day rate for 14 ton digger/flail + driver

hometruths

Hi, anybody got a ballpark idea of a day rate for a lad with 14 ton digger to flail, including diesel? Thanks!

hometruths

schmittel wrote: »

Hi, anybody got a ballpark idea of a day rate for a lad with 14 ton digger to flail, including diesel? Thanks!

I got quoted 1100 + VAT which I thought was high?

Limestone Cowboy

50+ vat around here with a real heavy duty seppi mulcher on it.

hometruths

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

50+ vat around here with a real heavy duty seppi mulcher on it.

an hour I guess? 1100 a day is more like 120 an hour!

mr.stonewall

schmittel wrote: »

an hour I guess? 1100 a day is more like 120 an hour!

Don't forget the haulage. For just a day it will have to be factored in. Still priced a bit high, maybe he doesn't want this job

hometruths

mr.stonewall wrote: »

Don't forget the haulage. For just a day it will have to be factored in. Still priced a bit high, maybe he doesn't want this job

He called me, saying I'm in the area on another job this week, I can come to you now and save you the haulage.

Timmaay

Definitely sounds steep, I think I paid something like 700/day for a 25t and driver, excluding diesel. That was 2yrs ago tho.

Sacrolyte

Offer him 6 or 7 hundred. Throw the ball back in his court.

893bet

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Offer him 6 or 7 hundred. Throw the ball back in his court.

And he is still dear as hell.

70 and hour is top end rate.

I says

schmittel wrote: »

I got quoted 1100 + VAT which I thought was high?

Jaysus he’d want to be able to butter a slice of bread with the boom at that price. €50 an hour here.

hometruths

Thanks all, good to know, will offer him less and see what he says!

rs8

60 - 70 euro max per hour anymore hes robbing you!!

Bass Reeves

rs8 wrote: »

60 - 70 euro max per hour anymore hes robbing you!!

And that would want to include a vat receipt. Only advantage of a larger digger is the boom length. However lots of contractor have mulchers on larger tractors now. They can go a fair height. Some can go to 25'+. Most would in or around 50/ hour and most would be vat registered.

hometruths

Bass Reeves wrote: »

And that would want to include a vat receipt. Only advantage of a larger digger is the boom length. However lots of contractor have mulchers on larger tractors now. They can go a fair height. Some can go to 25'+. Most would in or around 50/ hour and most would be vat registered.

It was a cash price!

hometruths

At 50-70 an hour would that be including diesel or not?

To correct my OP, it is a fairly heavy duty mulcher he's got, not a flail.

enricoh

schmittel wrote: »

It was a cash price!

No wonder he was ringing you back! Are u out in dalkey or something?!

hometruths

enricoh wrote: »

No wonder he was ringing you back! Are u out in dalkey or something?!

Not quite. North Wicklow which I'd expect to be a little pricier than more rural but not quite double!

Bass Reeves

schmittel wrote: »

It was a cash price!

And you even considered it

Mooooo

Does anyone pay cash for that type of work? Cant understand that tbh

SuperTortoise

schmittel wrote: »

I got quoted 1100 + VAT which I thought was high?

High! Jesus wept, that's out of bounds altogether, this is for day rate right? not week rate?

hometruths

Bass Reeves wrote: »

And you even considered it

Considered it, instinctively thought it seemed high, hence posting on here to check!

Injuryprone

Hang on a minute.....it's 1100 + VAT and it's a cash price.

Something's not adding up OP.

rs8

schmittel wrote: »

At 50-70 an hour would that be including diesel or not?

To correct my OP, it is a fairly heavy duty mulcher he's got, not a flail.

That would be him using his own diesel ... I've never see a contractor using a farmers diesel ... too risky with modern engines and injectors!! To my knowledge it goes on in the UK abit I think!!

hometruths

Injuryprone wrote: »

Hang on a minute.....it's 1100 + VAT and it's a cash price.

Something's not adding up OP.

The first price I was given was 1100. I said I need an invoice, he said grand 1100 + VAT.

Hence why I said 1100 a day is more like 120 an hour!

Sacrolyte

Sounds like a lad that be starting at 9 and loading up at 4.30.
Make sure you know exactly what your getting into before you make any arrangements.

ruwithme

Mooooo wrote: »

Does anyone pay cash for that type of work? Cant understand that tbh

"Cash is king,long live cash"