How much per hour does a middle-priced landscapiing company charge

It depends where you live.

$ 20. per hour plus machine cost plus travel cost give or take. You're welcome. Any more questions .. ? John T.

I have maybe 500 to 600 sq ft to mow. I pay the guy $60 a month year round. Depending on season he may be here once, or three times.

That's a bargain. I was quoted $1/minute by my neighbor's guy. But without additional costs.

So this is not a teen-ager. It's a grown man with a lawn cutting or landscaping business? Who comes in a truck with a trailer?

Travael time?

If he only charges $60/hour, I don't care how good the guy we have is. $150/hour is either ridiculous or enough.

I want to pay my share, and I want to pay even more because the HOA needs it. I was going to leave them money in my will but if I can figure out how to give it to them now, I'll benefit from it too. But somehow I can't manage to give them more than a first-level ridiculous amount. I could pretend it takes him 4 hours a summer instead of 2,, and give them $600 instead of 300, but I can't manage to do that. OTOH, 300 out of a total 7500 bill is only 4%. I think I have more than 4% of the grass and more than 4% of the bushes. So why is he charging 7500?? Because no one is cheaper so why should he be?

The president said to pay what I want.

We changed "landscapers" 3 years ago. I got the name of the new one and I caalled him and asked, What percent of the total job is my part? He said he'd have to go look at the property again and he's by here every week or so. A month later he doesn't call back. The crew is 3 or 4 people. One day they came and I asked the foreman to have the boss call me. He doesn't call.

So it's easier to pay the HOA anyhow. Then when we change landscapers again, I wouldn't have to change what I do, other than maybe pay more. Amd a couple smaller reasons too.

That's correct.

I don't think so. I ended up not hiring him and replacing our old lawn tractor instead. We do all our own maintenance, except for felling trees. (Felling them is the easy part; it's everything that comes after the tree is on the ground that's difficult.)

None of the companies I've ever been involved with charged by the hour.

Even a dollar a minute is a lot less than the 300 dollars I was going to pay them each year. 300 would buy 5 hours of work and there is no way they spend nearly that much time.

Good for you.

I had a small tree fall on my backyard and I was able to cut it up and throw the pieces in the stream bed, 10 or 15 years ago. Some of it is still there but much of it has broken up and been washed away.

But my own tree, I was afraid to do. It could have broken a good tree on the way down, or even hit my house or the n'bors. The guy who did it climbed up and cut it off a few feet at a time.

He did a very good job, but he's the same guy who didn't call me back when I tried to hire him from Greece to mow my lawn. Even though he had advertised that he was doing mowing.

Thus making your garbage someone else's problem.

Trees fall down in the stream bed all the time. In fact this tree was growing in the stream bed and it tried to fall on my house. It was small in that it wasn't more than a foot in diameeter, but it was 30 or

If it was on your property, it's your responsibility to see to its proper disposal.

You're like those people who leave dead animals in the road in front of their house.

Micky was only trying to improve the fishery...

Somehow, I don't think that's what micky had in mind.

Bears, coyotes, eagles, and ravens gotta live too, you know. Motorcycling in August can get a bit fragrant though.

IMHO, any time an account includes the phrase, "I was able to cut it up and throw the pieces in the stream bed", you're already in a hole. It certainly doesn't sound good.

It wasn't. It was outside the fence and beyond the easement that surrounds the houses.

Or do you mean after it fell down?

And what's improper about its being in the stream bed, the part that's under water only when it floods, about once a year. It just sits there until tiny or little pieces break off and get washed to the ocean. But it's not like silt that clouds the water and makes it hard for underwater animals to breathe.

I tell people I release them to more affluent neighborhoods but actually either park or woods.

A friends house backs to a creek and if a tree falls there the county removes them.

A son's house backs to a creek and beavers built a dam and state came in and removed them. His neighbor had trees gnawed on. They can take down fairly large trees.

A friend trapped a raccoon and released it in the town forest. I think the raccoon made it back before he did. I suggested a more permanent solution but that was a non-starter.