Equipment you would like to rent, but can't find

What items of equipment have you tried to rent but either had difficulty finding them or maybe not managed to find them at all? 

Here are a few examples:

Power Rake (for soil preparation)

Power Scythe

Powered Hayrake

Powered Soil Sieve

Fence Post Driver

 

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Battery Handling Tips

Battery Handling Tips from our friends over at Stihl....

Also like their battery carry crates and multi battery charger .....worth a check out...

 

 

 

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Which Stihl Brushcutter Blade ?

Once in a while I need to cut wild clumpy grass with meter high nettles & bindweed.  It's often wet.  What's the best Stihl blade for this ?  I don't think the shedding blade would work as it has downturned ends that might catch on stones etc.  I was

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Pond pump query

My Oase 6000 pump has stopped working. It has given many years of service, so I don't blame it!

Whilst investigating the problem, I discovered that my multimeter was reading approx 280v. It was showing 249v on other items fed from the same source. Is

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Husqvarna Brush cutters

Thinking about changing my Brush cutter currently have a Stihl FS360 but thinking about a Husqvarna 545 RX.

Anyone with any experience of the Husqvarna?

Thanks in a advance.

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Stihl Battery & HEAT

Hi all, I hope we are all busy & enjoying the hot weather. Unfortunately it seems to be too hot for my AP300's. They are refusing to charge atm, i guess due to over heating. I have 3 batteries & now two are completely dead, leaving just one to trim s

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Lawnflite 553HRS Rear Roller Stuck on shaft

Hi All.

I need to change the clucth in the gearbox, but im having a issue removing the smaller roller of the shaft. I have managed to separate it by about a inch using a bit of timber and a hammer, but it wont move anymore than that. Has anyone else h

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Best professional mower

Hi guys. I did ask this before  a few years ago, but wondered if there were any updates now its 2022.

I have had a few mowers in my time, a cobra, a hayter 41 and now a  midrange weibang. All have  up and downsides, but the weibang I think is better s

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Mower fuel charge !!!

Hello All,

I am new to LJ and have been a Sole Trader since August offering a general garden service and bigger site clearing/one off jobbs etc.

So far its going well and I am building up a good client base and some commercial clients.

As its erly days

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Selling Vans

Has anyone had experience of selling their van to one of the various vehicle buying websites ? 

If so did you get a fair deal compared to selling it privately and which company did you use ? 

I have replaced the van already so no need to part exchange

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Stihl RM655RS Blade change.

Having owned this mower a while I decided to have a little play around with blades etc, I think this mower is an awesome machine but it wasn't picking up in the wet nearly as well as my old Viking 655VR. 

So long story short, I decided to take the the

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Rolling a croquet lawn

Morning all, 

This is perhaps one for the ex greenkeepers. This time last year I installed a croquet lawn for a regular client, it is on heavy clay so we installed land drainage. The lawn is healthy, but a bit more lumpy and bumpy than I would like. W

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Autonomous Ride-ons ‘have arrived’

Catching up on some industry reading I was amazed to see a level of autonomy arriving to ride-ons by using on-board GPS systems to run true straight line cuts and execute zero turn returns.

This tech has been around in the Agri world for years and on

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Stihl GTA 26 Oil ?

I have just joined the GTA owners club & I love it :)

The supplied oil is a "multi oil" rather than a chain oil.  It looks quite thin.  What are people using for chain lubrication ?  Is a normal "sticky" chain oil seen as too thick ?  Obviously the ch

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Battery Mower thoughts?

Evening all

 

Anybody running a Self propelled cordless mower? & would have any thoughts on what they are like.

With fuel rising daily ( it will never drop back) & battery tech getting better & better i'm ready to make the leap

I'm very tempted to get on

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Petrol chainsaws

hello all. People may have noticed that retailers have reduced their range of nasty smelly noisey petrol chainsaws. \Some have completely stop selling petrol. I may be a conspiracy theory nut ,but does it sound too far fetched to imagine that there i

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Stihl KB KM Bristle Brush Kombi Tool

Hi

Anybody got one of these? Looking at buying one just asking if people have either got one or used one & want they think/thought of it.

Cheers

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Scarifier options

 Following on from Tony's post last week about a new scarifer, I'm in the market for a better machine. I have an Einhell atm which has done me ok but it's had it's day.

I was looking at the Stihl as well but see the Stiga SVP 40 is about £60 less than

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