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How to go from LawnCare to Landscaping, Excavating and Demolition jobs

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Apply the 'start small and grow' principle to specialized services like excavation and demolition. Begin with smaller projects such as digging additions, leveling a yard, or demolishing a small garage. As you master each level, gradually move up to larger, more complex tasks like digging full basements, demolishing small houses, and eventually commercial buildings. Continue to experiment on your own property or for willing clients at reduced costs to perfect your skills.

Goal: Gradually acquire and master specialized skills in excavation and demolition by scaling project complexity.

Tools and materials

  • Skid Steer — Excavation and plowing practice

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a big house okay I got a big house down now I'm knocking down car washes commercial buildings and structures so you build your way up you can go from lawn maintenance to that now let's go back to what I was talking about experimenting do you think experimenting ever stops look at my yard it's horrible I own a lawn maintenance company this drives me flipping insane but I've got to have weeds growing before I can try out new herbicides I can't go out and try new things on a customer's lawn so there's my la all weeded up driving me nuts I can't wait to start applying chemicals to this thing and experimenting and that's how I do it I still do it to this day if there's something I don't know I'm not going to go out in Jack and Jill's property where they're expecting results guaranteed and charge them for it unless I know that it works in my own yard and I know when I go out to talk to Jack and Jill and I can say hey look guys within 24 hours you should see noticeable results or maybe I got to say 40 48 hours cuz I want to I want to pre-answer any questions I want to preempt them from having issues so I can uh solve those problems so to go from lawnscaping to Landscaping to excavation to demolition requires you to master it on a small scale and each step of the way you may have to work for free you may end up bidding jobs where you don't make any money on that job that doesn't mean the next job you bid it a little higher and more confidently the next job you bid it higher and even more more confidently from there that's how you grow you start small and you keep adding skills into your roster okay once you've mastered all the various things then you stop being a technician then you start focusing on the business end of it which is a completely different set of skills I don't mean to overwhelm you but you do need to be aware of it you do need to at some point then change your mind but we are talking about being a 13 14 15 year old or a 34 40 or 50y old that's never done this before you want to get into this business that's how you do it you start small if you can experiment on your own property like I do awesome if you can't negotiate with somebody that you know strike up a deal do the work form once or twice at cost and then

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