Mowing CRP

So have a property we still rent the lighter ground but the tile has all failed on the muck, landowner is getting paid some obscene amount to revert it back to a wetland. 

Needed mowed so they could get stakes placed so the contractor can start digging two ponds/retention basins. 

Ragweed was easily 4-6 feet taller than the tractor and full of pollen, made two rounds and had the wife bring me the leaf blower. 

Took a little better than three hours to  mow two 200x400 areas. Cat tails are especially tough to mow i’ve found out, another weed as well would kill the tractor dead if you weren’t ready to either lift the bushing or jam the clutch in. Every 2-3 rounds stop and blow the radiator out.

Oliver 1600 diesel and three point 8 foot Brush Hog. Thought about taking the 18 footer and a big tractor but we used to farm the muck as well and i know in more than one spot a neighbor about rolled a tractor on its side from dropping a rear wheel in a spring. 

Custom rate in Indiana is roughly $20/acre, for everything being in bloom it was some especially nasty mowing, at least its been dry enough didn’t have any skeeters or deer flies to deal with.  Land owner said right off the get go this needs done and we ain't gonna quibble over what it costs. 

$75 don’t seem near enough for what a miserable SOB it was, however don’t want to be an ass as its Dads landlord. 

What say the members for a fair price?

Mowing CRP