You are one of very few people on utube that is willing to discuss what they charge. Very informative, thank you 👍

Good analysis. This is the kind of thing they should show kids in high school to introduce them to how business works

I say it still beats working for someone else...

Hi , thanks for the break down of costs to run your business . Everyone has to learn to manage costs. Keep the information videos coming.

Your channel rocks! So humble and honest, it really shows how work and life actually works out.

Love how you break everything down for people thinking about getting into it!

Finally a video with actual numbers! Thank you so much!!

I appreciate you sharing the $$ in and $$ out. This has been very informative and helpful for me.

I appreciate how you talk in real numbers......

As long as you make enough to have enough, then you’ll be alright 😎love the vids my man...gotta get that hustle on. Gonna start a small side business for my high school son...you’ve helped a ton 🤘🤘💪

Very thorough. Well worth my time to watch this analysis and break down.

Awesome advice!! Thanks for be as honest as you can and great details in your videos!

Been tearing through your videos bud. Thanks a lot. You’re a good dude.

Great job and thanks for all the business advice you give. It is appreciated my friend

We appreciate you Todd. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed watching the time lapse. Wish you all the best.

This was very helpful thanks started almost a year ago and got my llc 3months ago doing lawn & landscape but plan on changing to big work like bush hogging and land clearing

Thank you greatly for these videos. Props for kinda showing us your books too ! Few will do that.

When I figured my production cost, I'm going to stay local with no truck and trailer. Thank you for pointing out what to take in consideration for tractor work. I tried a few years ago with a 30 hp Kubota and only cleared about $27 per hour. That included turning it in on my income tax. Now I just don't charge anything if it is a neighbor a block away, but since I retired I seem to be getting more calls and I am rethinking this tractor business. . Thanks again for the video. All in all it's not a pretty picture for me to make any money in my small town .

Good video bud. Way to keep it real. Liked the time lapse

Good video. I appreciate you explaining all the costs involved. Have a great weekend and stay safe.

really appreciate your break downs of expenses, good job on all videos

Great video Todd. I appreciate your insight and honesty.

Excellent breakdown of hidden costs, thank you! Great Videos!

So glad I found you channel It has made me much more knowledgable and efficient. Thank you Todd.

Great video ! Liked the break down and you being up front and personal about it.

Thanks for honesty and transparency

This just gives the general public a real eye opener on why contractors have to charge the rates that we do.Wait till you see the cost of keeping this rig on the road per year.

Thank you for your honesty.

Very nice of you to advise and inform! God will keep blessing you and your family!!! I wish you all All of God’s Blessings Great Health, Happiness and Prosperity!

Thank you! You have the best videos! I appreciate you .

I just spent a weekend trying to find someone to bush hog my small less than 2 acres and your video explains why no one wants to do it.

Coming from someone who raises their own beef cattle, it killed me watching you cut that nice green grass lol. Awesome video man 🇺🇸

Love the transparency!

Been watching your channel for a few months. Just getting started, bought a new LX3310 with a few attachments. Flailmower land bride stump grinder rototiller and high flow skid steer stump grinder. Can't afford the skid steer yet. Have 2 buddies who are retired and have them tho First time out I get 7 8 acres land clearing. Have to rent a Bobcat T770 forestry mulcher. 😆 Great channel

Thank you for the breakdown. I just got a compact Kubota tractor and I was thinking of doing bush hogging for a side hustle. This gave me some ideas.

Todd, this video was a huge blessing for me. I have done a little bush hogging here and there for quite some time. You helped me to realize I am way to low on pricing, which I wandered about for quite some time. Also, it was great to hear your discussion on business sense. Thank you and please keep the video's coming!

