Did you know the average professional baseball player will swing his bat between 80-100mph? That’s enough to rocket a baseball through the air over 402ft! The average commercial lawnmower will spin the blades at 200mph! When these blades encounter a rock, stick or a toy laying in a client’s yard, this could cause serious bodily harm or damage to a client’s property. Whether its damage to a vinyl fence, siding, windows, cars or even a person. It could lead to large extra expense for the company. Unfortunately, we see this quite often. Even a weed eater can cause the same outcome.
Making sure your crews are doing a quick walk of the property before they start can save you a lot of money in the long run. Not only by avoiding unwanted incidents that cause property damager or bodily injury to the client, but also could save your equipment from getting damaged as well. Your commercial lawnmowers were not cheap and aren’t cheap to repair either. Repair cost are one of the major expenses in your business. Limiting these as much as possible puts money back in your pocket.
Another claim we see often is flooding due to irrigation systems. During your walk throughs of the properties, you may also find an irrigation head that doesn’t quite sit as low as it should. This could save you from hitting it with the mower. Whether it’s a damaged head, line that gets punctured or destroyed while hardscape is being put in. When that zone turns on the irrigation head still might work, but it would be losing a lot of water out of the puncture causing that area to flood. A rain sensor being damaged during trimming of trees or shrubs. This wouldn’t tell the system “It’s already been raining, or its wet don’t turn on” therefore when it does turn on it may cause flooding in a certain area of the property. Keep an eye out for these situations as well.
Take the extra few minutes to walk the property. This could save you in many ways. Making your business more profitable by not incurring additional cost. These costs to be in the form of time, labor, increased premiums, as well as repair costs to your equipment.