Going rate for full time around here is $20 plus some untaxable stuff. Vehicle, phone, rent, cattle.
One of my BTO former employers cousins are running 30-40 head of cattle for their guy. Another of his cousins guarantees hours, phone, and vehicle.
One of the biggest guys in the area guarantees hours as well, and takes better care of equipment.
The BTO I worked for didn't fix much that he didn't spend much time in. Sprayer tractor, new seat. Old one went in the steiger I planted with. Engine brake? It makes noise, it's working ok. I'm Using the air brakes too much. Fix the engine brake. What's that got to do with it?
They ride Rincons, grizzlies, I had to ride the old foreman 400, and when it went down, the old wrecked rancher with frozen suspension.
And God forbid the foreman go down. Gotta quit being so hard on it. Never mind that it ran every day from the first of March through mid December, unless we were planting or harvesting. Got more hours (and miles) than any other 3 machines on the place. Try taking a duramax to break ice (with a radio, automatic, and heat anyplace beside the defrost) nope, take the old Ford with the busted out seat and holes in the cab and door.
My running vehicle was in the shop. Could I drive one of their 8 pick-ups home one night? Nope, had to cobble the melted wiring and drive my unlicensed dodge home.
I should have walked 6 months sooner, after his uncle died, he showed his true colors.
Oh, and all that for 2/3 what everyone else pays. Which no one would tell me til after I left.
That's why I say there's big operations, and then there's BTO's.
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