Video Transcript:

hey Mike Callahan here want to make a quick video talking about proper equipment and tracking your time for each job you do in each type of job so getting down to it a lot of times when contractors first started out or they’regrowing so fast that they don’t track what’s going on that’s when we get ourselves into trouble so one of the things here’s I’m out behind one of the loaders here it’s a box plow so a basically a backhoe he’s gonna have a different production rate versus a truck versus a skid steer versus a loader with maybe a 16 foot box or an 18 foot box so one of the things you want to make sure that it’s based on the size of the property here we have the proper sized equipment so this contractor here has my opinion the perfect size of equipment an asset allocation for this parking lot and snow removal in upstate New York so the idea of the video today is take an assessment of the properties that you’re maintaining so whether it’s lawn care snow removal home cleaning commercial cleaning we want to take a look at the size of the property and hopefully standardize our operation so almost making a cookie cutter repeatable and making our assets basically standardized as well for the maintenance and training very some of the Southwest in there Airlines but the idea today is going in and making sure we have standardized properties that were servicing and once we’ve standardized the properties we standardized the equipment allocation for that so our overhead recovery for this snow removal division here or our maintenance division in lawn care home cleaning division is a standard break-even allocation so it’s a break-even point before we make a profit fully-loaded I’m out to be standardized across that whole entire division so we can’t predictable overhead recovery predictable results for equipment that we standardized in the training with process and procedure and once that’s all built out the next important thing is to actually go out and track the time so the start and stop times that we’re seeing as well as any mobilization non-billable time we wanted to have our start and stop times non-billable mobilization associated with it then in the piece of equipment or type of equipment that we have so obviously this machine is gonna be able to be a little more productive than a pickup truck but when we get into it want to give a little more granular so is it a cleanup run is it 1 to 2 inches 2 to 4 inches 4 to 6 inches what’s the productivity on that very similar even in the cleaning industry we’re looking at a top to bottom team so that’s our first initial clean very similar to a spring or cleanup in the lawn care and stress when we get the property in check and get ready for a regular maintenance mowing or cleaning sub obviously your initial visit is gonna have a longer time to get done so we want to have production rates for the first initial visit the visit gets it ready and then a production rate for the I’m going mean it’s whether it’s lawn care snow removal or home cleaning and it snow remove obviously it’s in that season right now the initial plow line is gonna have a structure E and then the cleanup run there after getting everything after of these cars and everything move out of the parking lot that’s an additional cleanup run that we want to have it in production range so the idea is to standardize your equipment make sure using the right piece of equipment it’snot overkill but be it’s the right size so we have a production rate that is predictable we have standard equipment so we have the same training and maintenance on the equipment and then we’re going to start the stop start and stop times on all these pieces of equipment and services that we do whether it’s lawn care or home cleaning and that’s gonna get a setup for success so when we work with other businesses or even in my businesses we have a standardized production rate for whether it’s setting up customer relationship management software’s like service autopilot or going out and plowing a parking lot with a piece of equipment like this so this backhoe here with a looks about to be a 12 foot pusher on it it’s gonna have a production rate different than a pickup truck with a V plow or a pickup truck with a white out so the idea the video is to go out standardize your equipment once you do make sure that equipment is appropriate and you’re going out after the same exact kind of properties and same setup this parking lot is very similar to what we were using in Callahan’s fire is our average a lot that we’re going after and then we want to track those times for each thing so the initial plow run or the initial cleanup and home cleaning or lawn care and then the maintenance clean or mowing thereafter because they don’t have different production rates basis with that piece of equipment and if you’re in snow removal getting into it this year obviously gonna have the production rate for each set of increments of snow so up to two two four four six six to eight eight to ten and then about twelve foot beyond it’s gonna be about average based on the equipment that you’re using and then so you’re gonna have those production rates per inch increment as well as a different production rate which should be significantly faster for the cleanup run thereafter and then your salting is usually in the plowing industry about the same it’s average because we’re going out at the same average drive time and the conditions aren’t slowing us up or making us go faster so idea it’s a standardized equipment standardize your process a procedure and then standardize your training because a budgeted time production rate doesn’t mean anything if the guys and girls in the field aren’t following a process and procedure to be productive self all the Northeast freezing my backside off here so I’m gonna head back in the car but I want to make a video about standardizing equipment standardizing your process and procedure and then tracking the start sand stop times whether it’s a first time or reoccurring service we have different production rates before that so comments questions drop below