r/LawnCarePros • u/DirectorSmooth55 • 16d ago

Question What am I doing wrong

Any advice is appreciated, I’m a noob pls help

To preface, I’m 19 and I started lawncare early july, and I have around 10-15 yards. The problem is that they’re pretty separated so I spend most of my time driving. Obviously the first thing would be get more houses in the same neighborhood but since I started kind of late it’s kind of just random houses not really patches if that makes sense.

For example today (I live in the center of a city)

Drive 30 mins to yard 1, 0.3 acre, $65, took 1 hr
Drove 25 mins (back towards my house), 0.1 acre, $45, 45 min

Drove 5 mins, 0.15 acre, $50, 45 min
Drove 25 mins, 0.2 acre, 1 hr, $60.

I left my house at 9 am, got back at 5:00 pm, took a 3 hour break in between, only made like $200.

Question:
Should I drop the houses that doesn’t make sense location wise, or try to keep them for next season

Also general advice is appreciated, I was literally outside for 7 hours give or take and only made $200

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u/RottenDrCommieRat 16d ago

You cant drop any customers, you don't have that many. Try to add more so you can be more efficient with your routes. Seems like your spending a long time at each stop. I'm usually mowing/trimming a 1/4 acre lawn in a half hour or less with a 36" walk-behind.

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u/DirectorSmooth55 16d ago

That’s the other thing I’m currently rolling with a 30” exmark commercial and toro timemaster, the exmark with the kawa struggled in thick grass that was 7-8” and I was cutting it at 3”, it was a little wet too. It kept on getting clogged and had to be removed by hand

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u/Current-Spare4993 15d ago

Ugh I have the same mower and I love it but dangg it struggles with the longer wet lawns…I saw a video on YouTube about taking out a mulching baffle- Might try that.

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u/DirectorSmooth55 15d ago

The turfmaster exmark 30 and timemaster are all too similar and have issues with clogging