stump grinding pricing

[Mark Butland]

This has probably been asked many times before but as a newbe Stump Grinder with a tracked grinder, how do you price up a stump ? I was told £ ? per inch diameter by the inch height £ ? including under ground level ? i'm based in Berkshire (if this makes a difference ? ) any advice welcome

[richy_B]

For LA stuff I've found it is per 30cm x 30cm / sqft. Doubt there is any any way to add a 'formula' to it accurately for private work. Just attribute your target hourly rate by time it takes and go from there. After 50 customers youll6have a better idea.

[Stefan Palokangas]

Feels like yesterday I was asking similar question.

I price by time.

Price high, repair costs are indeed heavy sometimes.

New engine, cutter wheel and much more .

After you learned your machine you get a good idea.

[Mark Butland]

So to factor in maintenance cost etc after getting an idea of how long a stump will take what hourly rate would be achieveable ? 

[Ty Korrigan]

As experience builds you get to know your stumps characteristics.

I've just quoted 3 hours for a silver maple. I find these are large stumps with surface roots and soft so harder to grind. The woods like oak and beech being really quite easy and certain poplars and mature conifers soft and stringy so fresh teeth required.

Ty

[Ty Korrigan]

On 18/10/2017 at 19:45, Stefan Palokangas said:

Feels like yesterday I was asking similar question.

I price by time.

Price high, repair costs are indeed heavy sometimes.

New engine, cutter wheel and much more .

After you learned your machine you get a good idea.

New engine? WTF! What went wrong with it?

    Ty

[Stefan Palokangas]

New engine? WTF! What went wrong with it?
    Ty

Started off with taking in dust in carb flooding carb filling engine with petrol boom boom

[Trigger]

We price by the job, we tried pricing by £ per inch but found we lost jobs that way. Only experience will make you good at pricing, and that takes time and knowledge of your machine (we still make the odd mistake). It’s also good to have a minimum charge that is realistic for small jobs.