Footing turf cost

smiley girl

Hello All,
I have looked and looked and can't find an answer so I've come here.
How much do you pay someone to foot your turf? We need help this year and a young lad is going to help us but we don't want to short change him!

Shpudnik

€10 an hour.

kollegeknight

smiley girl wrote: »

Hello All,
I have looked and looked and can't find an answer so I've come here.
How much do you pay someone to foot your turf? We need help this year and a young lad is going to help us but we don't want to short change him!

Depends where you are. Ours is cut with a hopper behind a tractor and is about 4-5€ per hopper.

Muckit

I gave €15/ten sod hopper.

Kat1170

There is not enough money in the world to make me ever foot turf again. Hated it with a passion.

roosky

We have a 80 yard row that is 8 sods wide and thats 15 euro to foot that

neighbor has a 6 sod row thats about 60 yards and thats a 10 to foot that

Genghis Cant

90 odd yard 8 sod hopper footed for cash. Tenner a hopper.

pedigree 6

What do ye mean by footing turf?

Making a little stack for drying is it?

(Never cut or used turf or been on a bog before. So clueless.):)

Shpudnik

pedigree 6 wrote: »

What do ye mean by footing turf?

Making a little stack for drying is it?

(Never cut or used turf or been on a bog before. So clueless.):)

Exactly that.

I said

Kat1170 wrote: »

There is not enough money in the world to make me ever foot turf again. Hated it with a passion.

He should be paying them to keep him away from the bog.
Fcuk turf I say.

Kat1170

Kat1170 wrote: »

There is not enough money in the world to make me ever foot turf again. Hated it with a passion.

Hear hear. Cruel on the back.

lakill Farm

8 sod, 110 yard long. €12 a bin/hopper

100 yard last year was €10

3rd year these lads have done it for me

cj maxx

I said wrote: »

He should be paying them to keep him away from the bog.
Fcuk turf I say.

I actually loved the bog when was young, though I had had no jobs to do at home and it usually meant a day off school.
Covered in mud to keep the midges off and tae , sandwiches and cold minerals in the sun. You'd sleep that night though

cjmc

cjmc wrote: »

I actually loved the bog when was young, though I had had no jobs to do at home and it usually meant a day off school.
Covered in mud to keep the midges off and tae , sandwiches and cold minerals in the sun. You'd sleep that night though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IJSI2Ebzo

Reggie.

lakill Farm wrote: »

8 sod, 110 yard long. €12 a bin/hopper

100 yard last year was €10

3rd year these lads have done it for me

Lazy hoor

Kat1170

Reggie. wrote: »

Lazy hoor sod

FYP :D

Base price

I said wrote: »

He should be paying them to keep him away from the bog.
Fcuk turf I say.

When I saw the title of this thread I thought of you and anticipated some sort of response. Remind me to ask you in the debts of Winter how toasty your feet are when propped up by the fire

smiley girl

Thanks so much for all your replies. Very much appreciated!

We are going to pay the young lad a tenner an hour. After reading the replies that said euros per amount we were going to go that route but now we are just going to pay him per hour.

He's a good lad, hard worker and I wouldn't mind if someone paid me to foot it!! My own turf that is, I'd have a funny turn if I had to do anymore than that :D

Muckit

Well tis minimum wage anyways!

shootermcgee

They usually charge 80 a plot in South tipperary