30 Day Leaderboard roll call 👇 We’re halfway through May… how are you tracking? Drop your update in the comments: - Jobs booked so far: - Revenue collected so far: - Biggest win this month: Tagging the current 30 Day leaderboard crew: @Josh Reaper @Frank Steiner @Jake Starr @Russell Carraway @Kurt Sarkela @James Louros @Jt Mahon @Scott Helms @Chris Green

I have a one day $2400 job scheduled for next week on Wednesday, the problem is it’s six hours away from where I have to pick up my drum mulcher and my rental skid steer, so I may end up having to rent the skid steer for two days. I have another customer near where I pick up the skid steer who declined my bid for an $1800 job, but I think he was close to approving, if I could lower the price on that job because I already have the skid steer rented for the other job should I go back with a counter offer or is that not something that we should ever do? I am quoting a third job that is near where I pick up the equipment tomorrow, it is a 500 foot logging road and then a acre of 10 foot tall blackberries and small alder and Willow and the owner wants everything smaller than 3 inches cleared. Ground is fairly level 5% slope. I was probably going to quote that at around $2500 as a day and a half of work. So my only fixed expense isthe skid steer rental is $300 per day (up to eight hours of machine time) or $1250 for a week, (seven days - up to 40 hours of machine time). I own the mulching head and the trailer. Of course I have all the additional overhead of fuel and insurance and maintenance costs on my truck and stuff, but I’m keeping those out of the picture for now. If I could get back the job that was declined and add this new job that I’m doing the site walk for tomorrow, and rent the machine for a week I think I would come out ahead overall, and it would be less stressful to have to do the turnaround with a 12 hours of driving to complete the one signed job on Wednesday. Attached photos showing the WET western Washington jobs with alder and blackberry (declined and quoting tomorrow) and the dry eastern Washington fire prevention jobs with mountain willow and small pine and fir trees (contract signed planned for Wednesday). Thoughts?

These two jobs taught me valuable lessons (first hand). Worth a lot more than the ~$5,000 in time/wear/broken teeth cost me. Fortunately, I used the crew day pricing tool and bid them ok even with the losses. Both jobs ended well and the land owners loved the result, it just cost time and frustration on my end. Rocky land is a lot harder on equipment than first thought. It threatens to remove your tracks at every turn (literally). I had to slow production from 1.5 acre/day to .75-1 acre/day. Ten seconds of inattention and my 275 walked out of a track (thought I had everything to put it back on but spent 2 hours chasing the right tools, stubby bottle jack and 6' pry bars). Even going slow and skimming most of the ground I knocked out two teeth (carbide) in the last hour of the job. The Douglas Hawthorn (thorn tree) is a beast. The mulcher rips foot long strips instead of chips. It bogs the head constantly, slowing production to 0.5 acres/day. It hides how big it is with wide spreading branches that cover a 30' diameter shielding from view the eight or nine trunks lurking inside,scheming to steal your time. I have now updated my estimate algorithm to include a "surcharge" for rocky ground and or thorn trees. Thorn trees will get knives instead of carbide. Hopefully that will increase production rate and the charge will cover the swapping of teeth.

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2nd Week Business Update! TL:DR Metrics Ad Spend $400.67 Leads total - 18 CPL - $30.12 Closed - 4 Sales - $8,300 🙏✨️ Potential Client of 40 Acres And my current client waiting for me to do the 1 Acre job before giving me his 9 acre property to do! Long story short, by the grace of God I quit my job today. I promised them I'll finish my 12 hr shift and I resigned. I love the people I worked with, I really do. But I love my family more and I had shifts that switched to days then evenings then back to days and it seemed very unstable for my family's schedule. Also I have made more money for my family in 2 weeks worth of business than a job has ever given me! The goal now is to reach capacity where I can focus on my next 3 steps: 1. Buy basic equipment (chain saw, cutter, chipper) + rent forestry mulcher 2. Work 4 days and have 1 day estimates / admin 3. Buy the forestry mulcher (Kubota + loftness) Ive been so dependent on the Lord these past 2 weeks of business because he has really showed me his Glory and his greatness time after time and I needed to see him work in this in my weakness, and as always he shows up! Praise the Lord oh My Soul! How did quitting your job go over when you jumped full time? And how was the change?