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cheers bud
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I have been self employed now for over 2 yrs and get alot of work for a farmer who i charge a stardard rate for labour only, which i base on overtime rate if i was on paye. i'd like to know by anyone who employes staff, if you pay some one £8.00 for 40hrs and then £12.00 overtime, and they do an average 50hrs total a week (£440). What are the additional costs that are going on top of the £440 a week, like NI contributions, holiday (5 weeks?) 3 sick days a year? etc etc. Just would like some idea as I often do the odd day for a farmer and they always querie when i say what i charge. But then again they querie most things! Ben
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if its easy enough i'll have a go?!
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if that was mine i'd put a bit of box going across the upright poles, just above the wheels, so could lift the whole lot of with loader and tines when back in the yard. but nice work. we made a smaller version for the quad bike
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Hi all, I have registered a couple of websites for my farm and firewood businesses, just wondered if its easy enough to set up a holding page? The chap who is going to design the pages is on holiday for 2 weeks and I'm keen just to have a "under construction" page with my details on running asap. Can i do this myself with limited computer ability? Any help would be great Ben
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i think this is an interesting thread, and im a great believer in not putting all your eggs in one basket. I have a few revenue streams, 85 acres i rent, more or less full time labour service for large arable unit, my firewood business, contracting with my own tractor hedge cutter and drill. looking at setting up a camp site and rearing some pigs in some of our woodland.
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and a few more pics. the 7530 is the only tractor the farm owns and its works bloody hard, i put 1400hrs on it in first year
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Few pictures from the farm My MF 6280 mowing grass for hay JD 6920 and conventional baler and 7530 with tedder JD 7530 drilling with 6m Kuhn drill and Merlo Leyland 272 on firewood Quadtrac ploughing
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Havent really got going with it yet as not suppose to cut hedges before august 1st, but got some roadside ones to do next
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thanks, i am really pleased with it. done highish hrs but very very clean and never done pto or draught work so it serve me well
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i bought a massy 6280 a couple of months back that will be the main tractor this season. its only 130hp so may upgrade next year if i find i need more hp for cultivating etc
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Took it out for an earlier and really pleased with it, although the controls are alot more sensitive then I'm use too!
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it is yeah
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i will put some pics up tomoro. i have used standard 1 inche weld mesh that i have cut to fit the door. am fitting a longer guard on mud guard tomoro to protect the side window and back window.
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couldnt agree more with this. I work a 1600 acre unit with the land owner, just us 2 and i do majority of the land work. we only have 1 tractor, 1 sprayer, 1 combine and 1 fork truck. couldnt get anymore effcient really at the moment
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maybe a small case, i'd def look at one with a front loader, they are so useful
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dont go anywhere near 61 massy series, although they may be slightly above your budget. can i ask what you are buying it work wise?
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90% work will be arable field hedges but hoping to get a few large garden hedges as well
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Picked up my new hedge cutter yesterday, got it on the tractor and made some guards for the windows this evening. Looking forward to giving her a go tomorrow. Looks good for an 8 year okd machine
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reports of lots of horses being stolen in suffolk, especially west/south suffolk, last few months. a number of stolen horses were said to have been photographed a few days previous by the same bloke...
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nick that is really interesting stuff, might have to swing by yours and have a look at your kit if i'm ever in the area. what made you get into small bale stuff? how do they load 21? big grab i suppose, but how does the end user handle them? i took on my first FBT last year and its totally changed the way i think about farming and my business. i have 68 acres of wheat this year, i have said all along i want to chop the straw and incorprate back in as the soil is very poor, but with input costs being higher than i budgetted for i am now seriosuly thinking of baling it up and selling straw in swaft
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so they come and clear the fields of the bales and pay you £1.50 a bale? what sort of amount of bales you getting from average barley and wheat crop? been thinking more about it today, but unless i could sell at £3.00 a bale i dont really see a way of making enough from the job. i have to pay for someone to bale it which is 50p a bale straight away finished the winter barley today, the last bit we saved for seed and hadnt been sprayed....was a right bastard to combine!
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Firewood suppliers directory feedback and support forum
farmer_ben replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Firewood forum
do well steve, just want a simple hit registered really, that sort of thing, so can see how many people are giving the advert a gander -
I presume thats a horse yard putting in an order like that nick? must be a big place? would love a few orders like that! no one does little straw bales round here at all apart from a friend of mine but he struggles with the 35ft straw rows with his little baler! #
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Just got in from cutting barley, got bought 10ha to do tomoro then 2 weeks before rape is fit, i sprayed the barley of 2 weeks ago, so is lovely and fit
