Per hour rate for moving logs??

[mike_belben]

golly thats a brute

[labradorguy]

He is a horse. Passed my stand last week at about 80 yards. I swear he looked like an elk...

[Satamax]

I would say she is hiring you for a specific job that apparently is important to her. You made her aware of the potential value of the wood. She just wants her view. So give her what she wants and enjoy the extra profits. I've run into that occasionally where the customer just wants what they want and doesn't have an interest anything else.

In France, we have a saying; that i don't know if it exists in english. 
"A shroud has no pockets" 

[sumday]

If "shroud" is referring to a burial garment we do have sayings like " you can't take it with you" and "I've never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch" and so forth. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the saying...

[Roundhouse]

"A shroud has no pockets"

they don't put saddlebags on coffins, is how I've heard it around here.

[SwampDonkey]

"Money's no object." :D Wish I could say that, and I never heard my father or grandfather ever say that either.

I watched a video yesterday that was just random suggestion and a young fella had 4 acres of land to clear and stump for goats. ;D He was told by family it would cost money in the end. He hired the right land clearing firm who paid him in the end over $800 for the wood sales after costs for the work were deducted. He had $6500 of pine on that lot besides what else.

Up this way I've never seen anyone yet give away wood or treat it like garbage. :D

Take away, you can't give it ($$) away sometimes. ;)

[Satamax]

"A shroud has no pockets"

they don't put saddlebags on coffins, is how I've heard it around here.

Thanks a lot Roundhouse. Hey i didn't pay attention before, but we are from the same year!  ;D

[Iwawoodwork]

If their road to the top of the hill is gravel maybe a gift of a load of rock, that is something always needed and usually appreciated.

[Blue Noser]

I use the $1 per hour for every $1000 of equipment value and then I add my hourly rate.

So a Ponsse Scorpian King is worth $900/hr+? 
That's about 6-7x what it's worth per hour.

[Stephen1]

I use the $1 per hour for every $1000 of equipment value and then I add my hourly rate.

So a Ponsse Scorpian King is worth $900/hr+?
That's about 6-7x what it's worth per hour.

Im not sure what that machine is or it's cost to run? Help me out here. . If it is a machine that cost $900,000 to purchase that is probably what I would charge. 

[Satamax]

I use the $1 per hour for every $1000 of equipment value and then I add my hourly rate.

So a Ponsse Scorpian King is worth $900/hr+?
That's about 6-7x what it's worth per hour.

Im not sure what that machine is or it's cost to run? Help me out here. . If it is a machine that cost $900,000 to purchase that is probably what I would charge.

I use the $1 per hour for every $1000 of equipment value and then I add my hourly rate.

Stephen1, so you take the new price? Or the secondhand price, if you have a secondhand machine? 
That wouldn't make much on some of my machines!  :-\

[Stephen1]

Thats a good question? I only started using that policy in the last 3 years. It has definnitly put money in my bank account. Now I still have a beat up old pickup truck  with 400,000 + KLM on it that I use to haul my shiney new sawmill around with. I raised my rates this year to what a new pickup and new sawmill is worth as I see it is the only way I can afford to have a shiny new Truck. I hope if buisness carries on like it has in the last 3 years that I will get a new or newer pickup truck, or at least one with less klms on it. 

[Satamax]

Ok Stephen1 

Having mostly old stuff, I was wondering.  I admit I'm struggling to work with private owners. I'm working better with businesses. Some woodworker friends told me I was cheap. Some other people, that I was expensive. Mostly, if I do per day work. I charge 360€ a day. Whatever of my tools I have to get out. Otherwise I calculate 3x  to  4.25x the costs of materials,  or I try to estimate the time I will spend on it, and multiply material by 1.2 for roofing. 1.8 for general woodworking. When I saw on the sawmill, to make a balcony or else. I take other sawyers prices, and do the multiplying as explained above. 

[Stephen1]

Ok Stephen1

Having mostly old stuff, I was wondering.  I admit I'm struggling to work with private owners. I'm working better with businesses. Some woodworker friends told me I was cheap. Some other people, that I was expensive. Mostly, if I do per day work. I charge 360€ a day. Whatever of my tools I have to get out. Otherwise I calculate 3x  to  4.25x the costs of materials,  or I try to estimate the time I will spend on it, and multiply material by 1.2 for roofing. 1.8 for general woodworking. When I saw on the sawmill, to make a balcony or else. I take other sawyers prices, and do the multiplying as explained above.

I think the problems with private homeowners is the preice. $$$$ We do not want to charge more than we would pay ourselves. If that makes any sense. But lots of time our ideas of cost are older, quite a bit older. We have to look at today and what everything cost's and price accordingly. If I have to work for 360 a day then I am out of buisness. I need at least 750 a day. I do not put any exchange into anything. I figure each country has it's own value.