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Experiment on Your Own Property

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

What happens here

Utilize your own property, or that of a trusted family member or friend, as a practical learning ground. For instance, if you want to learn how to build a retaining wall, build one on your property. This allows for experimentation with techniques like adjusting the batter or adding drainage aggregate without the pressure of client expectations. The speaker notes he even added a deck on top of his retaining wall to test its load-bearing capacity.

Goal: Gain hands-on experience and confidence by executing projects on personal or trusted property.

Tools and materials

  • Drainage Aggregate — Improving the drainage behind a retaining wall
  • Hand Tools — General construction and landscaping tasks
  • Retaining Wall Blocks — Building a retaining wall for practice

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a no no gravity walls max out at about 4T tall but I firmly believe that there was a way to to build these things bigger and better without geogrid because you don't always have the option of putting Grid in before I'm going to go out and do it for a customer I'm going to do it at my own house this wall was built over 10 years ago it's holding firm it's over 7 ft and all I did was change the batter on it added extra dra drainage Aggregate and then on top of it I put a deck just to add extra weight just to see if I could blow this sucker out I can't knowing that it's built the right way knowing that I can do that here I can do that for you so whatever you do whether it's at your own house or maybe a family member's house experiment get some experience under your belt and then you can start to do things for other people so let's get it let's take it to the next step let's say you live in an apartment or you don't have your own property and you can experiment what I'm going to tell you is that there are customers out there that are looking for bargain you got to be careful of these people because sometimes they're a little difficult to work with but it's also your doorway into gaining experience and let say that you have a customer that wants a bargain and you strike a deal with them you tell them very frankly very honestly I don't have a lot of experience doing this maybe you have none but you don't have to advertise yourself like that maybe youve watched some YouTube videos and practice here or there long story short you strike up a deal where they Supply the Mater materials youall install it for nothing and you're probably going W how's that running a business it's mastering the technical end of it before so this works in a lot more scenarios than you typically would expect how do you break into the excavation demolition field how do you

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