Driving a tractor...

Eldon (WA) · May 20, 2018

So everyone likes to drive a tractor, right? So what would you pay me to drive my tractor 8 hours a day? If you really like it you can drive 14 hours a day...I might even pay you LOL! P.S. there is a bush hog behind it...

JerryS · May 20, 2018

There have been times I probably would have paid to drive a good-running tractor equipped with a sickle mower,
running through a big clean field of hay. I did this every summer for four years (for $8 a day) back in my younger
years. Many times when the stress level gets high I think about how therapeutic it would be to be on a tractor
watching the grass fall in front of that blade. There's just something healing about it.

Bushhog? No thanks.

Bob Harvey · May 20, 2018

Honestly, $35 per hr for the machine - YOU I don't know.

Traditional Farmer · May 21, 2018

Come by my place this Summer I'll let you drive my Oliver 1600 Utility pulling a New Holland 456 sickle bar for free and you're right something very satisfying about mowing hay.Think when you've done the same thing over and over for years you kinda drift back in time when you're doing it.

James Howell · May 21, 2018

"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]If you really like it you can drive 14 hours a day...I might even pay you[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

My father provided room and board and paid $1.00 per hour.

These days Nancy only provides room and board.

Stephen Newell · May 21, 2018

I might take you up on that. I only work on my tractors. They are almost never drivable.

DoubleR · May 21, 2018

I do some custom work and try to bill between 75-100 bucks an hour for me and my equipment. I would gladly pay someone I could trust 15-20 bucks an hour to operate it. Anyone I know though that would qualify is already too busy, like me, doing their own work. I'm surely not going to put someone on thousand of dollars worth of equipment that don't know what they are doing. I think most people that own equipment feel that way and that's not even mentioning the liability factor.

Destroked 450 · May 21, 2018

I know what you mean, couple years ago I messed up my left ankle and couldn't drive my tractors, did this right in the middle of hay season.
Had a couple of nephews that had just got out of the military help me finish up the last sixty acres of hay, one had only helped rake hay a few times and was now zipping around the fields with my brand new trailed disc mower, the other had helped in hay some and was now running my 2 year old round baler.
I would drive the pickup out where they were working , park under a shade tree and watch them work, wife said I needed to be laying up at the house, I told her I couldn't because I would be to nervous not being able to see how they where doing.

They did a good job and didn't tear up anything, but I was still pretty stressed out about it.

oleozz · May 21, 2018

Several years ago I was working on a farm appraising corn. The farmer pulled into a hay field beside me with two big beautiful white horses pulling a sickle bar mower. It was such a unusual and relaxing sight that I had to take a break and watch the horses and farmer make a round. Now I would probably pay to sit on that mower with those horses and mow the afternoon away.

Eldon (WA) · May 21, 2018

I pay my guy $75 to $150 an hour, but he supplies the tractor and equipment, truck and trailer for transport, fuel for all...and takes all calls and gives out bids! He hasn't abused his equipment and has very little repair costs. I wish I could find someone for half the cost, I would be in heaven LOL!

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