Fall Leaf Cleanup Tips To MAXIMIZE Profits!

Are you in the lawn landscaping business? Today, we're sharing our expertise on leaf cleanups and pricing strategies to help you succeed this fall. There is a lot of money to be generated with fall cleanups, but only if you price them right!

What are some helpful tips you guys would share to help maximize profits this fall? Let us know down below in the comment section!

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[BriansLawnMaintenance]

Hope these tips were helpful as you guys bid fall cleanups!

What’s some tips you’d add to the list? Comment below!

[jronmanlawn]

Most of my weekly customers prefer multiple cleanups over one big cleanup. I usually do biweekly until all the leaves are picked up. I also mulch the leaves first before I bag everything. Mulching is a huge help. Reduces the amount of times I have to empty the bags in the mower and I can haul more leaves in the back of the truck if they are mulched. I was being able to fit 2 to 3 times more leaves if I mulched them first.

[faceinthecrowd]

I try to be fair. I work in upstate NY and we get lots of leaves. I am a one man operation and here in November it is a transition between regular mowing and total leaf clean up. My work area has town bulk leaf pick up from piles at the road, so I can use my mower with a bagger, dump them at the road and I’m not doing any haul away…..thank you Niskayuna!! My billing is a progressive scale that depends on how much time and labor a property requires but as a general rule I shoot for at least $75 per hour when I am just doing a bulk clean up not doing a full blow out of all non grass zones. Once I get into the final clean ups when all the leaves are down and I’m doing a full blow outs my hour rate goes to $100 plus. I refer back to my work journals for what I charged a customer last year to keep my business consistent yet while adding in a cost of operation increase. As a 65 year old one person work force I typically can fit like 8 properties into a work day and average $700 per day depending in how well the leaves pick up. I try not to charge my customers for how wet or dry the leaves are, after all that’s not their problem I decide when to do their properly, leave work is exhausting but now that I don’t plow anymore in the winter and ski full time instead I can recover for next spring!

[robertcondon]

Hi we are in central Massachusetts and our rates are just about the same. We price by job and add travel time into the man hours so we are getting paid to drive to a job even if it’s ten minutes away. We usually give our selfs 100$ buffer so it covers our time if the leaves are wet/ or a a lot of shrubs need to be blown out etc. I am a member of the lawn academy and your services helped me double my business this year. We grossed 175, 000 this year and I plan on leaving my town job next year so I can focus on working on the business and not in it. Thanks for everything you do brian you have changed my life. I am sure you here something like this all the time but it means a-lot to me and want to thank you.

[AmericanOutdoorServices]

Awesome job Brian! You seem very successful and congratulations on the business that’s killer! Beautiful equipment

[spencerjubert]

Just started watching your videos. Nice to hear how others in the industry are doing things. We bid our fall clean up per job based on the size of the yard, how many trees (this will let us know how much leaves will be on the ground when they eventually fall) and we include annual removal and perennial cut backs. We blow leaves into the wooded areas if they allow or if they want removed, we charge extra. Our avg all inclusive clean up cost is$400-600 per job. We run a 3 man crew and can usually get 3-4 done in a day. We also generally schedule the jobs with more trees in the yard toward the end of the season to ensure most leaves have fallen. The yards with less trees we do earlier.

[jaimeallison]

Thank you. I need to raise my prices to not undercut anybody. I was charging between $50-65/man hr with a minimum $30 dump fee

[musimowingmoreinc]

Great video Brian. We charge 125/man hour for leaves with a 2-man crew. Mainly, this is for the leaf cleqn ups. If they are mow customers, once grass stops growing here in nw arkansas, we will still run over yard only, and pu leaves to keep yard clean until all are down. Once we start cleaning out beds, that is where the man hour rate comes into play. I too charged way to cheap when starting out but now i may seem a bit pricey but as you said leaves are not easy and if i am not making money on the job then i will just move on to someone who is willing to pay for our quality of work. This year we have filled up my dump trailer about 15 times. It holds around 12 cu yards of mulched leaves per load.

[lmo]

Just purchased an 18hp Debris Loader. This video is right on time. Thank you

[schofieldlawncare]

We do our clean ups for a season kinda like residential snow plowing. We do 2-3 smaller clean ups for that price and usually give them a range for those as well, that’s the best way we found to do it. Plus we are super efficient so hourly rate wise we try to stay 130-200hr for 2 man crew or 65-100 per man.

[robertslawnservices]

I live in northern Michigan. I charge $85 a man-hour plus 120 for Leaf And small brush removal. Typical yard is 340 to 460

[davesparks]

Great video, great tips, thank you sir ! Have a great fall brother!!

[natemiller]

Thanks for the information. Really like the pricing videos.

[cleancutslawncare]

I’ve been charging 8x mowing price. Including 1 load hauled away $75 per load after. But raising prices now.

[matthewwagstaff]

Great video Brian
I am at 75 per man hour with the Ferris 3000 blower and 4-5 guys with backpacks going like a swarm of hornets ! Dump fees are extra. We do about 80 places 2 times late October - Dec in Mass.

[glendajune]

I’m sure Lawn Maintenance crews, will appreciate your tips Brian. Thanks 🙏🏾💯😀💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸

[sergiodalfonso]

I sold my business last year but we used to charge in October a leaf cleaning fee prior to mow of $50-$100 per mow and with 200 accounts it was a additional $10k per week and it basically took the same amount of time because weed wacking slowed down so the wackers would be on the windstorms blowing off
Then clean up we charged $75 per man per hour plus $150 every truck dump and a lawn cut
Extra for perennials clean up
$400 fall clean up minimum
Here in New Hampshire

[bladesofglorylawnmaintenan]

Good stuff @Brian !! Thanks brother!! Stay blessed!!

[stevenclark]

Hey Brian, great video! Couple questions. 1. Are your dump fees factored into your $175/man hr for 1st hour (based on 2 man crew), and $75 per man/per hour after? 2. You mentioned your average weekly lawn cut price was $45. What's the average lot size of these properties and how long does it take for a 2 man crew to mow these lawns? Many thanks, Steve.

[evangoshert]

Im solo in november i will charge double for my mowing customers to come biweekly blow out beds and bag leaves with my cub cadet 50 inch. Most places around here have leaf pickup so i just dump at the curb. Never really had a problem. For people who i dont mow, just charge 60 per hour plus a dump fee. This is enough for me i dont kill myself but i stay super busy and make enough to pay for my truck trailer mowers each month. I make sure i let people know my schedule depends highly upon weather if you need a specific day for it to be done i dont do the job. Wind, rain, morning dew, temps outside, all play a factor of when you stop mowing and trasition into leaves. Nobody ever gets upset and yards always look amazing. Equiptment is fairly low my mower with bagger brand new 5k, enclosed trailer 9k, new truck bought after a lease 35k. Push mowers and my john deere 375r bought off someone with 9 hours for 2500. I know this isnt the best equiptment but i can manage to get most jobs done pretty efficiently. Sometimes i do feel im in over my head on some bigger properties.