New ventures & an unhappy customer! (A Week In The Life Of A Landscape Gardener EP01) 

There seems to be a lot of good advice coming your way and you take it as criticism. You put yourself out there on this platform representing the gardening community and yes you are different with your approach and entertaining, but remember everything you say and do is documented for your customers to see and potential customers to view. Wandering around filming topless with workers with their tops off is just not a good look and not professional as a lot of people have told you. You are young and enthusiastic which is great and everyone wants you to succeed but take good advice from people that have been in the game a lot longer than you. Looking at this video I personally would not hire you to come and replace my fence. If you were all in t shirts with your company name on them and not topless with old jogging pants on then I would give you the chance to quote. If you want to push this business forward a more professional approach would be my advice. Sorry for the negatives but it’s ADVICE not CRITICISM 👍

@@tiffpickford9722totally agree with you…it gives off the wrong image completely and makes you look both unprofessional and a bit yobo like. As you say to drive the business forward and get people to take you seriously and be confident in you have some polo tops with your logo on…makes such a difference and cheap to do.

@@pablo9364he represents the gardening trade like I do and many others

@@pablo9364 I don't think anything, I'm 59 and been in the game for years just commenting on what I see " simple "

Look into collared t shirts and logo’d hats. Looks more professional and will protect you from the sun. Go for a point of difference with other gardeners

I agree but I'm not changing myself for a client. I've said it before, I'm as real as they come. What you see is what you get and 99% if people respect that.

​@@bartoni79 Personally I like plain black crew neck Nike dri fit vests for the summer , these are a performance brethable polyester and farr more comfortable than cotton t shirts etc. When it's cooler or when strimming I wear lightweight merino wool sleeved t shirts. I've always found the traditional fabrics options from embroidery firms to be farr too sweaty. Again for autumn and winter I wear merino wool zipped jumpers, naturally waterproof and really brethable, if you get wet or hot they dry rather than Coton hooded tops that stay wet and make you cold. I've never really bothered with a uniform as sutch just a plain dark coloured top and work trousers or shorts.

​@@HDGardenCare as real as a fart in the wind you little balding weirdo

I agree with you there!

Thanks for the comment but if its hot my t is off and i allow my boys to do the same! Thanks for the comment.

I'm not going to be spoke to like shit when I'm doing everything in my control to sort the issue out... end of!

Not really rude to tell someone you don't appreciate them being rude to you lol he was obviously a little stressed out at the time which is human nature but he calmed down and did what he could to rectify it

@HDGardenCare Yes I agree with ya Harley but this is where a text is better somehow. So you're not reacting "in the moment"

Thanks for your comment and thanks for your input mate. I'm always trying to improve or take this advice on board.

I kept my cool. However, I just didn't appreciate the way in which I was spoken to. It costs nothing to have a bit of respect. The term "treat people how you want to be treated" comes to mind.

I guess that's one way of doing it, but I don't believe letting the phone ring is good businessmanship. As I look at it as that phone ringing Is money calling 😎

You're definitely right there mate. I could not agree more with this comment.

I know all waste is paid to get rid off and taken to a waste transfer station, not a government ran tip. I wouldn't be allowed in there anyway

Well I mean, you must think differently then make I do not see a problem with it at all! Moving forward because of all these comments saying, the same thing. I will ask the customer for permission 😂

I do indeed, no ppe is down to the worker it's in the van for then to use I say this before anytool fire up, everyone got ppe. Obviously you don't see or hear this and it's shit content!

@HDGardenCare Any potential customers looking at your uploads, watching how you guys work probably wouldn't think it's shit content. They'd probably think that your a professional business for including it in your videos...

You not wrong there every time I've had a skip big lorrie is broken!

I try not to, but sometimes it can be u exsperted!

Thanks!

Thank you very much for your input. However I. M going to find a way I don't believe anything is impossible. I do understand there are some challenges and logistical problems. I will have to overcome it, but I think I can do it. Thanks for the comment.

A breaker is something I'll invest in as the time comes and as I exspand.

@HDGardenCare if you buy one get a hydraulic breaker rather than an electric one. Jcb beaver or atlas copco lp9-20p. No extension leads or transformers and will shatter out posts. Jcb beaver breakers come up regularly on ebay so get a decent used one £800 - £1000 for a good working non stolen one. If you get posts set with proper concrete rather than postcrete the kango breakers really struggle and it can really slow the job. Hire on a hydralic breaker is £70 ish so try one on your next job and charge it in, easier than paying a labourer to break the concrete out manually.

Silver line electric break from screw fox aboutb£180 is brilliant, we bought one in 2012/13 still going strong today it’s done countless fence jobs and breaking up areas we were bldigging, I’d go that route rather than dropping 800-1000 as you may find you stick more on maintenance and fencing as and when vs out and out landscaping, as your relatively new, when we set up we were like you doing anything maintenance and landscaping but we moved away from it as heavy hard work and maintenance repeats itself and we still do fencing a few times each yr it’s a nice balance so I’d be tempted on the silver line, we d buy again , I’d say it’s done up 200 man hours in ten years give or take that’s a lot of work for £180

Yeah, they seem to drop them off. Alright, but when it comes to collecting them and actually processing the waste, they never seem to wanna do it.

Thanks mate ill definitely keep pushing on as much as I can!

You hit the nail on the head I could not agree more!.

You are entitled to your opinion. I would go as far as to say u was slanging a customer off. I just wanted to be spoken to with some respect.

Yes, a grab may be the best move with future projects. However, I did ring around, and it worked out more expensive! Maybe I should try to ring another few firms as I only called 2 local grab companies. I always outline in text any phone calls or in person conversations. This cover price, etc, to protect myself against anything. That's all I was asking for was abit of respect. You completely right you treat people how you want to be treated.

@@HDGardenCare with grabs the price will vary depending on were they are based, also I have found just as with plant hire the more you use a firm the better pricing and service you get offered. Once you build up a bit of trust they are usually good.

Fantastic comment and no at the current time. But I may go back and put some on to perfect it.

Thank you bro 🙏

Weight dependent..

Well, I have a new lad by my side now. I think we ll make a really, really good duo and miles will still be about for the times were the bigger jobs are on.

Top man!

Im fuckin shreddies bro are you mad

Yeah you are right about the age and at 42 you should know better than encourage them,but experience says that customers shouldn’t have to put up with someone who is in their garden with their top off. I have spoken with quite few people manly women and they said they would rather they kept covered up. You don’t see postmen topless, delivery drivers or window cleaners. They may have youth on their side but a lot of growing up to do.

@tiffpickford9722 You're entitled to your opinion. I don't wholly disagree but I still maintain they are young and have the bodies for it and I think most customers would give them the benefit of the doubt even if they were disturbed by it given their age. You see some other trades do it, scaffs, bricklayers, it can be hot work.

@@neilhatton6018 I suppose they are young and probably more like bricklayers and scaffolders. I just think that gardeners are different to other trades. All gardeners I know don’t work with tops off and they are all age groups. We will just have to agree to disagree over this 👍

@tiffpickford9722 Yeah course. I'm not into keyboard warrior bouts 😅 But ya know, I'm a damned heathen, I'd work topless if I had the physique that's the only reason I don't, because I'm not a Greek adonis, no other reason 😅