I felt like a scrub today

[65hoss]

I took all my mowing equipment off this morning to spend the entire day aerating and seeding. I use my cub cadet lawn tractor to pull my seeder with. I sure didn't look hi-tech without my exmarks. :)

Kinda was embarrassed. Only piece of comm'l equipment was my aerator. Hey Eric Elm, do you feel this way when the choppers aren't on the trailer and the JD is for the aerator?

I wish I had a digital camera, a major scrub was across the street from one of my jobs. He still made me look good. lol

[slingshot]

I hope he didnt take a pic of you and send it in it would be pretty shocking to see your own pic on your own thred

[SMB]

Hey! Cub's ain't that bad!
We went to mow a jungle today and took our old Snapper 28" rider and 2 junky push mowers to mow with. I ended up hitting a stump with the snapper, which bent the blade, and we ended up using the push mowers for the rest. Man, there was so many stumps in that place!

Stephen Beaver
Scrub's Lawn Care, Inc.

:)
I'm a senior member now!

[skyphoto]

Hey Hoss,

Just use your truck to pull your seeder around the yards! You will look more professional!

Hehehehe

Peace!

[Eric ELM]

I started to use my new diesel Chopper for aerating now. I can do the lawns in half the time. The reason it is faster, I don't have to lift it up to turn, it took 4 lifts and drops to go around a tree, had to do it like a square since you can't turn with it on a 3 point hitch. Now I can go right around a tree and be gone. :)

The poor JD is for snow only now and it might get replaced with a small Jeep or something like that. 11 years ago, it was my main machine, how things change over the years. :)

[KirbysLawn]

Funny, I had my enclosed trailer filled with rolls of pine needles last week and was pulling my sprayer trailer with my 48", felt a little different pulling that small trailer all week! :)

[HOMER]

I felt like one the other day when I was mowing a commercial prop. by a busy access street to Walmart. I was aimed "downhill" on wet, juicy weeds and guess what........down I went into a drainage gutter! :eek: Blades trying to cut concrete,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,argh! I pulled back on the reins and dug my way out really fast before anyone saw me. Man I was embarrassed........and I know better. :mad:

[linky]

I look like a scrubb one day a week. I have four properties on a busy road and its too hard to back my trailer into their small drives- so i load up my really ugly 36" wb.,trimmer,blower and wooden ramps onto my chevy. It looks scrubby but what the hay! Even with time spent loading/ unloading and then going back to load up my trailer, I still make good money. The yards are small but pay very well. I do feel kinda embaressed when all of the big boys roll by and smirk at me but my trailer is just as big as theirs-i'm just not using it

[Evan528]

I just got a new account just like that! Its on a buissy road and has a drive so narrow my trailer wouldnt even fit in it! I bid the lawn at 30 dollars a cut... about 10 dollars to much because I will have to disconect my trailer and load my walkbehind with ramps to do this lawn. Its 2 minutes from my house so ill hit it at the end of the day!

[Skookum]

The subject of this whole thread makes me laugh. You all are so worried about looking like a SCRUB when you know you are not one. Now, think about all the old junk trucks, small trailers, old Lawnboys and Craftsman riders you have seen and ASSUMED they must be a scrub outfit! Not so sure now are you?

What a man drives or the equipment he uses does not make him a SCRUB!

[beck]

Same thing happened to me on Saturday.

After cutting my last yard on Friday I came back to a broken window on the driver's door. This was 4 o'clock i called all the glass places to see who could get to it the quickest. One company said they could do it on Saturday at 10:30. the were open until 5 so i could park the truck in their garage over night in case it rained.

My original thought was to take the trailer to where i would be working the next day, but i would not be back in time. So i just took the truck up to the glass place at left it there.

Sat. morning i had a meeting with one of my customers and had some tree work to do at two homes, and three leaf cleanups to do as well. I decided what the heck so i borrowed my moms little 87 chevy nova put the chain saw and BP blower in the trunk and went to meet my customer and start on the work. we finished two yards went and got my

99 Z71 then went back and hooked up my haulmark trailer, then went back out with a little different look.

[BobbyBcuttin]

Well I've must confess i fill a little funny every time i drive my simplicity tractor out of my 8 by 18 enclosed trailer,but on the other hand my yards look a lot better than most companys around home i have no complaints,i pay lots of insurance,i pay my taxes,do what i'm suppose to do and what i say i do.One of the days things might be different and i will go buy me a nice ztr but for now my tractor gets almost 40 acounts done a week and when i look back at my yards I KNOW WHO THE COMPETION IS IT'S ME

[Plowzer]

Sunday i chose to do commercial clean-ups. I chose Sunday so that no one would see me. I felt like a convict. Picked up TRASH...ALL DAY! Luckily my bro helped. Glad its done.
We prolly could of filled the truck bed 3 times...lol Needed an orange suit to complete the look and ankle chains.

[Island Lawn]

VERY GOOD POINT SKOOKUM!

There will probably always be somebody out there who has bigger/better/more.

Professionalism, Customer Service, A good work ethic, etc
separate us from the scrubs more than the equipment. Although that certainly counts!

[scottb]

So we can all feel better its not the equipment we use that makes a scrub but how we use it. I have to use an old MTD to pull my areator but it works until I can buy a walkbehind unit.

[John Allin]

Skookum's got it right.....

Old equipment does not a scrub make.... it's how he treats customers and how he keeps the equipment running... after while you'll have enough to be able to get all new equipment. For right now... do good work at a fair price.

[Groundcover Solutions]

One day a few years ago (when i only had one truck!!)my truck brock down and i could not do the rest of my lawns. So i had to get the minevan out and put a few 21" mowers along with the other stuff that i needed. I got some strange looks when i was cutting some of the nicer houses!! oh well got the job done and it looked good to!