Much appreciated honesty in a world of dis honsest business

I have a field mowing business in California, it’s good business but to make it work especially the busy season you have to work seven days a week for about four months and if something breaks you have to stay up all night fixing it to get to the next job I have two tractors I run John Deere both cab tractors my units are from 66 hp to90 hp I use boom flail mower with hammer blades also 8 foot flail mower with Y blade and I have different rotary mower‘s which a lot of folks called bush hog in different sizes I have one specific that I rebuild every six months it gets beat up real bad but it’s very useful especially in fields I know I’m going to hit rocks even though we’re not supposed to hit rocks if they’re there I find them every time, your tractor looks like a good tractor I had Kubota it’s just my dealer I didn’t get along with them so I went to John Deere and I’m very happy with John Deere, My average day is about 14 hours if I’m not doing three or four small jobs in one day I’m doing large acreage I also run a 12 foot bat wing, the worst part of all of it most folks don’t realize how hard we work in our tractors all they see is us driving them, I probably do over 250 jobs a year and I can easily put 700 tractor hours per year. kudos to you and wish you the best with your business. Lots of caffeine gets me through those long days.

Thank you for the breakdown in costs. I know I’m late to this video but I’m new to your channel. I would love to see a future video of mowing across a steep grade with some details to help us newbies. I’m 57 years old but new to mowing on grade since buying land in Tennessee. I’ve only mowed on flat ground but I have ran some horrendous tractor accidents working in fire department and ambulance services.

By the time you include time sharpening blades, costs to maintain equipment and equipment failures, and insurance, you're barely making wages. Well done video and break down sir. I wish your business much success.

Good video would like to see more of these out here. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome tractor! My grandpa bought a Kubota M8540 4x4 open station and with loader for his farm/cabin up in Clinton county Pennsylvania. Which he bought used back in 2014 and but he wouldn't let anyone else run it even though I taught him how to run it. But he passed away back in February last year and now I wish he would have bought one with a factory cab like yours instead because the bugs and dust drive me nuts.

Not many people talking about this stuff. Great video

Also if you do this as a business you can have write offs, fuel, parts, insurance, etc etc but you have to do it legally

this was great, I have a co-worker I have known 45 years, she wants me to start bush hogging her place once a month as soon as grass grows, 8 acres, she is clueless how long it took her EX to do it.

Thank you for your insight, great details.

I watched your video and found myself nodding as you went along. I did minor landscaping/lawn care as a second job for about 15 years, Eventually, the truck broke down, customers drifted away, and things weren't nearly as good at the end as they were at the beginning. But it was fun while it lasted. Got to know some really nice people. And best of all--never got caught by the government (who still hasn't processed my tax filing for this year!). I always dreamed of doing a business like you do, but I also always knew I had to avoid falling into that trap. Running a business isn't an everyman's job fer sure.

I have a 2016 M7060 and bush hog my property with a Woods 15’ batwing. This tractor is a beast and has no problem pulling up and down the hills of TN at about 5mph. Time is money.

Very Helpful thanks a lot man!

Many good points. always enjoy your videos. Of course by the time you pay your truck, trailer, tractor and mower, you personally make even much less than that. Granted some of what you pay for the equipment goes to paying off that equipment or to buy new equipment etc down the road, but it's still money that you can't buy groceries or pay bills with.

You are the man .... Thank you so much for your honesty , this helps me out tremendously .

Awesome video sir!!

Very informative video! And that’s a kickass tractor! I work for a Kubota dealer, and own a small, b2920, so I’m a little biased, but the M series is the bomb! Thanks for the great breakdown!

Hard to beat an M series Kubota, I like the cast centers. I would like to have had them but I added 3 sets of factory weights to mine it’s around 990lbs. Much like you with the steep ground the weight helps. Enjoyed the video!

Nice video 👍🏼. It’s interesting seeing the price difference based on location. $70/hr after expenses is good money where I’m from. I have a side hustle with a 25hp John Deere and make a good profit charging $45-50/hr.

