Just wanted to share what following the process looks like! If people in here are on the fence about making this their full time job, I made the jump in early March to go full time into this. We had our first baby in October and my wife was very skeptical/nervous, dare I say excited, about the whole idea of me quitting. I have been bouncing between jobs about every 8-10 months, and this last job was 90k salary with killer benefits, but I was battling depression, low energy, and just wasn’t myself. I sat down with my wife, showed her my plan, and I went all in. In Austin’s starter scorecard I had a goal of my first 3 months going 10, 20, 30k in revenue. Currently, around 3 weeks into April I will hit 60k in revenue, which is 6 weeks ahead of my plan. Long story short, it works. I look in this group every day for motivation and I see some great people doing amazing things. Asking questions. Taking feedback. Moving forward. Generating results. @Austin Gray ’s community here is fantastic, and I can’t help but feel thankful and alive this Easter weekend! I feel that we are all hard nosed, hard working individuals, and I pray that we all find peace, success and something to pour our work ethic into! Big things coming in 2026 for this group!

On one of the other Ownr Ops pages I was reading they recommend seeing how many other companies offer forestry mulching / fire mitigation, as a service, with 50 miles of your location. How many of you did this and what did you find? I'm trying to figure out if my area is oversaturated. Thanks in advance.

Do you guys have any insight on how long it takes to complete a job? For example standard forestry mulching setup for 1 acre? Nothing crazy, pretty flat. How long would this take? I’m trying to gauge this mainly because I will be renting equipment early on and want to make sure I can quote properly to still produce revenue. Bottom line is I don’t want to quote a job at 3k and have a setup for a day when a day rental cost $1900 just to not be able to finish it and have to rent another day and lose my butt. Thanks for any insight. Matt

2nd Week Business Update! TL:DR Metrics Ad Spend $400.67 Leads total - 18 CPL - $30.12 Closed - 4 Sales - $8,300 🙏✨️ Potential Client of 40 Acres And my current client waiting for me to do the 1 Acre job before giving me his 9 acre property to do! Long story short, by the grace of God I quit my job today. I promised them I'll finish my 12 hr shift and I resigned. I love the people I worked with, I really do. But I love my family more and I had shifts that switched to days then evenings then back to days and it seemed very unstable for my family's schedule. Also I have made more money for my family in 2 weeks worth of business than a job has ever given me! The goal now is to reach capacity where I can focus on my next 3 steps: 1. Buy basic equipment (chain saw, cutter, chipper) + rent forestry mulcher 2. Work 4 days and have 1 day estimates / admin 3. Buy the forestry mulcher (Kubota + loftness) Ive been so dependent on the Lord these past 2 weeks of business because he has really showed me his Glory and his greatness time after time and I needed to see him work in this in my weakness, and as always he shows up! Praise the Lord oh My Soul! How did quitting your job go over when you jumped full time? And how was the change?

If you own a land clearing / forestry mulching business and you’re under $20k/month, start here. In July, 12 operators we work with booked $585,000 of work using this playbook. This group shows you how to run the same system. Do this in order: 1. Watch the Start Here video Then come back to this post. 2. Introduce yourself in the comments Copy/paste and fill in: Name City / State Machines Current monthly revenue 12‑month target Biggest bottleneck (pricing, leads, closing, schedule, or crew) 3. Do the Pricing Blueprint Workshop Go to Classroom → Start Here → Pricing Blueprint Workshop Watch “Stop Losing Money On Jobs” Fill out the worksheet under the video Then comment your numbers: “Crew day rate: $, Minimum job: $” 4. Watch 2–3 case studies Still in Classroom, open Case Studies Watch 2–3 that look most like you 5. Start the Kickstarter Mini Training Go to Classroom → Kickstarter Mini Training Work through the modules in order If you already own a real machine and want the exact playbook guys like JT used to hit $172,500 in July, Colby used to hit his first $200k month, and Hayden used to hit $85k first month after getting his machine, then: Book Your OPS Game Plan Call here and we'll map out a plan for your market