HOW SHOULD I CHARGE FALL LEAF REMOVAL???

I also side discharge with gator blades. Why anyone would remove leaves any other way I don't understand.

Blow them in a pile put them on a tarp empty the tarp on the trailer drive around with them then find a place to unload them

By the time you blow them into a pile I am on my way to the next yard. Just seams like a waste of time
 
In the Boston where I work and live.. it cost between $12 and $15 to dump a yard of leaves. The average lawn cost is $30...with that being said $60 feels really really low in terms of leaf removal. The properties are small and very close together which often leads to a neighbors tree/leaves blow into other neighbors yards creating an impossible prediction year to year in the amount of leaves a client might have own their property.
 
NadRash said:
In the Boston where I work and live.. it cost between $12 and $15 to dump a yard of leaves. The average lawn cost is $30...with that being said $60 feels really really low in terms of leaf removal. The properties are small and very close together which often leads to a neighbors tree/leaves blow into other neighbors yards creating an impossible prediction year to year in the amount of leaves a client might have own their property.
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What part of Boston do you live in?
As a kid I spent a lot of time in the south end. Grew up on the cape.
 
TaskForceLawnCare said:
One of the more common ( and not very good ) ways of charging for leaf removal services is to take mowing cost multiplied by two. That's a guess. Don't guess. Charge for it like you charge for any other related service, by calculating your labor hours needed to perform the service. The amount of time and effort needed to collect and remove leaves varies from property to property and can literally change from day to day.
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I'm still waiting on you to respond to my question... how do you take any account you want any time you get ready from "little guy" as you put it?
 
LoCo86 said:
Though ill advised by task force, I use the method of doubling the cost of mowing for leaf mulching and dispersion throughout the yard using gator blades. When asked to actually remove leaves(which is rare) from the property I charge by the amount of leaves collected. How much that you charge is up to you on your expenses and the amount of profit you look to make of the job. I think you're actually fishing for numbers but those numbers are up to you.
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Yeah I think Task Force is full of iLL advise
 
I got a flyer in my mailbox for a service runned by kids
I don't know them
There price is 15 an hour
It sounds good to me
Better then a big service
Should I take it
 
They work fairly fast I saw them doing someone else's yard
Only one of them follows the other kid to make sure they don't miss one leaf
I think that I should hire them
What do you think?
 
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if they are a regular customer i charge the same amount as cutting their grass.....in south alabama i dont do a lot of leaf clean up so i just look at it as a way to keep a customer......if i dont cut their yard i charge more.....2 times a year is about the most i do on leaf clean up down here....probly wont work in other parts of the country
 
I live in northeast ohio (there is no corn fields that i can see) the leaves are falling and the grass is growing
There is a lot of leaves in my yard
 
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