Very helpful. Thanks Todd.

i will make this comment and it doesn’t go everyone bc everywhere is different i run a massey 6713 with a 15ft batwing bushwhacker for the highway department and the slopes are very steep sometimes for us and instead of using those weights you use we use the typical nose weights as i call em and spacers on the back tires to give the tractor a wider profile to combat over turning and they do slide down the slope but with it being wider it does help and another thing the counties around where i live do offer contracts to locals with tractors and bush hogs to mix the county roads for a nice big chunk of change

Nice video! Also don't forget the hourly cost for wear and maintenance on the mower.

Hey Buddy love the video please keep them coming I have a to Botha 6800 utility special what a 7' heavy duty Bush Hog brand cutter I Keep on my farmThat originally belonged to my great grandfather in Alabama

Awesome video, problem in west ,TX my area people charging $60 an acre ,I'm like WHAT, not even insurance let alone fuel,

Thanks for the breakdown.

Thanks for showing us that side of your buisness. You gained a subscriber.

That's over triple what I make per hour as a police officer in NC working 12 hour shifts lol. Sounds like a better gig to me haha. Thanks for the transparency!

Im new at this. Thanks for the info..Ive been short changing myself!!

Your videos are awesome. You need to have a show.

Just found your videos and really liking them. Fantastic video! Have you ever put a list together of everything that needs to be figured into cost of a job for us wanting to start up a business? Fuel, ins, depreciation etc and how to calculate those expenses! If not, would you be willing to?

Hey you should check out the little mighty ventract tractor. They are a bit pricy but they are a hell of a machine. It really is hard to explain just what it can do cause it can do a hole lot. Just started whatching your videos and i absolutely love them. Keep it up!!

Love your channel

Go get it teach, nice video.

Awesome! plus grease, plus other maintenance, plus you cant bill 8 hours for the day, plus plus plus! By the way I'm just a home owner, I have a Grand L 6060 and that M7060 gives me tractor envy, but in a good way. Keep up the good fight, I learn from all your videos!

Im ok with this. I usually break down my expenses within a couple days of a new piece of equipment. Overall, i just need to cover the equipment bill in the end. I have other means for income

great presentation

Great video, in the early stages of getting a small excavation/dirt work company going. On a side note what camera set up do you use? Especially with the time lapse shots? Thanks, and keep up the great work!

Love the channel. I know the bush hog is versatile but if theirs no hazards like stumps, ets. Would a flail mower not leave a better finished result. I understand that hoggin a property once a year may be a reason why you use a brush hog. Just curious as to your thoughts on it. Keep up the awesome work. Love the content.

My dream tractor is to have a front loader 😍

Excellent

Good job.

Can you go over your setup of the brush hog in terms of height of cut and angle of mower? I struggle to get a clean cut. Also I still have the solid back cover on mine thinking it would mulch better but it still clumps up on one side. Do you use chains on the back or leave it open? I set mine level side to side and about an inch lower in the front then back and cut about 6” high? Thanks

Great video

Great info I have a brush hogging video and how much I charge as well. I like how you did yours. I charge $50 per hour min of 2 hours. I have the 5' Howse brush hog. It's a beast (actually just finished a video on fixing some cracks on it)

I'm in no way trying to tell you what to do, but if you go forward the whole time hitting the edges and going in a circle you'll do 2 acres in half the time and it will look better I swear. I do about an acre an hour at work on a smaller tractor at work going forward only. You don't get the lines, but the rough cut of a brush hog looks uniform going one way. You'll double your money without charging more.

Bushhoggin in TN can be very profitable with the property equipment and proper clients I also speed up my bushhoggin time by mowing in a circle instead of rows. And my 1994 John Deere 5400 has the wheels spaced out so it handles hills just fine sideways or at at angle so it’s faster and uses less fuel than it would driving up and down the hill I also use a ventrac for specific mowing jobs amd charge a premium for that

I charge a flat rate of $250 per hour for forestry mulcher...dozer $175 per hour... excavation work $250 per hour...bush hogging $150 per hour. Sounds like a lot of money, but my equipment does a lot of work in one hour. I pay operators $45-55 per hour. In my area of Texas, I'm considered very reasonable price.

