Day rate for contractor with tractor & flail

hometruths

Hi, hope this is right place to post - I am looking for a ballpark idea of what would be reasonable day rate for a lad with a tractor and flail/mulcher to tackle some fairly heavy brambles etc?

Any ideas? In North Wicklow if thats relevant.

Thanks!

smokey-fitz

schmittel wrote: »

Hi, hope this is right place to post - I am looking for a ballpark idea of what would be reasonable day rate for a lad with a tractor and flail/mulcher to tackle some fairly heavy brambles etc?

Any ideas? In North Wicklow if thats relevant.

Thanks!

Got a price last year, 70 a hour iirc. About a acre a hour for medium to heavy rushes. Not cheap.

So after all that I bought my own. Had about 60 acres to do so it paid for itself. Does a great job too.

hometruths

smokey-fitz wrote: »

Got a price last year, 70 a hour iirc. About a acre a hour for medium to heavy rushes. Not cheap.

So after all that I bought my own. Had about 60 acres to do so it paid for itself. Does a great job too.

Thanks, that's helpful. DOn't have enough to do to justify a purchase, but more than enough to make it a bit pricey!

frazzledhome

If land is making €7-14k an acre, its surely cheap!!

Greengrass1

schmittel wrote: »

Thanks, that's helpful. DOn't have enough to do to justify a purchase, but more than enough to make it a bit pricey!

Lad here in Wexford with a stone crusher and mulcher does a right job.
Has an add up on DD. leaves ground ready to reseed

darragh_haven

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Lad here in Wexford with a stone crusher and mulcher does a right job.
Has an add up on DD. leaves ground ready to reseed

Wexford ground and west cork ground could be fairly different. Doubt if he'd leave our rough ground ready to seed

mayota

We have some ground here that he might never leave if he came in.

Reggie.

mayota wrote: »

We have some ground here that he might never leave if he came in.

He'd be seeding himself

newholland mad

He travels the country doing it, he was doing other work for me last summer and the mulcher was working in sligo for over a week

smokey-fitz

Well it was going to cost me over 4k to get done what I wanted. Could of topped but it would of taken most the year for the rushes I had to rot so I picked up a flail mower for 2k. When im done with it ill flog it and get some money back. It chopped everything well, rotted down within a month and the grass flew up. Apparently the chopped rushes are high in nitrogen too. So they're not worthless :P
Also they are good at cutting back briars. But they need alot of diesel and hp.

Im not trying to persuade you into getting one, im just putting it out there for people looking for info