Will Kelly explains why lawn crews waste time cutting a strip early then backtracking over mowed grass. Instead, leave that final strip untouched and mow it last on the way out. One small change saves steps, time, and money.
I'm not sure if you guys can see this strip of grass here, but oftentimes what I see is if you look, the gate's back there. So what I see happen sometimes is new team members will come out and they'll be mowing down here and they'll cut this fresh strip, and there's one strip left right here that hasn't been mowed. And what happens is instead of going into the backyard there, because they know they got to come this way anyway to get back to the truck— truck's over there— they'll, they'll turn around back there and cut this strip to cut this whole section. But then what happens is Now they have to turn around and walk all the way to the backyard, to the back gate, re-cutting grass that has already been cut. You're wasting time, you're wasting steps doing that. And so instead, if you have one strip left, just leave it for on the way out. While you're over there by the gate, enter the gate, do your 3 perimeter passes, go ahead and start striping, and then on the way out when you're finished, you'll hit this strip. It's the most fastest efficient way to keep quality and continue to make the customers happy and make you more money.
