Sitting Down with Mike Garvey: Autonomous Zero-Turns and the Future of Lawn Care
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What is the Guinness World Record attempt being showcased in Louisville?
Hello and welcome to the Green Industry Podcast, your go-to guide for building a more profitable and thriving lawn care and landscaping business. Your host, Paul Jameson, is the author of five best selling books, including Cut That Grass and Make That Cash, and his latest, Level Up Your Money. All available on Amazon and Audible. Now, get ready for more expert insights and practical strategies. to boost your business and level up your life. Here's Paul Jameson.
Welcome to Wolville, Kentucky. Today we're breaking a Guinness World Records with our friends Arelko. What do you think, Mike? Oh,
this is exciting stuff. I've never uh been at a Guinness World Record breaking attempt, but this is uh exciting stuff. The um adjudicator, is that what he's called? He's here. Yeah, um, he's got the uniform on. It the very serious stuff here. Um it's gonna be interesting.
Yeah, we are here on the beautiful shores of the Ohio River. At one point that was the number one river walk in America. No kidding. I think so. I I I I don't take that to the bank, but Okay. At least I saw I think it was. Awesome. If not number one,
Number two. It's a beautiful day and it's um we're not here for a quip. I've never been to Louisville. Lou Louisville you know what I mean. Louisville. Louisville Louisville. Um not at a quip. So it it's very uh a different experience. It's very quiet, more intimate. Uh very cool. I'm very excited.
Yeah, and and and what we're doing here today, so Relco's attempting to set the Guinness World Records. Fastest time to mow basically we have a football field here, a real professional American football field, and they're gonna mow it to show off their new engine and how it can handle real gravity.
Here we're at tall grass. We got wet grass. Got a combination of everything. Uh the weather was a little up in the air this morning. Um, but this is uh this is exciting stuff. I mean, it's gotta be done uh under an hour, I believe. And it's they got uh they got a big mower over there. A lot of uh a lot of the staff is here. Um came in and they uh they're ready to go.
Yeah, and they're they're showing off their new engine, the Command Pro nine nine. It's like Herman King. Nine nine nine. Correct.
How does the Command Pro 999 engine demonstrate its power on a football‑field‑size lawn?
Remember that politician was like Yes. It was like nine percent taxes. I think it's nine nine nine. I just remember that. Nine nine nine. Did he
did he
lose? He lost.
Nine percent
taxes. Well, he didn't lose. Um I I think I think the Donald got him. But um the Command Pro 999 CC, it's 41 horsepower engine. That's what they're working with today, our friends at Relco. So it's a lot of fun.
This is a lot of fun. They got uh everything all set up. Uh, we're just getting ready um to go. It should be in a couple uh 20 minutes or so. Um really looking forward to it. And then uh, you know, hanging with our friends at Relco. Um Coming uh, you know, putting on a nice uh nice show here. Yeah, very nice. Now Louville, how many years have you been coming here for a quit? Uh I think next year will be our uh so we went one year when it was GIE, uh every bit of five, maybe six. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So we're looking forward to it. Um got a lot of good things planned. And you know, we're we're uh we're busy back in New Jersey. We're busy back at home. We're building another branch up in North Jersey. We're also now a certified uh uh we are Jersey Shores official crest dealer um here in Toms River, New Jersey.
So we're getting the Crest dealership up and running. Um our dealership is uh roped, robotic outdoor power equipment distributors. So we got our hands in that and really uh we're busy. We're It's really exciting.
And what Crest commercial
equipment have you used so far? Uh so uh we we on our trucks we have the uh backpack blowers um on my partner Larry on his uh on his trucks heads trimmers um uh weed whackers backpack blowers hand blowers uh pruners uh pulse saw um they've they've you've been using all of it um we have a voyager en route to us now should be landing next week Let's go. Yep. So uh we're we're we're doing that, and then we're meeting with other landscaping companies who are seeing the future and they're seeing that uh they're not gonna resist to it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Guinness World Record attempt being showcased in Louisville?
0:03–2:27
2
How does the Command Pro 999 engine demonstrate its power on a football‑field‑size lawn?
2:27–5:57
3
Why is the Crest Voyager considered a game‑changing autonomous zero‑turn mower for landscapers?
5:57–9:55
4
How are autonomous mowers mapped and deployed across multiple job sites?
9:55–15:25
5
What benefits does the Jobber CRM provide for lawn‑care businesses?
15:25–19:21
6
How is the new Podhouse podcasting house being built for industry collaboration?
19:21–21:44
7
When and where can listeners attend the 2026 Equip Expo and related events?
21:44–25:27
8
What final takeaways and next steps does Paul Jamison share with the audience?
25:27–27:00
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