Here Is The Fastest Way Weed Eat Lawns!

I'm gonna show you something today that sounds simple, but I'm telling you right now, if you master this one piece of equipment, you will make more money. And most people in this industry have never been taught how to do it the right way. How many times has one of your crew members come back to a property and said, man, I gotta hit those spots behind that tree again or along the fence. I missed that corner. That's wasted time. That's wasted fuel. That's money that just walked out of the door. Or worse, the customer is saying they miss those weed eating areas. They miss that spot along the fence. And you see, it's not because they're lazy or careless. It's because nobody ever showed them the system. I'm Will Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Military Lawn Cuts. We have 3 locations here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a team approaching 25 team members, and one of the biggest shifts we've made in our operation is treating the weed eater like a skill, not just a tool you grab and go. Today we're going to break down exactly how we do this. First thing, and this is fundamental, you always want to walk forward with the piece of equipment, not sideways, not backwards, forward. This matters because your line is clean, you can see where you're going, and you're not doing extra work. If your team member or other mower crew is coming forward, you can get out of the way. If there's a pothole, you're not going to walk backwards and trip and fall. And when you're doing many, many yards a day, the last thing you want to do is walk backwards the entire day. Like, that's not fun. 90% of the crews aren't doing this consistently that I talk to. Second, when you're using a commercial-grade piece of equipment like Echo or Stihl, whatever you've got, you're almost always running half throttle on that piece of equipment. Full throttle will damage fences and objects in the yard. It wears things out faster. The only time that you full throttle is if you're hitting an overgrown yard or heavy brush. Everything else should be half throttled. That's the sweet spot. And quite frankly, these commercial-grade pieces of equipment have more than enough velocity to run it at 50% throttle. Now here's where most people miss. When you come into a tight corner, you don't just want to do the edge and keep moving. You round those tight corners. Think about what happens when you cut corners sharp. The mower has to come back through and push up and back, up and back, over and over and over again in these tight areas when you're near a fence or a building of a foundation. And it makes it so much harder. So on the first pass, round out those tight corners so the mower, which takes the longest on the property, can just cut the corner and keep moving and not worry about that while you're weed eating. Get those grass cracks and irrigation caps These are details that separate a 4-star job from a 5-star job. Most crews are skipping these. You're already there with the equipment in your hand. Take the 10 seconds and get it done right the first time. Here is something critical: you want to weed eat at the same height the mower is cutting. Not higher, not lower, same height. Down here in Texas, we have high extreme heat. And if you cut the weed eater grass too low with weed eater, you're going to stress out the grass. Newsflash for everybody, grass is a living organism. It is a plant. If you cut it too low, you're going to stress it out. With the intense sun down here in the South, if you guys are in the southern states and it's summertime, if you cut the grass too low, not only are you stressing it out because you're cutting it low, but also the heat from the sun is going to stress it out again. You very well can burn areas if you cut it too low. That is a callback, that is a canceling customer, that is a reputation hit. Match the height, that is how you do it. Now when you're around sensitive areas, we're talking fences or wires, anything you don't want to tear up, sometimes it's solar lights in the yards, you want to drop it down to about a 15, maybe 20% throttle, just a light touch. You're not trying to mow it down, you're trying to basically just kiss it. Feather it. Light pressure. This is where the skill shows up. Those stragglers that are tucked up against the fence post in tight corners, you don't want to just try to power through them. You're going to rip up the fence. You use an up and downward motion vertically, not horizontally. This lets you get in there, clip these spots, and get out without ripping up the fence or the post. Most guys don't know this. Once you figure it out, these corners go from taking 2 minutes to literally 10 to 15 seconds. Now the thing that separates the masters from everyone else on the weed eater is understanding the pattern. This is huge. If you're right-handed, you're going to want to make your way to the right side of the property. If you're left-handed, you go to the left. This is about the rotation of the head and how the line cuts. Once you lock this in, you stay on the perimeter pass, walk the foundation of the house, you go around the objects, and when you hit something on your right side, side. That is your breakpoint where you will get off the perimeter and you go around that object and keep moving in one fluid motion. I cannot tell you how many times I've watched a crew member finish a yard in the back, look back and say, oh man, I got to go back and re-hit that jungle gym or the tree ring back there. Now they got to walk all the way back, wasting time. Every second and every minute on every property matters. It all comes down to understanding the pattern to do it in one fluid motion. Mastering this isn't complicated, it's just understanding that rotation matters. What I always like to tell people on our team is if you're taking more than 15 steps without weed eating, there's a more efficient way. Just being honest. Figure it out. Use your brain while you guys are out there to figure out the best, most efficient way. Once you own this, you're not wasting time, you're not backtracking, you're more efficient, you're making more money per job, you're extending the life of your equipment. And most importantly, your customers are getting a quality job completed. Here's what I want you to do: drop a comment and tell me this. What's the one thing from this video that you're going to implement on your next mow? Is it the half throttle adjustment? Is it the pattern? Is it rounding out your tight corners to save you time for when you're mowing? I want to know what's going to change for you, because here's the thing, you see, most people think weed eating is just weed eating. But when you treat it like a skill set, then you build a system around it. When you teach your team the right way, that's when you stop wasting time. That's when you stop getting callbacks, and that's when you start making real money. You don't need more people on your team. You need people who are trained right with the basic fundamentals. You need the systems, you need duplication, and it all starts with teaching people to do it right the first time. Guys, thank you so much for watching. If you found value, hit the like button. And if you guys want to grow a more successful lawn and landscaping side hustle or business, make sure you are subscribed to the channel so you don't miss the videos I post twice a week. Thanks so much, have a great day.