what should I charge?

[Hodge]

I know I read it , he is logging that's my point , it's an insult to a climber , a man logging would be lucky to get £100 a day

 

Why? His overheads have to be covered, if he is working for customers doing it he should have insurance and then there are tools, fuel wages etc. climbers get paid what their area dictates like I said in the other post. I agree that a good skilled climber in an ideal world would be on £200 a day and I would be charging £1000 a day for a 3 man crew and chipper but it ain't like that. Our industry is undervalued as it is and with colleges churning out "climbers and cutters" who will then work for nowt it ain't gonna get better.

[jnoon]

Well if I do as you have posted,

Supply me tools and fuel,

3 saws, tools, truck,20tonne splitter etc ( in pic)

It's £130 for my labour

And £60 machine hire so it's £190 a day mate take it or leave it,

But as people have said tools wear splitters need maintaining etc!

Josh

[Hodge]

Good luck finding anyone who will pay you 160 a day logging

 

Depends how much he can log, if he is felling and logging with his own kit then it has to be paid for.

[timtree81]

Why ?? Who on earth will pay £800 for one man for one week to process fire wood

[jnoon]

He would only have to do 8 loads,

12 cube in my book to cover his costs,

He would easily do that so £800 would easily be covered in the value if split logs

[Hodge]

Why ?? Who on earth will pay £800 for one man for one week to process fire wood

 

He asked for an idea of how much to charge. I gave him an idea of how much to charge. Whether he does or not is a different matter. Why don't you give him an idea of how much to charge?

[gensetsteve]

Why ?? Who on earth will pay £800 for one man for one week to process fire wood

 

If they have the wood for free in the garden or from arb arisings and he does 6 cu metres in a day thats £26 a metre. Why would they not pay that. Supply and demand less people want to break their back cutting logs than climbing trees

[william127]

You never know, with all the big country houses round my way, but iv got plenty of other work-landscaping,tractor field work, engineers mate, selling logs, all paying between 100 and 160 a day, its not like im after a full time buisness, but I like doing logs.I think I might put it on this winters adverts, nothing to loose.

I reckon on being able to process £500 of logs a day, (but not everyday of the week!)so £160 gets the customer a decent pile of split logs for their money, but as is often said what things are worth and what people will pay are often very different?!

Edit

There were a lot of posts while I was typing, gensetsteve, thats exactly the sort of job I mean- the customer has to pay someone to deal with the timber, be it their arborist (who takes it away, then may well sell it back as logs in a years time!) Or someone like me who makes it into usable logs

Edited October 20, 2013 by william127

[felixthelogchopper]

I used to get £120 a day for me with a 357 and my axe.

[timtree81]

If your supplying a processor then of course you can charge more , my costing is on a man , saw , fuel and public l insurance , £120 a day disking and splitting timber