remember this video is for people who are starting out in garden maintenance looking
at buying their first machines for their business so you may be asking what credentials have i got
to be able to give you this advice well we're an award-winning garden machinery dealership
guard machinery dealer of the year in 2015 and overall deal of the year in 2021 i also ran
a garden landscaping maintenance company prior to starting this business also got a sitting guilds
in horticulture so hopefully there's enough for you to be able to give you the advice that you
need for what machines you need so the options and brands and different types of machinery
that are available are vast so hopefully this will give you some insight into what you need
the first one so no matter what machine what brand or what machines you choose at some point
they will all break down it's inevitable i built a business on it everyone will give you different
advice on what machines to buy just make sure it is the right machine for you and for your budget
so important please make sure you buy machines from a reputable retailer someone who can back
up the product for you it's so important just remember you've got to earn money from these
machines so it's important to be able to get all of the spares and a good backup support
to boot so in this video we're going to talk you through ten machines the first five are your core
five machines that you're going to need as a gardener the other five you can buy gradually
as you grow your business probably the biggest question in the garden maintenance industry is
whether you go for a petrol powered machine or a battery-powered machine and it's pretty much down
to your personal preference of which you want to go for but for an example if you went for battery
power you've got that initial investment of enough batteries to run your business from whereas with
a petrol machinery you're going to have higher servicing and maintenance costs so it's a bit of
a catch-22 which one you want to go to but like i said it's down to your personal preference let's
move on and see what the first machine category is going to be so let's start with the most important
one for gardner the lawn mower yes nice and simple to start with there's lots of different ones out
there there's mulches there's roller mowers there's rotary mowers there's cylinder mowers
and it's like ah which one should i go for in my preference you want to just go for a nice simple
wheeled rotary mower but also a self-propelled one so you're not pushing it around all the time the
best mirror i can think of on the market to start out with would be the wee bang 50 svp it's a 20
inch wide machine it does everything you're going to need to do it to start with it's well made
spare parts backups fantastic and it's a machine which is actually commercially rated but still at
a very affordable price if i go down the battery route i'll go for the ego range something like the
lm2135 lovely mower 21 inch cut you can put the bigger batteries in it so you can go for longer
as well it's a nice nice machine and it's robust and suitable for what you want to do let's move
on to the next so you've got the lawn mower now you're going to need a strimmer rather than just
buying a strimmer and that you're just starting out and garden maintenance it might be worth
looking a little bit further towards a multi-tool because at multi-tool you can have the streamer
attachment for it but you can also have the hedge trimmer attachment you can have the edger
attachment you have lots of different attachments you can put onto it so rather than having lots of
different tools you can just go for one engine unit and then all the different attachments that
go with it again the possibilities are endless for it but if you go down the petrol route my
advice would probably be the still range the still km94 beautiful lens unit nice and lightweight so
it's not just good for streaming but if you're holding up in the air for hedge trimming
it's really really lightweight and much easier to use going down the battery route i probably
go for the ego the ego being the 2002 model which is great it comes as a kit with the strimmer the
hedge trimmer the edger that pole pruner and it just comes with everything you're going to need
to be able to do what you need to do commercially as a gardener it's really robust i actually
personally use the ego multi-tool myself for my own personal garden let's move on to the next one
so we've covered lawn mowing streaming long reach head streaming pole pruning with all of those
tools ready what are you going to do to clear everything up with well you need a leaf blower
and i'll be straight to the point here petrol done i wouldn't even dream of buying a petrol
leaf blower these days the battery ones are that good i absolutely adore them there's lots
of good ones on the market again my personal favorite when it comes to battery leaf blowing
is the ego yes the ego one is just wonderful i really really like it it's a good strong machine
and it's got some nice features on it that others haven't so definitely an ego battery blower for
that choice there let's move on to the next one so you've got the long reach hedge trimming sorted
with the multi tool but the long reach headstring is great for the tight hedges the high sides but
when you come down to the more delicate smaller work lower down you definitely need a handheld
hedge trimmer and the petrol one that i absolutely love and has been proved to us time and time again
is the husqvarna 122 hd60 it's a fantastic hedge trimmer it's well protected because when
you're in a hedge and there's lots of brambles or something like going on and there's nothing there
on the outside that's going to get caught on it's really well protected it's a good hedge from a 60
centimeter blade highly recommend it really nice trimmer if i was to go for a battery one again
i'd go for an ego eager got several different ones in the range but the ht 5100 is an absolute
star of the show really really nice hedge trimmer twisty back handle nicely weighted nice length to
it it works really really well right so let's move on to the next one right so number five might not
be for everyone but it's something that i would definitely consider if you're going gardening
and that is a small chainsaw there's so many small chainsaws on the market there well there's there's
more bad chainsaws on the market there's good chainsaws you've either got to go for hus farmer
or steel there's no questions about it there's no other options they are the best of the best for
the spare parts backup the most reliable and also the residual value it's another thing you've got
to consider is when you buy these tools now let's say in one two three four five years time you want
to sell them and upgrade or perhaps you don't do gardening anymore and you want to sell them then
the husqvarna still equipment is going to have a really good residual value so you're going to be
able to sell them at a good price so for a small chainsaw i'd either recommend the husqvarna 120
