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When is the earliest you should start mowing on the weekdays? How about Saturdays? And Sundays?
Over the summer I started on weekdays at 7:30a.m. On Saturdays I start at 9:30-10:00 and on Sundays, I try to do it after lunch.

lawn mower fanatic said:

When is the earliest you should start mowing on the weekdays? How about Saturdays? And Sundays?
Over the summer I started on weekdays at 7:30a.m. On Saturdays I start at 9:30-10:00 and on Sundays, I try to do it after lunch.

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I start on weekdays Monday thru Saturday at 7:30a.m. On Sunday I don't mow. I leave people alone unless it's a request.

WOW! You start at 7:30 on a Saturday? Around here you would be hated if you did that!

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lawn mower fanatic said:

WOW! You start at 7:30 on a Saturday? Around here you would be hated if you did that!

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What time is appropriate to some is not to others. For example a lot of people do not work on the Sabbeth day at all. :shocked:

midnite rider said:

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What time is appropriate to some is not to others. For example a lot of people do not work on the Sabbeth day at all. :shocked:

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True....True.....

I find that if I arrive at my first Job at 8 it is late enough even the people who sleep in cant complain to much. As for weekends... I am to good for weekends

I start at 7:30 in the summer because I want to get a lot done before it gets too hot.......most people in my neighborhood work, so they are up and out, and the people who sleep in....well...hopefully they are sound sleepers! :laughing:

You really gotta stop thinking youre better then everyone on the forum, youre not to good for weekends, if you had enough work believe me you'd work weekends

I start as soon as the dew is off the grass.

I have never understood why some want to start as soon as the sun comes up then be done before 2.
I wait for the dew to be gone cutting wet grass leaves brown tips.
And I work till dark and never on a Sunday that's just asking for trouble

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CZLawnCare said:

You really gotta stop thinking youre better then everyone on the forum, youre not to good for weekends, if you had enough work believe me you'd work weekends

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In no way do I think I am any better than any of you. My plans for my business is to fill up 4 8 hour days mon - thurs with mows and fri with other landscape maintence jobs 8 hrs I do not want my company to get any bigger.

I do not think I am better than any of you... really :/ im just a 23 year old who kinda knows what he is doing.

exotion said:

I do not think I am better than any of you... really :/ im just a 23 year old who kinda knows what he is doing.

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Kinda makes the case, doesn't it?

exotion said:

In no way do I think I am any better than any of you. My plans for my business is to fill up 4 8 hour days mon - thurs with mows and fri with other landscape maintence jobs 8 hrs I do not want my company to get any bigger.

I do not think I am better than any of you... really :/ im just a 23 year old who kinda knows what he is doing.

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I thought the object of being a business owner and operator, working for yourself was so you could work the days and hours you want to work.

Your work schedule sounds like you have a game plan and if you and your clients are happy I'd stay with.

exotion said:

I find that if I arrive at my first Job at 8 it is late enough even the people who sleep in cant complain to much. As for weekends... I am to good for weekends

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The difficulty here is, if someone is offended by the noise at 8 o'clock in the morning, they will be sure to take note who is making the noise. This leads to negative word of mouth advertising which leads to loss of existing clients or the loss of potential clients. As we know, word of mouth advertising in this business (positive or negative) is the most effective method of advertising.
However, this young lad will soon learn that his desire for weekends off may lead to three or four days off due to lack of business. Let's just hope it's his naïveté and not a trash and burn business policy.

Ariena said:

The difficulty here is, if someone is offended by the noise at 8 o'clock in the morning, they will be sure to take note who is making the noise. This leads to negative word of mouth advertising which leads to loss of existing clients or the loss of potential clients. As we know, word of mouth advertising in this business (positive or negative) is the most effective method of advertising.
However, this young lad will soon learn that his desire for weekends off may lead to three or four days off due to lack of business. Let's just hope it's his na?et and not a trash and burn business policy.

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You say the difficulty here is, if someone is offended by the noise at 8 o'clock in the morning and it could lead to negative word of mouth advertising. Most word of mouth advertising will come from the clients themselves to the surrounding
neighborhood and will be achieved by the work preformed by the individual or business.
The greatest percentage of company's that take on new clients discuss starting times during the estimate, before they before taking the client, I tell all new customers the time I start in the morning and I've never had a compliant with 7:30am in fact some tell me the earlier the better.
If you think 8:00am is terrible, I know one crew that starts mowing and running there equipment at 5:30am seven days a week and I know that because they're basically next door to me.

