So you want to start a lawn care business...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2025
- If you've been watching TH-cam videos and want to start your own mowing business, viewer BEWARE!!!
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This is your Negtive reflection on the mowing bussiness but on the other side of that coin, Lfe is Good"! Mowing is better than selling cars or roofing! 😊
I think one thing that you might be missing is that for people going to a 9:00 to 5 job at either an office or a mill some factory or whatever but mowing lawns and being in control of your time it's much better than what they're doing. Anytime you can be your own boss it's a plus. Maybe you've grown tired of lawn care.
100% this. I spent 20 years working in the office. By year 10 I couldn't stand being inside. I've retired now and I spend all day outside on my own lawn.
Maybe he misses a penultimate Awhole boss breathing down his neck, micromanaging how he does lawn care then yelling at him for minuscule n petty stuff😅
I WANT to be in charge of my own time.....been tirelessly working 3 jobs to get financially secure enouf to do so😢....just keep going i guess. one day I'll get there
Brad, sometimes the work we do just sucks, but that said, when we get home, and everything is put away, and you realize you conquered the day. It's priceless!
I know you are killing it out there! Why else would you do it?
The work you do is an honest living, most importantly! You're also teaching your children a good work effort. Trust me, as a hard worker myself, my daughter watched when she was a little girl, and has become a hard worker herself. She's now a Masters Degree graduate, and is now working on her PhD.
This is what we need more of, in this country, to turn things around!
Thanks Brad!
This is one of the most critically honest videos on TH-cam! As you note, there's a big difference between doing this as a BUSINESS compared to doing it as a second income or on the weekends.
I cut only 5-6 yards (rental properties), and the prep - and unloading - time is sometimes efficient, sometimes slow. And yes, it's the heat. By the end of July, I'm tired and usually very bored of the mundane routine; I want to pay someone to finish the rest of the year!
I'm in Missouri, but I truly can't imagine how much longer you Florida guys put in before you might get to blow some leaves. Maybe that's why you Florida guys are ready for the nursing home by the time you hit 50? 😵💫 Hang tough, my friend.
Retiring in your 50's is respectable. take on more properties and you'll get there too
@@jordanbentley Not interested in doing more. These days I prefer to watch others mow (on TH-cam)! 😁
Florida is great because we mow into November and start again in March, very little down time, good cash flow, usually I do odd jobs or handyman services in the winter. Proper outfitting, a gallon of Gatorade, and midday lunch and I’m solid for 10 hours. I’m in my 30s and have not slowed down any, I attribute that to still loving the work, but I bet I’ll be toast by 60.
@@edmontonlivermoore4935 i agree. IM in GA and we mow from March till November....also theres others services to offer like aeration or overseeding. Weed control. Landscaping. So basically you can work year around....also im 40 and i still feel really good. I drink water and eat good. Heat aint that bad...its just common sense. If you feel too hot go get in the air condition and cool off. lol i mean i feel ppl are soft these days. i do 10 properties a day solo at 40yrs old and im off by 2pm...im also retired military so this is just extra but i grind like its all i have. southern dudes just built different lol
That thumbnail gives "VSAUCE, Michael here - What is grass?"
You might be the most honest lawn guy ever! 💯
“Grinding yourself down for money”. I feel that.
Going to a 9 to 5 job is also grinding your body down for money!
Ok
Ha ha! 😂 Enjoyed hearing someone talk more about reality! I enjoyed it for years as my side hustle! Retired last year and I do what I want. But bottom line it’s still a job, you’re self employed selling your time for money. Great side hustle!!!
im really glad to see someone with transparency. not everyone realizes the hours you really put in as a solo or even running a crew. it was nice to see you highlight some key points such as time on the job, different accounts and all the prep work that goes in to it. this is the first video ive seen of yours but ill definitely be looking at some more or your videos. if you dont already, have one, i think a good video explaining more of the benefits this line of work has to offer such as the relationships you build with clients, the doors that open up with other companies and a little bit of the day to day like enjoying the outdoors the sense of accomplishment you get after a major transformation and more in depth with the maintenance.
Once you've been employed, then laid off and unemployed...running your own business actually sounds amazing.
