Price by the job after you get experience and you will make a lot more money. I have a $750 minimum because it takes time and money to move equipment and make a living wage. For less than $750 call a lawn service. Shoot for $1200/day + mileage. 8 hrs of cutting, 2 hrs of loading. This works out to be about $100/ac for straight cutting. Mud, stumps, and trees slow you down but are covered by a day rate. 1/2 day minimum at $750. You can include the travel as a discount if nearby. Customers can always rent equipment and do it themselves. You need to earn this much due to seasonal work, maintenance and making a living.
@@hugostiglitz8465definitely a cab. I’d love to make some money off my tractor like this but without a cab and the risk of mowing over yellow jackets isn’t worth it as I’m highly allergic to ground bees.
A lot people do not understand what it takes to do these “simple jobs”. They just see you doing the actual mowing and think you’re just having a good time on the tractor. Like someone else said in your comments, they can go rent the equipment for more and do it themselves.
If you get stuck and have the front loader you can use the bucked to shove the tractor backwards. The bucket can claw forwards a little bit but it shoves backward better. I have done this successfully several times... And last week I got my tractor stuck so bad the front loader didn't help!
Just subscribed. Another Tractor owner operator. Is that a Bad Boy Tractor? How many HP? I have 40 HP LS. 6x12 Dump Trailer, bunch of rear attachments. Pulverizer, Tiller, Box Blade, Grapple, Loader ETC.
My neighbor got a pretty flat clean field to cut, but it still takes 4 hours to cut the whole field. Neighbor only wants to pay $200.00 for my time and equipment use. I’m not trying to make a living from helping out a neighbor, but I think $200.00 is still too low? Not even making $50.00 an hour since I got fuel cost coming out of my pocket too!
Firestone charges $125/hr to change tires. You cannot run a business and pay yourself, with downtime or time between jobs, for less than $150/hr. Determine the hours needed, and then charge a project fee. Sometimes you come out ahead a little, sometimes the customers does.
id estimate that the tractor/implement amoritization is around $30/hr, so while that seems like profit, youre going to have to replace the tractor 5 years on.
