What hourly charge would you recommend

cory

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Doing trimming with a 75' bucket, just the operator, no clean up.

I hardly ever do jobs like these so I'm not sure.

thanks
 
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Um, I wish.
 
The industry standard's calculated in man hours, and varies according to where the work's done.

In the country n suburbs, it's about 50 bucks per man hour.

In downtown Chicago, New York n such, it jumps to 70 bucks per man hour.

Jomo
 
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No I mean how much to charge the customer to do trimming with me and 75' lift. No clean up, just cut and leave.
 
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The industry standard's calculated in man hours, and varies according to where the work's done.

In the country n suburbs, it's about 50 bucks per man hour.

In downtown Chicago, New York n such, it jumps to 70 bucks per man hour.

Jomo

I'm not doing it for less than a hundred/hour, was wondering if that was too cheap.
 
100 ain't bad for no clean up. Try for 150?

70 is low for here Jon, some outfits Bill out 200 all day!
 
Just consider each truck on the job as a man Cory.

You and a bucket equates to between 100 bucks an hour and 140 bucks an hour.

Jomo
 
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Ok now we're talking, I was thinking 125 -150
 
Sounds like T&M. That truck wasn't free. It cost you money to own and run. Of course it cost almost the same to own it and have it sitting at the shop doing nothing. I would say at a minimum you need to be hitting 150 an hour on that setup just to cover cost. I don't know you're personal situation so I'm guessing.
 
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I think you are right.
 
$150+ portal to portal (travel, one way at least).

How is your local court of living and competition?
 
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150 it is. El TreeHouse rocks. :drink:
 
The industry standard's calculated in man hours, and varies according to where the work's done.

In the country n suburbs, it's about 50 bucks per man hour.

In downtown Chicago, New York n such, it jumps to 70 bucks per man hour.

Jomo

I can't work off of $50/man hour except splitting firewood maybe.
 
The company I worked for in Boston charged 90$ / man hour and counted any equipment as another person.
 
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So, 180/hr for the question at hand?
 
Sounds right. Butch is getting closer. :)

I have about 70K into my Avant and dump trailer both with over the top options and I add on $700 a day any day it goes out. Your bucket truck costs a bunch more than that new and to maintain.
 
We charge 135 for the first man, and 2 or more is 75-85/man. The bucket is 25-45/hr. We can cover cost at 25, but it should really make 45 because of what it can produce...

So that's about 160-180 for one man with bucket truck, port to port. Doesn't matter if cleanup is happening, because that would just take longer... Chipper is covered in the man hour rate if that were part of the scope.
 
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Im learning a lot here.
 
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