Slash, I think my charge out rate is probably somewhere between 50cents and $1 per hour, not sure if that covers my shed lighting bill and tools
but at the end of the day somebody ends up with a good mower. The 80 hours I said I spent on it was on the conservative side I would say. Things like getting the rear wheels off and the axle out can take a day or more and then I can start making bearing housings and that sort of thing.Shafts that have worn down need repairing and where I can I get rid of the imperial bearings and fit metric because imperial bearings are twice the price of the metric. I have now started on this Ariens and just repairing the steering is a major project. They all seem to take me about a month to get them sorted. Onwards and upwards and keep smiling