Doing only one thing.

[Green Acres]

If you had your pick and only did one service what would it be? For example seeding, sodding, landscape, walls, ponds etc.

[paponte]

Hmmmm.... thats a hard one. Depends what kind of mod I'm in. I can tell you it wouldn't be grass. A toss up between hardscaping and softscaping. :confused:

[SodKing]

Male Prostitute...;)

[Green-Pro]

Male Prostitute...;)


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[YardPro]

hardscapes for sure

[l2edneck]

Prolly just installing trees.Always feels good to sit back and watch something you planted grow.

[AintNoFun]

planting or hydroseeding without a doubt, hopefully by next year those will be our only services...

[LindblomRJ]

Ponds.....

[AGLA]

Design - No employees and very little overhead.

[nobagger]

I would have to say lawn installs or repairs. Low intial cost and a great return, well so far.lol

[MarkintheGarden]

It would have to be design for me.

[mdvaden]

If I could start all over again - Ponds.

I don't llike climbing, so pruning alone would not be enough.

Install alone, are not satisfying enough.

Design alone is too office-like.

So I'd do ponds.

I considered specializing in water features, this last summer, but find that I like variety - ponds, planting, retaining walls, arboriculture / pruning.

[dcondon]

It all comes down to what you like doing and not the money. If you don't like what you do you will not be in business very long. JMO

[Scag48]

Retaining walls for sure. We can do 500 square foot walls from start to finish in 2 days. Money makers.

[JimLewis]

Irrigation - hands down.

Irrigation is great for so many reasons. First, it's an exact science. There's never anything to screw up. If you plan your system right, have the experience to know what to do when you run into something unexpected (e.g. today one of our crews ran into a CPVC mainline that we had to tap into.) then it's just simple. I almost never have anything go wrong with an irrigation job. I can bid them to within an hour of how long it will actually take us to do the job. I can drop my crew off on day one and say, "backflow goes here, valve box here, zone 1 here, zone 2 here, timer clock here...." And then come back 3 days later and it's all done exactly like I asked, it all works perfectly, the customer is always happy, and I collect a check. Hardly any oversight by me. It's about the simplest jobs we ever do.

It's what we do more than anything else and we do it real well. It would be nice to just do irrigation. But it's hard to ignore the good money in all the other forms of landscape design / build. So even though they are way more headaches, we do it all.

[6'7 330]

Easy Design Build

[Dirty Water]

Irrigation - hands down.

Irrigation is great for so many reasons. First, it's an exact science. There's never anything to screw up. If you plan your system right, have the experience to know what to do when you run into something unexpected (e.g. today one of our crews ran into a CPVC mainline that we had to tap into.) then it's just simple. I almost never have anything go wrong with an irrigation job. I can bid them to within an hour of how long it will actually take us to do the job. I can drop my crew off on day one and say, "backflow goes here, valve box here, zone 1 here, zone 2 here, timer clock here...." And then come back 3 days later and it's all done exactly like I asked, it all works perfectly, the customer is always happy, and I collect a check. Hardly any oversight by me. It's about the simplest jobs we ever do.

It's what we do more than anything else and we do it real well. It would be nice to just do irrigation. But it's hard to ignore the good money in all the other forms of landscape design / build. So even though they are way more headaches, we do it all.

All we do is irrigation, and like Jim says, it's a good gig. However, some area's are so saturated with irrigation companies that you can't make money at it.

[Travel'n Trees]

Tree spade work. And trees in general.

[JimLewis]

All we do is irrigation, and like Jim says, it's a good gig. However, some area's are so saturated with irrigation companies that you can't make money at it.

If all we did was irrigation, I'd probably make 40-50% of what I make now. But my stress level would be only 5-10% of what it is now too.

[leeslawncare]

I would hafta say .. Areation an over seeding ...good money less time!!!2 nd would be cleaning gutters.quick $ good $$

[RedWingsDet]

Sod. I wouldnt mind doing sod installs 5 days a week

[JimLewis]

Laying sod 5 days a week? Damn, you're back would be out in 2 years. Or you employees' backs. Sod is good money but it gets tiring. Not sure if I could keep workers around for very long if all they were doing was laying sod each and every day. That's brutal.

[mdvaden]

Hi Jim !!

I'm still working toward a bit of irrigation too.

Took the test to see what they have on it. Now I'm studying again. Passed the backflow segment.

[JimLewis]

Mario! Good to hear from you. How's things down south? I bet it's been hot down there this summer, huh?

Check your Private Messages.

See ya.

[forestfireguy]

I'd take hardscaping, hands down.

[Travel'n Trees]

Nothing like blocking, the veiw of something with 50 to 1000, 30 ft tall trees.

[kootoomootoo]

hot trophy wife milf towel boy..... i can hold a hose and call it landscaping for tax reasons.

[ozd12005]

Retaining Walls