I'm assuming you're talking about a tractor and a 3PH tiller here.
When I was doing that sort of thing for a living, size didn't have much to do with it. I charged by the hour, with a 1 hour minimum, and a flat rate charge for getting there.
The only exception to that was if I could trailer the tractor to a central location, unload and till several gardens without having to reload. Then I'd give 'em a little bit of a break.
5 years ago, when I quit, it was $35/hr plus a $20 trailering fee. Like the feller below, I had a few people choke on that until they were faced with the prospect of doing it with a shovel or a Troybuilt. Only remember ever having one guy flat out refuse to pay that much.
I read somewhere that a good guideline was $1 per hour per $1000 of equipment replacement cost. Don't take long to come up with $35,000 for a tractor, tiller, trailer and a truck to haul it with...
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