Originally Posted by
holdenhead
Hi John,
Sorry I missed your call the other day it was buried in 24 msg's that were on my phone that I was putting off going through. Got it tonight. A carrier pigion might have been better.
Give me a call if you still wana chat but I did speak to Glen the last night and he has filled me in on some details. The guy with the slasher will charge the same rate as we all should, around $100 per acre. I did a job a few weeks ago was about 15 acres, quoted $1500 plus an extra $400 because it was long and some whipper snipping needed doing. They needed it done a few weeks later again so I called a slasher bloke to go do it because it was a bit rough for the zero's and my back was still recovering from the first run. His price was $100 per acre, but he got through it in 3 hours because he has a bigger deck and bigger wheels and can cruise over the pot holes and bumps. So his price was the same. This is the way it should be anyway, bigger machine should make more $$ per hour. As I have said before if a 32inch tractor gets through a footy field in 1.5 hrs and a 60inch zero gets through that same footy field in 30 mins should there be a difference in price?? No, the difference should be that the bigger more efficient machine should make more $$ per hour than the smaller one. Otherwise there is no point forking out big $$ for big machines if you are making the same $$ per hour as a pushie.
Cheers Rick