son starting a neighborhood business

[omep1951]

my son will be 15 next year and i've encouraged him to start his own lawn service in the neighborhood. i have a 52" bunton that i bought new 25 years ago. i repowered it this year and put many new parts on for less than $800.00. Also have a toro trimmer that works great and recently purchased a new echo 403 blower on ebay for less than $200. so i can start him on his way for less than $1k! i'm trying to establish fair prices for him to present to prospects and from what i've been reading--$25-35 sounds about right for a lawn that'll take about 25 minutes to cut (all less than 1/2 acre and mostly level). i'm confident that'll he'll land 4-8 jobs. he won't have a trailer as he'll be walking behind he mower on his rounds. any suggestions on pricing and how he might transport his stuff?

thanks

[Phil Nilsson]

I think you need to be 18 to operate machinery ... legally?

[highlander316]

I used to have an old bobcat 36" w/b when I was 15 that I used to walk around my neighborhoood. I just bungie-strapped everything too it. Worked for a couple years till I decided to stopped messing around and bought a truck.

[GrassMaster]

What about?

A sulky & maybe even a little trailer, let it pull him to where he's going if it's going to be in the Hood?

If it's one of the Old 52" bunton's it could probably pull up tree stumps?

[hardboiled]

I've seen brackets by a company called GridIron, I think, that will hold a trimmer on a walkbehind. A student in my neighborhood just makes two trips to each house on the block that he does. Once around with the w/b and again with the 21" and trimmer.

[Fairbanks]

make a little wooden trailer and tranform it into a bike trailer for the little 21 speed bike. thats how i first started, pretty hard when you live in a town known for the hills , sounds like you got a flat area, i live in Haverhill :P