Hedge cutting pricing.

[5 shires]

8 hours ago, jfc said:

I would guess at 3-4 man days. The pricing from 5 shires seems low for a weeks work for me but depends on your rates/overheads. Have you asked the client how long it usually takes to do?
Jan.

Hedge Cutting for tree surgeons is bread and butter work,£500 to £700 price range is we’re he should be...take max 3 full days and with arising staying on site makes the job more easy..£500 min £700 max.if your not happy with earning the above money for 3days work Something is seriously wrong.

[Mark Bolam]

If I was happy with £500 for 3 days work something would be wrong alright.

[Alex O]

3 days for that ? can’t actually believe this thread is real, shocking [emoji849]

[richardwale]

Suppose if you use the customers  electric and extension leads then £500 seems ok. Keep an eye on the lead though, 200m is a lot of cable.

[woody paul]

If you go in cheap the first and loss out then the second time you make that up or maybe not that's life.

[eggsarascal]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

If I was happy with £500 for 3 days work something would be wrong alright.

Take the average, £600, £200/day self employed using your own gear. No thanks.

[richardwale]

8 hours ago, Martin du Preez said:

 

 

3 to 4 man days for a 200m hedge? We’re tree surgeons not gardeners 

 

 

Do you slightly lift your chin and flare your nostrils when you walk past one...

[Steve Bullman]

4 hours ago, 5 shires said:

Hedge Cutting for tree surgeons is bread and butter work,£500 to £700 price range is we’re he should be...take max 3 full days and with arising staying on site makes the job more easy..£500 min £700 max.if your not happy with earning the above money for 3days work Something is seriously wrong.

Are you talking about 1 man?

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Thanks all for your input.

 

[tree-fancier123]

trouble with hedges is its not difficult work - you don't need £60k of assets on site, or be highly qualified. I know my hedgecutters are a cost spread over how long they last and a bit of fuel, tripod ladder, few bits of ply to surf on, tipper, no big deal.

A tree surgeon good at reductions and technical dismantles, perhaps with his/her life savings in a yard and machinery - and a gardener working from home can both hold the machine and wave it about, although the tree surgeons results will be a geometric masterpiece - the gardener will just rasher off the growth and shrug off complaints about the rollercoaster top

so I've heard anyway