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11-06-2006, 05:20 PM
Nilsson's Labor Time Data Handbook
by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)

For:
Landscaping Contractors
Lawn Care Service Providers
Parks & Recreation Managers
Grounds Superintendants
Real Estate Managers
Public & Private School Grounds
Hotels - Motels - Resorts Maintenance
College & University Campus Grounds Maintainers
Corporate Grounds Facility Managers
Military Base Roads & Grounds Facility Managers
Facility Managers - Parks & Grounds Maintenance
Amusement Theme Parks Upkeep
Cemetery Facilities & Grounds Maintenance
Mowers
Campus Grounds & Roads
Snow Removal & Plowing
Facility Grounds Maintenance
Sports & Parks - Recreation Turf Field Managers
Airport Facility Grounds Managers
State & National Parks
Public & Private Schools, Parks, Facilities
Sports Turf for Public & Private Parks
Campgrounds & Parks & Recreation Facilities
Budget Equipment Requirements - Park Departments

Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating and calculating labor time man hours for facility managers, parks and recreation departments, campus grounds, schools and university grounds. Bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance by contractors and facility managers, parks, campus grounds functions and sports complex maintenance. For Green Industry Job Bidding, Pricing, Profits, Estimating Irrigation and Hardscape Jobs and for use in non-profit situations where budgeting labor hours, scheduling the work and determining total employee production man hours is desired.
These methods of collecting information was the basis for creating my Labor Time Data Handbook of Standard Work Times of man hours needed to perform the work. Included in my time study was all sorts of grounds maintenance and landscaping installation tasks and work that is normally done by landscaping and lawn care service companies. I timed things like Mowing, edging, trimming, pruning, snow plowing, ice control, tree planting, mulch, aeration, slit seeding, shrub beds, hardscapes, blowing leaves, lawn chemical applications, spring and fall cleanups, seed, installing sod, water gardening, flowers, and over 500 common job tasks to numerous to mention. I timed the different work tasks using many different types and sizes of power equipment was used during the timing trials for edger, trimmers, riding mower, walkbehind, weed eater, tractor, ztr, chainsaws, loaders, trucks, trailers, sprayers, hydroseeders, spreaders and the usual equipment of running a green industry company.

How to order
Labor Time Data Handbook
Written by Nilsson Associates
Book # A-7, Price $69.50
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#)
To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

More information about Nilsson's Labor Time Data Handbook ...
For Grounds Maintenance and Landscape Management & Installation Work shows How Long The Jobs Will Take based on time studies of the work under various conditions including weather, day of week, working conditions and factors that improve or decrease labor efficiency. Labor Time Data Handbook #1 Best Seller for Job Hours Estimating, by individual work task for Lawn Bids, Lawn Care Service & Commercial Landscape Business Contractors, Commercial & Residential sites of any size acreage. Also useful to Parks & Recreation Grounds Maintenance Departments, Schools, Playground Maintenance, Facility Grounds Managers For: Lawn Care & Landscape Business Maintenance Estimates, Commercial Landscaper bids for cost comparisons, Lawn Maintenance Operators who Bid: Lawns, Bid Chemical Programs, Bid Lawn Renovations & seeding, Campus Lawns & Grounds Managers and industrial cost and labor accountng applications as well as public bid labor cost and job cost expectations. The labor time data Has over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for all grounds work, landscapes, lawn bids, service & landscaping and commercial grounds maintenance job estimating. Bid with more confidence, save time preparing bids using the labor hours time tables broken down by job criteria and know best crew size based on work assigned using a balanced labor crew time application that results in getting a full days work from lawn care & landscape employees, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for commercial grounds maintenance & landscape employees. Among many work task categories ... Includes labor hours for lawn Mowing, edging beds & walks, trimming shrubs, pruning plants & trees, snow plowing, ice control, tree planting, mulching beds, aeration, slit seeding, shrub beds, hardscapes, blowing leaves, lawn chemical applications, spring and fall cleanups, seed, flowers, and commercial lawn maintenance job tasks. Just about every job performed in a lawn mowing service landscaping business and grounds maintenance. Price and cost jobs fast using the daya by finding the lawn care, grounds maintenance or landscape job category, follow the tables for task time within the work category and developing a line-by-line job bid. When a lawn care or landscape job is finished, compare your budgeted hours gotten from the time tables with actual job time spent. Use the time tables to assign realistic daily work goals. Compile a month by month hourly work schedule for grounds maintenance work, landscape job tasks and know how many workers you need for mowing, cleanups, pruning, bed work etc. Post the labor hours to your customer records. Know the profitability of each custoemr account, see exactly where too much time was spent by work category. In the reference section capture and pinpoint job costs for lawn care, cleanups, edging, pruning, trimming, and all landscape and grounds maintenance work underway and use the outlines to recap labor costs, materials, direct costs and overhead costs. Use the landscape instalation formats as a guide to developing sequential, step by step work outlines for estimating landscape job costs and use these as a goal to plan and do the work each day that a landscape project is inderway and upon completion, compare budgeted goals or hours to actual hours the work took to completion.

