BUSHES, great money maker

[BUSHMASTER]

we have talked lawn and other stuff..
Bushes you have the right to charge premium price for this service..its like air brushing a specialty....i try to estimate my time since thats what customers want to hear i try to figure $65. per hour i work alone so its only me. this price is just for bushes that i keeep trimed new service on ones i don't i'll get as much as $85. per hour just because of the mess. what do ya'll do ?

 

[steverino]

$85 per hour! You are actually getting that. Three hours over $250 yikes. It takes some real "horsepower" to do that.

 

[Cutter1]

I agree. There is great money in hedges. I hate doing it, but the money is great. I think, man I really do not want to do it, so I give them a high price. They still say, just get it done and bill me!! Unbelievable what people will pay for trimming bushes.

 

[BUSHMASTER]

Originally posted by steverino
$85 per hour! You are actually getting that. Three hours over $250 yikes. It takes some real "horsepower" to do that.

yea $85. per hour bushes that have not been touched in 6 mos
more clean up . as far as hp with my sthil ext.trimmer on a stick it cuts down on having a ladder on a hill you could reach all the way around standing in one place. you can do a lot in an hour most homes around here i can make it around the foundation bushes in about an hour..to save time on clean up take some tarps 2 or three place them in the ground and let the clippings fall right in save a lot of time that is if you can't hide the clippings under the bush.
it's nit cheating it recycling.Its also i great time to restaw or mulch and redefine the bed $$$$$$ more cheeze

[Edited by BUSHMASTER on 09-17-2000 at 02:15 AM]

 

[yardsmith]

Yeah that fig. sounds about right. Most folks don't want to mess with them, & if you have the tools, 'You da Man!'
Most homes have only about 1 hrs. worth of shrubs, some more, some less. Commercial work can get you lots of green...
I have the Stihl FS-85, but didn't get the hedge trimmer attatchment yet. There's always next year......

 

[eslawns]

I think you're right about that. Esp if there are a lot of them or they're really big ones. I factor in a higher charge if I need a ladder. I just got a Stihl FS85, and on the recom. of responses to posts here, an articulating trimmer attachment for it. Man can you ever cut tall hedgerows with this!

 

[bob]

Yea, I agree with the other posts! The right equipment, gas trimmers and FS-85 with hedge clipper attachment, make the job easy.

 

[Sammy]

I dont like doing them. I figure what I need for my time and add 50% of that to it. If they want me to do it its gonna cost.

 

[David Gretzmier]

I wouldn't wait til next year, at 200 bucks for the attatchment, get it now. I shoot for 60 per hour on shrubs/bush trimming, 80 on the fs85 articulater. no ladder, make mucho denero. dave g

 

[65hoss]

I have yet to figure out how to make money off them. People around here don't think its a premium service. They think its terrible if you want as much as the grass cutting part. Doesn't matter how long it takes. When I figure the job should be say $150, the customer thinks it should be $45. I don't mind doing them, I just hate dealing with the customers over the money.

The trimmer attachment for the stihl was a wise $$$ decision on my part this year.