Brush Hog per hour......

Cutting it once a month Jay's price may be more in line. I only cut this property once or twice a year. Consider the wear and tear on your equipment, ruining one rear tire would cost you $$$.

Edited by Hubert (Ga)engine7 - 16 Mar 2019 at 7:42pm

I cut 20 acre lots for $600-$700 with my 175D and Bush Hog 3008 mower...takes about 6 hours.

if your moving 2 MPH, that's 10,500 feet ... if your cutting 6 ft wide, that's 63,000 sq ft in an hour... that's 1.5 acres .......... don't you move faster than 2 MPH ?

Around here, with a 4' bush hog on a 20 HP kubota, going as fast as possible, say 6 MPH, that would cost about $1500.  Don't forget that if some other landscaping company were charging for it, going rate is $65-75 pre hour.  In your area, IDK, but look at what a comparable tractor with mounted bush hog rents for, per hour...

should get at least 600 bales per 1st, 2nd cutting, maybe 400 on 3rd, and 200 on 4th! that's alfalfa with little care, and maybe a little N in spring. i'm basing this on hill ground

Do you know how it was mowed before and price they might have paid? 

Edited by iowallis - 17 Mar 2019 at 7:49am

My brother was mowing CRP they charged $15 /acre and he mowers about 12 acres / her with a 24' bat wing. So that was $180 an hr as an employee he got $15 an hour the rest when to up keep and profit. The smallest plot we mowed was 120 acres the largest was 2200 acres. They drove 2 tractor 80 miles and towed the service truck behind one to do the 2200 acre.

shameless dude wrote: the yard mowers around here just charge what they would per sq ft of yard mowing, just call it a bigger yard.

tadams(OH) wrote: If they want it to look nice they might not like the looks of growing tall enough to make hay.

Was thinking that exactly.

As for the mill getting $10.50 per bale....if you think a farmer is going to make $18900 or $945 per acre on 20 acres off a hay crop, I have some prime real estate on the Florida coast you might be interested in. Hurricane proof too!😎

Edited by Tbone95 - 18 Mar 2019 at 6:19pm

I’ve got a 1994 60hp Diesel Massey Ferguson i was planning to use with a 6’ brush hog. The ground isn’t

Edited by Scott B - 18 Mar 2019 at 10:16pm

A lot of it depends on you. Do you want to do it? I love to bush hog myself, but if the place is to rough it takes all the fun out of it. Not many fields around here are perfect. I don't mind going around a few trees. If the limbs are low I would make the owner understand that I might not get that close to them. It's not worth tearing your head off or breaking the muffler off your tractor. It also depends on what else you got going on. If you have other paying jobs, then you need to charge more, because you're losing money else where. If you're sitting at the house making zero, then you can take less, because something is better than nothing.

Charge enough to cover your expenses plus whatever makes you and the owner comfortable. And remember, your not gong to get rich bush hogging no matter what you charge.

Never bid blind, using someone else's rates... I always give a per hour quote, on the first mow, might deal downward, after that, but never bid blind!

farmboy520 wrote: I’m just trying to give him some info to make an informed decision or quote.