Don't worry about a quiet lawnmower, they hear you long before the mower even starts, with all that clanging and doors shutting, hehe. Love watching your videos, from Australia 😊😊
I live in the metro Augusta Georgia area. Your prices are a little on the low side of what the average in our area is, which is due to you being in a different area of the state than me. My area is choked full of hoa subdivisions and gated communities. We have all walks of life living here. Anywhere from doctors and lawyers, to active duty and retired military, to blue collar workers. The bottom line is that 80 or 90% of the people in my area don't shop around for the best price. They look at your business reputation, dependability, and the services you provide. Most people hire lawncare providers because they just don't have the time or room to store equipment, or they just want to take advantage of what free time they have. If you do good work, stay honest and dependable, then you can make serious money in my area. Most of my customers call me because their last guy stopped coming out, or they do not communicate when they can't come when scheduled. No matter where you live or what you do, the money is out there. It's up to you to go get it.
Love all your tips and tricks and great vids man Been watching your channel for awhile now I’m trying to grow my business here in SC myself Left a job as a diesel mechanic of 14 years Got burn out on doing it I’m loving lawn care more and more 💯 Take it easy my friend
Great vid...I just sat down this weekend and made spreadsheet for 2023, and I have a goal of 50-60 quality customers have 1000 door hangers and 1000 cards ready to unload! Taken your advice and if I can hit my numbers my profit will go up 40% with 3 days off 💯✂
I have to admit, I edge at the beginning of the season, then it’s “as needed.” I use the trimmer throughout the season mostly. You my friend are on another level.
I'm happy that you can get 55.00 a cut but in my area we charge by the month same price 12 months for a year so here that would be $165.00 a month 3 times 55. 36 cuts a year I've never seen that kind of money in almost 40 years not in New Port Richey FL area maybe the million dollar homes in Tampa but the traffic here is unbelievable it takes 45 minutes to go 10 miles glad you're doing well my friend 👍👍👍
GM Johnny!!! I see you have learned your lesson on “the walk of shame” and have extra string in your pocket 😆. That 36’ Toro is getting you in tight spots and I know you are loving it. I have one question for you, did you feel you getting more power with a gas blower than a battery powered blower? I see your edger and string trimmers are battery and was wondering why you use a backpack blower with a battery. Enjoy the cool morning and remember to Travel and Stay Safe. 💨
It's funny how if you have a lot of customers in an area that you do on a specific day, how everyone who mows their own yards will get in a routine of mowing on your day lol. I always notice that at the end of the year
I need some help, I just started a lawn care company this year mid summer most my jobs are biweekly, but having some costumers asking for monthly cuase the grass grow rate has slowed. What should I do? Drop the costumers or charge them more for monthly? Or try and discount the biweekly price for the winter? Any advice will be highly appreciated!!
Great video, know your customer! Our customer is a 35 year old female with 1.5 kids and drives a Subaru. Value buyer! Our minimum cut is 100.00. See you in Louisville next week.
What! Here in Southern California people think $70 a month is too much for two visits. Some lady told me "My last lawn care guy would charge me $15 a month and he would come two times a month". Lol I swear people here in Socal want everything cheap man. I honestly think in Southern California we have a lot of people charging super cheap and most of them are my people Mexicans.
I used to leave it in the ignition then I got a new ignition because the key was stuck lol ..for my second one I bought a new key and kept them on the same Keychain then my son suggested o give him one so ...he'd like to be my driver I guess...lol
I learned from Savannah Johnny to lock my stuff up! You bet I keep my keys on a big key ring to limit temptation to the no goods. People who steal from others look for crimes of opportunity. Don't make it easy for the thieves. Maybe they will get a job like the rest of us. 🇺🇸
have you ever figured out your over head. that is cost of all your equiment, truck, mower trimers, blower, gas, all of the insurance both truck, liability, your wage, maintenance on equiment, replacement, and profit for the company. That is so in five years when your truck is shot you can buy a new one $40,000 E truck with out meed a $38,000 car loan I did not see how long that took you but you also have time to and from to add into the cost. A high school kid who is using dads lawn equiment and his truck the over head is going to lower.
