Tracked mini loader

[dumper]

What are you charging for your tracked mini loader with bucket / grapple / forks

I have done my sums on my machine and come to £70.00 per day plus fuel at cost and transport , I think this is about right the machine replaces at least one labourer and speeds up the job. However just got a call from client saying he thinks it is steep as he can get a 1.5 tonne digger for £200 a week. I have told him they are not the same machine and do different job . I’m not in a position to tell him to shove it anyone care to share there rates for the machine 

[Mark Bolam]

Tell him to get a digger then.

 

It's your machine, you set the price, not the client.

 

(Basically I'm telling him to shove it).

[Mark Bolam]

FWIW I'd be more than happy to pay £70/day for that machine.

[s o c]

Pity you can’t tell him to shove it.

whatever your day rate per man is, it’s worth that on top.

[nepia]

If I needed such a machine for a job and could get it for your price I'd bite your hand off and go looking for more work for it.

 

I'm no expert on hire prices but as a slight comparison I pay £80 a day for a 13hp pedestrian stumpy and that doesn't save much labour!

Edited October 10, 2019 by nepia

[Matthew Storrs]

Are you self hiring it to him- or just what you want on top of your normal rate to have the machine there?

dont go any lower then £70 either way. He’s hiring a tracked loader not the digger so that’s up to him to figure which machine is right for the job.

dont try and compete too much with digger hire- it’s a race to the bottom as it is..

[woody paul]

Isn't a mini digger £70 a day and about £200 a week.

If it's to save extra labour tell him the price for 3 men as a machine will move about the same if not more.

 

[Ty Korrigan]

A tracked loader costing £20k hired out at the sum you propose would barely cover the depreciation let alone actual running costs.

I would have thought £150+ would be a more viable rate.

Stuart

[Clicky]

70 sounds like bargin I'd would pay 150 a day easy for that

[bigtreedon]

What are you charging for your tracked mini loader with bucket / grapple / forks
I have done my sums on my machine and come to £70.00 per day plus fuel at cost and transport , I think this is about right the machine replaces at least one labourer and speeds up the job. However just got a call from client saying he thinks it is steep as he can get a 1.5 tonne digger for £200 a week. I have told him they are not the same machine and do different job . I’m not in a position to tell him to shove it anyone care to share there rates for the machine 

£70 a day complete bargain