How many days of full lawns would be running the risk of being too many for two man crew. Do you guys run 6 full days all season long? I run 3 full 12 hour days of mowing in the busy season (100-110 lawns) 7:30-8:00pm. I really want to add another 25 lawns to make it 125 before I add either another helper or another crew and I'll just bounce in and out all day and help and deal with other crap when it comes up. I usually do other jobs on Mondays and Tuesdays then mow Wednesday thru Friday. If I know its going to rain later in the week I move my lawns earlier in the week and move the other jobs around not my lawns further back if I can. I haven't had to work on the weekend all year I just don't see it as being professional mowing residential on the weekend. I know you can pick up extras on the weekend but I just don't like running into people all day long trying to enjoy their weekend BBQ or whatever they have going on.
Hard to tell since I don't know what size properties you are cutting. Is that 100 a day in 12 hours? Is it 2 men including you?
Right off the bat, I couldn't run the crews for 12 hours in the heat and humidity for health and safety reasons. Also, I start running into labor law considerations such as overtime.
3 days x 12 hours = 36 hours; that leaves me 4 hours before I owe overtime.
Our residential properties tend to range between 1/3 & 1/2 acre; a four man crew can cut 45 (+ or - a couple) efficiently and professionally. Our commercial properties vary; our smallest HOA is 7+ acres, takes a four man crew about 5 hours & CA's, it depends on the number of buildings on the property. Eg. 27 buildings on about five acres takes a four man crew also about 5 hours.
We; Clean up (trash, branches,etc.) light trim on the ornamentals, rake the leaves out of the planting beds, mow (mulching decks on the mowers) weed whack, edge, blow and go back to survey for irrigation damage and spot treat for weeds.
We schedule full days for major trims, clean up's and over sized ficus hedges.
Each property is different. The HOA's & CO's take less time to mow because we don't have as many obstacles. The HO's usually take a little longer, specially when you include traveling time.