First Mower Selection

Hey everyone, this is Mike Andes and you're listening to Landscape Business course podcast. Today is episode one and we are talking about what is the first mower you should be buying in your business. Now I can only talk based upon my experience and how I started my lawn care and landscaping business. And what I did is I started with a regular old push mower, just a 21 inch push mower. You can get like a 28 inch Toro and Exmark makes some models of that. However, I think someone has a 32 inch to push mower. However, the reason I would recommend getting a push mower and not a zero turn is one thing and that's cost. So like a push mower 21 inches versus say a zero turn, that's a 48 inches. The 48 inches is obviously going to take shorter, but the return, the ROI of that is only going to be seen as you get into larger lawns. So. So what I would recommend is for your first 6 to 12 months, use only a push mower and you can buy a commercial grade one. Obviously use commercial grade. Do not get a three or $400 mower. I don't care what brand it is. If you get a commercial grade mower, Exmark, Toro, whatever you use, gravely, whatever you prefer, a commercial 21 inch mower, you can get it from between 1,000 and $1,600. It's going to be, you know, great quality. It's gonna work just fine. When I first started, I did one of my clients was almost 2 acres of land and I used a push mower. Now we're gonna talk about later in episode two about what type of mower you want to get as your second mower. Like what's your first zero turn. But all I wanted to say is that your first mower you are looking at cost. The ROI is not really present to buy a bigger mower that's 5 or $6,000 when year's income is only going to be 20, 30, $40,000. When you're mowing just on your first year and maybe you have a part time business with the mowing, you don't want 20, 30% of your income literally to be going towards a zero turn mower or even worse, financing it and paying 3, 4, 5, 6% interest on top of the principal. So highly recommend that you stick with a push mower until you have 20 to 30 lawns that you are consistently doing and you're starting to get jobs that are a good 7 to 10,000 square feet where a push mower is starting to definitely keep you like half the time as a 48 inch zero turn mower. So that's it for today everyone. Quick tip today on the landscape business course. For more information, check out landscapebusinesscourse.com Again, this is Mike Andes signing off.

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