Whats funny is Todd reminds me of the white Richard Pryor with his mannerism and hand movement LOL

I think something people dont think about is the cost of the equipment. Tractor, truck, trailer, attachments. You got quite a bit of money sunk into that. Equipment doesnt last forever so you can basically figure you will be replacing 1/5th of it every year. Sure some of it will last longer, but the longer it lasts the more you pay to fix it typically. On the flip side you will sell or trade most equipment eventually, but again you will not get anywhere near what you spent on it. You made after taxes and gas roughly $300 that day. If you do that 5 days week 50 weeks a year you will be making 75k. Sounds great until you consider you still have to pay out maintenance, insurance for both equipment and health, and either vehicle payments or put some back for buying the next piece of equipment. I will bet you dont get 250 working days a year either. My guess is you have long stretches where you are really busy, but you also have entire days that go by dealing with equipment issues, doing estimates on jobs, or simply being delayed due to weather. On the other hand if you get a job that takes multiple days you can turn those $300 days into $500 days. Enjoyed the video.

also your trucked lettered up next to your work is great advertising.

Everybody and their brother has a brush hogging business where I live, mostly as wildfire mitigation. I look at that small patch of grass and think hay. So I charge the same as brush hogging, but after the grass (hay) is down I ted it, rake it, and bale it and remove it from the property. Where I'm at there is a ton of hay there, $400. So now there is some money in it.

Thank you very much for your Video , Ive just bought a 4ft Topper -Flails , pulled by a Massey Furguson 135 , I did 6 acres of grass paddocks ,I made grand total after Diesel fill up , £18 ,00 , The tractor takes more than I did . .But I did it because I enjoyed driving tractors . Perhaps the best way to make money perhaps is "Dont Charge per hour " Charge for the job ? What dio you think ?

When factoring in the servicing on the tractor, the truck and trailer, say per month, in addition to your food throughout the day I'm sure your self insured medically. That drops your take home significantly. But at the end of it all, if you're happy doing what you do you're really not working, you are driving up and down the road enjoying your life.

What would you say is the next step after bushhogging? What is the next piece of equipment would you recommend, or what service should somebody offer or expand into?

Hello great video thanks for the money break down. I’m running a lawn care business and was interested in brush hogging. What would be a good starter tractor and brush hog?

Well Said... When it comes down to the basics, you are doing what you like doing, when and where you want to do it - Making income for yourself, instead of being part of the Rat Race, making money for some else... And, especially after years of working for $$$, that becomes more and more important...

Really informative video. Appreciate the upload. I had a question about the bush hog. Can't you raise up the three points and then sit the bush hog down while it is still running?

You sir are correct......it's a business. I run mine at 100 per hour......that's the rate. I don't do anything heavy, small Deere and 4ft on back. Most the jobs come off my landcare business.......and they complain about price. I'm nice and give them numbers of folks that will do it cheaper all the time. Most the jobs I do are really just tall grass and weeds. Yes I'm picky, but we also trim out fence post and ditch banks. I'm more of a weed hogged than brush hogged. Stack that cash brother, something gonna break!

thank you for what your doin here

Let’s not forget about the dangers involved as well.....Once you almost fly off a tractor because of an unseen hole or hit metal buried in the ground you’ll know what I mean. Not to mention possibilities of stobbing tires. You roll the dice every time you cut a new property. My 2 cents. Almost forgot excellent video btw👍👍

How steep is the hill you can mow across... NOT up and down but safely going across? There are phone apps that can show you the incline (clinometers). It would really help me choose a tractor to know that.

Common sense approach, " gross is insanity net is reality" All the best fro England

Cost (fuel, material, disposal) Insurance Maintenance and repairs Vehicle depreciation Registration annually Mortgage/ rent place to keep equipment Business expense (accounting, advertising, etc) What other expenses am i forgetting?

Do you think someone can really have a tractor too large? I like the Kubota M5660, but not sure I need that size. I really like the shuttle shift option on it. I don't like hydrostatic. Thanks for your videos.