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Countless posts about this on the site mate....if the machine in the photo is yours then you will know how long it takes and how much it costs you.....a contractor would be close to 20 pounds on that size...
It is mine but i have never transported it..stored at the premise i maintain. I currently use a hayter condor for larger sites but am thinking about a trailer license..simply havent needed it yet-bought in reserve!
£20? I charge £20 for a grass cut on a medium sized garden..funny world we live in!
It sure is mate!! But that's business and economies of scale!
See my other post ref transport for your machine....good machine the condor by the way!
So what you thinking on the cut? What's an acre in sqm2?
I think your £20 guestimate for cutting the 1 acre is on the thin side there, factoring in time to get there, diesel and fuels, lets say with a triple it took 20 mins...looking at a good 40 mins total minimum until the next job is reached (or over an hr with the condor) I have never worked out an acre in sqm to be fair!
Not for a contractor chap I'm afraid to say
The £40 mark sounds about fair non contract
It's on another thread but I saw a written quote a couple (I think) weeks back of £52 plus VAT for 4 acres. So that's £13 an acre.
A acre is 4000m2 by the way
If they have a triple mower that can mow 4 acres in an hour..(which if you look at calculators online..most do..) then 52 sounds reasonable. I think triple mowing you have to charge 35 ph for realistically..and this job being only 1 acre is travel time more than the job..so that must be allowed for
Lets say for example the job was 1/4 the size..1/4 of an acre..based on your £13 an acre theory i would happily cut their estate for £3.25p.. whereas realistically time is the factor here based on an absolute minimum of £35 per hr with a triple travel or no travel...does that sound realistic?
That same garden I drive past and do the acre also has about a quarter of an acre of "formal lawn" which I cut and collect on a "walk behind mower day" and charge the same £40 as for the acre.
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