Like lot of others to make a reasonable living I would need to be raising a sweat all day long
The mower shops all want me to work for them but they expect around 5 full services a day + pre deliveries then wonder why they can not keep employee techs
Kinda hard to do when there is so much patch work had been over the years to so mowers. Sometimes it takes all day to just one mower fully repaired.
It sorta like the JD L120 that came into to shop with reported problems RR going flat, voltage reg bad, and throwing deck belt. Well fixed the flat and replaced the voltage reg. Then when came to the deck I had replace the rigged up idler arm assembly. And while I was under the mower I saw the drive belt ready to break and the hydro fan only had three blades of the 10 left. Okay got those things done and put the deck back on. Then when started the engine it would only run on full choke so off came the carb which I found was jetted wrong. After got repaired I was going the rocker cover oil leak. Well that went the tracks quickly as the push rods were bent and broken with part of one one in the crankcase. Of course the engine has to come off to get the broken push out. Then I found the exhaust valve guide way out place so a new had to go on which on top of thing the same head had a blown gasket. And the customer bitched because I charge $750 to do the repairs even after wrote at least 4 hours of labor off.
What was worst the customer pickup the mower and brought it back within two hours and said I didn't fix the problem they brought it in for which the PTO shutting down which they did not report. As I said it became an all day job time wise. I just put a new electric clutch and PTO switch on it yesterday because clutch was shorting during operation mowing grass in a bumpy yard.
But it would be nice if I could knock out five repairs per day but that doesn't happen very often when you got DIYers out there rigging everything up.
I didn't know you had the same customers.