I always leave the keys in My mowers I would lose them if I didn’t I like jumping out of the truck and not having to remember too look for ot grab the key
Also wanted too add that part at the end is absolutely 100% true! We don’t do per service visit we do payments 12 months out of the year full service mowing mulching snow ice shrubs we want that property looking perfect all year round ppl see our truck there so we gotta keep it looking good!
As a fellow Floridian to most who will say what you're charging is never seen, I have to agree with them and disagree with the ending statements on this video. For anyone in the Northern states, or where cost of living index is higher then avg, realize that what is $50 where you are is $25 in other places. YES, working people can afford to hustle and pay premium prices. NO, retired people on fixed incomes have another thing to say about your pricing. Where this man screws up is saying it is possible to get that price anywhere and location doesnt matter. You want us to target certain areas??? Ok.. what about when you're surrounded in any direction 1 hr away in a full circle, by retired and fixed income people or where if you ask any local company, the man hour rates are usually $30 per hour because if you go over that, you're pricing yourself to flat broke. Because over 70% of the population is going to tell you its not that you're not worth anything more.. it's that they can't afford anything more. Florida is a retirement and disability state. Yes we grow more year round then other places but florida's wages vs other state's wages are NOT similar. I can take this further into Florida turf pros, who is in northern florida. One of his videos slipped up showing a payment and time duration of service on a customer was revealed for a split second and if you ran the numbers, his rate was 60ish a man hour. That's where I'm priced but I do alot of things other companies don't do. And i feel the heat on customer affordability. And if you're getting customers saying that either you're too cheap or too expensive.. then you're ideally priced right in the middle. Which means a select few can afford you and the majority will appreciate the work you do over "MOST" others and if it's truly worth it to them, since you cost more, they will stick with you. What you just did in this video, these yards are almost perfectly identical to The Villages FL. What you just did 55 per yard you would ONLY get 20 for. And if you said even $10 higher your reputation would be on the line as not a bad quality service provider but a overpriced selfish *YA KNOW WHAT*. Highway robbery terms have been used before. So yes everyone MUST understand that ones numbers is not another man's numbers, but stating "YES GUYS YOU CAN you just have to target the RIGHT areas" and ASSUMING those areas are just everywhere, is miscalculated and incorrect. But even with respect to Florida Turf Pros, if you evaluate his cost of living index vs other areas, it is higher then most others in Florida. So therefore charging more per hour still puts him in the same ball park as the poor man. But when milk is $5 a gallon in the poor mans area that'll support $30 per man hour and is also $5 in the area that is supported by $60 a man hour or $120 per man hour, who really is the one on top here? Location DOES matter, and demographics matter more and it's not all roses and chocolates in any given area. THERE ARE limitations. I'd really like to see some of these UA-camrs come to my area with their mindset and make it the same way they did where they are now. Like 100% I'm already priced at the top end. You try and double that to these guy's standards, and you'll see your business's death certificate and your divorce papers. **EDIT** Just occurred to me, when talking about demographics... let's for instance use the economy here.. You look at the income capita in your area by each surrounding city plus the one youre operating in. Let's say that avg is 20-30k. Household at best is 30-40k. RENT or MORTGAGES running about $1500 to $2k, so let's say living household expenses not counting ANYTHING else is $24-26k. thats leaving in the first example per capita.. NO INCOME to $4k at best and we haven't even went into transportation yet. On the higher end of household income that is leaving 6k to 16k for other life expenses. Do you really think they going to pay your $200 a month or $2400 a year out of that money??? Nope. Surely not. So you really get people who just CAN'T work.. what is disability, $1k monthly?? What is S.S? If they collect that too, $2k maybe at best?? (per individual) So you're client's average income will be barely making it to live.. which is why $100 per account is what you're LUCKY to pull out of a client and thats for people COMPLETELY unable to actually service their own property. So they have no choice but to pay. And when you're surrounded by this situation, this is where the problem lays with what "successful" lawn people have to say about what you're worth. And this is what everyone lawn man needs to understand about your specific demographic. Like, if you were willing to drive to your job up to 1 hour away, you should target up to that far away for your lawn business. But even if within 1 hour away the "income" demographics don't change.. then you have to understand people's income, the same as your own, and find the sweet medium.
