Thanks again for the tour Ethan! You got a great thing going buddy. Can you guys leave an encouraging word for Ethan and let him know how proud of him you are?! 🤠🙏🔥
I love the mindset of this young man. I wish more young people could latch onto to the concept that hard work and attention to details goes a long way to being successful. Keep it up!
The best part of the entire video was…it’s called school and not education. At 17 you are a star and by 27 you’ll be in the universe. Keep up the great work!!!
Ethan, you should check on school online. My daughter did her senior that way. It provides an education with the flexibility a busy schedule needs. You do the classes from anywhere with a computer.
Just getting into landscaping now at 31. Last few years have been trying farming, but now going to try the landscaping to hopefully eventually fund the farming, similarly to what he says started his landscaping. Very impressive at his age. For me, better late than never I guess!
so inspiring, I started playing drums at 14 and hustled to now record albums and play with working bands and artists its always great to start young to learn work ethic and responsibility!!! great job!!
Love to see this. I’m 25 now and have been cutting yards since about 10 years old or so. I have a full time job (bread distributor) which has me working about 40ish hours a week and somehow find time so service about 35 clients on a bi-weekly schedule and steadily growing each day. I also have a brand new dump trailer and do dirt,sand,rock delivery and debris haul away! I only have one employee so it’s hard at times but the reward at the end of each week is what makes it worth it! Would love to talk with you sometime and give you a “tour” of everything I do.
Wow. Impressive young man, to say the least. I'm over forty & just starting to make a profit in my lawn care business after three years, part-time. He's definitely encouraging me to hit it hard this year & go full-time.
Ethan is another impressive young man on this tour. He stays focused,& is always grinding. He’s definitely a young man with a plan. There’s a wonderful future ahead in the green industry. Keep up the great work Ethan!!💯❤️👍🏾😀🙋🏽♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
Brian Thank you for sharing this young man story, so inspirational I'm looking to start my own Lawn care company. I'm currently a Fuel truck driver. This story just motivates me. Thanks again keep up the good content.
I enjoyed watching Ethan’s passion an the industry! I think the no girlfriend no weed and now alcohol has Definitely propelled him to be so much farther ahead than other kids his age. He’s going to be a great husband & Dad one day!
These kids are real blessings and inspirations when people will take the time to look in on their lives. It's almost like you can feel God using their lives to speak into other live of other young men looking for direction and revelations on what is possible in their lives. This young man is exquisitely well spoken and a real thinker. I love when you do videos like this, big thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍👍
We demoed the wright stander and the exmark vertex x. We bought 7 exmarks vertex 60” & 72” in the last 2 weeks and have several 60” on back order. These things are sweet. We have been using hustler super zhd and trimstars for 12+years. The increase in production is phenomenal. The thing I noticed when we demoed our the stander was how smooth it was on our operator. We had another operator on a rider on the same community and he was getting beat. We spent .13% of our last years revenue on tires not including downtime and mechanics labor. One and done, no more downtime with the traxis. It’s also amazing how the machines float and hill climb like a billy goat on the traxis.
Great Job young man!!! it’s always great to see our young generation doing something positive and making an honest living! I salute you buddy! Stay focused and encouraged 🫡🫡🫡
I’m 21 down in Sturgis MI and am thinking about starting my own thing on the side and possibly even evolve to full time. These videos are awesome and help with the motivation and excitement
Don’t sleep on the small back packs in the summer when there’s no morning dew! We run heavy echo 770T’s when we have to but if it’s dry we use echo pb265’s. Your body will thank you when you make that switch! Same with trimmers. 2620’s in the spring but we use echo 225’s the rest of the year.
awsome young man there.. and damn rocking a long trailer. Tell him to rubberize it and will hold up and paint not chip so much. Ethan you are rocking it man. and damn so young and going far man..
