Serving Central Texas & The Hill Country
About Us
What We Can Do For You
- Can't take a vacation because you can't find someone to tend your farm while you're away?
- Are you an absentee landowner concerned about unauthorized activity or someone may be attempting to adversely possess your property?
- Do you have a hunting lease and need to know if your well and power is in working order for your upcoming weekend hunt?
- Need help maintaining your property for Agricultural, Wildlife, or Conservation tax exemptions?
- Looking to buy rural property and want to get an honest assessment from someone other than the Realtor?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, we may be able to help. Whether it's milking your cow, repairing a fence, or just putting a new lock on the gate for you, Remote RanchHand can handle all your farm and ranch concerns. For every job, we provide full photo and email documentation with time/date stamp sent to you so you can rest assured you know everything happening on your property. We will also work with you to get any issues that we find on your property resolved.
Farm and Livestock Sitting
- Daily/weekly feeding and watering of livestock
- Administering required medication/first aid
- Headcount and screening of injured livestock
- Remote plant & tree watering
- Temporary fence repairs
- Emergency Contact service
- Wildlife feeding
- Feeder and Hunting blind maintenance
Absentee Land Owner Services
Inspection & Maintenance Services:
- Property line and fencing
- Predator Control
- Pasture improvement and upkeep
- Unauthorized encroachment
- Driveway and access road building & maintenance
- Power and water at your facilities
- Utility and Pipeline easements
- Stock tank/pond chemical treatment
- Construction progress reports
- Pre-Purchase property scouting
Experience, Integrity, Dependability
We look forward to helping you with your landowner needs. We know personally the importance of maintaining the integrity of your property and animals while either on a short-term absence or an on-going need. As every need is specific, please call us or email us so we may quote you accurate pricing.
Upfront Pricing
Basic Pricing Structure
Cost is always important to making decisions regarding products and services. We believe in letting you know our rates and policies up front, letting you establish an idea of what your job will cost, just from visiting our website. This allows you to adjust the work and services to fit your needs and budget.
*Standard Rates*
Standard Labor- $80/hour with a 1/2 hour minimum, then by every 1/4 hour.
Round Trip Drive Time- $80/hour charged by the 1/10 of an hour, no minimum.
*Drive Time is calculated from Fredericksburg, TX to location.
Emergency after hours & weekends- $100/hour for labor and drive time,
1 hour minimum labor charge.
All jobs requiring heavy equipment (dozer, back hoe, motor grader)will be priced on a
case by case basis.
Any Materials used during a job(lumber, feed, insulation, hay, hardware, fertilizer, etc)
is subject to a 25% markup.
*Job Variables*
While literally almost anything can affect the cost of a project, when we quote you a final price for your job, you will be given a "to not exceed" price. If the job takes less time to complete than we anticipated, you will be billed for the lesser amount. if the job takes twice as long as we anticipated, that is our problem, not yours. You will not be billed above the "to not exceed" price, unless agreements are made for additional work outside the scope of the initial bid. In this case everything will be approved by you and the price revised, so there are no surprise charges.
*Some Example Jobs*
To give you a less abstract way of calculating your job, we have listed below some jobs and projects we have completed and the cost breakdown for each-
1-Daily horses and dogs feeding, watering, and basic exterior home check(Willow City)
for family on a 7 day vacation.
Drive Time -40 Labor-40 Materials-NA Tax-5.40 Total(per trip)-85.40 total for 7 days-$597.80
2-Deer Lease Maintenance(Kimble County)
Blind repair and waterproofing, line of site clearing from blinds to feeders, fill six feeders with deer corn(30 bags), check power, well, freezer operation.
Drive Time-200 Labor-360 Materials-676 Tax-83.43 Total-$1,319.43
3-Weekly livestock feed/water inspection(southern Kerr County)
feed, fill water troughs, perimeter fence check, basic exterior home check.
Drive Time-120 Labor-80 Materials-NA Tax-13.50 Total-$213.50
4-Emergency after hours(Mason County)
wrap well pipe and install heat trace on newly installed well pipe before hard freeze.
Drive-163.00 Labor-100 Materials-68 Tax-22.34 Total-$353.34
5-Mowing, spraying, re-seeding 5 acre pasture(Southern Llano County)
Previously cultivated field, weeds 18" or shorter, semi-even terrain.(2 day job)
Drive-251 Labor-2,153.84 Materials-1,950 Tax-293.95 Total-$4,648.79
6-Pre-purchase property scouting(40 acres of raw land in N Burnet County)
Drive-$240 Labor-200 Materials-NA Tax-29.70 Total- $469.75
7-Pre-vacation property check(Blanco County)Couple coming on vacation to the property the
following week.
Exterior home check, exterior insecticide, pool safety check, operational checks on HVAC, water heater, well, and electricity.
Drive-120 Labor-160 Materials-45 Tax-21.93Total-$346.93
We hope this gives a basic idea of what your project will cost. Our initial site visit to assess your job is complimentary. We hope to become your "Man on the ground" for all your rural property needs. Give us a call or email today!