Years in landscaping,mowing?

[fivestarlawnken]

Just wondering how many years paid experience do you have in landscaping,mowing??This could be on your own or with a company. I'am going on over seven years exp. Three years in strictly nursery,landscaping, four years athletic turf maint. and one year on my own part time.Any comments,suggestions are always welcome..

[LAWNGODFATHER]

22 yrs mowin'
5yrs scapin'
7yrs appin'

And I'm 30

I always got paid! I had 5 lawns to mow at age 8

LGF:blob1:

[vipermanz]

4 years of painfully hot mowing

[Guido]

But I'd say 10 years mowing, Landscaping and light construction for about 6 of that and Pavements and Heavy Construction for the last 4 or so, still dabbling in grounds maintenance of course.

[roscioli]

2 Years mowing.. :( The INexperience in the croud.

[paul]

Paid ? 33 years, unpaid 37 years grew up in the business!
No green feet :)
Landscape construction only........
Ok did heavy highway work for 2 years

[kutnkru]

Started cutting my grandfathers lawn when I was 11 yrs old. Kept cutting thru the HS years so I didnt have to flip burgers and such.

Was introduced to the Landscaping aspects of the biz back in 93, and have been applying chems since 94.

At 31 I guess you could say that its in the blood. :D

Kris

[kris]

This is my 25th year.

Started at 17 ... Landscape construction

Started a maintenance division 2 years ago so I am very green on the mowing , etc, which is what brought me to this site.

[Eric ELM]

This same subject was brought up in this thread not long ago.

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15053

[Evan528]

8 years mowing and about 5 years Doing Landscaping.

[dhicks]

2.5 years. Wish I had started this business 20 years ago. What hoot

[MOW ED]

Paid = 6 years mowing and light landscaping.
2 years apps.

Gonna keep going til something breaks.;)

[yergus]

6 years mowing
5 years landscaping
first years app

[lawnboy82]

At 19 I have under my britches-
7 years cutting
6 years landscaping
4 years climbing
1st year as a certified app.

[Randy]

This is my third summer mowing and a little landscaping.Very little land scaping.

[TJLC]

Commercialy,going on three yrs. Nothing compared to most of the people here.

[Albemarle Lawn]

And feeling it.

[TLS]

Mowing for profit since 1980. When I was 18 (1988) I registered with the State of PA for my ficticous name, and have been a legitemate company ever since. My how time flys! Time to start putting on the brakes!

[Mike (MLC)]

Been mowing for atleast 10 years now. Getting into landscape next year.:)

[GLM]

17 Mowing years and counting (since early high school)
11 Years in commercial irrigation/parks/cemetaries maint.
4 years and counting hardcore commercial/residential mowing/maint. business
1 year and counting golf course irrigation maint.

[AztlanLC]

God it's hard to belive all this people, no offense but I don't really know how all this people who has 10+ years in business and working solo still have time to post in this forum and yet sometimes those are the ones who post the most odd questions
(For a proffesional).

If you count being in business since you did your back yard when you were a kid, than everybody has 20+ years.

Only ny 2 cents.

[Runner]

I agree if you're gonna count all the grandma and granpa's lawns being done. I don't think that's what was really meant when he asked for this thread. Myself, (without my grandma's, aunt's, and neighbor's house I did for hire when I was 9) have been doing this since 1982. On my own since '84. :)

[GreenQuest Lawn]

1 yr at first LC
3yrs at second LC
6 yrs at third LC
Almost two owning my own

[Allyn]

9 years fert. lawns
4 years cutting lawns in SL
1 year cutting in LV
Groomed ski runs for 11 years (sorry that snow not grass)

Allyn

[Guido]

Originally posted by AztlanLC
God it's hard to belive all this people, no offense but I don't really know how all this people who has 10+ years in business and working solo still have time to post in this forum.

Its probobly good time management and planning for profit.

If you cut the "fat" from your operation you realize you don't need to work as much as you think to make the same or more profit. No need to have a billion lawns when you can make the same profit in less time with 50 good customers.

[Chip]

12 years mowing. Hey TLS I see you changed your screen name when did you do that ? How about another SE Pa get-together?

[65hoss]

11 years
Off 5 years in Navy and after college
Back 2 years full time.

[Lawn Dog2001]

9 years. 10th anniversery of owning my LC next March.