Hire work options

Carrigogunnell

I was talking to a contractor recently about farming and general hire work and it came out about how many machines are around and so forth even farmers are buying fusions for there own bailing. Now I do a bit of bailing mowing drawing bales but need to be putting more hrs on the tractor so. I want to do something that there's no one around here doing so I have it down to 2 thing a mulcher and maybe buying a zero grazer any opinions for me lads thanks

Greengrass1

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

I was talking to a contractor recently about farming and general hire work and it came out about how many machines are around and so forth even farmers are buying fusions for there own bailing. Now I do a bit of bailing mowing drawing bales but need to be putting more hrs on the tractor so. I want to do something that there's no one around here doing so I have it down to 2 thing a mulcher and maybe buying a zero grazer any opinions for me lads thanks

Z grazer sounds like a very good idea to me.
You'll pick up work in the spring where it might be wet and lads can't get out with cows or lads have run tight on there first or second round and might have land away that has grass on it.
Like wise in the autumn for lads to build grass

ganmo

Seed drill?
If there's demand for zero grazing is it due to fragmented land or wet ground that lads don't want poached? If due to fragmented I've always thought a front mower and a silage wagon would work well and then you'd have a bigger mower operation and the option to do pit silage too, but I think it'd be a fairly horsepower hungry rig

Carrigogunnell

I not sure if there's demand but it's one of those things you won't know until u have it really. Now there's a 400+ herd a half mile away who I do a good bit of work for he was talking about it before so it mite work out there. I would be hoping its a spring autumn thing and fit in well with the bailing.wagon good idea but apparently not so good zero grazing as it breaks the grass and goes off real quick

Blackgrass

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

I not sure if there's demand but it's one of those things you won't know until u have it really. Now there's a 400+ herd a half mile away who I do a good bit of work for he was talking about it before so it mite work out there. I would be hoping its a spring autumn thing and fit in well with the bailing.wagon good idea but apparently not so good zero grazing as it breaks the grass and goes off real quick

Would look into going between 3/4 local dairy guys pushing no's to do all their machinery work be an idea? Enough for a few hours every day but not too much to get so busy letting guys down - losing customers... ? Fencing over winter, slurry fert spring, mowing tedding (sneak around with a topper under cover of darkness at 3am in summer ) moving stock with a tractor-trailer, autumn?
You'll always have the heroes who'll try do everything and generally end up doing a half job on it all vs focus on what pays their wage. You'll never get loaded but for a dry stock farmer if did say 4 days away 2 at home would give a decent wage if in at flat rate of pay/hr

Carrigogunnell

I do the fertiliser with a GPS not a huge amount only started this yr draw a few cattle with jeep and box fencing no. Honestly were very busy for 2 or 3 months just looking for something no one else has plenty of hedge cutters tanks diggers around. I started selling mineral grass seed milk replace and other bits to but I need enough tractors to be working a lot more to pay there way

davidk1394

Im the same as yourself. I bought a tractor this year and do baling and that for the summer. For the last few weeks om busy hauling silage and dung for farmers. They pay me and not the contractor. I'd hire in a silagw trailer for however long i need it. Im hiring a rear discharge dung spreader for a few weeks at €60 a day. What could be a good investment is a dump trailer ?? Always a few jobs here and there. You might not be flat out but theres always a few jobs around for a dump trailer

patjack

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

I do the fertiliser with a GPS not a huge amount only started this yr draw a few cattle with jeep and box fencing no. Honestly were very busy for 2 or 3 months just looking for something no one else has plenty of hedge cutters tanks diggers around. I started selling mineral grass seed milk replace and other bits to but I need enough tractors to be working a lot more to pay there way

Which company manufactures the minerals you distribute Carrig?

bogman_bass

Mole plough?

Jetter for clearing out drainage pipe?

C0N0R

patjack wrote: »

Which company manufactures the minerals you distribute Carrig?

I would be guessing agritech with that product range!

Carrigogunnell

I'm afraid ur wrong Conor it's not agri tech. 2 different companies.

C0N0R

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

I'm afraid ur wrong Conor it's not agri tech. 2 different companies.

My bad!

MFdaveIreland

Alstrong aerator.

Willow harvesting

keltec bale.chasing

All specialist that very few do

Carrigogunnell

davidk1394 wrote: »

Im the same as yourself. I bought a tractor this year and do baling and that for the summer. For the last few weeks om busy hauling silage and dung for farmers. They pay me and not the contractor. I'd hire in a silagw trailer for however long i need it. Im hiring a rear discharge dung spreader for a few weeks at €60 a day. What could be a good investment is a dump trailer ?? Always a few jobs here and there. You might not be flat out but theres always a few jobs around for a dump trailer

€60 a day isn't huge money really to be fair. What part of the country are u in. Ya dump trailer is something I've been meaning to buy alright.

Carrigogunnell

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Alstrong aerator.

Willow harvesting

keltec bale.chasing

All specialist that very few do

Agree the aerator is a very good idea. Willow don't tink so. The keltec are a good yoke good idea but super expensive €25000 I think bit steep been honest.
I am leaning for the zero grazer if anyone has any more input.
Also thinking about hiring a mulcher for a week or so see how much it's costing to run and how much u can do in a day. It would be a thing that u could travel up to a hour away for a day's work.

Milked out

Seeing as u have the GPS already spraying could be one if not doing it already.

frazzledhome

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

€60 a day isn't huge money really to be fair. What part of the country are u in. Ya dump trailer is something I've been meaning to buy alright.

Where can a large rear discharge dung spreader be hired for €60/day

Reggie.

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

€60 a day isn't huge money really to be fair. What part of the country are u in. Ya dump trailer is something I've been meaning to buy alright.

New or second hand

Reggie.

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Alstrong aerator.

Willow harvesting

keltec bale.chasing

All specialist that very few do

+1 on the aerator. I'd look more at the Watson tho. Get the trailed one with the axle at the back rather than the mounted one

davidk1394

Carrigogunnell wrote: »

€60 a day isn't huge money really to be fair. What part of the country are u in. Ya dump trailer is something I've been meaning to buy alright.

Well im in south tipp. Im hiring it off my cousin he has a lot of dung on his own farm. Id only hire it for 2 weeks and spread our own and a few other jobs that i have lined up. Theres always a few jobs if you have a 12 to 14 ton dump trailer. Not too bog not too small

frazzledhome

davidk1394 wrote: »

Well im in south tipp. Im hiring it off my cousin he has a lot of dung on his own farm. Id only hire it for 2 weeks and spread our own and a few other jobs that i have lined up. Theres always a few jobs if you have a 12 to 14 ton dump trailer. Not too bog not too small

If he's interested I'll hire it for a week. I'll take anytime from now on

Dawggone

frazzledhome wrote: »

Where can a large rear discharge dung spreader be hired for €60/day

What size?
I get €200/day for a 24 ton.

Deepsouthwest

davidk1394 wrote: »

Well im in south tipp. Im hiring it off my cousin he has a lot of dung on his own farm. Id only hire it for 2 weeks and spread our own and a few other jobs that i have lined up. Theres always a few jobs if you have a 12 to 14 ton dump trailer. Not too bog not too small

Big difference in hiring a machine off ur cousin to do ur own work than hiring the same machine to be out around the country doing contract work with it.