Hard-standing rental

[N1ck]

Hi all - first post but sometime lurker.

 

After 10 years of working for other people I'm finally taking the plunge and setting up on my own as a small-scale forestry contractor.

 

I am looking for a yard or somewhere to park up the tractor and forwarding trailer and have been offered some hard standing space at a local farm. The site is relatively secure with access code gates and CCTV, plus the farmer is willing to sell me red diesel so no need for my own tank.

 

What do people think is a reasonable figure for weekly rent, bear in mind as a start-up company I wanted to keep overheads as low as possible.

 

I'd be grateful for your thoughts.

 

Ta

[Stephen Blair]

It's priceless tbh,but you will know what you can afford.

is there sheds you can use for servicing?

 

Welcome:)

[Robert Raven]

Don't know if it's comparable but we rent an open concrete shed, 60' x 24' in a farmyard for £100 a month.

[Big J]

We've just taken on a new yard with:

 

* A 60x20ft barn for air drying timber, freshly resurfaced in rolled shale chips.

* 1/4 acre of hand standing, also resurfaced.

* New electrics in the barn.

 

....and we are paying £250 plus Vat a month.

[farmer_ben]

Don't know if it's comparable but we rent an open concrete shed, 60' x 24' in a farmyard for £100 a month.

 

thats very reasonable

[john k]

Don't know if it's comparable but we rent an open concrete shed, 60' x 24' in a farmyard for £100 a month.

 

I'm paying more than that for a lockup garage!

[N1ck]

Hi all

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

I've been quoted £20 a week which was more than I was expecting to pay for outside storage space. However, I doubt I'll find anywhere more secure locally, I know a guy with a workshop on-site so I could get power, a workbench and a cup of tea from him when he's around. They don't mind me having a timber stack and they've said I could keep a tool safe there. Maybe I should accept that this is what it's going cost. It's that or p!$$ off the neighbours by parking a tractor and trailer on the front drive.

 

Cheers

 

Nick

[luftwaffe]

Why don't you leave the tractor in the wood you are working in? Where we are in remote wales, i wouldn't dream of paying someone for their shed, it would take me a good hour to get to the nearest farm. do you really need to be paying for shed, its dead money, are vandals that bad in your neck of the wood? i'd be looking to hide the tractor in the wood somewhere at weeknights, then park it on a farm over weekends. i also advise to buy your own tank, be independant.

Edited December 6, 2011 by luftwaffe

[Eagle]

Hi all

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

I've been quoted £20 a week which was more than I was expecting to pay for outside storage space. However, I doubt I'll find anywhere more secure locally, I know a guy with a workshop on-site so I could get power, a workbench and a cup of tea from him when he's around. They don't mind me having a timber stack and they've said I could keep a tool safe there. Maybe I should accept that this is what it's going cost. It's that or p!$$ off the neighbours by parking a tractor and trailer on the front drive.

 

Cheers

 

Nick

 

£20 / week.... I'd bite his hand off!

[swinny]

yeah 20.00 a week is cheap!