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  Gary RK September 8, 2014 at 6:22pm

  Yep, take the job, charge and use a lightweight mower (Etesia Pro46 - what we use when single crewed or similar ~ 30kg).
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  John Baker September 8, 2014 at 6:24pm

  Take the job if you wish, but have no compunction in charging a premium to compensate fro difficulty, unless you wish to be a charity.
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  Ben Marshall September 8, 2014 at 8:32pm

  My thoughts exactly Harry, it was only an half hour job start to finish, i did it for a year before finally admitting to myself that my bad hip (caused by "2-ing" a 14ft redwood sleeper 18 months ago!) and lower back didnt want to do it anymore!
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  Paul McNulty September 8, 2014 at 9:01pm

  Unless I have to, say for a client that gives me loads of work, I would say no.

  Nothing worse than taking a mower through a house when it's wet, or bouncing it up and down stairs. Or leaving the van on a yellow line as there's no parking, anything like that it's easier to say no.
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  Ben Marshall September 11, 2014 at 7:28pm

  Funny you should mention the yellow line Paul, i recently looked at a garden on a main road, double yellows both sides, with a driveway literally 6 foot wide between brick pillars! i had to park 100 yds down the road just to tell the customer unfortunatley its a non starter! i just wonder how they thought it would be possible for a contractor with even a small van to do it. The mind boggles sometimes.
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  Paul McNulty September 11, 2014 at 8:10pm

  
  
  Ben Marshall said:

  Funny you should mention the yellow line Paul, i recently looked at a garden on a main road, double yellows both sides, with a driveway literally 6 foot wide between brick pillars! i had to park 100 yds down the road just to tell the customer unfortunatley its a non starter! i just wonder how they thought it would be possible for a contractor with even a small van to do it. The mind boggles sometimes.

  
  It'd suit a car-based gardener, I guess? There's always someone who has the right set-up for the job, it's about finding the right jobs for your own business I guess.
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  Bespoke Lawncare September 12, 2014 at 8:01am

  There is the solution to the issue
  A gardener who thinks outside the box.
  If you want the job there will always be away.
  If it takes longer from getting out the van to getting back in charge for your time (on a price per job basis)
  
  
  
  Gary Smith said:

  We have two tiny domestic lawn jobs picked up on a commercial site, both are up flights of concrete steps and even with the little Etesia H&S wise are none starters from a practical point of view, even with two people it's too far to carry a mower, I told each customer we couldn't get a mower in and the best I could offer was a strim, I put a polycut head on the strimmer sit it on the ground and "mow" off the grass which is then blown onto the border, both customers fully understand the access issue and are more than happy to have a fortnightly strim rather than a fortnightly mow :-)
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  Gary RK September 12, 2014 at 8:11am

  pmsl - is that collecting or mulching ?
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  Stuart September 12, 2014 at 8:16am

  Call yourself a professional? Even I can see it's mulching, it hasn't got the grass box on. LOl
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Gary RK said:

  pmsl - is that collecting or mulching ?
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  Gary RK September 12, 2014 at 8:18am

  There you go...and I thought that 'big bit' on the top was the collector with clear perspex windows to check how full it was......there again it could be the Ride-on's cabin ? Just thinking....and is that a scarifier at the rear ?

  Should fly along on that machine...
  
  Stuart said:

  Call yourself a professional? Even I can see it's mulching, it hasn't got the grass box on. LOl
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Gary RK said:

  pmsl - is that collecting or mulching ?