Fence Row cleaning

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What would you guys charge?

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Planning on sending your dad an invoice?

Have a fella here locally that I pay $100 a day for such work. I provide the saw / brush hook and ice chest full of water

$20/hr each, plus $250/day for the tractor.

That would be a family deal.

Wait, how much did you get cleared? I know some folks that can work 25 hours and not finish digging a hole for a mailbox.

So that works out to $450 in money for labor for 2 guys working three 8 hour days. Plus all the equipment you used, fuel, wear and tear of said equipment and then poison to kill off things.

So, if I have done the math right, you and your dad cleared that quarter mile of fence line at a rate of just over $.34 a ft. If your lazy cousin has a problem with that, tell him to pound sand and do it himself next time.

That is bargain basement pricing, even for a relative.

Around here tractor time - bushhogging - will run you about $45-60 / per hour. Around $20/hour for the extra man.

well you should have established prices beforehand if you wanted him to pay you. Now it's going to be hard to go to him for 70$ an hour, which is what I would have commanded at the minimum.

but I also figure that into the total price so I'm not telling someone $100 an hour, I tell them a price for the whole thing. I'm clearing a bunch of bushes so some people can install a fence next week on a small yard for $350 and it's prbably going to take me 2 hours

If was my dad I would just paid in full!!! When he is gone you will miss him.

Dad helped, shot the shite, told stories, and had a good time. Hell we both had on LSU basketball shirts one on day while we worked. He still want share his chainsaw, claims I'll tear it up. He will be 70 this December retired from coaching basketball last year coached from 1972-2017.

Coached at Brookhaven Academy and Loyd Star High School. Got inducted into the private school hall of fame last August.

There was a coach we had at football all stars from Brookhaven academy, don’t recall his name, was in ‘93-94 he was probably 35-40 at that time, stocky dude about 5-10 or so. Probably too young to be your old man? Was a good dude though.