How many feet are you covering in a day?

[shovelracer]

Well my procedures have changed over the years as I have learned and gained better clients and equipment. Long gone are the days of weed N feed and I sort of miss it. What I mean is when I was doing straight granular apps I was able to put down 350-450K in a day. At $5-7 K that added up real fast. Now we are doing more liquid and I am lucky if we are getting 100-150K in a day. Granted we are getting a little more, but it's no $20/K. Now our results are what any professionals should be, and before we just sort of had to explain that it is still better than they could have done themselves. But I think something might be wrong.

To :

Lay granular it takes about 1 minute per K door to door.

Lay granular and liquid at 1/2 gallon / K takes about 2.5 minutes / K. door 2 door

Straight liquid at 1 gallon / K takes almost 3 minutes / K door to door.

No my application rates are not that slow it is all the other time consuming things that are taking the time.

I cant wait to get back to straight fert.

[kbrashears]

150k and lucky? I drug a hose for four hours today....well, in four hours time I drove 53 miles and drug the hose around on seven yards...and chatted with several (friends)....and I covered 230k. On a good day I can knock out 500k with the hose before crapping out.

[shovelracer]

Now thats what Im talking about. Now my helper made me an additional 600 today taking care of misc things at a few sites, but I got slow somewhere and i'm not really sure how. I know I can push out 200-250 liquid in an average day, but the days of 400+ only happen when I'm behind a spreader. Now I'm also not killing myself or applying past 3pm.

[ted putnam]

150k and lucky? I drug a hose for four hours today....well, in four hours time I drove 53 miles and drug the hose around on seven yards...and chatted with several (friends)....and I covered 230k. On a good day I can knock out 500k with the hose before crapping out.

:laugh:Now I feel old as dirt! On a good day I'll spray out 150k by 2:30-3:00(dragging hose). I'm done at that point though. A service call here, an estimate there but the daylight to dark hours are only in the early Spring for me.I could see where 400k could be cranked in the same amount of time for the Z (with just the right route) We've had so much rain day in and day out lately that I've forgotten what it was like to get a full days work in. Local paper says we haven't had this much rain since the 1880's.

[kbrashears]

:laugh:Now I feel old as dirt! On a good day I'll spray out 150k by 2:30-3:00(dragging hose). I'm done at that point though. A service call here, an estimate there but the daylight to dark hours are only in the early Spring for me.I could see where 400k could be cranked in the same amount of time for the Z (with just the right route) We've had so much rain day in and day out lately that I've forgotten what it was like to get a full days work in. Local paper says we haven't had this much rain since the 1880's.

How about four football practice fields in two and a half hours? That's about 230k.

[Marcos]

...just the two that I was born with! :)

Now, if the question was:
"How many square feet are you covering in a day..." :laugh:

[Hissing Cobra]

Back when I was working for my old employer, I would average around 100,000 sq. feet per day of actual application work. I would also mix in estimates or service calls as well. This was on residential turf where the average lawn was around 7,000 sq. ft.

Some days, I'd get 140,000 sq. feet if I had big 30,000 - 40,000 sq. ft. lawns and other days I'd get 80,000 sq. feet if I was in a retirement trailer park where the lawns would average 3,000 sq. feet.

[Mow Right]

I hand sprayed over 460k in one day last week. Even today I did 340k and that was including a service call and a couple of errands. This is all by hand with a 1,000 gal tank truck. By myself.

[LushGreenLawn]

What about using a ride on sprayer/spreader instead of pulling a hose?

They spray liquid at the same rate that it spreads granular fert. I'm doing about 300K with mine, but with my small number of clients they are not all real close together.

[shovelracer]

I can get about 350 in a PG in the fall when we can fert n squirt in high gear. Round 2 PG apps are usually low gear with a high tip to get a little more water down. This by itself makes it 50% slower, but the rest of the time is spent walking the lawn, looking at problems, etc.

[rcreech]

Avg somewhere between 10-14 acres/day...and sometimes more when working in larger lawns.

That is just working from 8 to 3:30.

Sunday I did a 10.5 acre athletic complex in just a little under 3 hours and that was spot spraying and blowing on fert.

I stepped it up to 6 mph with my dream machine (aka Z) and got r done! :weightlifter:

[grassman177]

when i drug a hose, i did 600k in a day, or two 300 gal tank mixes. now with zsrpays we are getting 900k in less time that the 600k by hose.