c4l
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fierce lucky to have lived to tell another tale from what i heard of it
fierce lucky to have lived to tell another tale from what i heard of it
15 miles is a savage long draw... and off the scale for a wagon in my view of you think about the time grass is actually being lifted from the field.
What happened or would you prefer not to put it on a public fourmDont know how hes alive to be honest, long road to go yet for him..
30 mile round trip is probably 90 minutes between filling and tipping and travel, a 20ft with a half decent harvester will need 12 trailers an hour so to keep it moving for the 90 minutes add an extra 14 plus the usual 4, €6 plus vat an acre each so add €84 plus vat to cover the haulage cost.Long draws are getting more common around here. I'd call a three mile each way a long draw for the wagon now there's lads going fifteen miles each way for a load of grass. Its hard for the wagons to compete against a harvester when its not a big deal for the harvester to call in extra trailers.
Very good. My brother did an ag course with him a good few years ago and they've been friends since.Helping out a good friend on a long draw he returns to do ours. I'd know the odonovans well tho as we used to buy a lot of straw from them before we did our own
30 mile round trip is probably 90 minutes between filling and tipping and travel, a 20ft with a half decent harvester will need 12 trailers an hour so to keep it moving for the 90 minutes add an extra 14 plus the usual 4, €6 plus vat an acre each so add €84 plus vat to cover the haulage cost.
6euro an acre at 10 acres/hr, low to mid 30's an acre for harvester depending on crop.I would have taught a trailer would be more than €6 per ac
whats harvester charge per ac, av crop
16 drawing on a job near here last week, lads shouldn't be afraid to charge for it and some seemingly are, the example €84 should be charged otherwise lads will make a mockery of the contractor, they will pick up cheaper land way away from the yard in the knowledge that the contactor will foot the tab and they will pocket the saving, technically you should probably charge even more because the 4 original trailers in your price per acre have not been priced to be drawing silage that distance.30 mile round trip is probably 90 minutes between filling and tipping and travel, a 20ft with a half decent harvester will need 12 trailers an hour so to keep it moving for the 90 minutes add an extra 14 plus the usual 4, €6 plus vat an acre each so add €84 plus vat to cover the haulage cost.
30 mile round trip is probably 90 minutes between filling and tipping and travel, a 20ft with a half decent harvester will need 12 trailers an hour so to keep it moving for the 90 minutes add an extra 14 plus the usual 4, €6 plus vat an acre each so add €84 plus vat to cover the haulage cost.
I'd work it out for the number of trailers to keep the harvester running irrespective of how many I could muster, If I had only 2 extra when I needed 6 extra for example I'd be adding at least 36 euro plus vat, if there's an issue I'd be pointing out the fact that the harvester and loader were waiting and still costing.Getting 12 trailers together is another big ask. It would normally work out that 8 trailers would have to do so its taking longer. It works out at nearly double the rate of a normal cut of a mile draw. The farmer thinks its expensive but they have no issue giving a lad baling silage similar money with no draw.
Hence why a contractor would only be doing long draws when they are quite. If you have no other work on, that harvester isn't costing money (except the driver) when sitting in the field with the engine knocked off, similar with the loader. Then it's down to the question of do you want to keep wheels turning or not, and what other type of business do you get through the year that are relatively profitable from that farmer and are you prepared to loose them if another contractor says yes to the job. Every contractor will view individual jobs differentlyI'd work it out for the number of trailers to keep the harvester running irrespective of how many I could muster, If I had only 2 extra when I needed 6 extra for example I'd be adding at least 36 euro plus vat, if there's an issue I'd be pointing out the fact that the harvester and loader were waiting and still costing.
No fan club and a valtra and all....
Shocking bad photoshop job.
It was fit to cut a month ago but they wanted bulk.Shocking bad mowing....
Hence why a contractor would only be doing long draws when they are quite. If you have no other work on, that harvester isn't costing money (except the driver) when sitting in the field with the engine knocked off, similar with the loader. Then it's down to the question of do you want to keep wheels turning or not, and what other type of business do you get through the year that are relatively profitable from that farmer and are you prepared to loose them if another contractor says yes to the job. Every contractor will view individual jobs differently
Yes but I'd to fight for it , same rubbish put back on . At least his tipping rams are holding tough so far. The first day we worked d trailer we copped the lower pin hanging loose in wan of d tipping rams, we had a good few loads tipped at this stage. That was a very serious mistake on der behalf . The wiring of d lights was also poor in d trailer , d junction box was pure rubbish and water didn't take long to leak in and corrode everything .Did Broughans look after you?
are you sure grass is at 20% dm, good bit lower here this morning after 10mm of rain over the last few days17t of fresh grass/ac
8.5t of DM/HA
hows your new bus going?
We measured that last tuesday, tested it for N and sugars at the same time and it was a tough job to get the juice out with the garlic crusherare you sure grass is at 20% dm, good bit lower here this morning after 10mm of rain over the last few days