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are you CLEARING $500 a day mowing?

Discussion in 'Lawn Mowing' started by bobbygedd, Jul 22, 2005.

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  1. bobbygedd

    bobbygedd LawnSite Fanatic
    from NJ
    Messages: 10,178

    after all your overhead, EVERYTHING, payroll, trucks, ins, EVERYTHING, are you clearing $500 a day mowing? by CLEARING, i mean CLEARING. can you put 5 - $100 bills in your pocket each day?
     
    bobbygedd, Jul 22, 2005
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  2. topsites

    topsites LawnSite Fanatic
    from Richmond Virginia
    Messages: 21,653

    No, not sustained, and likely not for a long time...At least not solo, and not in va... I can sustain 300+ gross / day peak and have done 400 / day but that's a record rate... I think I've grossed 800 in 2 days before, and sure there may be a time I'll gross 1k in 2 days but again, it's not a sustained thing.

    And throughout Jul-Aug, I'm lucky if I gross 2k/month with the heat and drought, the demand is always low this time of year.

    CLEARING?
    sheeee i'm just a high-class scrub, man.
     
    topsites, Jul 22, 2005
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  3. lawnrangeralaska

    lawnrangeralaska LawnSite Senior Member
    from Anchorage
    Messages: 433

    yes i can can you?
     
    lawnrangeralaska, Jul 22, 2005
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  4. bobbygedd

    bobbygedd LawnSite Fanatic
    from NJ
    Messages: 10,178

    not "can you", but DO YOU? meaning on a regular basis
     
    bobbygedd, Jul 22, 2005
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  5. KINGjosh

    KINGjosh LawnSite Senior Member
    from North Florida
    Messages: 531

    I wish! As stated above, not solo and not consistly enough to make me happy.

    It would be pretty nice to clear that solo. But in this game, down here at least, you need 6 (Rodrigos) or 6 (Jean Paul Vinny's) paid under the table to at least compete with the competition.. Once you have completed that. Then you will start putting 'mucho de'neiro in your poket.
     
    KINGjosh, Jul 22, 2005
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  6. Rhett

    Rhett LawnSite Bronze Member
    from Destin Florida
    Messages: 1,071

    No. Welcome to Florida.
     
    Rhett, Jul 22, 2005
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  7. northwest lawn

    northwest lawn LawnSite Member
    from northwest ohio
    Messages: 196

    i do between my small lawns and my huge account it averages out to be every day
     
    northwest lawn, Jul 23, 2005
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  8. Mancinioldhorse

    Mancinioldhorse LawnSite Member
    from Vancouver Wa
    Messages: 69

    Is this leading to another political or unionization comentary?
     
    Mancinioldhorse, Jul 23, 2005
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  9. Richard Martin

    Richard Martin LawnSite Fanatic
    from Greenville, NC
    Messages: 14,700

    I'm solo, right around $30 an hour pre-tax. If I worked faster or didn't do as good a job I could make more per hour. It's not something I'm worried about.
     
    Richard Martin, Jul 23, 2005
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  10. Tonyr

    Tonyr LawnSite Bronze Member
    from Melbourne,Australia
    Messages: 1,973

    no, not here....many days gross that or more, but not net.

    and I certainly don't gross 500 every day, good days, lower days....but I just do ride on mowing, trimming, edging, nothing more, no landscape stuff.

    just a lawnboy living in paradise, I know I can't get rich doing this, it is a lifestyle thing, only do it cause I like playing on big ZTR's ha ha.
     
    Tonyr, Jul 23, 2005
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