Van fitout as mobile workshop - what tools required, how to best approach this?

**shedhappens** · 8th July 2013, 01:46 AM

"For anyone curious about what I'll be doing - basically lawn mowing/garden maintenance."

During the grass growing session if you are doing domestic lawns, you would fill a 5 X 7 trailer each day with grass cuttings as most people want them taken away.
Tree pruning's also need to be removed and the list goes on, you will need a trailer and there is no way of avoiding it if you want to get work in this field.
I have worked in 3 mower shops and have also owned a mower shop, a big proportion of my work was for mowing contractors, ranging from the old guy type that had a victa push mower and a ryobi whipper schnaper to the more commercial mowing mobs that used large equipment, they all had trailers or tray trucks, the contractors that had a van also had a trailer.
You won't get much of a ride on mower in the back of a van.

go big, get gov tenders, buy new, use the banks doe, get your chemical applicators license, good luck

**mugget** · 8th July 2013, 09:15 AM

You're right about the clippings, I also heard of a guy who bought a 3.5t truck when he started out, just so he could carry more clippings - and he was domestic only! Taking clippings to the dump... what a drag!

But that's the secret - there won't even be any lawn clippings to cart away.

I haven't gone into the details yet, but I believe it's a commercial mulcher mower that my mate uses (may be an old model that he just keeps running), and it completely pulverises the grass and has something like an extra set of fan blades that forces the dust back into the lawn - there's no visible clippings to clean up! I believe it doesn't even have an option for a catcher. It must work fairly well because he keeps mowing in the rain as well, wet lawn doesn't affect it's operation.

The plan I'm going with is to just keep it small, domestic only. Working by myself I will stay under the GST threshold so my rates will be competitive.

But good to know there's someone here who knows about all that kind of mowing gear.

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