Spraying around young trees

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We've been approached by the woodland trust to give a price for spraying around some 1-3 yr old trees, having never done a spraying contract I find myself in the possition I used to be in 10 years ago when we started of not knowing how much to charge; feels strange now!

 

Will anyone advise me what they think is a good / fair / competative / profitable price per 100 trees? The sites are all within reasonable travelliung distance.

 

Any advice much appreciated!

 

(I should mention we do have staff who hold the necessary certificates.)

[ging]

labour + materials + on-costs/over heads + a bit for a drink = price of job.

 

sorry dont actually have any useful advice, but at least you get a bump

 

hopefully someone else may give you some proper advice

[Mark Cattell]

Use you usual pricing methods...

What is your day rate... if your not meeting it spraying then stick to tree work..

Rates can be found in SPONDs for a guide.

 

Day rate+ chemical + extra eqiupment..

 

make sure you get spec required as there is big price range in chemicals.

 

also take a backback sprayer to a woodland full of water and do 100 trees then use a bit of math... if you know the porposed site all the better...

 

Can't go wrong with that one...

[slack ma girdle]

The last time that i sprayed around young trees i got 15 pence per tree, and they provided the herbicide. Good work started at first light got to listen to the dawn chorus.

If you are work in a remote area you will need a 4x4 and a trailer that can carry a couple of hundred liters of water. Once you get your eye in so to speak you can spray around the tree faster than you can walk past it.

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Thanks for the replies, particularly the idea of going with a clean sprayer and spraying around some trees; that really is something I ought to have though of myself!!!!

 

Thanks, Tristan.

[stihllearning]

one 15l knapsack sprays approx 700 trees and i have done 10000 trees in a day in ideal conditions i was payed 5p per tree by a management company all in all a good days work.

 

but, dont do it on a hot day those spray suits dont breath at all and that realy slows you down.