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Johnathon, since all string trimmers spin counter clockwise, it seems that the direction you're suggesting results in the clippings flying towards and into (not away from) the driveway and plant beds. Hence, I would tend to do the property in reverse direction. Your thoughts and feedback is appreciated.

Thank You thank you thank you. Im getting finished with properties so much quicker after taking your advice. I’m solo and was taking just as much time to trim as it takes me to mow. Most of my yards have nice sidewalks and boulevards. Takes me less time now. Thank you for helping me get home to my family quicker.

This is one of the BEST lawn care channels on KZfaq!! Excellent information.

Dude great channel. Accidentally started a lawn business and you are proving a very valuable source of information. Thanks brother

Awesome. Good to see you posting videos again.

Very useful video! These are the kind of details that we often overlook. Thanks Jonathan 👍

Wow ..great video...very well explained... I've been in business since 2005 and did not learn about this till about 2011 you did a very good job with the illustrations on how to do it

I'm going to have to watch this video again because I'm headed into my midnight job. seriously thanks for all the input I should say all the knowledge that you give us

Great video, thank you for pointing out some of the simple things that we seem to forget. As always enjoy your videos

Simple topic as always, eye opening as always. Quick videos and heavy hitters for all of us. Thanks so much! Been wondering how you pros deal with the random issues/maintenance on equipment when the season is running wide open

This makes perfect sense when you show it on the screen. Thanks for sharing.

Great plan for training and the beauty of unification. A method and blue print A to Z. Method not madness. Escalating efficiency is key

We have such a business and trimming is my job totally agree with your way to do it

I love that you used a drawn out map. Although (because I live in south FL) every one of my clients has a sidewalk, each property thus far has been quite different. I'm basically just getting started, and this makes me realize that drawing out each client's property right now and making a plan will help greatly with efficiency! And, with experience, I'll know longer need to draw them in the future, of course. As always, your videos are clear. Thank you!

Best lawn care channel on YT! Thanks man!

Awesome video, as simple as it may seem there is a lot of efficiency gained by doing it right. I am going to have to forward This to my guys, thanks!

I like to pull my trimmings towards me so basically pulling not pushing when I trim I think it looks cleaner I walk in one line and it always worked for me but I’m solo

Really good video definitely the best way to do string trimming

LEAN processes for lawn care, love it!!

Thanks for the video. That slide is an excellent training tool.

For me being solo I do the exact opposite. I like the way the trimmer cuts walking backwards and how it throws the grass away from the house sidewalks etc leaving less to cleanup and I don’t have to worry about the trimmer being done before the mower etc since I do each task on my own it saves more time having less to clean up!

I don't agree with this method. I like that you start on right side but we always walk right to left counter clockwise so you throw grass clippings into the turf area and not into landscape beds. A typical trimmer head rotates counterclockwise. If you walk left to right, you throw grass into mulch beds. Creates a mess to blow out. No bueno.

okay this video was really really good I really love the contents that you put when you do videos

The efficiency of this wild. Thanks

Hi my name is Rene and I'm starting my business in Texas and you have been a great help.

Love your videos, very helpful for me and my first year!! What point do you hop off and weed eat around in the actual yard, trees, ornaments, etc. thanks again for all the info.

Love this and makes total sence. Now for your question when i did it all myself i typically tried to do all the edging and weed eating first then mowed and blew off. I guess theres no wrong way of doing that i think. could be wrong.

Thanks for the great video

Excellent video!!

Some of our customers are perfectly ideal like your examples, but much of our mowing is rural customers, and we park in the driveways. Lots of big yards full of trees, pools, swing sets, etc that all needs to be trimmed around. I have a basic pattern at each property, and you are right...it's so much faster having a plan for trimming, vs just bouncing around all over the yard.

Ive been mowing comm. 30+ yrs. lakefront props. all of mine are in groups. some 5 in a row some 12 in a row. start at uttermost left house ; front left corner drive/road . go clockwise around the house (inner loop)= LESS MESS ( if joe customer is home they love this) counterclockwise around back of prop. and sea wall (outerloop}. you city boys need some learnin!

Very informative thank you

Yea that is the normal way I go. If there driveway is on the east side I will park my truck on the west side of the front lawn put still start on the east side of the lawn like you are saying I’m sole guy it’s much easier and faster to me. Thank you for all the video

Do you edge and the. Go back and taper the edge? Our mower is always the last one finished, but I still try to get the crew to get the area to be blown done first. Always trying to get them to think ahead. Good video.

That makes sense thanks

Yep, thats the way ya do it,, the guy that helps me, i had to explain to him that its about flow, he trims an blows, usually we finish at the same time. If hes running behind on the trim, ill blow the walks an drive. No standing around,

You need to trim in the other direction so your clippings are not thrown in to the beds or hard surfaces! Make that change and your video is spot on!

How do u feel about walking the property in the opposite direction to keep from weed eating clippings into garden beds and onto walkways that will need blown off?

First things first, thank you for all the great content. I have a question. Next year will be my first solo season and I was wondering what you thought about commercial jobs, such as do you think it would be best to hold off on commercial jobs for the first year. Thanks.

I’ve seen all sorts of methods. I like this pattern. Also what’s important is how you hold the trimmer and how you walk with it. Walk forward , trimmer head trimming the ground to your left(right handed), steady pace, maintain turf contact. Sounds like a no brainer, but you’d be surprised. Unless you are Michael Jackson, don’t walk backwards! 😎

Since string trimmers rotate and cut counter-clockwise, are your clippings going into the plant beds and driveway etc. vs.sending them into the lawn space?

