How Many Professionals

[midnite rider]

Yep but our common goal is lawn mowers so all the (whos a professional) stuff really doesnt matter. We all come here to seek, and provide info for each other. It would be nice to have a section for the guys, and girls that do full time lawncare for a living.

I totally agree with you but it is interesting to note the diversity.

 

[midnite rider]

OK, this is what i came up with. As far as post counts of 75 posts or more, there are 150 members that apply in that category of most contributions to the forum.
Out of those top 150 members here are the percentages:
77% ------ Homeowners
14% ------ Lawn Care or Landscape Professionals
9% ------ Equipment Dealers or Manufacturers

I would think the homeowner percentage may go up if the member total were carried further. Still the lawn care/landscape pro is surprisingly to me at 1.4 in 10 and dealer/manufacturer at 0.9 in 10 for this survey. :shocked:

I wonder how many do not even own a mower.

 

[wjjones]

I totally agree with you but it is interesting to note the diversity.

Yes it is interesting for sure.:thumbsup:

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

I wonder how many do not even own a mower.

I did a search and there are only 19 members that have 50 or more posts and don't own a mower or are looking to buy! :shocked:

 

[midnite rider]

I did a search and there are only 19 members that have 50 or more posts and don't own a mower or are looking to buy! :shocked:

That is 4.6% of members with 50 or more posts that don't own a mower or are looking to buy . :shocked:

 

[CauZey]

I'm not a pro but I started doing lawn care for a living last year with a woman who has been doing it for 20 years and has a horticultural degree. I learned a lot from her and I worked hard this winter to start my own business doing lawn care. Recently sold my mower so I'd qualify in the % that doesn't own a mower rite now or at least until this coming Tuesday. But I'm still here like everyone else to talk about mowers, grass, and the get great advice!!

 

[pugaltitude]

The only garden machine I own is a battery operated trimmer.

I use whatever demo machine is available when needing to cut my grass or test run problem machines that are in my workshop.

 

[wjjones]

I'm not a pro but I started doing lawn care for a living last year with a woman who has been doing it for 20 years and has a horticultural degree. I learned a lot from her and I worked hard this winter to start my own business doing lawn care. Recently sold my mower so I'd qualify in the % that doesn't own a mower rite now or at least until this coming tuesday. But I'm still here like everyone else to talk about mowers, grass, and the get great advice!!

But I'm still here like everyone else to talk about mowers, grass, and the get great advice!!

And thats what this site is all about..:thumbsup:

 

[jekjr]

Just break the word ex pert down. Ex means used to be and a spent is a drip under pressure.

 

[djdicetn]

Well as of april first I will be doing it for a living. Supporting my wife and two kids, I'm. A little nervous because it is ahead of schedule but the company I'm working for put me in this position. I have a decent customer base and am excited to be on my own.

exotion,

I want to be one of the first to wish you a most successful career in lawn service and landscape maintenance(if you do more than just cut grass) and I sincerely hope that your hard work enables you to support you family in a manner that allows you to provide financial stability, harmony and the always increasing needs of your children!!!

OK........now to settle this How Many "Professionals" definition debate(now this is coming from a homeowner that came to these forums in search of advice that will enable me to maintain my lawn & landscaping so that it "looks like I payed someone a LOT of money to do it":0)

1)A Lawn Care Professional:This is the person who owns/manages/works/applied for license/pays taxes & insurance for a licensed Lawn Care service company that charges people to mow their lawns(the same would hold true if Landscaping, and other "property-maintaining" services are rendered by said company). If it is a large enough operation to have "employees" that do some of the work, these employees are NOT Lawn Care Professionals....they are simply employed by and draw salaries from a Lawn Care Professional. These employees "do this for a living"(whether or not it is their only job, full time or part time) but are, I repeat NOT Lawn Care Professionals.

2)If the Lawn Care service company is not still active after several years(I would say at least 5), then "Professional" was a misnomer and that person did not have the skills required to operate that business with enough profit to sustain it.

3)If you have operated in either capacity described in Section#1 for several years(I would say at least 5) and you are still doing that then you have now become a veteran lawn care maintenance worker, very skilled at what you do(or you would have fallen victim to section# 2.......or been fired).

4)If the yards you cut(or other property maintenance services rendered) do NOT look like a "Professional did the job"......see Section#2(no matter how many years your business has been active or you have been doing it:0)


Welllllll.......how did I do(for a wannabe????:0)