charge customer for day with petrol log splitter?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

£260 for 2 men and Riko A11.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Yes I sort of agree but a freelance climber brings experience and some kit, he has no need for insurance as that's on mine, he hasn't been to price/ sort job or got to wait weeks to be paid. If the chipper/ splitter breaks it's on me not them.

 

Yes, fair one!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Yes, fair one!

 

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[Mortimer Firewood]

I want to make £200 a day before i even think about machine fuel & everything elsa . It does not play out like that all the time

When I started out in this game I did not charge enough was happy to be working and earning a wage but things change and for a viable long term business you need to price accordingly.

Plus firewood production is hard work I would want £275 for splitter and £375 for the processor they supply tractor for the latter.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

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No worries! Nice piece of Beech thought you might be interested in, if not, I'll get at it with the Alaskan on a dry day over Christmas (escape from inlaws!)

[Greg]

My Wallenstein 640 get hired out (machine only) quite a bit. Everyone reports how well the machine works but they also say that they didn't realize how physically demanding producing logs was :-) :-)

[Woodworks]

We charge £25 per hour + fuel and travel at £0.45 per mile for a processor. Think if we charged some of the prices quoted here we would have no work for it.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Guy by me with same machine as mine charging £15 a bag to split with processor he does nothing elsa but contract firewood processing.

[Hodge]

We charge £25 per hour + fuel and travel at £0.45 per mile for a processor. Think if we charged some of the prices quoted here we would have no work for it.

 

 

But that's what you do, I'm in business for me so I charge what I need to and so do other people. I don't understand these threads where people want to know how much others would charge when there are so many variables. At £200 a day for a man and machine it's not a decent wage after tax etc.

[Woodworks]

But that's what you do, I'm in business for me so I charge what I need to and so do other people. I don't understand these threads where people want to know how much others would charge when there are so many variables. At £200 a day for a man and machine it's not a decent wage after tax etc.

 

What's is a decent wage?

 

Rhetorical question realy. Some are happy with 15K a year when others want 50K +

 

Spent many years earning less than 10K