Just curious do you not use a steel edger fit the concrete curbs and driveway?

Do you charge for edging walk ways and drive ways, and weed whacking.? If so what’s your method. Or is it adding in with the overall cost of the yard.

Can I ask what program you used to make this diagram? Would like to use something like this to train my employees. Thanks

I didn't watch the whole video but did view how you went over the first property. Concrete first, why wouldn't you go up the right side of the driveway and then down the left side to the street. makes way more sense to me.

Does that mean your mower helper also needs to start at the bottom right corner as well for the most efficiency?

If your back yard is fenced in, don’t you have to trim the outside of the fence in the back?

I run a string trimmer from my right to my left ? Meaning I am walking backwards.... In your illustration, it seems that you guys are walking forward. Is that correct ? Do you have a video of this ?

You comming back on soon? Enjoy watching your videos

i like to pick the grass on the edges with my hands

Trees, shrubs, swing sets, pergolas, pools, etc. etc. ? Do the lot of them last ... or ?

Rd front rear mow blow done

I walk backwards to pull the grass towards the yard ?

Looking at the diagram.... you need to go in reverse. One it shoots it out on the lawn for the mower to cut up. And two it keeps green grass out of fresh mulch.

I’m always done weed eating before the mower. Every time and then I run the blower. I go in the opposite direction as you showed.

You missed the outside part of the fence a lot of lawn companies miss or don't do both sides of the fence erhart landscaping

Isn’t this the opposite way though? If your bring the trimmer the opposite way you bring out the clippings which then you can mow over?

I go in the opposite direction because the string trimmer throws debris to the left. That way im throwing debris onto the lawn instead of onto the hard surfaces.

Crazy I've been doing that and not even knowing there's a scenario to it

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It would have been great had you actually did this on one of your lawns

Time is money

Depending on whip rotation all i see is extra blowing of the garden beds not to mention on the road or driveway edge your trimming it backwards and not away from the driveway. Start from the left and finish on the right. I have a guy that does the way you explained and holy hell I can't stand the clipping in the beds and how utterly slow and inefficient it is. To each his own though.

This seems like it would work well if you're doing one house but I don't agree with this method if you're doing multiple homes that are next to each other. Like an HOA. Seems like too many walking steps. Also, the outside of the fence wasn't touched at all.

You have great content I watch all your videos. Looking to start my business very soon currently I live in Pennsylvania just recently lost my mom and sent my brother and sister down to florida also just had a baby 4 months ago. I’m trying to get down to my brother and sister hopefully soon and start up my own business like you . They are currently living in boca raton there’s a lot of business for this type of work but I just would like to hear maybe your side a plan for what I should do. Right now I’m planning on going down there getting a job while I’m doing that post up my flyers and get couple jobs once I get the clientele that I need to keep steady work leave the job and do that full time. What do you suggest, how many clients is sufficient enough to pay the bills I want to do like 5-10 a day minimal. Please get back to me if you could possibly text me that would be cool to just want to get your input your very well in the market and got things going for yourself. I just lost so much of me when loosing my mom I just want to make her proud and start up my own lawn service make my dream come true not to struggle.

If the guy on the blower needs on it that fast then he’s gonna be standing around either way on the first scenario unless he has something to do after blowing, but that’s always the final step... the trimming on this lawn looks like around 10 minutes and the blowing looks like about 2. The blower guy should have more to mow before grabbing the blower if you have this issue

What about the back of the fence? You didn’t hit that part.

This work if u have a helper I'm solo .....

Save steps Save money.

My name is Chuck and I owned my long guy Incorporated in Illinois now it is changed to Noble Oaks Landscaping in Texas. whenever I taught a new person I always taught them less left left left left. you started the curb and you keep going left and then you go to the sidewalk and go left and you were the other side of the sidewalk and go left and then go up the driveway and around the side of the house in around the gate and around the patio and around the back side of the house in around the fence and then you come back around to exactly what you said you finish where you started and you always go left left left stopping to do anything in the middle of the yard whether it is a tree or bush or bed or playset or swing or pool or anything you stop when you come up to it and and then go back to where you left off on your edge. I've ran steel and echo I can't say about the rest of what is out there but as for the direction of the rotation for the trimmer it trims to the right so you want to go left to go against the grain and maybe I might be back worth on that but I'm sure you understand because if you trim with the direction of the trimmer as a rotates it will lay the grass down instead of standing it up so you can trim it.

you didn't do the outside of the fence.

Trimmer's turn in the wrong direction for right handed people you should go clockwise around the house but I can't because I am right handed the trimmer should turn clockwise not counter clockwise

Basically go clockwise

You are failing to address stick edger. Some folks use both a stick edger & a string edger. I use a stick edger (blade edger)starting front right of property. i knock out curb, driveway and sidewalks with stick edger. All edging gets done with stick edger. Return to truck. Get the string edger, i then follow your same path with string edger, mower & blower follow. One man crew with a part time guy 2 days. You should edit this instructional video to address all the tools used on a property. Most pros use 4 1. Stick edger 2. String edger 3. Mower 4. Blower. You are failing to discuss blade edging and failing to talk about string trimming the ceacks of sidwalks as you go.

i perseonally can do it much better than this and if you go right to left your gonna kick shit in the road which is not good for blowing sake because of the simple fact that if you know what your doing you shouldnt get any grass anywhere from trimming the curb.