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Hi everyone, New to lawnsite so let me know if this should be in a different area or has already been discussed. I am looking for opinions on stand on mowers vs sit down zero turns. But specifically with floating the deck over objects. I do a lot of yards where I some what frequently use my...

Hey guys! I’m new here, but that’s because I need a fellow hardscaper to answer a question and this just happened to be the first hardscape forum I could find lol… I just started my next project a couple days ago. It consists of two retaining walls with a patio in between. The biggest part of...

Hi all, Wife and I had to do some excavating on the frontside of our house - didn't really think ahead and now we're up against it to get some landscaping done asap. We're torn on what type of front walkway - from the type of product, color, design etc. We could really use some guidance on what...

Hello, Were are new to the industry and have came across the term "price per cut". The vendor divided our monthly proposed cost of $4000 (for 6 medium properties) to $24.60 per cut. Our contract was ended after the first week of service due to change of ownership. How should we bill 1 week...

I've been working for this guy for a couple of days now and I just got done doing the following: Mowed, trimmed, cut back small trees and hauled off the branches for him to a designated location he wanted them dumped at. This took all day long and I want to know how much to charge him? I did a...

My brother just got a Toro 22inch recycler mower and every time I use it, lawn trimmings will stay on the lawn even if the bag isn't completely full. I want to know if the mower is designed to do that or does the bag fill up faster than the older one I use.

I am 13 yrs old and am trying to expand my lawn mowing service beyond my tiny neighborhood how should I go about doing this

Do you really need to know these number? Can you make a nice size company on these numbers? The town I live in has about 8,000 people and the city 10 to 20 minutes has about 40k. All 2014 numbers they may have gone up. The median household income here is 46k. The median family income is 60k...

Hello, i am going to start my company soon and had a few questions. Anything will help. Going to be out of a pick up bed so no trailer. Small yards nothing to big. 1) What would be the best 21 inch mower to start with? 2) What's the cut size for each month? 3) What type of grass is there in my...

Hello all, I am a high school student from Stratford High School in Connecticut. A fellow student and I are working on an engineering project for our class. We just have a few question that we hope you can answer on weeding and maintenance. Thanks...

Another general question.. Does anyone have any experience or has anyone seen better results with a commission based salary versus a standard salary? If so, did this improve sales? Were employees happier with this setup? With this in mind, do you have a sales member taking on the sales? Or do...

I'm going on my 3rd year in the business and I'm looking for input and advice I'm in Florida and we currently have about 7 commercial contracts and 10 Residential contracts Roughly 2700$ a month Next we have about 100+ verbal agreements and oncall customers about 6-8k a month At first we...

I'm looking to buy a new mower. I have always used exmark all have been belt drive because of less maintenance. I walked into a scag dealer interested in a new belt 48 velocity plus. First off the guy had allot to say about it and thats fine he's trying to make money like everyone else but the...

Hi I'm just wondering if these are weeds and if they are should i pull them and then mulch. Thanks for the help guys.

I got a billy goat qb1034h the spring that controls the gust control broke. I have a new one just forgot how this spring goes on. I tired looking at the manual it makes no sense to me. So any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks

I think the social groups/friends ideas were both good ones. . . but I'm wondering why the social groups "hub" is so hard to get to. The easiest link that I can find is in quick links, with the other option being to go through your user profile. I'm wondering if there would be a way to make...