Tips, 1)it’s how about how many account you have it’s how much you are making, per account and the level of difficulty, 2) it’s not about how many mower or brand , or truck you have, it’s about how effectively and how much money you make, you can have 50 accounts and and one mower in the back of you truck , and make more money than someone with a 100 account and big trailer with couple mower
I have the same issue with Stihl trimmers when they get hot. Thinking about getting a backup Stihl electric trimmer for the end of the day houses. Inside an enclosed trailer in 97degrees outside makes them a pain to start!
What a great interview! Impressive. I have a 9-5, but I do mow 5 lawns a week in my neighborhood with my 16 year old Toro GTS for extra income. Charge $40 each, so an extra $200 a week. My goal would be what this dude is doing! I would love to build this from a side gig into my sole job. I make $90k a year so if I can get 44 accounts a week I will be there haha.
@@TheOwlsNest410 Oh yeah, my wife and I quit our 9-5s and run this together. Now at 36 residentials, and 3 commercial customers (a shopping center, an HOA for their common areas and a small park in their neighborhood, and a 6 acres satellite field for the government.)
Sick vid and set up I’m 16 down in jersey I have 40 accounts and run a toro grandstand and a Walker mower with a 6x12 enclosed trailer along with all Redmax and some stihl handle held equipment and there all full service customers all get mulched all get trimmers bushes 2 times a year thing that stinks about jersey you don’t get your license till 17 so I gotta wait another year but big shout out to mom and dad for driving me around all these years next purchase is a truck but I gotta try to find one lol
Prices are crazy different depending on location. Show up here to a 1/2 acre lawn and quote 45 to 50 and get laughed off the lawn. Before anybody call's BS just know you are telling that to somebody that's been doing this every day for 42 years and STILL has the first customer they picked up 42 years ago. Location MD
Hey Brian what kind of trimmer line do you use for your trimmers I use Gator trimmer line and weed warrior but weed warrior trimmer cuts ok but Gator trimmer line and Oregon trimmer line is good to for thicker tall grass it's awesome to use but I don't use round trimmer lines at all because I have to go back over my yards
Aye Brian! What a amazing video of you and the young entrepreneur! Myself is new to this lawn mowing industry and would love to start soon! May you please share us the young one effective postcard ?
The first thing I've bought my self this year is a Stihl fs56 RC string trimmer and I'm trying to get my self a riding lawnmower I don't know if I'm going to get one yet though
Im 7 years into it , i bought two beater boats 2500 dollars and 4500 dollars , and build them into pretty nice , desirable for my area, machines/ inshore and offshore outboard boats , worth 30k now or close to it
So does offering a community discount make sense? Like first person pays $50 but after they refer 5 people it goes down to $45 make sense? Idk maybe change the rate but i feel like this would be a way to capture a large audience while lowering your indirect cost with less driving.
Am 21 got 2 stihl weedeater, this year ive been investing 60 to 70% of my money back to my company, got about 10 places maintaining looking to increase to 50 places
All love but the 4mix is trash. Could have used a roller pin bearing on the piston rod instead of a brass bushing. That’s why they start the knocking. The piston just flaps around.
Ethan, 1) At your age, yes, 100% start a business. Reinvest, grow and learn. Ask what just happened? What does that mean? Adjust and have at it again. You will never ever get this from school. Unless, the teacher or professor is an adjunct (true players coach). 2) Go to school for the obvious things people say. Doctors, lawyers, engineering, etc. I have tried to explain to our kids that we are funding school, so they have the opportunity to climb as high up the corporate ladder as possible, in order to reserve the right to dump down hill. Sounds harsh, doesn't mean you have to behave that way, but that is how that cookie crumbles more than not. Business is business, so I have been told multiple times??? One family I know of that goes straight to work out highschool is the Tippmann family from the Fort Wayne, IN area, where I grew up. Good luck figuring out which one of the original 16 made their 1st million. Cooling & Storage, warehousing, paint ball guns, racking, single family homes, commercial concrete and so on. I have a college degree from IU - Bloomington. It will get you an interview to work for people that already know what you know, then they squeeze you for time. While at IU I worked for the physical plant for 4 years on the master arborists crew completing general campus lawn maintenance and it was the happiest time of my life (effortless to work). I am now 51. The tears for me in year 1 came dehydrated at 9pm, as I finished jobs and I realized I should have done this decades sooner. My father was right... Go into business with yourself, by yourself and for yourself. Be disciplined to your skill/craft, build your mouse trap for cash flow , then buy property and pay it off. Now you set the terms with the bank and everyone else. Small or large scale... Freedom is freedom and I truly wish this for everyone... Sounds like you got that figured out! Good for you! I have specific questions about wet grass and equipment I would like to ask you. I am burnt out testing. Northern Michigan deals with the same thick wetness we do in the PNW. Reach out if you have time, then send me an invoice for your time. That is the biggest compliment I can pay you! Chorus Lawn Services - Olympia, WA
That's crazy when they talk a couple grand for landscaping. I can't believe they charge that much and more importantly how can the residential people pay that much or want to pay that much?
