A guy on this forum does trees as well as anything else he can around peoples yards to make a quid (fair enough too) goes out to a quote.
Lady gets talking and asks what his hourly rate is for general gardening ... although he loathes to do hourly rate and prefers to fix price a job he tells her $30
She responds, "Oh, that's expensive."
He left.
$30/hour in Australia for a self employed man with own equipment and running costs is darned cheap. He also has good saws, tools, tipper truck and can whip through a job but if all the customer looks at is hourly rate then the most likely to make money could be the slowest most useless person.
There's little incentive to have great gear and be fast/educated and safe if you earn less. Hourly rate stump grind, quick, hide the Rg50 and get the 13hp shove along out.
