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@Blueagavelawncare 17 күн бұрын
What’s the price on the unit
@Gardslawns 14 күн бұрын
That storage unit was about $150/ month!
@mikeperry1620 Ай бұрын
What income do you fall back on when you are not mowing every week because the turf does not need ro cut. Weather is a variable you cannot control no matter how many pieces of equipment you have.
@Gardslawns Ай бұрын
@@mikeperry1620 great question, we are profitable enough through the season to maintain a separate business “oh crap” fund and we take advantage of the time to get equipment and vehicle maintenance done.
@bblawncarekc Ай бұрын
Great video! This is important stuff!
@Gardslawns Ай бұрын
@@bblawncarekc thanks Blake!
@erickf899 Ай бұрын
Great video! However if you run older trucks your commercial ins will be about 50% less.
@Gardslawns Ай бұрын
@@erickf899 this is a good topic to discuss, Actually my older truck cost more than my newer one! It’s wild but because of the older truck being easier to steal is the reason given by my insurance company!
@ORlawnandlandscape Ай бұрын
What’s up Damian, great content! Keep them coming. Shout out from KCK.
@ORlawnandlandscape Ай бұрын
What’s up Damian, hello from KCK!
@Gardslawns 14 күн бұрын
Great to see another local on here! Hope you are having a great season!
@ohiodigger4391 2 ай бұрын
My buddy has a 61” Wright ZK stander. I have a 61” Vride. Same tire size (24x12x12). But he tears turf up all the time when he turns. I rarely do. And I think part of it is due to the controls. I think he gets lazy since he has to do some more hand movements to turn properly.
@Gardslawns 14 күн бұрын
Interesting, must be operating error or bad tire selection we don’t tear up any grass unless the turf is super wet.
@HexaFox 4 ай бұрын
I always thought to myself that the advanced chute blocker may be better thought out because the holes are their to preserve the vacuum of the mower. One of the things I noticed with the cheap chute blocker I have now that when I have to use it to cut a strip it will leave a small trail of grass clumps right at the discharge point. I always thought that this would help with that but if it does indeed throw a considerable amount of grass through it I may be looking for something else like the Quickchute.
@JoseLopez-kf9ty 5 ай бұрын
Can you use the grass catcher with the quick chute?
@Gardslawns 5 ай бұрын
Not sure, we don’t bag here except in the fall. I know I will have to take it off for the powered bagger for the fall though.
@michaeltesch995 5 ай бұрын
Hi Damion, looking forward to checking out your budgeting video. I have learned a lot from your videos, keep up the good work.
@Gardslawns 5 ай бұрын
That’s so great to hear man! It’s about to get busy for us so I’ll try to get it made as quickly as possible!
@ORlawnandlandscape 5 ай бұрын
What’s up Damion, it’s be a while. Keep them videos coming! Peace from KCK.
@Gardslawns 5 ай бұрын
I know! We started implementing some certain things in the late fall and spent all winter really working a lot on the business to prepare for massive growth this season!
@swishcamp81 6 ай бұрын
Can one be profitable on first year! I’m choosing to start lawn care this year as a mower and I don’t want to gather a gob of debt! Thanx for your videos
@Gardslawns 5 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Do as much high revenue per hour work as possible!
@marcusmarcus6654 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for keeping it 💯
@Gardslawns 14 күн бұрын
Always!
@jonathonrossebo1783 8 ай бұрын
Top of the line string trimmers are over $500.00 + tax (where applicable) nowadays. Such as the Stihl FS 131R or KM 131R w/FS-KM attachment.
@Gardslawns 14 күн бұрын
Yep! We run srm 225’s they are plenty for normal maintenance
@513forlife 8 ай бұрын
Appreciate the ego comment. So many guys out here acting like they are the best of best and shit on the new guys getting into the industry, even though they were once the new guy. Can’t stand the guys who act like cutting grass is the most physically demanding, hardest job known to man. Great video man. Keep it up.
@Gardslawns 5 ай бұрын
It’s hard and honest work, but it is definitely not rocket science!
@ORlawnandlandscape 9 ай бұрын
That’s a nice machine.
@Gardslawns 9 ай бұрын
We are in love and it is helping us really maintain a good production rate!
@Mark-zi2og 9 ай бұрын
Very nice! Get it guys.
@ORlawnandlandscape 9 ай бұрын
That’s what up. Grind is paying off. Keep the content coming.
@Mark-zi2og 9 ай бұрын
Great setup! Hope you have a great leaf season. God Bless.
@Gardslawns 9 ай бұрын
Thanks, you too!
