The trades, card by card
Fourteen trades below, and the Rotation makes fifteen — every card walks straight into its own raising, same $2,000 to the dollar.
Mow & Plow Route
$2,000Mowing April–October, plowing November–March. The barn buys the business —
brand, website, phone line, LLC. Your mower stays your side of the deal, and the trade
playbook prices the rig plan straight, whatever shape it's in.
Firewood Delivery
$2,000Split, stack, deliver. The barn buys the business — including a booking page
that takes orders in July for October. Splitter and racks are your side; the playbook prices
the plan. Bring a truck and a strong back.
Deer Processing
$2,000Chest freezer, grinder, saws, vacuum sealer — that's your side, priced plain
in the playbook. The barn buys the business and a booking page that fills by mid-November.
The season's short, the lines are long, and everybody knows the good processor
by name. That's the point.
Home Gun Shop — FFL Transfers
$2,000The kitchen-table gun shop: transfers, special orders, a safe, a bound book kept
right. It's a real federal license — the ATF application runs about $200 on your side, takes
some months, and we walk every form with you. Zoning gets checked before a dime of the barn moves.
Brush Hogging & Tractor Work
$2,000You've got the tractor and the bush hog. We've got the phone line, the booking
page, and every overgrown lot, fence line, and food plot in three counties.
Junk Hauling
$2,000Garages, barns, estates, rentals between tenants. The barn buys the business;
trailer and dump-fee float stay your side, penciled in the playbook. Your truck, your county,
your customers.
Small Engine Repair
$2,000Mowers, tillers, ATVs, chainsaws — every shed in Indiana's got something that
won't start. The barn buys the business and the drop-off booking page; bench tools and parts
float are your side, planned in the playbook. Spring rush alone can carry the year.
Mobile Detailing
$2,000You come to their driveway. Extractor, polisher, generator and water setup are
your rig to build — the playbook prices it — and the barn buys the business around it.
Trucks around here are dirty and beloved — that's a business.
Pressure Washing
$2,000Houses, barns, concrete, fleets. You'll want a real machine, surface cleaner,
and ladders — not the box-store toy; the playbook prices the rig on your side. The barn buys
the business behind the wand. Pairs natural with Christmas lights come fall.
Home Hair Salon
$2,000For licensed stylists done renting a chair in somebody else's shop. Chair and
wash station are yours to plan — the playbook prices them — and the state salon paperwork for
a home shop gets walked through step by step. Your book, your house, your hours.
Photography
$2,000Seniors, weddings, 4-H, county fair, youth sports. You've got the camera and the
eye; the barn buys the business around it — portfolio site, booking, contracts, cards.
Embroidery & Team Gear
$2,000Hats, hoodies, duffels — FFA chapters, church leagues, volunteer fire, family
reunions. The machine and hooping station are your side of the deal — the playbook prices the
path, used single-head on up. Steepest gear on the list, steadiest repeat orders on the list.
Farm Stand — Eggs, Honey & Produce
$2,000The roadside stand done right: signage, a cash box that's actually a card reader,
and a page that says what's fresh this week. Indiana's Home-Based Vendor rules, walked through
plain. The gentlest gear list on the page.
Christmas Light Hanging
$2,000October through January, ladders and clips and happy neighbors. Commercial-grade
light stock is your side — you rent it to the house, year after year, and the playbook prices the
starter kit. The best-kept seasonal secret in the trades.
★ The Indiana Rotation
★ The Indiana Rotation
$2,000Mowing in the growing months, leaves in the fall, plows and Christmas lights in the
cold — one owner, no off-season — the fifteenth business on the list, and it's built to stack. Pick it
in the walk-in and the whole year raises as one barn: the same $2,000, same as every trade.
Example — a Mow & Plow barn in Anderson · Goal $2,000
| The Barn build package — name & logo, website with booking, business phone line (12 months), your .com & private email, cards & flyers & yard sign, trade playbook, all paperwork prepped | $1,800 |
| Indiana LLC filing (state fee, paid straight to the state) | $100 |
| Card fees — the card company's cut, right here in the open | ~$100 |
| THE BARN — same price, every trade | $2,000 |
Forty backers at a $50 Post raises this barn — or any mix; grandma's $25
Board counts the same. Every board is paid to Hoosier Online, never to the founder, and each dollar
is spent the day it lands on the next gate. The mower, the trimmer, the fuel — that's the owner's
side, priced straight in the trade playbook.