I'm wondering if anyone is going through what I'm going through. I've been in business about 4 years. 150 accounts. 2 employees. I do tree service, mowing, landscaping, pretty much everything and make a half million a year revenue. I have so much trouble finding good employees that will stick around in Florida. It's at the point I almost want to sell my business. Anybody else ever feel overwhelmed with employees?
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Thanks again for the tour Ethan! You got a great thing going buddy.
Can you guys leave an encouraging word for Ethan and let him know how proud of him you are?! 🤠🙏🔥
Amen Ethan keep it going bud congrats , I so wish I was at that stage...
does he have a youtube? love to show support
I love the mindset of this young man. I wish more young people could latch onto to the concept that hard work and attention to details goes a long way to being successful. Keep it up!
Im a "gen z", you know, the ones you expect to say theres 34 stars on the flag? Yeah, im actually a technician heading for an aviation career.
I’m 17 down here in Alabama servicing about 75 yard got a diesel 3/4 ton enclosed trailer and 3 exmarks also run all echo handhelds and blowers
That’s awesome buddy way to go!
Hell yeah man keep hustling.
I am from se al
Keep up the good work buddy
Hey Dalton, what part of alabama?
The best part of the entire video was…it’s called school and not education.
At 17 you are a star and by 27 you’ll be in the universe.
Keep up the great work!!!
So true!
Ethan, you should check on school online. My daughter did her senior that way. It provides an education with the flexibility a busy schedule needs. You do the classes from anywhere with a computer.
Just getting into landscaping now at 31. Last few years have been trying farming, but now going to try the landscaping to hopefully eventually fund the farming, similarly to what he says started his landscaping. Very impressive at his age. For me, better late than never I guess!
It's never too late my man.
How’s it going?
so inspiring, I started playing drums at 14 and hustled to now record albums and play with working bands and artists its always great to start young to learn work ethic and responsibility!!! great job!!
Love to see this. I’m 25 now and have been cutting yards since about 10 years old or so. I have a full time job (bread distributor) which has me working about 40ish hours a week and somehow find time so service about 35 clients on a bi-weekly schedule and steadily growing each day. I also have a brand new dump trailer and do dirt,sand,rock delivery and debris haul away! I only have one employee so it’s hard at times but the reward at the end of each week is what makes it worth it! Would love to talk with you sometime and give you a “tour” of everything I do.
Wow. Impressive young man, to say the least. I'm over forty & just starting to make a profit in my lawn care business after three years, part-time. He's definitely encouraging me to hit it hard this year & go full-time.
Ethan is another impressive young man on this tour. He stays focused,& is always grinding. He’s definitely a young man with a plan. There’s a wonderful future ahead in the green industry. Keep up the great work Ethan!!💯❤️👍🏾😀🙋🏽♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
Brian Thank you for sharing this young man story, so inspirational I'm looking to start my own Lawn care company. I'm currently a Fuel truck driver. This story just motivates me. Thanks again keep up the good content.
I enjoyed watching Ethan’s passion an the industry! I think the no girlfriend no weed and now alcohol has Definitely propelled him to be so much farther ahead than other kids his age. He’s going to be a great husband & Dad one day!