I do this as a business and tho it’s not easy, it’s not boring and I do more than just mow which is prolly why it’s not boring. But I’ll never use jobber again. Landscaping is not for old people. The older you get the harder the work gets. And you really start to feel it when you do get older.
What's your experience with jobber?
@@jesuschristfirst5775 after they told me I would get two months free from hearing about it from a colleague, they continued to charge me for those two months.
Maybe im different but everything you described seemed like everything i want...i love routine and hard work i freakin LOVE IT
All jobs have their drawbacks. I work in corporate America doing project work and make a great living but the work changes every 6 months to a year that layoffs are commonplace. I would much prefer to have a job that was guarenteed versus a job that was constantly changing and always being worried about finding the next role to fill.
Your killing me Smalls ! You just killed my hopes and dreams . Thanks 😂
Love it! I’m so sick of mowing! I’m part time as well. I do two full days of mowing, this year I lost a ton and then took back on a bunch. I’m already regretting it and feel burnt out and I’m 2 weeks in
How did you pick up the extra/new jobs?
why dont you hire someone??
Hes greedy
@keithg1955 no.greedy would be hiring people at a less then fair wage while sitting in an office giving orders. This dude is out doing it himself all day every day.
@@keithg1955😂😂😂 greedy for working by him self? so you rather work for someone else and get paid nothing.
I helped my nephew in his lawn care business but we only did about 3 lawns per day,its hard work,I dont see how you do it by yourself.
I mow my yard and 3 neighbors yards each week and it wears me out. I couldn't imagine having a 18 yard day. Good videos! Like the voiceover. What mic do you use?
Is Wednesday the only day you cut lawns? Seems like a small price to pay compared to 5 days in another job.
Great video and interesting perspectives. Have you considered adding employees to ease your workload?
Wow, I can't believe Winn-Dixie is still in business.
it can get very monotiness errr however you spell that, lol
I mow as a 2nd job, but i have 40 yards in a town of 400 people, 3 rual cell tower sites, & mow a few oil leases on organic farmland.
I somehow seem to always manage 1 mmp (major mowing project a year)
i like socializing with my costumers, & they move or sell, or passaway so things aleays changing up, wich helps break up the monotiness😂
I also still have a regular 9-5
The exact reasons you shouldn't stay solo. Once it gets boring you have succeeded. Look to hire and grow.
I got a question what do you do on the offseason when you’re not doing any services? Do you leave all your clients and get more next season
You should normally keep almost all of them & simply resume the following year. I've been in it 10 years. I typically only lose 3 to 5 customers per year due to them moving over the winter or whatever. I have customers that I've mowed for 10 years. I've seen toddlers turn into teens. Several divorces. 5 customers died. All the pets that were there when I started have all died.
I can easily go a several weeks without talking to a single customer face to face. I have a customer that I've mowed for for 9 years & I've never even met her or even talked to her over the phone, only text and email
Hey, what protein powder do you use? Where do you get it from?
Great video as usual Brad! But please tell me you didn’t eat that marked down sandwich 🤢(5:14)!!
Mowing isn't a job with variety, a job thats easy, nor a job thats exactly 'rewarding'. But its honest and the money is better than truck driving lol.
What do you use to give estimates without going to site?
These were the type of properties I loved I had several chain franchises that I took care of when I had my business I took care of six Bennigan's for Friday two business centers and 7 Burger Kings and I would be at each of those restaurant at their closing time I was done working usually my commercial accounts by 8 a.m. it was definitely my bread and butter and being in Central Florida it sure did save you on the heat I always dreaded my residential's more than I did my commercials my commercials were only a pain in the ass when somebody wanted to be an ass and say I didn't do something that was contracted it's a long time ago long before a GoPros and cell phones with cameras hell I was big time I had a beeper
Honest and sincere advice.
What would your revenue and net profit be for this Wednesday?
I mean, if you don’t mind sharing that type of info. Or any type of info like that you’d be comfortable sharing.
Do you ever mow stripes?
alot of lawn companies down in florida, pretty sure copper is outta florida dont mess with stripes much simply cause of the breed of grass down there. Centipede can be striped but it wont hold it more than an hour or two unless ya reel cut it. not really worth the extra effort unlike northern grass.
Ahhhh there’s a rare piece of TH-cam comment GOLD. Thank you!