Labor Time Data Table of Contents:
Introduction
How To Bid Contracts
Knowing The Scope of the Work
A Few Words About Profits
Units of Work
Service Frequency
Labor Times:
Aerification
Back Pack Spraying
Blowing
Cleanups
Dethatching
Edging
Grading
Granular Applications
Hydroseeding
Installing Flowers
Installing Pavers
Line Marking
Liquid Applications
Loading
Mowing
Mulching
Pavement Sweeping
Planting Shrubs & Trees
Pruning
Raking
Sanding & Salting
Seeding
Snow Blowing
Snow Plowing
Sodding
Staking & Guying
Stump Grinding
Trimming
Watering
Weeding
Reference Section:
Annual Sales Statistics
Calculating Equipment Costs
Employee Productivity
Fertilizer Recommendations
Mowing Height Recommendations
Grounds Maintenance Statistics
Labor Management
Landscape Construction Estimating
Non-Productive Time Cost Worksheet
Tables & Measures
MIscellaneous Formulas
Financial Formulas

How to order
Labor Time Data Handbook
Written by Nilsson Associates
Book # A-7, Price $69.50
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#)
To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252



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Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.

For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)

lbtcadmin
05-10-2007, 06:18 PM
Lawn Pricing - Landscape Prices - Hardscaping Prices - Snow Plowing Price - Irrigation Prices - Tree Care Pricing
FREE Job Pricing Guides

For All Lawn Care Service Business & Landscape Business

Nilsson Associates - Toll Free 866-280-2252 - www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)


Nilsson's Job Pricing Guidelines shows Current Prices (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) and are in use by lawn care service and landscape businesses nationwide. Avoid Pricing Too High - Avoid Pricing Too Low - Win More Bids with Our Reliable Price Information. See what other landscapers charge. Compare Your Price With Current Prices Before You Bid - Makes Pricing Your Lawn & Landscape Jobs Fast, Easy, Accurate, Competitive. Shows prices for hundreds of jobs you regularly bid on.

The prices are compiled and updated by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Using the Nilsson's Price Guides takes the guesswork out of pricing and makes Job Bidding & Estimating (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) a lot easier and faster. Compare your prices before you bid.

Includes
Job Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Cement Curbing Installation
Cement Borders Installed
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Drain Gutters Installed
Drain Gutter Screening
Edging Walks
Edging Beds
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Firewood Cords
Firewood Bundles
Firewood Delivery
Flower Installations Flats
Flower Pots
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Ground Covers - Plants
Ground Covers Mulch
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Rates lawn care
Hourly Rates - Landscape
Hourly Rates Landscape design
Hourly Rates Plowing
Hydroseeding of lawns
Hydroseeding Preparation
Hydroseeding Materials
Install Sod
Install Shrubs
Install Trees
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & beds
Irrigation Winterize
Irrigation Repair Rates
Irrigation Controllers
Landscape Designs - designing computer image landscapes
Landscape Lighting Installations
Landscape Lighting Fixtures
Landscape Floodlights
Landscape Solar Lighting
Landscape Grading
Landscape Installations lawns, shrubs, plants & trees
Lawn Aeration Spike
Lawn Aeration Cores
Lawn Care Service Chemical Applications Fertilizers Weed Controls
Lawn Chemical Applications
Lawns Fertilized
Lawn Mowing Riders
Lawn Mowing Walkbehinds
Lawn Mowing Trim
Lawn Weed Treatments
Lawn Treatment Programs
Lawn Chemical Prices - Acre, Square Foot
Lawn Grub Control Apps
Lawn Insecticide
Lawn Renovations - Slit Seeding, Reseeding, Elimination of Growth
Liquid Applications of Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing with walkbehinds
Mowing with ztrs
Mowing with riding mowers
Mowing with trim mowers
Mowing Residential
Mowing Commercial
Mowing Condominium
Mowing Sports Fields
Mowing Cemeteries
Mulch Installs
Mulch pine bark mulch
Mulch pine needles
Mulch Spraying
Organic Lawn Care of lawns
Organic Lawn Programs
Parking Lot Line Marking
Parking Lot Sweeping of sand and debris
Paving Installations and hardscapes
Pavers Stone
Pavers Concrete
Pavement Sweeping
Pavement and litter control
Pavement line marking
Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs,
Pruning trees
Pruning ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls Installed of wood, stone
Retaining Walls Timbers
Roto Tilling turf, soil, lawns
Roto Tilling gardens
Salting Roads
Salting Walks
Sanding Roads
Sanding Walks
Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
Seeding lawns
Seeding wildflowers
Site Work of grading, hauling, rock removal prior to seeding
Slit Seeding of lawns
Slit Seeders
Snow Plowing Prices
Snow Plowing and ice control
Snow Removal
Snow Plowing Driveways
Snow Plowing Hourly Rates
Snow Plowing By The Inch
Snow Plowing By The Storm
Snow Plowing Fixed Seasonal Rates
Snow Shoveling
Snow Blowing Walks & Driveways
Sod Installations on lawns
Sod Rolls Installed
Sodding from Pallets
Spraying Lawns
Spraying Weeds
Spraying Shrubs
Spraying Trees
Spraying Curb Lines
Spring Cleanups of lawns, beds and paved areas
Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
String Trimming Lawns
String Trimming Edging
String Trimming Obstacles
String Trimming Trees
Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trimming Shrubs
Trimming Trees
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weeding shrub beds
Weeds in lawns
Weeding Pavement
Weeding Parking Lot Curbs

Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants and nationally known "Best Selling Authors" has the information you need to operate your lawn care service or landscape business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Resources Available in The Green Industry (http://nilssonbooks.com/books.htm) on the internet. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage, operate and grow your business.

Other
resources:
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.

Information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)

Background & References

Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America. Our Learning Systems are endorsed by the leading Industry Associations, by the Horticultural Departments at Ohio State University, The University of Tennessee, The University of Georgia, and in use by thousands of Landscape Contractors, Lawn Service Companies, Property Managers, Government Facilities, Park Departments and Municipalities nationwide.

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Phil Nilsson

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Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
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Email nilsson.assoc@snet.net


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