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Gardening & Landscaping Recruitment
This year's been a real struggle to find good landscaping and gardening staff to join our team up in Scotland, has anybody else been having issues this year? for some reason nobody wants to work. We now have a full diary and still lots of inquiries coming in with a huge waiting list which is frustrating as we would like the business to grow restricted by staffing.Has anybody got any recruitment tips ?
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Eliet Scarifiers and Groundsman aerator for sale
I have a number of machines available for sale. Eliet 401's and 451's and also a sisis autorake mark 5. The groundsman aerator is a 345hd all listed on eBay. Anyone want to make me an offer. I also have a nearly new all battery techneat 3m boom sprayerMartin LawnsOne
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Looking for budget hand tools?
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UK Green Industry!
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SR2000 Spreader help & advice
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Echo DHCAS 2600HD Review
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Selling your business/Customer base
We are contemplating selling our business and or Customer base and just wondering if anyone has had experience in doing so, what can and can't I sell, how it can be done. And what sort of price we might be able to ask for it. We have over 150 regular gardening Customers with a large waiting list and a good local reputation.
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Echo DHCA 2600 HD
Now in retirement mode and as previously.posted been looking for a cordless long reach and was going to buy something at the budget end,but as they all have the motor at the blade end making them very unbalanced along with slow blade speeds and very limited cutting capacity etc decided to go for a pro model.The motor at the blade end is a deal breaker for me as even with the so called "balancing out" effect of the battery weight they all seem front end heavy.So arrived at the Echo dhca 2600…
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