Good afternoon, guys. Just throwing out my intro post. I live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and I am brand new to the industry. The name of my company is TRAK Construction Company (for now) and we are looking to narrow the name down into sub-categories once we get the ball rolling a bit faster. Anyways, we are brand new enough that I have officially completed two smaller jobs as of last week and am headed to quote my first large job tomorrow afternoon clearing a 25-acre section of timber. I have worked in the oilfield since I was 19 years old (currently 28) and have worked my way up to an outside sales position which is cool, but my hearts not in growing someone else's garden. I am ready to take the leap and bet on myself and land clearing has always been the dream combining my passions for equipment operation (oilfield), the outdoors, and adventure. I have a few years of entrepreneurial experience as I also own a bowstring manufacturing company. I am excited to be apart of the group and am willing to contribute any and everything I am about to learn on this journey.

Goodmorning from Oklahoma. I am just getting ready to submit my first pretty good size estimate to the customer this morning on a 20 acre woodlot they’re wanting almost completely cleared. I am curious if anyone has any pointers or examples of how they itemize and describe each line item and the amount of detail you put into it. I’m a very ocd and detailed person but I’ve also heard it can be a bad thing to break things down too much. Any help is welcomed and be honest with me where I need it! Thanks.

I'm writing to you guys about this win, because I think some of you need to hear it. You need to hear that this business is real and you can do it if you follow the plan that @Austin Gray laid out so perfectly for us. Follow it and do exactly what he says. You just need to act. Cowboy up, and start buckin. Disclaimer: I have a full-time management job in aviation, so any of this new business idea stuff has to be weekends and afternoons. So keep that in mind while you read this. 5 weeks ago, I had nothing but a plan. No machine, no mulcher, no money. Nothing. I knew i had a small bonus from work coming, so I'd use that as ad money and operating capital. But I started with nothing. But I knew I could do this. I came across OwnrOps on YouTube and started soaking everything up. And I mean I watched it all. Luckily I didn't join any fb groups first, because I probably wouldn't have taken the leap. Most of that crowd is made up of losers and dream busters anyway. I watched all of Austin's starter info and got more excited and pumped the deeper I dove. I finally messaged Austin and asked him if he thought running ads without a machine and booking jobs was a good idea to test my market and my resolve. Well... the first 3 days of running ads, I booked 3 jobs from 4 leads. I was HOOKED. It was thrilling. Here I am... no machine and I'm scheduling jobs. Crazy, right!?! 😆 I needed to see if I could prove my business case to myself, and if it was worth me going and buying a machine. I thought, well... if I can book 3 jobs in 3 days from 4 leads, I'm good to go! So I did. I got financed (easier than financing a 30k car, which was scary) and bought a machine that costs more than my first house. Nuts, right?! It was going great for the first 5 days, then boom! I got stalled by fb- I started running ads 5 weeks ago, but Facebook shut me down for 2 weeks due to card verification problems. So truly my ads have only been spending for 3 solid weeks. Since they started spending, almost everyday I've been quoting jobs after my 9-5. Sometimes 3 and 4 in an afternoon.