@ORlawnandlandscape 9 ай бұрын
Looking good. How do you go about pricing leaf cleanups?
@Gardslawns 9 ай бұрын
We are pricing by the hour with a base rate!
@TerryJohnson757 10 ай бұрын
Not with a push mower.
@ORlawnandlandscape 10 ай бұрын
Hello Damian, great content! Yes, I’d like to know how you price leaf removals. How were you pricing it before? What made you change the way you price leaf removals? I mow about 45 lawns a week. How many do you mow weekly? Thanks!
@Gardslawns 9 ай бұрын
Gonna drop a video hopefully this weekend on the setup/ pricing update. I hope it helps! We just trimmed back to 60 mowing clients to increase capacity. Ultimately the amount of accounts is irrelevant after 20 or so. At that point for a smaller company you need to have pricing insanely profitable.
@ORlawnandlandscape 10 ай бұрын
Hello Damian, Great Content! Keep them coming!
@ORlawnandlandscape 10 ай бұрын
Great Content. Got to spend money to make money! Invest in equipment that is going to make money and be efficient.
@gregkloe 10 ай бұрын
Learned a lot, thanks. I may lower my mowing rates since I'm just getting started. For me, it's going to be retirement extra spending cash anyway. Goal is around 10 yards or so. As far as landscaping, at 64 I'm trying to stay away from it,lol. I'll do some tilling for $50/hr, but if I have to weed and mulch it's $125/hr which is considerably less than what our market is.
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
Fill the schedule and raise your prices. Even if it’s a part time thing or just extra cash this is hard work and the equipment doesn’t last forever! Also your industry needs everyone to have appropriate pricing 😉
@ORlawnandlandscape 10 ай бұрын
Hey Damian, how’s it going? Great content! I’ve used SCAG for years. My 48” vride 1 gave out this year. I bought a vride 2 and I just don’t like it. I mean it’s a powerful and fast mower but it’s not as compact as my vride 1. My vride 2 does not stripe as good and its to bulky. They don’t make mowers like they used too. I’ll be rebuilding the motor on the vride 1 and have the vride 2 as a back up.
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
I’d encourage you to check out the big frame standers man! They are AMAZING for production and everyone will have one out this upcoming season!
@ORlawnandlandscape 11 ай бұрын
Hello, just found your KZfaq channel a couple weeks ago. I looked at most of your videos. Pretty good content. I mow in the south kck area. Lenexa, Olathe Mission Hills etc. Blake puts out pretty good content too. Peace.
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
Keep crushing it man! We used to live in south kc by Belton. Great area you are in for sure!
@erickf899 11 ай бұрын
To all the lawn care bros that have just started...... Stay out of debt!
@erickf899 11 ай бұрын
He's right! You do not need anything fancy I drive a well cared for 1984 F150 with the inline 6 And my maintenance costs are almost nothing!
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
You are rocking it old school for sure but if it runs, drives and hauls safely keep it running!
@erickf899 10 ай бұрын
@@Gardslawns 🙂👍 It's 13 miles a gallon towing my small trailer amazingly
@bblawncarekc 11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the shout out and glad I am not the only messy one!
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
Well the top 2 lawn care companies in liberty are just too busy to clean/ organize! I saw one of your guys at quick trip this morning was actually throwing some trash out. Kinda gave me a little laugh 😉
@bblawncarekc 10 ай бұрын
Well that’s good! 😂
@rdblawnandlandscaping1613 11 ай бұрын
If your fertilizing and all that that’s why the grass prices are low I know people that do that also. I just don’t see why we’re letting the business suffer $ loss though.
@rdblawnandlandscaping1613 11 ай бұрын
Mowing minimums should be 75$ for a solo guy and 125$ for 2 guys
@brianmitchell6309 9 ай бұрын
75$ a cut ?
@rdblawnandlandscaping1613 11 ай бұрын
40$ minimum per cut. I’m at 50$ a cut right now. Can’t run a business on cheap quality work.
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
It’s all dependent on your man hour rate, we have $40/ weekly cuts that are more profitable than most of our higher paying clients. There is no blanket rule, however having a good firm minimum is a must and that changes as things go on. Keep up the good work and have a great rest of the year!
@alantalley1268 11 ай бұрын
Quick question. Did you have to drill holes for the qwikchute? Im a little wary about drilling
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
Not sure, dealership installed for me but I’m pretty sure you do (I could be wrong!)
@buzzman6804 11 ай бұрын
I really didn’t get anything out of this,
@theokranz 11 ай бұрын
You're kidding about that being 8" right??