or the still ms-170 two lovely little petrol saws i couldn't tell you which one i preferred
to be quite honest because they're both superb then if you were going down the battery route
i'd probably also look at the savannah or still ego also do a battery chainsaw just for jobbing
around the garden absolutely perfect my preference would either be the husqvarna or the still when
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and put a comment in one of our videos so that is your top five core machines you're going to need
to start a garden maintenance business it's nice and simple nice and thin get them in the back of a
van or even into a car to be able to take things around but let's say you want to take it up a
level let's say you've been doing it 12 months and you want to grow the business to other levels or
other opportunities or customers ask you to do a specific job that you don't have the machine for
let's look at the next five machines that you can purchase to extend your business so the obvious
first choice might be a ride on lawn mower yet be able to do those bigger areas those bigger
gardens take care of your customers orchards and things like that because you know pushing
a rotary mower around which is only 21 inch around a large acre garden it's going to take a long time
so having a ride on will probably allow you to do a little bit more work within that day
adding value to your time what ride-ons would we suggest well there's again massive amounts
of machines out there but i probably recommend a zero turn for a gardener for the simple reason
you can do the smaller areas with your rotary collecting mower and then you can do
your large area mowing with your zero turn either throwing out the side or mulching with it
collecting on a ride-on level commercially probably isn't the best option you can but
you've got to spend a lot of money to be able to get to collecting commercial rideal members
so my personal preference for a job in gardner going around as a self-employed person would be
the cub cadet xz5 ride-on it's a beautiful machine it's a nice wide cut it's robust
but the most important thing is the warranty that they back it up with the cub cadet warranties are
probably the best on the market when it comes to zero turns if i was going to go down the battery
route there isn't something shall i say properly commercial out there on an affordable level as yet
but ego have now brought out their battery zero turn machine which if you were owner operator and
you were using it you were loading it into your trailers and taking it around to gardens and you
were looking after it i think it'd be absolutely fine but if you've got staff who are jumping on
and off and lots of different people using i probably wouldn't say the eager one is quite
there yet americans have now this year having the next level up with that zero turn so hopefully
we'll see that soon but we haven't got it yet so to round that up i definitely recommend a zero ton
ride on mower either petrol or or possibly battery if it suits you let's move on to the next one
so a job that you're going to get asked to do by customers a lot more than you expect is scarifying
and aeration yes it's one of those jobs which you think i have not that many people will go for it
but we were always really surprised how many people wanted it done once you talk to the
customer about the process that can be done on that it's a great little seller and there's a
lot of lawn mower drivers out there but there's not that many gardeners with scarifiers that's
definitely one to consider when you want to grow your biggest business we've done a video
previously on scarifying and aeration with the wee bang range the wee bang scarifier and the aerator
absolutely beautiful machines and definitely worth considering when you're looking at
purchasing let's move on to the next one so with your multi-tool you've got a streamer just for
going around the edges of gardens and doing light grass but let's say again you want to
do a bit heavier streaming one of your customers has asked say look i've got this big brambly area
i need to control it and your streamer isn't quite up to it you're going to get a larger brush cutter
well looking down the battery route then perhaps a ego bc 3800 would be the tool for you it's a
good strong robust machine it'll run all the ego batteries that you've already got but if you want
to go for something big and bulky then petrol is probably still the way let's say something
in the 500 series of husqvarna or with the 400 series from stills like a fs46 that would be a
great strimmer as a big bertha to be able to get those big tough jobs sorted let's move on to the
next one so it's all very well having all these machines that you're gonna you know take over
the world in the garden maintenance industry but you're going to need something to put them in yes
you need a trailer and what trailer are we going to recommend well it's probably a nugent general
purpose because it's a nice cost effective trailer it's got a really low ride height so
ideal for ride on mowers the ramp on the back to be able to drive it in without being too steep
absolutely perfect to put your zero turn in yes you can put mesh sides on it you have internal
load lashes so you can put all your garden waste in there as well so say you've done a clearing job
one of your customers where you've chopped down a load of branches and you need to take it away well
you've got your trailer you just chuck it all in it and take it home brilliant idea nugent trailer
all the way let's move on to the next one so the final must-have machine for any jobbing gardener
or self-employed maintenance person would be a chipper shredder yes something you can
chuck the waste through and chop it all up either for the garden itself as mulch or to put on the
beds and things or to take away to be able to dispose of it yes tree surgeons have great big
ones on tracks and towable behind their vans to be able to you know chop that up and have
a high throughput what that aren't a great deal of is gardeners having narrow access ones to go
through doorways and the one that i'd recommend and one i have personally would be the elite
major it's an absolute fantastic machine which will take up to about 40 45 millimeters of waste
and also green waste so you can put through your brambles and your conor bits and everything like
that to go through it and it will just eat it all up and chop it all up for you so really highly
recommend that there aren't any decent battery ones on the market as yet but you never know
what's around the corner you know what i mean yeah we'll find out soon hopefully stay tuned for that
so that is our 10 top machines that you need as a job in gardener or as a garden maintenance person
there's lots of other alternatives but that's our advice what you'd need to be able to set up
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it into our basket so you can see how much it costs you to set up it'd be a great selection
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