My name is Corey and I am from middle TN. I have had a "small" part time lawn care "hobby" for nearly fifteen years now. I started out when I was roughly 12 years old with a few small yards close to home that I mowed with a high wheel Murray push mower and my dad's Echo string trimmer. When I turned 18, I took the gift money that folks had given me for graduation and instead of running off to Florida to drink it away, I bought a 13hp 38" Cub Cadet tractor and a 5x8 tilt trailer..all of which I paid TOO much for. From this point, I picked up small yards here and there but stayed away from the larger jobs becasue I knew I did not have the equipment to handle them. In the meantime, I picked up fulltime jobs but never gave up on the mowing. Three years later, I bought my first "big" mower. a 20hp 50" Craftsman mower. Which was a piece of JUNK! I kept it about three months and had numerous warranty calls on it. I finally traded that and my first little Cub on a 18hp 48" Cub tractor. This was a great mower and I kept it until the fall of 2005 when I sold it to a co worker. You see, in the spring of 2001, I found a great deal on a barely used Woods M2560 Mow'n Machine. I bought it with only 45 hours on it and now it is close to 1000 hours. Keep in mind, I do not mow full time. I still keep a full time 40-50 hour a week job and mow on the side. The big Cub that I sold barely hda 200 hours on it. ONce I switched to the zero turn, there was no going back. And I've had very few problems with the Woods. When it comes time to buy again, I will go with the Woods again.
Over the years I eventually acquired an 18ft trailer with the racks for my trimmers and a lockable storage basket for my blowers and gas cans and such. Right now, besides my mower, I have an Agri Fab Mow'n Vac system that I use for leaves in the fall, an Agri Fab pull behind sweeper, a couple of braodcast spreaders one tow and one walk, a drop spreader that can be towed or pushed, a 30"aereator, a Snapper 6hp 21 self propelled walk behind, an Echo SRW 2601 String Trimmer, a Shindaiwa Hedge Trimmer which most folks mistake for a string trimmer because it has the motor and shaft like a string trimmer only it has the dedicated hedge trimmer head, a Cub Cadet commercial chainsaw and a Cub Cadet commercial Backpack blower which was probably the best $389 I ever spent. This thing is so light you hardly know you have it on compared to my old Echo backpack blower. I offer services of course MOWING but I trim hedges, do LIGHT tree and brush removal. Clean gutters and do leave chopping and or removal in the fall. I would love to go "full time' some day, but I just don't have the guts to give up a $30k a year job with 401k and health insurance.

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