Hi bud is getting a hay deliver how much do you pay to deliver and stack your hay? These are very large heavy bales guessing over 50 and closer to 70 lbs is my guess. Person at this barn can not stack it her self.
thank you
ML
This is going to be highly variable depending on where you live.
I just had 200 bales delivered and stacked yesterday; it cost me $450.
Fergs that was extra from what the hay cost you?
I Pay 15 bucks for delivery and stacking
so we should figure 2.00 a bale to pick up stack and deliver hay?
I tip the driver occasionally, and give him $100 tip at Christmas, but the feed store has waived my delivery fee of $20. The driver stacks the hay in two places on the property and I usually order 24 100+ pound bales at a time.
I think I erroneously said in another post that I have 24 bales stacked near each feeder. I don’t know what I was thinking. It is 12 at each feeder. I suppose if I were the one stacking those heavy bales, I would easily remember the number!
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so we should figure 2.00 a bale to pick up stack and deliver hay?[/QUOTE]
That’s the going rate around here, at least for hay guys like mine who don’t do their own delivery and contract it out instead. My mom in Virginia pays only an additional 50 cents per bale!
Around here it has to do with distance, too. I think I pay $25 or so - but there are typically two guys, and I prefer to give each a $20 tip as well. Tipping more than delivery cost seems reasonable… and if they weren’t delivering, they’d be loading hay into vehicles at the store, with the same salary.
I get up to 70 100+ lbs bales at a time, but usually around 40.
In my area the going rate is an extra $1-$1.50 on top of the price of the bale out of the field.
Here, one load of 200 60-65# alfalfa bales are $9.- and $.50 to deliver 40 miles and stack in the barn, if they can just throw and stack, don’t have to carry them here and there.
We do tip the two college kids that do that for the seller $20.- each.
The folks I buy hay from charge $1.25 per bale to deliver and stack. These are 100lb+ bales, seems fair to me.
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My mom in Virginia pays only an additional 50 cents per bale![/QUOTE]
Same here. My hay guy actually doesn’t charge me anything extra, but I usually leave him a “tip” of $0.50/bale. I order 150 bales at a time, and he delivers from about 30-45 minutes away. Bales are usually in the 60-70# range.
That being said, he’s only left to stack on his own (he brings his guys to help) when he can’t deliver when DH & I are here to help him (maybe every other delivery), and it takes us maybe 10-15 minutes to stack the hay.
I pay : $2.50 off the wagon, we load. $3.50 from the barn hay guy helps load and he dekivers unloads and throws while we stack for $4.00 a bale.
I usually tip his helpers a couple bucks when they come…they’re 7, 5, and 4 lol
$.50/bale
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In my area the going rate is an extra $1-$1.50 on top of the price of the bale out of the field.[/QUOTE]
Same in Vermont.
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I pay : $2.50 off the wagon, we load. $3.50 from the barn hay guy helps load and he dekivers unloads and throws while we stack for $4.00 a bale.
I usually tip his helpers a couple bucks when they come…they’re 7, 5, and 4 lol[/QUOTE]
You should really appreciate that price per bale! LOL! We sell ours out of the field (off the wagon, we bale them in with a kicker and when it’s full, the wagon is parked for people to come get hay from the wagon) and we don’t help at all and the price is $3.50 out of the wagon. If we have to deliver, its $4.00 a bale plus usually $1.00 to $1.50 MORE per bale depending on how far we have to deliver it. But we don’t do this for many people because its inconvenient to stop baling to deliver hay somewhere, or to deliver it after baling all of it. People can get it out of the field or we go on to the next person waiting on the list who wants it.
60 # square bales of brome !~ delivered and stacked $4.25 a bale ~
I buy 60 # small sqaure bales of [B]BROME ~
[/B]210 bales at a time … $4.25 a bale delivered and stacked in the hay barn ~
It’s a good price ~ IMHO
If I divide the delivery fee, which includes stacking, for the 240 bales I get each year my hay cost about $4.80 a bale. This is good brome hay, fertilized and the bales weigh 60#+.
I pick mine up, but I think my hay guy charges an extra dollar per bale to deliver.
Does anyone pay per mile? I’m getting 250 bales from an hour and fifteen minutes away and am not sure what to expect, or what is considered fair to both parties/normal? I imagine they will help stack so they can get going, but we will as well (I can bring 3-4 family out to do it).
