Bushoging

Jonak · Mar 2, 2011

Anybody do any custom bushoging for neighbors? Like maybe 5 to 20 acres. What is a fair fee for a small job like this? Thanks much. Joe

ddl · Mar 2, 2011

Your FSA office or soil conservationist should have that info and also a list of people to hire if you are looking for someone.

37 chief · Mar 2, 2011

One reason I don't like doing work for friends, or neighbors is they expect you to do the work for almost nothing. Just figure what your fuel and time are worth. You should charge atleast 75.00 an hour. Stan

Anonymous-0 · Mar 2, 2011

Answers will run the gamut. Going rates vary with area. Also to be considered is size of equipment. Around here, current "going rate" is anywhere from $50 an hour on smaller tractor mower, to $150 hr for high HP w/batwing mowers.

Legal (ie insured, pays taxes, ect) contractors get high end of scale. Local good ol' boys wanting to make beer money will mow for chump change.

Around here, we can hire mowers all day long @ $16 to $18 an acre on larger acreage.

I cut 25 acres for a neighbor (4 times a summer) @ $375 per cut. (using 85hp tractor w/15' bat wing) I'm not getting rich at that rate.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Mar 2, 2011

I decided to pick up some work mowing several years ago. A co-worker that has a horse stabled told the owner of the stable and she contacted me about mowing her pasture.

Later on the co-worker told that Maggie needed the pasture mowed again and wondered if I could do it. I told her no way, as I hadn't been paid for the last---the phone was no longer answered, etc.

She told me that Maggie had been dodging her ex husband. If that was the case he was probably a bill collector just doing his work.

Long story short I wrote off the work after about 4 months and told them to forget about paying it.

I later received a gift card to a home improvement store for about what my fuel had cost.

Lesson learned--the real payoff.

Dean · Mar 2, 2011

The commercial bush hogging pro in my area charged $50/hr last year for his 125 HP tractor and 10 1/2' mounted mower.

With only a single eye and no CDL, he drives his (nearly) 30 MPH tractor to all jobs and starts the clock when he starts the tractor. He mows as fast as the mower will cut properly.

Dean

Jonak · Mar 2, 2011

Thanks Guys for your input. I think I have a good Idea gleaned from all your replies and it is appreciated. Thanks Joe

timvt · Mar 2, 2011

I mow with a 1050 jd., six foot woods hog, and get $45.00 an hour. fully insured.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 2, 2011

What did we all do before we had Gov't Bureaucrats tellings us everything we need to do in life?

ddl · Mar 2, 2011

this wasn't posted for them to be telling YOU what to do. It was posted because sometimes the government does it 's job by having information available for peoples use. Sorry your head is in the sand or somewhere that it can't see light

Eldon (WA) · Mar 2, 2011

$50 an hour for the orange mower, $75 an hour for the green one

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