Paul MH

Bumping this because it's that time of year again! I did a few beat up sites last season, Stoke Wood's comment above rang in my ears on the third one, which turned out to be a lot of work for little return. Now they've offered me a few more contracts this year, much of which is the same sort of stuff, but some are beat ups with new guards - again, how to price these? My experience of planting with guards and stakes is that they take quite a while. What would be a reasonable expectation of unit price on their part? I'm thinking in the region of £1.30 - £1.70 - would this be wildly shy of the mark?

The site had a sheep incursion they reckon they lost 50% before the sheep were removed and the fencing repaired. It's been a clear fell five years ago but well raked. Still some awkward parcels of land, in particular a steep bank above an access road, in a kind of long finger above the site. I didn't think more than 40 an hour, so I guess I'll price on that basis?

Thanks all As I thought - the site is raked, fairly steep in places - what would you consider to be a reasonable price? There are no guards or stakes, just notch planting and heeling in.

Hullo - help me out, would you? OK so I have a long boring back story which is probably of no interest to anyone but myself - bottom line is I decided during lockdown that I wanted a change of life, I'm tentatively including tree planting as something I'd like to get into (I planted 000's of sitka as a kid). My local forestry approached me and asked if I would be interested in doing a smal beat up for them on a site planted two years ago, up to 6000 trees, mostly broadleaves, 1200 Scots pine. Thing is I have no idea how to price it up. They know I'm a novice, they told me they'd expect to pay .28 to .30 a tree, this seems low t me for a beat up? Any advice gratefully received.

Any recommendations for business insurance for a tree planting business? Thanks

30k conifers for the 10ha site. The tender includes some smaller plots made up of restocks of mixed conifers and broadleaf.

Quick bit of advice - my first tender since I decided to go back to tree planting after a long hiatus - tender includes one plot of "hinge mounding" planting - what are the implications for pricing? its a 10ha site. Also, any recommendations for on site storage of saplings? I expect to take delivery (bagged) of a weeks worth at a time from the client's base and want to make sure they're adequately stored until needed? Thanks in advance

Hullo I'm Paul, first post to the forum, I did my apprenticeship in the FC in Scotland almost 40(!) years ago but haven't really worked in the sector since, I'm hoping to get back into tree planting work as a result of a geographical move to an area which seems to have a real need for planters so I might be asking all kinds of stupid questions! Starting with - how do I change my display name?