These kids are real blessings and inspirations when people will take the time to look in on their lives. It's almost like you can feel God using their lives to speak into other live of other young men looking for direction and revelations on what is possible in their lives. This young man is exquisitely well spoken and a real thinker. I love when you do videos like this, big thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍👍
love this kid!!!!!!!!! reminds me of myself I just didn't have his balls at his age took me until I was 23 to do it for myself!!!!
great job kid!!!!!!
Agreed, I been in this field all my life. I do this kind of work up here in Grand Rapids, Michigan! Yall keep cutting!!
I wanna be like Ethan when I grow up 🤯🤯🤯 …This young man got it goin on 💪🏽…Dope video as usual and much SUCCESS TO ETHAN in his future 💯💯💯
Awesome video man so cool that your so young & successful huge props to you for doing what your doing!
We demoed the wright stander and the exmark vertex x. We bought 7 exmarks vertex 60” & 72” in the last 2 weeks and have several 60” on back order. These things are sweet. We have been using hustler super zhd and trimstars for 12+years. The increase in production is phenomenal.
The thing I noticed when we demoed our the stander was how smooth it was on our operator. We had another operator on a rider on the same community and he was getting beat.
We spent .13% of our last years revenue on tires not including downtime and mechanics labor. One and done, no more downtime with the traxis. It’s also amazing how the machines float and hill climb like a billy goat on the traxis.
Man that's awesome.
I raced motocross from age 10-19. Essentially my entire adolescence. Pumped to see the kids work ethic and love for dirt bikes. Hondas are the best!
Great Job young man!!! it’s always great to see our young generation doing something positive and making an honest living! I salute you buddy! Stay focused and encouraged 🫡🫡🫡
Glad to see a younger man that isn't afraid of hard work and disciplined enough to reinvest for his business growth.
I’m 21 down in Sturgis MI and am thinking about starting my own thing on the side and possibly even evolve to full time. These videos are awesome and help with the motivation and excitement
Niceee!
So impressive. I can only imagine how proud your parents must be…keep up the great work
Love the support Echo!
I am so impressed with Ethan he is where I want to be in a few years. he is absolutely killing it.
Don’t sleep on the small back packs in the summer when there’s no morning dew! We run heavy echo 770T’s when we have to but if it’s dry we use echo pb265’s. Your body will thank you when you make that switch! Same with trimmers. 2620’s in the spring but we use echo 225’s the rest of the year.
Man that was amazing. Great video.
Great video Brian you do great work and awesome job Ethan doing it on your own awesome setup.
Great video Brian! That’s a good kid right there!
awsome young man there.. and damn rocking a long trailer. Tell him to rubberize it and will hold up and paint not chip so much. Ethan you are rocking it man. and damn so young and going far man..
Echo trimmers and blowers are the way to go !! And I have that same handle on my echo trimmer and will never go without now lol.
I love these videos and this guys garage looks like a lawn equipment store love to see it
We just bought the windstorm and the billy goat 37 hp debris loader. BEAST! Hes got a great set up
Great job Ethan! Keep up the hard work! 👍
Up standing youth thanks Brian encourage up coming good.
It's in him not on him , this is what he wants to do and that's the difference in life, findout what you want to do and move towards it!!
I learn a lot just watching your videos thank you
Great job Ethan congrats keep it going bud good luck...
Just started watching your channel! I live in Fowelrville, it pretty cool to find out youre semi local to me.
Very cool!
Awesome video! Keep them coming…very inspiring
Great spotlight on this industrious entrepreneur.
Tips, 1)it’s how about how many account you have it’s how much you are making, per account and the level of difficulty, 2) it’s not about how many mower or brand , or truck you have, it’s about how effectively and how much money you make, you can have 50 accounts and and one mower in the back of you truck , and make more money than someone with a 100 account and big trailer with couple mower
I have the same issue with Stihl trimmers when they get hot. Thinking about getting a backup Stihl electric trimmer for the end of the day houses. Inside an enclosed trailer in 97degrees outside makes them a pain to start!
