How much to pay a guy to cut & weed eat 1/2 acre this spring and summer (details in post)

Just winging it $60.

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I have it all completely detailed but I’m afraid y’all will think it’s too long to read.

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Please share, it's raining outside.

You asked for it.

back yard is fenced in. Have trampoline and dilapidated wood play set. flower beds go around patio and are edged with those brown metal things that have metal stakes holding them in the ground

I have 4 climbing rose vines and 2 wisteria vines on the fence just planted in the grass/ground growing up/wired to fence. They’re indestructible wild women. But will be a pain to maneuver under and around.

We have a Great Dane, so he will run into some LARGE poop, and the poor man uses a push mower. I make my sons scoop it, but they are 11 and 7, so they do everything half way— especially when it’s 100 degrees out.

The front yard is pretty easy. Flower beds are just formal straight edged across only the side wings of the house. Have the brown metal edging. There’s nothing across slightly raised brick edged front porch/Grass straight edge

straight sidewalk from porch to street. sidewalk parallel to the street. Have a short little brick edged sidewalk coming from the side of the front porch connected to a little brick edged parking spot connected to the side of the driveway. So he has to weed eat those edges.

Between the back, side and front yard combined, we have about 20 trees and large hedge type shrubs growing just straight in the grass. All young/about 12 years old. 7 are legit trees. I guess the sweet-bay magnolias are too, so 9 legit trees. The other 8 are more like 6x4 hedges. The other 3 are young crepe Myrtles (i can’t call those legit trees, but not really hedges either)

He blows the back porch, patio, courtyard, and front porch to finish.

People have told me they pay 60 dollars to get their 1/2 acre edged, cut, and blown. that doesn’t seem like enough for all that work.

I planted everything in and keep up my own beds, and planted all those trees. But I’m small so maybe it’s harder for me. I would overpay everyone who does manual labor if i could.

He’s a good hard working old school guy. nice as they come. Has a job with DOTD and cuts a few yards after work and on the weekends.

My friend told me 70? Is that fair? I feel like 80?

I have a half acre of grass with a few mulched trees, several flower beds, and edges. I pay my guy $285/mo. They come once a week from April-October and twice a month November-March. They also keep the flowerbeds weeded and trim dead leaves and growth off of plants. I prune myself but they offer that as part of their service. They are good and the owner comes by often to do quality checks on his guys. I feel like it’s fair for both of us.

Honestly, a lot of thee price depends on how picky you are and also whether they do some of your neighbors yards so they don’t have to unload more than once.

Probably best to ask him how much he wants to do the job, considering it’s an ongoing project. If it sounds fair to you,, then go ahead. If not, move on to someone else.

My cost of mow and clip a pretty simple 1/4 acre has crept up to $60 a visit done by 3 HS seniors with professional equipment. Lower would be nice.

If it can't be done with a motor, they don't do it. For knowledgeable landscape work I pay $40hr to a guy who knows more than me and needs no supervision. If he brings a helper I make it $60/hr.

In using the $40/hr figure for a skilled worker I compared his great work with similarly appreciated house cleaner who charges $40/hr.

By the time you typed all this, you could have “weedeated” half of the front yard