@@Bladesofgrasslawncare You never know... by the time you hit 250k subs, they just might give it to you! And also, if like to say thank you for your military service, from a fellow military vet!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
No more kids wanting to mow for $10. Now they want mega bucks. Such as yourself. Great for the pocket, for sure....As a poor person, we cannot afford such services. Sucks.... been out with scissors trying to make the yard look....less apocolyptic...😢 Watching gardner trucks roll by...
Because equipment and repairs cost so much, we don't get help from the government either u know.. how do we convince the customer for our prices? Gas goes up, truck maintenance, insurance, etc.. still wear and tear in the equipment. Shops DO NOT CARE YOUR SITUATION IT IS $100 an hour for repair not including parts and down time... 🤦😤🤷😱🙆😧
Dude anyone can have equipment like yours but dang why miss grass in the back yard I did a better job than that when I was in my teens then you do now that's sad
You got the best setup! I'd be skipping to my truck every morning if I had that setup.
I do ja, ja, ja!
He sure has a nice set up!!!
A tip to make more money mowing is to always know where your key to the lawnmower is this really helps! Lol
i keep a secret push start button and a wire secret, no key required. the key socket is left to foil thieves
I love your videos Johnny. Always moving and insightful info. My lowest lawn price is $40 and my highest is $75z so I know it can be done!
Don't worry about a quiet lawnmower, they hear you long before the mower even starts, with all that clanging and doors shutting, hehe.
Love watching your videos, from Australia 😊😊
You got that right!
You do an excellent job keeping those lawns looking nice and neat keep up the good work man
Thanks 👍
I live in the metro Augusta Georgia area. Your prices are a little on the low side of what the average in our area is, which is due to you being in a different area of the state than me. My area is choked full of hoa subdivisions and gated communities. We have all walks of life living here. Anywhere from doctors and lawyers, to active duty and retired military, to blue collar workers. The bottom line is that 80 or 90% of the people in my area don't shop around for the best price. They look at your business reputation, dependability, and the services you provide. Most people hire lawncare providers because they just don't have the time or room to store equipment, or they just want to take advantage of what free time they have. If you do good work, stay honest and dependable, then you can make serious money in my area. Most of my customers call me because their last guy stopped coming out, or they do not communicate when they can't come when scheduled. No matter where you live or what you do, the money is out there. It's up to you to go get it.
I live in Warner robins GA, when I bid 60 they want to talk me down the 55 so if I bid 70 they want to talk to me down the 60
Love all your tips and tricks and great vids man
Been watching your channel for awhile now
I’m trying to grow my business here in SC myself
Left a job as a diesel mechanic of 14 years
Got burn out on doing it I’m loving lawn care more and more 💯
Take it easy my friend
I switched up to the Diamond string and man,
What a difference! It lasts way longer than the traditional string.
Great vid...I just sat down this weekend and made spreadsheet for 2023, and I have a goal of 50-60 quality customers have 1000 door hangers and 1000 cards ready to unload! Taken your advice and if I can hit my numbers my profit will go up 40% with 3 days off 💯✂
Awesome!
would love to hear an update. How did it go for you?
I just leave the keys in our mowers 🤷probably shouldn't but, oh well. I do lock the loading gate on the trailer though. Good video Johnny 👍
I have to admit, I edge at the beginning of the season, then it’s “as needed.” I use the trimmer throughout the season mostly. You my friend are on another level.
