Day rates?

[Mountain man]

How can you say that?

 

You have not idea what his circumstances are.

 

I suppose he could be a lottery winner who does it for laughs, in which case, yes, it's good money.

 

No offence to the OP but that's not enough considering your travel/overheads etc.

[skyhuck]

Huck, many lads are on £80/day.

 

If you're supplying saw, fuel, PPE etc. however, it simply means your options will be pretty limited.

 

 

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Depends, if its a first step on the road, you live at home with limited overheads, its a chance to learn the job and make contacts.

 

With time and experience better rates and other options will follow

 

Play for the long game would be my advice

[Mark Bolam]

In fact, I'd left out the travel thing.

40p/mile true cost?

Negative equity tree work, right there.

 

No wonder we meet so many people who 'used to do tree work'.

 

 

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[TheHungrySquirrel]

If I was a lottery winner I'd think of other things to be doing I'm sure 😜

 

I currently live my partner, she earns good money from her work but it would nice to not be scratching around for money all the time.

 

It seems a long time since I have earns over £80 a day, or when jobs in the smoke came up for £200 a day, gone are the old days of good money.

 

I'm really keen to get into forest work and work as hard as possible I just don't want to do myself out of money that I could be earning.

[mendiplogs]

It doesn't sound bad at all.

For your employer.

 

 

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[TheHungrySquirrel]

Depends, if its a first step on the road, you live at home with limited overheads, its a chance to learn the job and make contacts.

 

 

 

With time and experience better rates and other options will follow

 

 

 

Play for the long game would be my advice

 

 

I have some experience in the woods with dragging and burning, post peeling and fence making just need to get into it more and earn the right sort of money.

[jmac]

80 quid a day is at the bottom end of the scale up here for a cutter with about 150 quid being top end. Cutters with only cs 30 - 31 would only get bottom end money . Fuel and saw costs are usually much higher for production forestry.

[hamdogg]

£80 a day? Better off at aldi!!

[jmac]

Yeah your prob right hamdogg, its not easy living on 80 quid a day once you've paid all your expenses but without felling experience and more tickets its hard to get any more money from forestry contractors!

[Joe Newton]

£80 a day? Better off at aldi!!

 

 

Have you upped your day rate since you last mentioned it?