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Most commercial mowers will come with  a factory installed hour meter mower. These meters are very important. They can tell you when you need to change your oil. When your mower will need an overhaul. Most importantly, they help determine the resale value of your mower. Whether you are buying a mower or selling one. [...]

We learn a lot of great lessons about business and life on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Some of these lessons stand out more than others. This specific lesson I felt was real important for everyone to read in order to have a head’s up about theft of lawn care equipment. The more you [...]

A lawn care business owner shared with us on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum a landscape trailer gate assist he made.
He wrote “I built this gate assist for my trailer so the gate would be easier to lift. I used a garage door spring that I had laying around. It didn’t take long at [...]

A great service you can offer to perform when you can’t mow due to rain, is pressure washing. Getting started offering this service shouldn’t be that difficult and it can help your business expand outwards. One lawn care business owner was looking to get into power washing and had a few questions about getting started [...]

Everyone has their own view of what kind of lawn care equipment you should get when you are new to the lawn care industry. Some will want to buy cheap equipment, others will spend their entire savings. But what would a lawn care equipment dealer recommend? Surely they have seen many new lawn care business [...]

When you start up your lawn care business, you can go a couple of ways when it comes to equipment. You can either take the low dow approach, which means the cheapest equipment you can find, or spend some big bucks to get new commercial equipment. Which way you go depends a lot on the [...]

When you are looking to buy a new lawn mower and thinking about getting something besides a walk behind, you have a bunch of options you can choose from. Some mowers allow you to stand on a platform while others let you sit down. Which one is better for you? You may think sitting down [...]

Many lawn care business owners look to offer additional services to supplement their lawn service income. One of the many services they choose to offer is pressure or power washing. If you choose to offer such a service you may be wondering where to get the water. That is what one member of the Gopher [...]

Looking like a lawn care business versus looking like someone towing a trailer of lawn equipment can make a big difference when it comes to success. If you are operating a lawn care business and sitting there scratching your head, trying to figure out why you aren’t as busy as you want to be, consider [...]

Are you just getting your lawn care business started and looking for ways to get some lawn care equipment to get you started? If you want to find some great stuff that is cheap and nearby, consider doing what this lawn care business owner did. He shared a great tip on how to do this [...]

If you paid more taxes last year than you owed, you will be getting a refund. Sometimes it’s a little and sometimes it’s a lot. What should you do with this money? Is there anything you can do to help your lawn care business grow from it? That’s a question a member of the Gopher [...]

There are many paths you can take your lawn care business when you want it to grow. You can focus on residential. Or maybe focus on commercial lawn care. Many newer lawn care business owners like to try and get their feet wet in commercial work as soon as they have a few residential customers. [...]

I want to say first off, I am not an accountant nor are any of the forum members who took part in this discussion. We are business owners, sharing with you some of our insight. If something here piques your curiousity, please bring the topic up with your accountant to learn more about it.
As tax [...]

When you are just starting up your lawn care business, you will most likely use whatever equipment you can get your hands on. Whether it be commercial or consumer grade equipment. But as you are in business for a longer period of time, you will most likely move towards using commercial grade equipment. But from [...]

There are many ways to pay for the equipment your business needs. You can buy equipment outright. You can borrow the entire cost of the equipment. Or you can do a combination of the two. That is what a member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum does. It’s a really interesting way to pay [...]

When you take a moment to reflect on where you spend your time while servicing a lawn care customers you may find there are a lot of extra steps you are adding that are not necessary. If you find a way to optimize the time spent at each location the net result will be more [...]

There are so many lawn mower manufacturers that offer so many different models and cutting widths. Some cutting decks are marketed as 36 inches wide but when measured with all their attachments, their true width can be much wider. This may not sound like a big deal to you until you have finite widths you [...]

Is your lawn care business growing and are you finding that your old lawn truck just isn’t performing the way you need it to. This tends to happen to most new lawn care businesses after their first year but usually it’s a bad financial time to be out looking for a new truck. What options [...]

We can all create a list of items we would like to buy for our business. Maybe it’s a new mower, a truck, a trailer. Whatever it is, before you buy it, you need to ask yourself, do you need it? If you end the business year scratching your head wondering where all your profits [...]

As with all other types of outdoor equipment, there are a ton of options out there. Which hedge trimmers are the best for commercial usage? This conversation came up on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum and we all learned a lot from it. A new lawn care business owner wrote and asked “I will [...]

When you are looking to scale up your equipment and expand the services your lawn care business offers, instead of simply buying the next larger sized ZTR mower, why not consider a tractor? A member of the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum did and it has opened the doors to many new services that make [...]

If you are a lawn care business owner you would probably agree with me when I say no matter where you go there will most likely be heavy competition. This is a discussion we were having on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum. Another business owner shared “I feel this is correct. Where I am, [...]

Are you looking to create your own lawn care website? Or maybe thinking about adding some information to it but you are not sure what? Consider these ideas from the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
The difference between success and failure can be very slight. So can the difference between good and great. That is why [...]

If you mow a lawn with a push mower and it takes you a long time should you charge more than if you mow with a faster mower? Should your lawn mowing price be dependant on how fast you can get the lawn mowed? This was the topic we discussed on the Gopher Lawn Care [...]

Every lawn care business is different, just like every business owner is different. Some are out there doing the bare bones minimum and getting paid only a bare bones minimum price. But there are others who take their lawn care business to a new level. A very competitive and professional level. I am very happy [...]

A member on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum talked with us on a job he recently completed that involved a tree which was blown over. How much should you charge to cut up and remove an uprooted tree? Well of course it depends on your expenses but this should give you a little insight [...]

“Many new lawn care business owners who are just starting out tend to have limited funds so they need to spend their money wisely when purchasing equipment. But what kind of equipment should they get? There are so many options and different styles on the market to choose from? That is the question a new [...]

As a lawn care business owner, you are probably always looking for ways to make more money from your current customer base. There are many services you could offer and your customers could use, but plenty of times you just can’t think of them. In a discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum the [...]

Getting your lawn care business started can mean scrambling around trying to find a bunch of basic equipment and spending a lot of cash. Some entrepreneurs are able to do this while others need to work within a very tight budget. If this is your situation, have you considered buying your mowers from craigslist? One [...]

In the military they use terms like force multipliers. This term means with a given number of soldiers using certain equipment, they are able to project a larger amount of force than if they didn’t have it. The same term can be applied to the lawn care business. In this discussion we will see how [...]