day rate

[HRG Tree Services]

I would struggle to pay over 120 as since the storms there seems to be a lot of "pop up tree surgeons" flooding the marketing and de valueing it by charging peanuts for domestic work!! If every company took a stand and started charging what they should be for there work then I would be happy to pay a good climber what there worth!!

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

So, to come back round full circle, what do people think is a fair day rate for treework: Climber and groundsman waste left on site, climber, groundsman & chipper, obviously waste removal is more a volume cost and will cost different firms/localities more, so i'll not bother to ask of waste.

 

I'm thinking that i charge too little at £300/day for the two of us.

I'm just looking to buy a chipper (at the moment I just run through with a saw in a tractor trailer which the farmer charges me £90 a load to take away), but to add onto a job i had £50/day in mind.

I do however live in a bit of a price bubble, on a Scottish lsland, and I know that the tree surgeon over here charges roughly the same. On occasions when a customer has said that one or the other of us is more or less expensive it's usually in estimating the time a job will take rather than our rates differing.

 

Interested to know if you guys think I'm about right, too steep or too cheap!

[biggarlogs]

i work on £1000 a day for 2 climbers and 2 groundies with tractor and chipper,and trailer.and life is quite busy.

mm some cheap climbers on here me thinks.

[biggarlogs]

my climber wont answer his phone unless the job is worth at least 200 for him and its job and finish:blushing:

[the hedge man]

You got to think as well... Climbing is hard work, I usually climb two to three hours max, I am rather fast with experience however. 8 hours climbing is flipping hardcore graft (I did 8 hour climbs in my twenties and that where it stays!!) so it's worth £150 easy.

[Mark Bolam]

You got to think as well... Climbing is hard work, I usually climb two to three hours max, I am rather fast with experience however. 8 hours climbing is flipping hardcore graft (I did 8 hour climbs in my twenties and that where it stays!!) so it's worth £150 easy.

 

Same.

 

 

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[Arran Turner]

my climber wont answer his phone unless the job is worth at least 200 for him and its job and finish:blushing:

 

 

Just curious to the amount of gear and experience he brings to the table charge 200 a day?

[18 stoner]

I usually climb two to three hours max, so it's worth £150 easy.

 

 

Good money that, there's folk on here would send crew of three men and a chipper for that😎

[Ty Korrigan]

The guy I use for climbing is on €300 a day. He brings his own gear and his own lunch.

 

We might charge out at 360 inc vat for a self employed climber but I don't pay my regular employed staff that.

Big difference if you are on the books or freelance.

Ty

[Marc]

You got to think as well... Climbing is hard work, I usually climb two to three hours max, I am rather fast with experience however. 8 hours climbing is flipping hardcore graft (I did 8 hour climbs in my twenties and that where it stays!!) so it's worth £150 easy.

 

Ground work is harder for me, rather be in the tree 8 hours gravity takes care of the waste and I just have to push myself around with my legs, some climbs can be tougher.