A short YouTube monologue by Mike Andes discussing the costs and trade-offs of a lawn care business setup. He gives rough price estimates for trucks, trailers, and equipment (totaling around $20,000 in his example), explains why he prefers a smaller, less expensive setup despite extra effort, and compares this to owning high-cost trucks, trailers, and multiple zero-turn mowers.
Now, in this market, you're probably going to need to spend $15,000 for the half decent truck. I got this about four or five years ago. It was $6,000. So all in this entire setup, you're probably looking at around 11, $12,000 fully. So let's just call this $20,000. The thing is, I'd rather use this setup. And yes, I have to work a little bit harder. I don't get to save the 15 or 20 minutes that I would if I had a stand on. However, I'm not having a $40,000 truck attached to a $10,000 trailer that holds 10, 2, $10,000 zero turns and a whole bunch of equipment. And that's just sitting there when I don't really need it. And most of this property is actually weed whacking and pushing on. So I'm not against zero turns. I'm really not.
