Help Pricing this job

[Martin B Doyle]

Evening all,

 

Usually im ok with pricing my jobs, but could do with some help on this one..

 

I was contacted by a 'maintenance man', who wants a price for clearing alot of over grown shurbery by a pub.

 

All the shrubs to be chipped an left on site, and all the stumps to be treated. Shrubs are mainly all Pyracantha

 

In pictures 1,2 its clear someone started it, but give up!!

 

All that will remain is the 2 sycamore trees in the last picture.

 

iv taken some pictures to help show you..

 

Would you go in with a fixed price, or day rate?.. what would you do?

[not for sale sorry]

fixed price mate, you will never make as good money on a day rate

[RobArb]

[treesnatcher]

I would want a little "blood money" on top of that one.

[likeitorlumpit]

do you know a farmer with a hedge flail

[burrell_]

2 ways i would do that job

first one if iv got alot of work 3ton digger scrape it all out in a day

2nd way if u ent much work use a clearing saw with a saw head cut the bottems and pull out with a pair of welding gloths

i would be looking at the digger 1 day 2 men dont chip it lift in the the back of the van and find a tip site to burn

or burn on site

3 ton digger hear cost me £110

if u can burn on site £500

if u have to take it all away £600

 

thats what i would do

[roseyweb]

If your struggling to price to knock a few shrubs out I advise you pass the job to someone who can

[kentjames]

Id slice and dice the top off (horse being optional - hedge cutter, long reach or otherwise, being favourable) and then go at it with a small chainsaw.

 

Once the top is off to ground level id rip the roots out with a small digger and clean it right up. Applying herbicide later on once the new shoots appear..

 

Or if in doubt burn it or fire things at it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only kidding bout the last bit

[normandylumberjack]

would a flail mower not work on that terrain? dropped, chopped 1 man+ flail hire.

[Mick Stockbridge]

Slightly less than you'd charge for climbing, it is Pyracantha after all.

 

I wouldn't bother chipping it, I'd don some welders gauntlets, smash it down in the back of the truck and cart it away.