What are you charging to plant trees in shelters?

[StephF]

What is the going rate to plant broadleaf whips in tree shelters? pricing up 4000 trees to be planted in tubex shelters, got the tree prices /shelters etc, but not sure about the labour costs as we have not done this for a while.

This is for a private client, not contract work.

[Jesse]

What is the going rate to plant broadleaf whips in tree shelters? pricing up 4000 trees to be planted in tubex shelters, got the tree prices /shelters etc, but not sure about the labour costs as we have not done this for a while.

This is for a private client, not contract work.

 

I'd charge 65p each.

[Goaty]

This is a funny one, We've just done a 1700 tree job and a 400 job.

 

Based on planting and guarding all by hand bareroot transplants. On average to do job properly, not just shove em in bending roots up to dry etc. You get around 10 trees in per hour over a day per person.

The sites are usually hard going either roots from previous timber crop or a rough patch farmers dont touch with machinery.

However on the 1700 job we used a tractor and pto Auger, this saved 40% of labour time. Also it was a natural interspersed planting so no marking out was needed.

 

I reckon at around a £1 per tree. My view is if people dont want to pay that, they can do it themselves or have an inferior job done by cheap labour that might need redoing.

I take pride in the establishing. Do it well once and people love to say "We only lost 21 out of a thousand" etc.

 

Sorry about the yarn but there will always be " £1 a tree! I'd do it for 50p."

 

Another tip make a mini post rammer for the stakes, alot easier on the repetiveness and aches.

[Jesse]

This is a funny one, We've just done a 1700 tree job and a 400 job.

 

Based on planting and guarding all by hand bareroot transplants. On average to do job properly, not just shove em in bending roots up to dry etc. You get around 10 trees in per hour over a day per person.

The sites are usually hard going either roots from previous timber crop or a rough patch farmers dont touch with machinery.

However on the 1700 job we used a tractor and pto Auger, this saved 40% of labour time. Also it was a natural interspersed planting so no marking out was needed.

 

I reckon at around a £1 per tree. My view is if people dont want to pay that, they can do it themselves or have an inferior job done by cheap labour that might need redoing.

I take pride in the establishing. Do it well once and people love to say "We only lost 21 out of a thousand" etc.

 

Sorry about the yarn but there will always be " £1 a tree! I'd do it for 50p."

 

Another tip make a mini post rammer for the stakes, alot easier on the repetiveness and aches.

 

I second, it should be £1per tree. All of what you said is spot on.

[Daniël Bos]

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Another tip make a mini post rammer for the stakes, alot easier on the repetiveness and aches.

 

I use two bits of steel tube, welded in a T shape. It stops the canes from snapping and splintering in your hand. I've also put a little footpeg at the bottom for stubborn ones, it doubles as a depth-gauge so all the canes go in at exactly the same height:thumbup1:

[Sam Thompson]

£1.00

[StephF]

Thanks for that, so no advance on £1 then?

[Gollum]

we were planting 350 to 400 per day per man last month,

Spiral guards and a cane.

old Pantin on one boot to put the canes in saves the hands

[Jesse]

I do think at £1 per tree you wont get the job, all deps how much you need the work?, and its a bit late in the year or is this for the next planting season?

[Sam Thompson]

The best planters I know plant 1000 trees before 2pm and are getting 70p a tree tubed & staked. They are working for a contractor though, and I don't know what the contractor charges.

 

If it was me I would want £20 per tree - I bloody hate planting!