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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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