, trying to keep the cedars from taking over and keep some of the weeds out. If all went well I make ten dollars and acre working out to around $50 dollars an hour. This has been fine and dandy for five years. This year has been expensive and I'm much in the hole. Breakdowns have been killing me. This in large due to the oil lease. Those people simply don't care about the land, what they throw onto it or the holes they leave behind. I came accross 480v single phase strung out on the ground from one pump to another. Looked like a long black snake slithering up into the bruch hog. Don't know how long I spent cutting that out of the spindle. Never did see or hear any sparks out of the deal and since that power has been trenched in. Hit a hole this spring that had been dug by a backhoe. Apparently they didn't find what they were looking for picked up and went on leaving the hole unfilled behind. I discussed it with the oil man and was told he wouldn't do such a thing, must have been left by the man before him. Cost me $400 for a the front bolster and a lot of search of salvage yards from coast to coast. Also learned the value of a good walk. Met a lot of good people, found this site and a world of info. But still wished I hadn't hit that damm hole. Springtown Spark

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