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I have a very very active spring and summer, so much so that I booked out most of the Fall before summer was even over. Now I'm trying to book up just a few more weeks before winter hits and Facebook ads are returning much less leads and less of them are turning into actual jobs I talked to three other guys running mulchers in my vicinity and they're all seeing the same thing, downturn that seems to have started in August. Anybody else seeing anything similar?

Is there another app that is better than on X hunt for on site?

Hey everyone. It's been a full week and a half, and we're doing it with a newborn in the house, so I'm pretty happy with how much got done. The biggest thing was filming. We shot our first batch of content, 15 clips, and I honestly couldn't have done it without my wife Kate. She held the camera, reset takes, and kept me on script on very little sleep. Watching the raw footage get turned into finished posts was a good feeling. It made the whole thing feel real. I also settled on a simple rule: whatever I film this month fills next month. That way, if a shoot gets bumped by a rough night with the baby, nothing falls apart. Everything still gets queued for me to approve in one weekly batch, so nothing posts under my name without my eyes on it. I also have to thank this group for the suggestion to get the base of a social media presence out there before the actual launch, when we start running paid ads. By the time the ads start, there will already be a real feed behind them. The website goes live in November too, so the two will launch together. The other decision was the CDL, I'll take an accelerated behind-the-wheel course in Texas in December while we're visiting my wife's family, then take the NH test. I also built out how we'll track every customer, from the first call through the finished job, following much of the advice of Austins trainings. Each customer gets their own folder, and call transcripts and site-visit notes get filed into it automatically, so nothing slips through.

Hello everybody, what a joy and blessing it is to be a part of this group and witness so many testimonies of lives being changed by growing great businesses. Thank you to Austin and all the time and effort he has poured into us all. The fruits show. I started building a website for fire mitigation January 27th of 2025. After a year of humming and hawing and beating back the what if's I found Ownr Ops. In the spring of 2026, I finally launched the website, found insurance, and built a google business profile. My first booked job was May 7th. Since May of 2026 I have quoted $170,917 of residential/homeowner work and 1 corporate quote of $575,000. Of the residential/homeowner work I have closed $67,297 for a 57% close rate. The corporate quote never reached back out after many attempts lol. I do run Facebook ads but much of my work has been through my website and google profile. Half of the jobs have been fire mitigation by hand, and I have had some mulcher work as well. I currently rent all of my equipment I use other than my truck, trailers, and chainsaws. It's been a blast and I have been able to complete this all while still working my W2. Thank you, Austin, for showing that an average joe can do this and be successful while providing amazing work to customers. Now for equipment questions. I am currently building a quote for a customer on 120 acres 40 of which we will complete in phase 1. Lots of dead and down timber and small aspen groves to be removed. We will be working on anywhere from a 10-30% slope. I really do not want to be running a compact skid loader on 20+% slope so am looking into renting an FAE PT175 to run the slopes. Does anybody have experience running one of these larger machines that you can tie off to trees on slope? The other option would be to run a tracked chipper and excavator to pull out all the down timber and chip on site above or below the slope, does anybody have experience purchasing one of these tracked chipper and their capability on slope? My final thought would be to potentially purchase an older skidder to pull out the downed timber using chokers and grapple the timber it can drive to. This all feels a little over my ability but the only way to learn and grow is to figure it out and money is made in the problem solving. Thanks in advance for any input!