The Business of Mowing: Case Studies
In years past, Landscapes USA had to hire several employees to handle all the steep-slope work the company had – if they could even get the labor. He said finding the labor has always been difficult but, now, they can send one employee with the remote-operated robotic mower to get all their slope jobs done instead of an entire crew.
For Lanracorp, a leader in pipeline and utility maintenance, taking care of the steep terrain that makes up the grounds of their refinery customers was an arduous job that required up to seven employees putting in hours of hard work to manually cut 30-degree slopes with weed trimmers.
So, when Lanracorp Operations Supervisor Brent Hoerig began searching for a solution, he was thrilled to find a mower that would allow him to cut the number of employees needed for one job from seven to two and a half.
“RC Mowers has enabled us to save tens of thousands of dollars in labor costs, added Jeremy Comer. “It also gives us more opportunity to do the longer-term work.” “In the past, when we had to tell our employees that they would be using string trimmers for two weeks, or that they would have to run mowers on hillsides for two weeks straight, they would dread it,” said Jeremy. “The RC Mowers remote-operated robotic mower makes it so much more fun for them. They just stand there and operate the remote.”
Though Pro Cutter Lawnscapers of Georgia was well-equipped to handle large-scale lawn care and mowing contracts, their contract for the maintenance and beautification of over 900 GA retention ponds pushed them beyond the capacity of their existing fleet of machines. After purchasing RC Mowers’ remote-operated TK-52XP tracked slope mower, they have reduced their slope-mowing crews by half, and now utilize that time and those team members to complete other mowing jobs.