Quad running costs

Dont be daft

Never thought I'd see the day but the father arrived home with a quad on Monday.

After a few days on it I'm beginning to get a bit skeptical about how useful it actually is. Its not shaving massive times of herding and thats all its used for.

So my question is this. For the lads running a new quad over the space of a few years how much has it ended up costing you in the long run or even better per hour its clocked up or per year?

Not just the obvious costs like petrol, but servicing, insuring, repairs etc. Depreciation is different for everyone and hard to put a figure on so maybe leave that out.

reilig

Honda 500. Bought for 4k March 2011. Serviced every 100 hours. Oil costs 30 euro and filter costs a fiver. Doing about 400 hours per year. So 4 services. Petrol costs about 4 euro per hour when it's averaged between herding, licking and trailer work. Haven't had to do any repairs on it other than brake shoes which cost 30 euro and I installed them myself.

Far cheaper to run than any tractor and tractor is now only used for work rather than transport.

Don't have it insured as it's not used on road.

Needs tires soon. Will cost about 100 euro each on average.

Dont be daft wrote: »

Never thought I'd see the day but the father arrived home with a quad on Monday.

After a few days on it I'm beginning to get a bit skeptical about how useful it actually is. Its not shaving massive times of herding and thats all its used for.

So my question is this. For the lads running a new quad over the space of a few years how much has it ended up costing you in the long run or even better per hour its clocked up or per year?

Not just the obvious costs like petrol, but servicing, insuring, repairs etc. Depreciation is different for everyone and hard to put a figure on so maybe leave that out.

Dont be daft

Thanks Reilig, just the kind of figures I was looking for.
By my reckoning its costing you around €4.70 per hour it clocks up excluding depreciation.
If we presumed it will have halved in value by the time you've put 1,200 hrs on it then the true cost will be around €6.35 per hour.
A lot cheaper than I thought to be honest.

reilig wrote: »

Don't have it insured as it's not used on road.

If you declare it on your farm cover policy as a listed piece of machinery do premiums increase? Not for road use but part of farm cover if ya get me.

Mulumpy

Dont be daft wrote: »

Thanks Reilig, just the kind of figures I was looking for.
By my reckoning its costing you around €4.70 per hour it clocks up excluding depreciation.
If we presumed it will have halved in value by the time you've put 1,200 hrs on it then the true cost will be around €6.35 per hour.
A lot cheaper than I thought to be honest.



If you declare it on your farm cover policy as a listed piece of machinery do premiums increase? Not for road use but part of farm cover if ya get me.

I have my Honda 420 and trailer insured fully comp for 250 a year, little bit of road use and there is a high rate of them stolen around this area.

Timmaay

You'll find jobs that the quad does soo much easier than the tractor etc in time, and in 6months I'd say you will wounder how you ever managed without it. Mine has been off in the local garage last few weeks I'll admit, getting by with the jeep just because the ground is rock hard, but its in wet weather that the quad comes into its own, almost no damage to the ground. Extremely handy for spot spraying also, I'll never bother lugging around a knapsack again!

Dont be daft

Timmaay wrote: »

You'll find jobs that the quad does soo much easier than the tractor etc in time, and in 6months I'd say you will wounder how you ever managed without it. Mine has been off in the local garage last few weeks I'll admit, getting by with the jeep just because the ground is rock hard, but its in wet weather that the quad comes into its own, almost no damage to the ground. Extremely handy for spot spraying also, I'll never bother lugging around a knapsack again!

I dunno Tim, our set up doesn't really lend itself to a quad. Every paddock is accessible from the roadways and jeeps, and the tractor only comes out for tractor kind of jobs.
Its only real role is to cut out walking between paddocks. Haven't had a full day on it yet so I'll hold me tongue for the moment.

Sure the two things I hate are change and spending money, what else was I gonna do only give out about the cursed contraption