2 machines to do the same job. Good trimmer with anything but rounded twine can cut it better imo.
I'm happy that you can get 55.00 a cut but in my area we charge by the month same price 12 months for a year so here that would be $165.00 a month 3 times 55. 36 cuts a year I've never seen that kind of money in almost 40 years not in New Port Richey FL area maybe the million dollar homes in Tampa but the traffic here is unbelievable it takes 45 minutes to go 10 miles glad you're doing well my friend 👍👍👍
Man, I ABSOLUTELY love your truck set up. You make me one to go and buy one and start Blades of Grass Lawncare in Evans, GA. Haha 😂
Thanks 😂 Go for it!
Thanks for actually telling us what you charge. I appreciate that.
Any time!
Its starting to get skipping season here n Florida time to tight n everything up 🙂🙃
GM Johnny!!! I see you have learned your lesson on “the walk of shame” and have extra string in your pocket 😆. That 36’ Toro is getting you in tight spots and I know you are loving it. I have one question for you, did you feel you getting more power with a gas blower than a battery powered blower? I see your edger and string trimmers are battery and was wondering why you use a backpack blower with a battery.
Enjoy the cool morning and remember to Travel and Stay Safe. 💨
You got that right!
How about my question about gas or battery blower 🙂
I like how you don’t do any cuts in the video it really makes you get into perspective so thanks!
It's funny how if you have a lot of customers in an area that you do on a specific day, how everyone who mows their own yards will get in a routine of mowing on your day lol. I always notice that at the end of the year
Facts 😂
That wind seem to always start when the blower comes out‼️😂
Feels great to not break an immediate sweat when getting out the truck!😅
Chilly 😁!!! nice truck bro 😎 Love the setup, someday I'll have mine 🤞
I need some help, I just started a lawn care company this year mid summer most my jobs are biweekly, but having some costumers asking for monthly cuase the grass grow rate has slowed. What should I do? Drop the costumers or charge them more for monthly? Or try and discount the biweekly price for the winter? Any advice will be highly appreciated!!
Some of those lawn look like my lawns!!!
😂👍
jah bless up!
That head rest in the passenger side looked like a boxer!
That was funny
Good advice bro ... thanks
Happy to help
I sure wish we can get some of that cool weather down in Florida😂
Always enjoy your videos.
I appreciate that!
What’s that pull down gate called on your truck. What kind of battery powered trimmer and weed eater you have
I was wondering how do you price your lawns I’m just starting my lawn mowing business and I’m kind of nervous
Great job and great video. Wish some of my customers still had green grass. Have not seen rain in over 25 days here in Alabama..
Sorry to hear that, thanks!
Switch gears and focus on other services you can provide.
great video man
Thanks for the visit
You got a nice lil set a bro god bless you and keep cutting
When its at the start of the season... I usually edge & weedwhack 1st, After that its random.
Wow never really saw the movability in these stand ons. Think I will need to pull the trigger in the fall
i charge 60 and if they dont want the back done then its 45 for the front so yes it can b done
I have the fear of God starting my mower early... my muffler is basically not there lol
I leave my key but I lock 🔐 my mower up because I don't want to do wht u was doing lol 😆😆😆
You set up is Boss style!
My boss had 2 of those x marks they are fun to use!
Yes they are!
Great video, know your customer! Our customer is a 35 year old female with 1.5 kids and drives a Subaru. Value buyer! Our minimum cut is 100.00.
See you in Louisville next week.
What! Here in Southern California people think $70 a month is too much for two visits. Some lady told me "My last lawn care guy would charge me $15 a month and he would come two times a month". Lol I swear people here in Socal want everything cheap man. I honestly think in Southern California we have a lot of people charging super cheap and most of them are my people Mexicans.