Great video. Love the grind young man!
Loving this series
What a great interview! Impressive. I have a 9-5, but I do mow 5 lawns a week in my neighborhood with my 16 year old Toro GTS for extra income. Charge $40 each, so an extra $200 a week. My goal would be what this dude is doing! I would love to build this from a side gig into my sole job. I make $90k a year so if I can get 44 accounts a week I will be there haha.
You clear the 90k? Update. This my 3rd year. I’m getting serious now.
@@TheOwlsNest410 Oh yeah, my wife and I quit our 9-5s and run this together. Now at
36 residentials, and 3 commercial customers (a shopping center, an HOA for their common areas and a small park in their neighborhood, and a 6 acres satellite field for the government.)
It’s always great when you’re able to start sooner
Great series, I love it! And good job Ethan!
Sick vid and set up
I’m 16 down in jersey I have 40 accounts and run a toro grandstand and a Walker mower with a 6x12 enclosed trailer along with all Redmax and some stihl handle held equipment and there all full service customers all get mulched all get trimmers bushes 2 times a year thing that stinks about jersey you don’t get your license till 17 so I gotta wait another year but big shout out to mom and dad for driving me around all these years next purchase is a truck but I gotta try to find one lol
Very nice set up Ethan! Keep at it!
Prices are crazy different depending on location. Show up here to a 1/2 acre lawn and quote 45 to 50 and get laughed off the lawn. Before anybody call's BS just know you are telling that to somebody that's been doing this every day for 42 years and STILL has the first customer they picked up 42 years ago. Location MD
Hey Brian what kind of trimmer line do you use for your trimmers I use Gator trimmer line and weed warrior but weed warrior trimmer cuts ok but Gator trimmer line and Oregon trimmer line is good to for thicker tall grass it's awesome to use but I don't use round trimmer lines at all because I have to go back over my yards
The Ballard Phantom Twist!
I just brought a bad boy avenger 54 inch cut. I’m thinking about getting some yards I currently drive trucks professionally.
I am 17 and have 4 60 inch toro zero turns, an f250 king ranch diesel and echo hand tools.
Aye Brian! What a amazing video of you and the young entrepreneur! Myself is new to this lawn mowing industry and would love to start soon! May you please share us the young one effective postcard ?
The first thing I've bought my self this year is a Stihl fs56 RC string trimmer and I'm trying to get my self a riding lawnmower I don't know if I'm going to get one yet though
First year landscaping and im also a big dirtbike rider!! 2018 ktm 250sx. Ride all the time.
Im 7 years into it , i bought two beater boats 2500 dollars and 4500 dollars , and build them into pretty nice , desirable for my area, machines/ inshore and offshore outboard boats , worth 30k now or close to it
Great video and cool setup
Best one jet. This kid is on fire!
Outstanding young man!
Wonderful young man.
can we get a video of his parents they did a great job on this young man.
Ethan’s holding that Arizona like a nice cold beer 😂
Ethan is crushing it!
Love your mowers Skaggs awesome but what’s with the steel equipment Echo all the way
So does offering a community discount make sense? Like first person pays $50 but after they refer 5 people it goes down to $45 make sense? Idk maybe change the rate but i feel like this would be a way to capture a large audience while lowering your indirect cost with less driving.
Wow!inspirational
One word....Impressive
How does he do his billing?
Definitely feel that I’m trynna make money landscaping for a mini excavator and a skid to start doing some construction work
This is the son every man wants.
He is a good kid 👍🏼
Keep husteling! Keep re-investing to get bigger, better equipment to get bigger better jobs! 💪🏻👍🏻😎
May not be Mommy&Daddy money but having or not having Mommy&Daddy guidance is even more valuable
That works, yup!
Dude why didn't you get the motocross version?! The '22 cr250f is the best looking bike around atm. Very fast though, for a 250.
Amen. What is up with Stihl trimmers when it gets hot? Ours are so hard to start.