The man next door to me thought it was a good thing to mow his grass at 5 am every Saturday so I went and had a talk with him he told me if I don't like it move. He was not happy on Friday night when I had a yard full of bikes and drunk bikers till 2 am he now mows at 9am

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We run crews 7 days a week. The weekend crews mostly do irrigation work or enhancement work on business parks/industrial properties. They dont want us there during the week because of the noise. We also do a couple private schools that require us to start at 6am for the same reason that they want us out of there before class starts.

As a business owner i want to have crews working as many days as possible. More work means??????..……

We are not to good for weekends :/ lol

Thats nice and I think that is great I do not want to get that big I dont even want to hire a second person to work with. I am going to fill up my days as a One man band and still make 4 times what I do working for someone else. If I stay a one man band I can work what ever hours I decide to work

MSlandscaping said:

We run crews 7 days a week. The weekend crews mostly do irrigation work or enhancement work on business parks/industrial properties. They dont want us there during the week because of the noise. We also do a couple private schools that require us to start at 6am for the same reason that they want us out of there before class starts.

As a business owner i want to have crews working as many days as possible. More work means??????..……

We are not to good for weekends :/ lol

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I agree if they want you there at 6am or 6pm be there.
I did a daycare center a few years ago and they wanted everything done on the weekends

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exotion said:

Thats nice and I think that is great I do not want to get that big I dont even want to hire a second person to work with. I am going to fill up my days as a One man band and still make 4 times what I do working for someone else. If I stay a one man band I can work what ever hours I decide to work

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That's the reason I stay or keep the business the way it is, I can work what ever hours I decide to work. My monthly income is twice my previous job and I work half the hours.

Everyone does what they feel is right for their business. I love working and expanding my business and i will expand as much as i possibly can.

MSlandscaping said:

We run crews 7 days a week. The weekend crews mostly do irrigation work or enhancement work on business parks/industrial properties. They dont want us there during the week because of the noise. We also do a couple private schools that require us to start at 6am for the same reason that they want us out of there before class starts.

As a business owner i want to have crews working as many days as possible. More work means??????..……

We are not to good for weekends :/ lol

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im interested in learning to install irrigation where can i findout how to do this?

tybilly said:

im interested in learning to install irrigation where can i findout how to do this?

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To be honest the only real way to learn is hands on experience. I was fresh out of high school when i started digging trenches and learning irrigation. When it comes to irrigation there a million different ways to do things and a million different brands of products to use. If you want to learn fly out to Ca and ill send you with my crews

well i certainly appreciate that offer and if time and money were different i would entertain that offer, i take it its not just placing in the milldle of yatd and running pipe to a water source,i have a walkbehind ditchwitch,and was thinking Toro,because thats the only product i know of,thanks

We started at 8 am after started for many years at 7am. When starting at 7 am, we received many complaints. Be careful.

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Carscw said:

I start as soon as the dew is off the grass.

I have never understood why some want to start as soon as the sun comes up then be done before 2.
I wait for the dew to be gone cutting wet grass leaves brown tips.
And I work till dark and never on a Sunday that's just asking for trouble

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Done before 2 here in charleston sc is a blessing with this heat.lol

Carscw said:

I start as soon as the dew is off the grass.

I have never understood why some want to start as soon as the sun comes up then be done before 2.
I wait for the dew to be gone cutting wet grass leaves brown tips.
And I work till dark and never on a Sunday that's just asking for trouble

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I never understood waiting for the dew to be gone...My Scag does a great job on wet grass, and I am not waiting until 1 PM to start mowing.

An old rule in th UK is never mow before 11 and never after 7.It might be different in the States.
Mowermec

mowermec said:

An old rule in th UK is never mow before 11 and never after 7.It might be different in the States.
Mowermec

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Yeah, here in the US, Sunday is really the only day that rule would apply!

We usually start at 8:00 am weekdays, the same for Sat . We never cut on Sundays. That is when we count all our money and dine at fancy restaurants! ( Just kidding about the restaurants).

the lawn guy said:

We usually start at 8:00 am weekdays, the same for Sat . We never cut on Sundays. That is when we count all our money and dine at fancy restaurants! ( Just kidding about the restaurants).

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