@Gardslawns 11 ай бұрын
Yes 😂
@xxKURTMANxx 11 ай бұрын
Is your minimum still $35? If not what is it now? Also weekly only or biweekly?
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
Our minimum has went up drastically since we hit capacity and have slowed our growth. That being said as we make another push this upcoming season we will be dropping our minimum and filling the schedule back up.
@xxKURTMANxx 11 ай бұрын
What was the deal with trimmer motors to the back? Engine support should be the same with the engine rests no?
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
We don’t have this setup anymore. I’ll be posting a video soon on our new setup.
@MrCrash1987 11 ай бұрын
Man thanks for the info on FB great information
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
No problem 👍 stay posted we are going to be putting out some more content now that things are slowing down!
@shawnsavage9015 11 ай бұрын
Good info. How much would you charge a commercial property say like dollar general or so?
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
We will be doing a video on commercial pricing very shortly. And it will be one about why we don’t target commercial work very much!
@d_greenmarine9444 Жыл бұрын
60 dollars for quarter acre yards? I hope you are talking per cut. $100 per month bare minimum for quarter acre and that’s it half of it is house
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
When I refer to prices it’s always per cut/ per treatment we don’t do monthly prices or the subscription pricing, things happen and I want an out if needed.
@samheninger505 Жыл бұрын
Any buddy that thinks their gona come out hear and be some instant millionaire pro is a fool ,you will kill stuff n f up landscapes for at least 5 years and that's if yer paying attention. I don't care how nice yer truck and shirts are it takes 10year of every day doing something before yer a pro at anything period. 🤔 I've done this shit over 30years .My advice is do anything but this having said that it's dirty money earning an honest living pluse yer the boss ,good luck
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
It’s not instant that is for sure! But this industry can be very rewarding if you can make it through the very humble beginnings!
@yourlocalcontracter Жыл бұрын
i think you should keep the sides on for all seasens for the summer if you bag grass
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
We don’t bag in kc! We actually probably won’t be doing many cleanups this year either!
@Doodra-du7xh Жыл бұрын
If anyone watching this is struggling, use my mantra, "If I keep going I will succeed." It's easy to find reasons to quit. In my second year it was rain everyday in the summer and I was using a Craftsman 21" push mower (money management is a real thing) cutting overgrown, wet grass. This year, my area has only received an inch and a half of rain since late February, so I've been doing more landscaping work. Don't give up, find a way, and you will succeed.
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
Excuses are easy to come by when things aren’t going right. I always think back to a sermon I heard as I started my journey back with Christ. It was a sermon about relationships but applies to all aspects of life. To summarize it was about when things get tough do you sit down, rest, turn around and go back? None of that is correct you walk through and put one foot in front of the other. Winners win, it’s as easy as that. No matter the circumstances we figure it out and move forward.
@erickf899 Жыл бұрын
Good encouragement video for a guy just starting out. I agree on all the points. Consistency, Density, and maintenance. Do all 3 and you will be successful
@Youyuppers Жыл бұрын
No money cutting grass? 😂 Seems like whoever saying that needs to make some pricing adjustments. Now granted sometimes it’s hard to obtain mowing customers at a profitable price margin for yourself but when you do get them then you got ‘em for awhile and when you don’t … we’ll? Ya don’t.
@E.L.C. Жыл бұрын
Scag only cuts so well due to factory rollers on the back of the deck that is essentially a stripe kit. Yes i said it. I got the same motor on my bobcat zs4000. I do like the cut from scag not bashing it in any way, just saying its the only deck that has rollers on the bottom that folds grass ;)
@Allstin Жыл бұрын
What kind of mower is this?
@Gardslawns Жыл бұрын
It’s a scag vride2. Been a major game changer and workhorse over the years
@Allstin Жыл бұрын
What kind of mower is this?
@Gardslawns 10 ай бұрын
This is a scag vride 2 I have since moved on from this mower. I’ll be breaking down why and what I went with in a video very soon.
@bigsonslawncare Жыл бұрын
Bag fan of the Darwin's Grip 💪🏽
@Gardslawns Жыл бұрын
They are a serious game changer. All my trimmers/ edgers have them and as long as they are made and available I’ll be using them!
@bradmaxfield6183 Жыл бұрын
screw some pieces of 2x4s to the trailer deck for scotches and throw the straps away
@Gardslawns Жыл бұрын
Can definitely do that! I use this trailer for my fertilizer apps as well and can’t commit its use 100% to mowing though. If that is all you do that is an excellent tip though!