In my opinion it could be the coils are getting hot and are hard to start. I swear by Echo. Good luck 👍
Brian when is the equipment class for the dmv area
Oct 18-21 in Louisville KY!
Am 21 got 2 stihl weedeater, this year ive been investing 60 to 70% of my money back to my company, got about 10 places maintaining looking to increase to 50 places
Love the videos
keep doing what your doing
All love but the 4mix is trash. Could have used a roller pin bearing on the piston rod instead of a brass bushing. That’s why they start the knocking. The piston just flaps around.
Is there a cemetery at that church? Do you cut the cemetery?
what a nice guy
I think you are right on the money man.
Ethan is a very impressive kid.
Good looking garage smart move on echo
How do you do 80 yards and still do school? I’ve tried I can’t do it!
Would like more info on equip exo?.
Why the difference in deck sizes?
Ethan,
1) At your age, yes, 100% start a business. Reinvest, grow and learn. Ask what just happened? What does that mean? Adjust and have at it again. You will never ever get this from school. Unless, the teacher or professor is an adjunct (true players coach).
2) Go to school for the obvious things people say. Doctors, lawyers, engineering, etc. I have tried to explain to our kids that we are funding school, so they have the opportunity to climb as high up the corporate ladder as possible, in order to reserve the right to dump down hill. Sounds harsh, doesn't mean you have to behave that way, but that is how that cookie crumbles more than not. Business is business, so I have been told multiple times???
One family I know of that goes straight to work out highschool is the Tippmann family from the Fort Wayne, IN area, where I grew up. Good luck figuring out which one of the original 16 made their 1st million. Cooling & Storage, warehousing, paint ball guns, racking, single family homes, commercial concrete and so on.
I have a college degree from IU - Bloomington. It will get you an interview to work for people that already know what you know, then they squeeze you for time. While at IU I worked for the physical plant for 4 years on the master arborists crew completing general campus lawn maintenance and it was the happiest time of my life (effortless to work).
I am now 51. The tears for me in year 1 came dehydrated at 9pm, as I finished jobs and I realized I should have done this decades sooner.
My father was right... Go into business with yourself, by yourself and for yourself. Be disciplined to your skill/craft, build your mouse trap for cash flow , then buy property and pay it off. Now you set the terms with the bank and everyone else. Small or large scale... Freedom is freedom and I truly wish this for everyone...
Sounds like you got that figured out! Good for you!
I have specific questions about wet grass and equipment I would like to ask you. I am burnt out testing. Northern Michigan deals with the same thick wetness we do in the PNW. Reach out if you have time, then send me an invoice for your time. That is the biggest compliment I can pay you!
Chorus Lawn Services - Olympia, WA
GREAT VIDEO👌BUT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD I NEED A BUSINESS LICENSE OR AN LLC?
LLC.
Can you do a video on how to hire people? I have 40 customers and need a guy to help now.
Get the gas out of the garage and its own shed preferably in the shed a must great Video
My 2018 CRF250R got stolen and Ive been mowing to replace it and I did a lot of mowing to get it and im 19 and it got stolen last year
My biggest question is where do you find commercial accounts
Google my business listing, Yardsigns, postcards, referrals, walkins, networking, chamber of commerce events. All the above.
Wonder how much revenue he brings in a year with the current setup? 85 x $50 = $4250 per week ($200k /yr)?
These teenagers are bringing in a haul, that's for sure.
More than that with $2500 landscape jobs and other upsells
Dudes got it made
Tons of hard work to get himself setup for the rest of his career!
360 sun block protection
That's crazy when they talk a couple grand for landscaping. I can't believe they charge that much and more importantly how can the residential people pay that much or want to pay that much?
I'm wondering if anyone is going through what I'm going through. I've been in business about 4 years. 150 accounts. 2 employees. I do tree service, mowing, landscaping, pretty much everything and make a half million a year revenue. I have so much trouble finding good employees that will stick around in Florida. It's at the point I almost want to sell my business. Anybody else ever feel overwhelmed with employees?
Pretty much everyone in the trades man. Referrals are everything and also paying top dollar to attract the best talent.