Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

BEST truck setup & shop for your lawncare space 👍🏻

2 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube conversation (Mike Andes and another speaker) describing a standardized truck and shop setup for a lawncare business. The transcript details the physical layout and inventory: blower, trimmer/weed eater racks, tool rack, gas cans, trimmer string, sprayer rack, keys for P1–P3 and extra dump trailer keys, vehicle/equipment service location, audible password, designated places for days off, and specific counts (e.g., 4 blower setup, two stand-on mowers). Mike Andes emphasizes a single, replicable business process to apply across multiple territories. The team is opening four adjacent locations that will use the same system.

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Four.

4 ("1, 2, 3, 4").

Two.

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Setup, same exact thing. Blower rack, weed eater, trimmer rack, tool rack in the middle, gas cans, trimmer string and sprayer rack on the driver's side. This everything is going to be identical from here to all the other locations. P1, P2, P3 extra dump trailer keys. And these are just extra keys to the locks on the trucks. Have the blower set up. 1, 2, 3, 4. It coincides with the truck that they go with dry race board. I have all the vehicle service here, equipment service when it's needed. And then our audible password. I always put right there as well. Guys put their days off here in the corners. Two stand on mowers, all the handhelds. Hedge trimmer, short hedge trimmer, a weed eater. Wheelbarrows here, push mowers here. Everything always has a place and it's nice and tidy. The guys have sticks, things like that. We put all the tools into one bucket ladder. Any landscape attachments, every.
Single process and system inside your business. It should be replicatable, duplicatable, and eventually become boring.
Four different locations. We're kind of opening them all together. They all of the territories butt up against each other.