I have no keys for my Toro turfmaster HDX 30”, however, I will have a key with my new 36” grandstand in 2023!!!
How much $$ for a yard that size out there???
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 killed it
What weedeater racks are those?
I really like the tailgate set up. What brand and whereabouts did you find that ?
how often u have to sharpen the edge blade ?
Once a month but I have several sets
What kind of Husqvarna weed eater do you use?
I hope you found the mower keys, respect.
Hi! How do you get community guidelines? For your comments
Question does your truck have a 6' or 8' bed?
It's a 5' 6"
hot diggity thanks Johnny
Glad to help!
Throw some power washing in the mix if you have the time!
I used to leave it in the ignition then I got a new ignition because the key was stuck lol ..for my second one I bought a new key and kept them on the same Keychain then my son suggested o give him one so ...he'd like to be my driver I guess...lol
Hey, Johnny, great content, thank you! Question, are you charging the same rate when weekly mowings come around, or do you adjust?
The same, the growth isn't that bad so no extra work, thanks!
@@Bladesofgrasslawncare thanks!
I keep my mower key in the truck and keep my stuff locked up
Is that the 48” ExMark?
Yup!
I learned from Savannah Johnny to lock my stuff up! You bet I keep my keys on a big key ring to limit temptation to the no goods. People who steal from others look for crimes of opportunity. Don't make it easy for the thieves. Maybe they will get a job like the rest of us. 🇺🇸
What determines if you will use electric or gas? I know you use both.
Just personal pref at the time
Hahahahaha Toro needs to give me that 34K mower😂😂😂
have you ever figured out your over head. that is cost of all your equiment, truck, mower trimers, blower, gas, all of the insurance both truck, liability, your wage, maintenance on equiment, replacement, and profit for the company. That is so in five years when your truck is shot you can buy a new one $40,000 E truck with out meed a $38,000 car loan I did not see how long that took you but you also have time to and from to add into the cost.
A high school kid who is using dads lawn equiment and his truck the over head is going to lower.
I always leave the keys in My mowers I would lose them if I didn’t I like jumping out of the truck and not having to remember too look for ot grab the key
Also wanted too add that part at the end is absolutely 100% true! We don’t do per service visit we do payments 12 months out of the year full service mowing mulching snow ice shrubs we want that property looking perfect all year round ppl see our truck there so we gotta keep it looking good!
No mulch kit on that 36?? 😃 PS What truck ramp do you use? I asked you before but I forget =(
This is a 48" and I'll install the mulching kit next week. It's the mow and go system
@@Bladesofgrasslawncare Roger that. Youre the only other guy I see who runs recycler kits I thought you left me lol
💯
As a fellow Floridian to most who will say what you're charging is never seen, I have to agree with them and disagree with the ending statements on this video. For anyone in the Northern states, or where cost of living index is higher then avg, realize that what is $50 where you are is $25 in other places. YES, working people can afford to hustle and pay premium prices. NO, retired people on fixed incomes have another thing to say about your pricing. Where this man screws up is saying it is possible to get that price anywhere and location doesnt matter. You want us to target certain areas??? Ok.. what about when you're surrounded in any direction 1 hr away in a full circle, by retired and fixed income people or where if you ask any local company, the man hour rates are usually $30 per hour because if you go over that, you're pricing yourself to flat broke. Because over 70% of the population is going to tell you its not that you're not worth anything more.. it's that they can't afford anything more. Florida is a retirement and disability state. Yes we grow more year round then other places but florida's wages vs other state's wages are NOT similar. I can take this further into Florida turf pros, who is in northern florida. One of his videos slipped up showing a payment and time duration of service on a customer was revealed for a split second and if you ran the numbers, his rate was 60ish a man hour. That's where I'm priced but I do alot of things other companies don't do. And i feel the heat on customer affordability. And if you're getting customers saying that either you're too cheap or too expensive.. then you're ideally priced right in the middle. Which means a select