1st yr doing snow on my own.

[Ryank]

well a year later, still here, already picked up 6 new accounts, and have 6 more pending, and i turned down 2 condo complexes and an ethan allen furniture store, one condo complex was has 12 short driveways, and a main driveway, which is easy to plow, but i don't have a sander so i declined them, then the other was 54 units with parking lots to do not hard to plow, but it would require alot of attention and with only 1 truck still i declined them as well. i made plenty of money this spring, summer and fall but didn't really think about snow until 2 weeks ago, but i'm still gearing up for fall. but 98% of my calls are for snow plowing, so i'm getting a 4 accounts a week if i continue this or even get a normal amount of calls i'll be getting very selective with what types of accounts i take on. should hit my target of 50 pretty quick, i need about 25 more maybe even only 20 or 18 more i may have gotten a private driveway with 2 houses on it.

[grandview]

Back up plans?

[Ryank]

I plan to buy another truck with a fisher mm plow before we get snow if possible and another toro single stage snow blower. If i hit 50 driveways, or close to it anyways.

[Glenn Lawn Care]

That is a clean truck!

[Ryank]

thanks, i can't wait to push some snow with it, i'm changing the hydro fluid on the old plow tomorrow, and also the original chain is halfway worn through one of the links, so i'm going to swap that out as well. might pick up another shovel tomorrow too, those pusher shovels are sweet for powder even up to 7-8" i can do most front walks to the house faster by hand then i can using one of those toro single stage snowblowers which i unload by hand, alone. my snow blower sits in the truck most of my route unless i'm doing an account with long town side walks then i take the toro out and go to town. really can't wait to make over 2000 per storm on the small storms 6" or less.

[leolkfrm]

might be nice to find a good helper to ride with you ....get it done qiucker and be able to hadle on call only jobs

[Ryank]

That's the issue, everyone i've had help me with snow removal is too slow, so instead of waste 15-20hr i just hustle and do it myself, if we got a big storm around 1' or more i would bring help but for small stuff i dont save much time