Fair price

fhudo

fhudo

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I may have the opportunity to hire (per day) an 18” chipper pulled by a truck with chip box. This is a partnership arrangement with another tree service who does not use the equipment at the weekend.

What do people think a fair day price for the equipment would be?


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Depends if your driving the truck and working on the ground with them or just letting a guy take it from your shop. I know if it were me I would want to drive it and work with them so i can make sure the truck and chipper isn't getting beat on.
 
It depends entirely on what you'd be doing otherwise. Loading on a flat trailer or flatbed? What is that worth and then less than that. If you have no other options readily available, then whatever they ask is fair. I'd expect to pay about $500 for the full truck to leave, plus wages for the guy running it, and maybe a couple hundred more for any incidentals. That's a big machine.
 
In the past, I have rented dumpsters. $430 for 30 yards - no weight limit. So, I was thinking that rather than throw money at this, it would make more sense to divert those cash streams into a solution like bringing in a chipper solution. Quicker and safer.

Other than the cost of a dumpster, there is a danger element (slicing everything up with a chainsaw) to get the material compact.






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fhudo said:
In the past, I have rented dumpsters. $430 for 30 yards - no weight limit. So, I was thinking that rather than throw money at this, it would make more sense to divert those cash streams into a solution like bringing in a chipper solution. Quicker and safer.

Other than the cost of a dumpster, there is a danger element (slicing everything up with a chainsaw) to get the material compact.






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The time and trouble of loading it should definitely figure into the equation. I don't mind spending money to not work as hard. And I hate mulching in metal boxes in the heat.
 
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Around here it is over $400/day just to rent a 12" chipper. Without knowing your operation, but if you'd benefit from an extra guy doing ground work that you can pay as a sub contractor, then that also adds to the benefit. Since you wouldn't be responsible for workers comp

If I had the right work lined up for it, I might pay around $900 or so a day for that setup. Although I've never used an 18",so it's hard for me to judge the amount of productivity.

That said, on a technical removal where everything has to come down in small pieces, the bigger chipper may not be any handier than a 12". A job with several trees being felled would be a different story.
 
Setting some cheese aside for your own? It's like they say, if you can afford rent, you can afford a house when you have the down payment.
 
Might consider some hour-factor. If you use it 45 minutes, versus 6 hours, that's a lot less wear and tear.

An 18" being fed by an excavator all day...

Another consideration is how it's being fed, and by how many workers. If you're feeding it for an hour with 10 guys stuffing it as fast as possible, or winching big trees into the machine that will get dirty, or if you're feeding with a mini...all different scenarios.

IDK what to suggest, a lot of variables
 
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