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Yeah number one trick you need a vehicle to go back and forth to the job

In California, you HAVE TO buy electric mowers in 2025. The environmental a-holes insist on getting rid of internal combustion engines.

You do need fancy equipment and it’s expensive one of them it’s those big mowers. Cmon stop the bull shit even that set up it’s very expensive like the tailgate and stuff in which it probably costs way more than that ford ranger.

It's probably not wise to keep water and other drinks stored in a hot shed. They really need room temperature storage. I maintain a 25 case minimum of water in my house all year. I hope that this is helpful. God bless you guys. In Season, Out of Season Yard Care, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Use gas

Great honest video. Thanks

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Lmao realistically when your an entrepreneur you already work for yourself 😂

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I've been in business for about 4 years and looking to get some numbers right for my business would like some help on that

how to start a lawncare business--say start 30 times then recommend working for another company.you gave 0 info

So the battery lasts an average of 22 minutes non stop. Interesting.

Perfect.

Made things more complicated

Awesome setup brother.

What’s the name of that tool?

How long is the bed ? Looking about buying a ranger and helping my dad with landscaping he works for a company but does some on the side.

Very interesting, good points about customers preferring quieter electric tools. Pity gas blowers are just about the loudest tool, but electric is not viable for you yet.

Are you hiring man or what 😂lol

$59 a month for basic. I could see this being beneficial for a large company, not indie.

Okay thanks 👍

You can’t mow wet grass efficiently with an electric mower, like the semi tractor Tesla ,heavy loads don’t play well with electric / battery powered formats .

I agree

What was the biggest challenge going from solo to another employee? At advice or tips?

Kress has the strongest battery backpack blower out right now. They're even coming out with one that has even more cfm that competes with the Echo 8010. I have the Ego 800 cfm backpack blower myself.

An option, but takes more effort, is to wear a backpack with 48V/52V electric bicycle batteries, along with a cord that adapts into whatever hand tools or push mowers you want to use. The riding mowers are nice, but electric push mowers only weigh 20 lbs and you can race with them. Or get two or three for cheap and put the whole crew on the task. You can even use a truck or a van instead of pulling a trailer, so you save there too. Or send a one-man crew to do a job slowly if work is slow or you're pulling in more distant work, etc. This means you're not tied to any specific tool manufacturer. Just make sure it can handle the voltage of your packs, and create custom plugs using anderson connectors or the like.

I do tend agree with what you are saying as far as maintenance on the hand tools if you do smaller lots like y'all do. However, in my case I don't see a scenario in the near future that would ever make sense to have electric mowers or handtools unless you only mow small yards like you do. I live in a rural area and my average property is minimum 1 acre. I have several properties that are 3 to 5 acres each. With the greenworks mowers you are mentioning you are not even making it through an entire day where I am at. I tend to just run 100% older equipment from the early 2000's they are bullet proof. I also like to run older honda and robin 4 cycle trimmers so there is no oil mixing at all simplifies things. One thing I would add in general that people tend to overlook is I would advise people to buy older equipment in general it was made better and last longer. For example one of my older mowers is a hustler 42" Fastrak Z from 2004 and it has 1000's of hours on it the hour meter doesnt even work anymore and the only thing I have had to do on it is routine maintenance.

You have to be competitive charge 20 -30 dollars up from the other guy ur gonna lose have to be creative make yourself stand out from all the other guys out there with a truck and mower

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It looks intense for one man that's for sure. Maybe I should not even bid on these. Well... Maybe if it's like a few rolls. Lol

Loved how in the first minutes it makes sense to buy gas stuff that's low hours and use it for what it's worth for 3 seasons and then trade up. Now to think about that for me.... 36 mowers sound nice however I'm in California and that my problem but I'm saying that a 21 inch mower that's reliable is what's up