I know you’re just being honest in your take, but if I were jobber, I would not be pleased with sponsoring you. You started off the video saying how we may not even need to use the app. then towards the end, you are again discussing how jobber may not be a good app to use for most people.
What’s the best way to build clientele
0:45 I felt that
I remember you mowing an over grown property and running into a spider. That was sondamn funny.
If ur mowimg that early lmao ur not doing something right! Also ur voice says it all u don't like ur job lmao you could grow amd hire other to do ur work! Have to start somewhere
You’re right. He gives total downer and someone who will probably tell you how much something sucks before you give it a shot.
THis seems like your just complaining about work that is not that difficult, I was mowing 30 yards a week in high school and I didn't have a rider , it was a repetitive job , what job isn't , no matter what you do. It was aLways hot and dirty much of the time. But it worked and I made a good company from nothing and eventually sold it , Now I am retired and was looking for something to do, so I posted at the local grocery store and started mowing again, I am just doing about 20 yards a week currently ,but already pulled in 3 commercial accounts and I wasn't even trying to grow to much, The biggest issue I am seeing today compared to years ago is getting a reliable person to help when you grow, I was able to employ several good workers when I was in Business and today it seems to be tough to hire good employees according to other mowing businesses I have talked to , so I will just keep working on my small lawn Business and if I need another employee , I will get someone and see how it goes. I always paid good and had good equipment so it's not a bad job if you stay on top of things and want to be your own boss from my experience
hes got that price is right voice lol
Moral of the story - Start a lawn care business. 😂
Mowing in the dark looked kinda cool.
can get you in a load of trouble depending on ordnances in ya area too. In late july early august I've gotten noise violation tickets for turning on my mowers before 7am -_- I hate yards within city limits. unincorporated county you can make one heck of a racket all day and all night and no one can do nothing about it, go inside the city limits and there goes the days earnings.
This video + the beard. Are you okay? No midlife crisis brad? xD Great work as always man
Alot better than this damn FACTORY!!!!!
Hey man i work for landscaping company, i want to get anyones opinion on this. What do you think about the boss getting more houses to do when we're understaffed. We only have two crews doing around 100+places. And get this the boss goes home ealry at 3 when we're still working still 4 30. I personally think this is bs, because if one person doesn't show up everything is fucked since we have a lot of work. The crews consist of me and two others, and 3 others in the other van so 6 in total not including the boss. Im thinking of quiting. Being overworked whille the boss jacks off to go home early,
I’m a “boss/owner” of a lawn care company, I can say he’s is most likely doing the admin side at 3-430. Billing, payroll, estimates, answering emails, scheduling and marketing. My job doesn’t stop when I go home or get off work.
If the company is understaffed, bringing on more houses doesnt make much sense, agree with you on that one, but I doubt the boss is just going home and poppin a cold top and laughing like Mr burns as he watchings yall on gps work like lil bees. At the end of the day when my guys go home between 3 and 5pm depending on the day, im still hammering away doing quotes, billing, payroll, driving out to investigate yellow slips [customer complaints] to the point my day dont actually end till around 7 or 8pm.
@@pepsilove6306 definitely understaffed. Thanks man, I know my boss doesn't do the payroll or billing he has his family do it. All the other things like answering emails, and customer complaints makes sense
Any one else see the girl doing that dance? At 2:51
You should hire a helper
You shouldnt book jobs that take over 80-85% of your time. Shouldnt be cutting that early. You overbook
That’s a nice toro
You need experience with time management and managing people!
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you could afford to hire people lol
Employees sometimes become a burden.
@@childfreesingleandatheist8899 Right. I've worked with plenty of people that I would be very irritated at myself for hiring. There are probably less than 10 people I've had as coworkers that would be worth hiring, as a small company at least. Sometimes big companies just need bodies.
If you sitting down so too bad
Hire a hand ,have a son or drop the cheaper clients.
No, not really, why?
Every job is gonna get boring lol
You dont sound like you likenthis profession. Kinda discouraging
Clearly this dude doesn't like what he do for living , all he do is complain like a little girl
You get to control your time and flow of income by even linking off the ones you’ve done. Opportunity to Make more than average. Nah men you just lazy.
Quit.