09/04/2025
Can DIY on a track system work 🤔
Seeing soooo many posts about this lately. YES, very simply, of course it can 🙅♀️…….but it costs money and 100% must have reliable people.
We have been doing it for many years now and it wasn’t always easy and sometimes we seriously considered giving up……but we persevered, got the right people and learnt from our mistakes 🙏🏻
The key is having the right mix of people who all chip in and know what they need to be doing, when and where. As long as you have that and manage the set up well and properly, there is no reason it can’t work.
No, you won’t make millions but you do need to cover your costs so pricing is important too. Our current prices range from £240 - £275 DIY. Some say we’re expensive, some say we’re cheap. I say we’re fair and challenge anyone to offer and do what we do for less to the same standard:
This includes:
* Provison of and maintenance and repairs to all the tracks, fencing, shelters, hardstandings etc
* provision of and refilling of sand pits
* creation of play mounds and wood chip rolling areas
* Provision of Jelka mats, mud control mats, hay boxes, nets etc etc etc
*Arranging deliveries of low sugar/starch meadow hay 365 days a year, 24/7
*insurance, water rates, electric,
* muck heap removal
* initial cost of the land itself
* Initial cost, maintenance & insurance costs of all the machinery required to do the above
* just one visit a day
if you were to add all the above up and divide by the purposely small herds we have here……& provide similar facilities and set up to what we have here……I’d challenge anyone to be able to do this cheaper 🙏🏻
So yes, it can work but caveat….youve got to break a few eggs to make an omelette 🤦♀️🙅♀️🥰
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