few can afford you and the majority will appreciate the work you do over "MOST" others and if it's truly worth it to them, since you cost more, they will stick with you. What you just did in this video, these yards are almost perfectly identical to The Villages FL. What you just did 55 per yard you would ONLY get 20 for. And if you said even $10 higher your reputation would be on the line as not a bad quality service provider but a overpriced selfish *YA KNOW WHAT*. Highway robbery terms have been used before. So yes everyone MUST understand that ones numbers is not another man's numbers, but stating "YES GUYS YOU CAN you just have to target the RIGHT areas" and ASSUMING those areas are just everywhere, is miscalculated and incorrect. But even with respect to Florida Turf Pros, if you evaluate his cost of living index vs other areas, it is higher then most others in Florida. So therefore charging more per hour still puts him in the same ball park as the poor man. But when milk is $5 a gallon in the poor mans area that'll support $30 per man hour and is also $5 in the area that is supported by $60 a man hour or $120 per man hour, who really is the one on top here? Location DOES matter, and demographics matter more and it's not all roses and chocolates in any given area. THERE ARE limitations. I'd really like to see some of these UA-camrs come to my area with their mindset and make it the same way they did where they are now. Like 100% I'm already priced at the top end. You try and double that to these guy's standards, and you'll see your business's death certificate and your divorce papers.
**EDIT** Just occurred to me, when talking about demographics... let's for instance use the economy here.. You look at the income capita in your area by each surrounding city plus the one youre operating in. Let's say that avg is 20-30k. Household at best is 30-40k. RENT or MORTGAGES running about $1500 to $2k, so let's say living household expenses not counting ANYTHING else is $24-26k. thats leaving in the first example per capita.. NO INCOME to $4k at best and we haven't even went into transportation yet. On the higher end of household income that is leaving 6k to 16k for other life expenses. Do you really think they going to pay your $200 a month or $2400 a year out of that money??? Nope. Surely not. So you really get people who just CAN'T work.. what is disability, $1k monthly?? What is S.S? If they collect that too, $2k maybe at best?? (per individual) So you're client's average income will be barely making it to live.. which is why $100 per account is what you're LUCKY to pull out of a client and thats for people COMPLETELY unable to actually service their own property. So they have no choice but to pay. And when you're surrounded by this situation, this is where the problem lays with what "successful" lawn people have to say about what you're worth. And this is what everyone lawn man needs to understand about your specific demographic. Like, if you were willing to drive to your job up to 1 hour away, you should target up to that far away for your lawn business. But even if within 1 hour away the "income" demographics don't change.. then you have to understand people's income, the same as your own, and find the sweet medium.
Am I the only one that does the edging last ??lol
my lowest is 75 highest is 200. Bring it.
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Is $55 your minimum?
😂😂😂😂 a Toro freebee 34k😂😂😂😂 imagine!
We can all dream 😂
@@Bladesofgrasslawncare You never know... by the time you hit 250k subs, they just might give it to you! And also, if like to say thank you for your military service, from a fellow military vet!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
If I make a UA-cam video I won’t play music because I don’t want any UA-cam copyright
Okay, cool
No more kids wanting to mow for $10. Now they want mega bucks. Such as yourself. Great for the pocket, for sure....As a poor person, we cannot afford such services. Sucks.... been out with scissors trying to make the yard look....less apocolyptic...😢 Watching gardner trucks roll by...
Because equipment and repairs cost so much, we don't get help from the government either u know.. how do we convince the customer for our prices? Gas goes up, truck maintenance, insurance, etc.. still wear and tear in the equipment. Shops DO NOT CARE YOUR SITUATION IT IS $100 an hour for repair not including parts and down time... 🤦😤🤷😱🙆😧
Dude anyone can have equipment like yours but dang why miss grass in the back yard I did a better job than that when I was in my teens then you do now that's sad
Always leave the key in the mower
Cut my home grass Ramsey pe26 1jr