Cattle Haulage

Saint Sonner · 27-05-2015 10:41am #1

If I was getting a man with a jeep and a trailer to draw 3 calfs for me in the following order:

35 mile empty
35 mile loaded
40 mile empty

He's a friend but I need to cover his cost as he won't want anything - What would be a fair price?

Miname · 27-05-2015 11:02am

Saint Sonner wrote: »

If I was getting a man with a jeep and a trailer to draw 3 calfs for me in the following order:

35 mile empty
35 mile loaded
40 mile empty

He's a friend but I need to cover his cost as he won't want anything - What would be a fair price?

Good friend if he wants nothing for 110 mile. Especially for 3 calves, is there no dealers or hauliers that will draw them in a part load?

Muckit · 27-05-2015 11:04am

Want to be making shapes at throwing him a brown note anyway l'd be thinking

dzer2 · 27-05-2015 11:07am

Fill the jeep with diesel and throw him Fifty for his time

blue5000 · 27-05-2015 12:35pm

dzer2 wrote: »

Fill the jeep with diesel and throw him Fifty for his time

That's generous, there's one calf gone anyway, it's gone over a 100 to fill a jeep again if the feckin orange light is on:eek:

ellewood · 27-05-2015 12:39pm

It will cost him 30.00 in diesel and 30 for himself

60 bucks job done

dzer2 · 27-05-2015 12:49pm

blue5000 wrote: »

That's generous, there's one calf gone anyway, it's gone over a 100 to fill a jeep again if the feckin orange light is on:eek:

Ah yeah but he is a mate and a good one at that. its a 100 miles and most of a day also the calves are in a snug box not much chance of picking up any thing.

Muckit · 27-05-2015 1:07pm

Have you a bit of rope and a roof rack?

Farmer Pudsey · 27-05-2015 1:14pm

Have you a car with a tow hitch. You could borrow a small box abd draw them yourself. Even calves that are 4 months old will in general weight less than 150kgs if bucket fed.