GRTimberCO
ArboristSite Operative
The quick background is about 5 years ago Istated a logging business to supliment my income. I purchased a truck and a 4430 John Deere tractor to skid and load with and did all my cutting with chainsaws. For three years I gave it qall I had time for. Fuel went up and most of the income went to keeping the farm tractor repaired. I saw an opportunity to get out pretty clean and took it.
Recently I've been talking to a couple local loggers I'm friends with about cutting for them in the evenings when I get off work. The problem we've run into is pricing my work. We can't come up with a way to price it by the ton or load because my work will be mixed in with what they cut with the feller bunchers during the day. Hourly none of us know how to price it either. They are used to working semi-skilled labor at a cheap day rate and I'm wanting to work at my convienence, maintain my own equipment, and make considerably more than minimum wage.
Any ideas?
Recently I've been talking to a couple local loggers I'm friends with about cutting for them in the evenings when I get off work. The problem we've run into is pricing my work. We can't come up with a way to price it by the ton or load because my work will be mixed in with what they cut with the feller bunchers during the day. Hourly none of us know how to price it either. They are used to working semi-skilled labor at a cheap day rate and I'm wanting to work at my convienence, maintain my own equipment, and make considerably more than minimum wage.
Any ideas?