I appreciate this video! I run an all electric lawn care outfit out of Western Massachusetts call Eco Valley Lawn Care. We have about 100 residential and smaller HOA mowing accounts similar in size to your market for the most part. I don't necessarily agree that it's not worth it to purchase any type of electric mowers until you're operating at scale, but I do agree it adds a significant degree of difficulty if you're looking to scale rapidly past $500K. We've been able to circumvent the issue of expensive riding mowers by buying residential eGo units, and then adding additional charging capacity out on the road with Goal Zero 6000 watt hour battery banks. Which keeps the cost of a single setup right around the $10,000 mark. This worked well in the beginning to allow us to stay profitable with cheap setups in the beginning, but ultimately isn't a great long term solution as the Goal Zero Battery Banks aren't up to the task of so many charge/discharge cycles, so they aren't ultimately worth the $4,000-$6,000 price tag because they don't seem to last for more than 2 years. A lot of whether you can scale or even successfully grow with electric equipment hinges on whether you have the capability to charge enough equipment at your lot where you park. I just bought a fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning with pro power on board to try to permanently solve the issue of constantly running short on batteries on longer mowing days and during fall cleanups. I recognize shelling out the money for this truck is going to significantly slow our scaling efforts, but if it solves the headache of being underpowered and having battery issues that adversely affect how much work we can do in a day, I'm willing to take a shot to see how it goes. We have been fully in on the all electric model since the beginning, and could not switch to a hybrid model without receiving too much flack. We just bought the exact Green Works 36" stander you're speaking about. The only issue with that machine is that it still has a smaller battery 8kWH compared to double the bigger 42" deck and full priced models with 16 or 24kWH batteries, so it still can run short during a full day of mowing if being run constantly. Furthermore the joy stick controls are super touchy and take quite a bit of getting used to especially for less experienced users not to scar the crap out of lawns compared to the super lightweight eGo residential zero turns we've been running. We have 0% interest five year financing on both the truck and new mower, so I will keep watching your content and report back in a couple of years about whether his equipment has paid off and is converting into savings over gas, or if it sinks the business/keeps us stuck at a certain size for much longer than I had planned.

Electric will never be viable

It makes sense for trimmers / edgers / hand held, maybe even a backpack or a small 21” finish mower. Personally I run the echo 56v battery system and I use all these; however the roi isn’t great on an electric stander / zero turn that’s 2-3x the cost of a gas powered one.

Buying used electric mowers is a non issue as long as you don't give them any money for batteries over 2 years old. 1 year old batteries need a 50% discount.

Nice breakdown, I agree. To add, Batteries are still too expensive for riding mowers. And Electric mowers still overheat so you can't work on days over 90f without damaging your electronics, like literally overheating connecters where the burn lowers the connection more... Electric blowers are loud so you don't save on noise, I use about 40ah of battery to leaf blow my 1/2 acre. On used-purchases I use the life-expectancy of rubber, in that synthetic rubber only lasts about 10 years in ideal conditions before it begins to lose its chemical-bonds. With 6 years being my limit for buying any used-rubber. So all rubber seals, belts, tires over 6 years old won't see money from me.

You can really tell when someone is speaking from experience and not just ideology 😂 I do think he same thing I have a hybrid setup my mowers and blowers are gas everything else is electric. I had a greenworks 52” stander actually got a really good deal at the time but it was WAY to heavy for my conditions basically made it unusable. Never once heard anyone discussing the weight issue of electric zero turns I believe it was around 1500lbs

Totally agree! We started off buying a 52” vanquish and 48” stalker. I’d do it totally differently if I knew what I know now. Making the best of it though.

Nice video Shane and I agree 100%

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Don’t!

Bi weekly. Who the hell mows bi weekly? You better be mowing every week most places

Electric ones suck balss, i ciuldnt imagine running my company with electric💀 electric is only food for people with tiny ass yards

I want to be dead before I see all 🌈 electric machines everywhere

….aaaand 0 profit

You robbing everyone, dam

That's smart

Electrical equipment suck. Gas has more power. Even a blower.... dont go green. Cut it

Just get the automower, it’s great👍