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Whats your rate?
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P_woozel
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Varyson the scope of the job but anywhere from 37.00 to 75.00
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P_woozel
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If its a new company absolutely especially around here, everyone is reluctant to pay the propere amount for tree work that when they do call in a sub it is usually a big/difficult/high risk kind of scene, and I have no problem charging more. I also reveiw bids for two companys and that is just 30.00 an hour. pruning which I rarely do for someone else is around 40.00 rigging jobs are 50.00 and up, i charge 1/2 travel time since on the way home I may be doing any numbere of things.
P_woozel
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Erik how many hours are you running in that daily rate 5-6?
P_woozel
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that seems very reasonable, I,m guessing the 7-8 hour shows fall well into the +dollar range.
Abbershay
ArboristSite Operative
does this rate include your insurance or the the people you are working for?
I would have to say 4 to 600 a day. It all depends on the work. If it is more than 8 hours. The price goes up when people go to pull out ropes and leave your jingle jangles hanging up in the tree. If you know you put out two to three days worth of climbing in one day then the price goes up.
$400 a day+ or -. Did 3 days at 450 last week with chiptruck/chipper etc. Don't do much subbing. Only one guy now. He knows what I'm about as we worked on the same crew several years ago. It's a two way street, he'll be helping be prune a big tree all day Wednesday. I've had bad experiences subbing for guys that don't know there head from there azz.
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Ha. They usually 'go to a store', and never come back.
ROLLACOSTA
Addicted to ArboristSite
i'm happy to pay the rate of £100-£120 for a good competant climber here in the UK..thats day rate
I normally climb for about $30 per hour when contract climbing.
Its some of my favourite work, you learn alot by seeing other guys systems and playing with their toys.
Its some of my favourite work, you learn alot by seeing other guys systems and playing with their toys.
Koa Man
Kahuna giganticus
I had one customer who wanted me to charge by the hour, 8 hour min. day. I charged him $60 an hour for me, $25 an hour for a groundman. I was working 7-10 days a month for him for 18 months. In September he asked me to work for him 6 days a week from Sep. 25 to March 15, 2005. I turned him down and in fact on Oct. 1 gave up that account. It was just taking up too much time and working by the hour as a licensed tree service contractor limited my income to a fixed rate. On some bid jobs I can make as much as $150 an hour or more. It was also getting hard to service all my other customers. Even without that account I still need more days in the week.
tophopper
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Nickrosis
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While you don't get rich working on a per-hour basis, you don't lose your butt on jobs either. This can really help on jobs where it's hard to estimate the time required. Or when you're unsure of materials required and can bill based on time and materials.
It's important to have differential rates, though, to account for different equipment used, etc. For example, we charge $65/day for a chipper whether it's used or not. Of course, the time spent chipping is above and beyond that, but fees help bump up the price and into profit.
Another thing is a minimum charge per job. For us, it's $225. No matter how small the task, it's $225 for us to show up with a truck/crew/chipper. Usually, this isn't a problem, but for really small jobs, we propose doing more work than just what may have been requested. For example, "we can take that limb off, but it'll be $225. As part of that, we can go ahead and prune the rest of the tree" ...... etc.
It's important to have differential rates, though, to account for different equipment used, etc. For example, we charge $65/day for a chipper whether it's used or not. Of course, the time spent chipping is above and beyond that, but fees help bump up the price and into profit.
Another thing is a minimum charge per job. For us, it's $225. No matter how small the task, it's $225 for us to show up with a truck/crew/chipper. Usually, this isn't a problem, but for really small jobs, we propose doing more work than just what may have been requested. For example, "we can take that limb off, but it'll be $225. As part of that, we can go ahead and prune the rest of the tree" ...... etc.
BewtifulTreeMan
ArboristSite Operative
Originally posted by aussie_lopa
what do you charge fabio
well, i don't sub climbing for other companies (because i don't climb fer ????) but if you must know. My bids are based on $90 an hour for 1 - 2 hours of work and taper down to about $60 for larger jobs and can be a bit more for more technical removals. 2 man crew.
And i'm not fabio anymore, now i'm that gangsta with tha uzi
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