Processor hire charge

[woodworm]

A trustworthy friend of mine wants to know if I would hire my 1x37 to him for a week. I would give him an instruction lesson and tell him he uses it at HIS OWN RISK. Do you think £300 for a week is about right or am I way off the mark. He supplies chain oil and tractor and operative to help him. I deliver machine, he returns it.

[gensetsteve]

You can hire a kindlet for £750 a month. But that machine is under very little stress. Your wood processor however is a machine that works hard and wears. I would say you learn alot of hard and expensive lessons in the first few hours. If you hire a machine for a week you tend to work it hard especiallly if its not yours. I would say £300 is cheap considering how much wood you could put through it and the amount of wear it will suffer.

[18 stoner]

you say a week, is that 7 days?

 

I would say that sounds cheap to me.

 

There is easily a chance of him putting 100+cube through it in that time. Equates to £3 per cube hire. Not a great outlay for him in my opinion.

[Johny Walker]

£400 near the mark ,has he used 1,before ,make sure its insured

[woodworm]

They only really want it to process some wood for themselves for the next two years. They are not dealers and I would think they will probably process less than 40 tonne. I know of someone who took a 14 tonne grain trailer full of hardwood to processor the other day and the processor charged him £180 to cut and split it!

[s.varty]

A trustworthy friend of mine wants to know if I would hire my 1x37 to him for a week. I would give him an instruction lesson and tell him he uses it at HIS OWN RISK. Do you think £300 for a week is about right or am I way off the mark. He supplies chain oil and tractor and operative to help him. I deliver machine, he returns it.

 

If your machine is sitting idle and it is returned unbroken, then great you have made £300. On the other hand any breakdowns could cost you more than what you hired it out for. I have a mate that i would lend anything to. because i know that if he broke it , he would either repair it or pay to have it repaired. So you have to ask yourself , would he?

[samtheman365]

i think you would be better off proccesing it all for him for a min of £150 per day

[s.varty]

i think you would be better off proccesing it all for him for a min of £150 per day

 

Take this mans advice. You may wish you had.

[gensetsteve]

£125 for your labour and £125 to cover machine hire oil etc he uses his tractor and diesel and supplies extra labour = £250 per day if he is a good mate will be happy to pay considering the amount of firewood he will get. I remember someone saying a good mate will be happy to pay you the going rate so you can earn a living rather than get things done on the cheap.

[kindlett]

hi depends if the person is a close friend and would he do the same for u if not i would charge 150 a day and operate the machine myself then u ar safe to have it back in good working order.If u do decide to let him have it i would make an a aggreement that if damaged while they are use it they are liable for the repair costs mechanical and any other damage.remember u need that machine to earn a living.I would say £500.00 for 7 days and that is still cheap.good luck