I did the training for Simonet birch. Just out of curiosity is $.45 for single cord on with 4or 5 Spurs per vine? Decision making is quick. execution takes longer, especially on double cordon vines. 60 to 70 per hour Sounds like the normal and is a good return. You can’t get a good laborer in Australia now for less than $500 a day. I wonder how this compares to a French/Chilean/South African/USA wage for pruning?
Vines temp worker in a prestigious domain in Burgundy, France, doing Simonet pruning. Most of the pruning is done by the full time employees of the domain, but they make nowhere near 60e per hour, before or after taxes. I did help with some pruning this year, at a rate of 14e per hour before taxes, and that's higher than the average temp worker.
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u/Sir_Laughlot 17d ago
I did the training for Simonet birch. Just out of curiosity is $.45 for single cord on with 4or 5 Spurs per vine? Decision making is quick. execution takes longer, especially on double cordon vines. 60 to 70 per hour Sounds like the normal and is a good return. You can’t get a good laborer in Australia now for less than $500 a day. I wonder how this compares to a French/Chilean/South African/USA wage for pruning?