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Back pack leaf blower seems to be leaking 2 stroke oil

Hi my back pack blower seems to be leaking a tiny bit of 2 stroke oil near primer but its not actually coming from primer. The oil is red as if it has not been mixed with four stroke. I dont understand as when its been mixed it should be leaking if a

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New website

Hi i have changed website gjgardenservices a bit. Still not finished but it is a lot better than before with some help from members on ljn. If anyone would like to check it out and see if i can improve it your welcome to look. Since last week it has

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Garden Maintenance clients

G J Garden Services .Grass cutting,Hedge trimming, Gardeners.

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Squeezed grass turned into food packaging

Have a read of the link below. Interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21953851

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Study of Agronomy

Hi,

We've a member of staff who wants to learn more about grasses, especially amenity types. Although there are plenty of colleges in the south west of England that offer courses on agronomy they all seem to be agricultural centred and not amenity.

Can

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kikuyu grass - anyone heard of it?

It's apparently a (fairly coarse) type of grass that's quite resilient to bitch spot/dog urine. No mention of it in a forum search so I thought i'd see if anyone had any experience. I expect it's so aggressive that it becomes a pest, and probably sho

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Pricing a small job in Spain - Speak the language?

I am pricing a small job in Spain, artificial grass to be exact, and wondering if anybody knows what the Spanish calls MOT, type 1 aggregate in a 0-6mm size?

Also, what is it like to hire machines out there? Say for instance a wacker plate?

This job is

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TOUGH GRASS MOWING / Rough MOWERS (eg Dori EP50)

Hi everyone,

I am looking for some guidance, recommendations and comments on a machine to cut rough grass areas, too large to strim, but which might only get cut 2-4 times a year. I have a few of these; some are banks, others are orchards, verges, you

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Improve your wet grass collection today!

Thanks to the great British summer this year, there is more grass to cut than ever - but it never stops raining!

Many complaining about not being able to mow lawns, I have only had to reschedule one cut (from yesterday to this morning) and yes, we hav

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Council grass cutting

Aye and I were horrified to see the grass around where we live being cut the other day.

The council (Crawley) looked like they just didn't care- see the photos.

So it got me thinking- what are your local council like at looking after the public spaces?

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Lawn Shop - LJN Discount Code for Members

The Lawn Company, members of LJN and the people behind The Lawn Shop have set up a discount voucher code for Landscape Juice Network Members where they are giving 10% off the purchase of lawn treatment products until the end of June 2012.

The Lawn Com

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Ethical question: turf or grass seed, what is best?

If I wanted to create a new lawn in my own garden (or a client's) I'd have no qualms about using grass seed every single time as I know I can achieve the same results, if not better, than I could with imported turf.

With time on my side, grass seed a

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Contract price

Hi guys.

 

By way of comparison, what would your price be for this size of contract.  The large areas will be cut  initially with their own ride-on and we will cut/strim the smaller areas with our own power/pedestrian mowers and strimmers.  There are n

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suppliers for artificial grass

 

 

where's best to get this from have looked at how to lay it and looks like the perfect solution to a problem area round some play equipment i maintain, where the client wants a grass look not bare mud...

 

also any advise on best way to join it into e

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How is your maintenance website this month so far?

Do any of you maintenance providers monitor your website traffic? My site has not been busy at all and has appeared to slip down in google searches recently and I'm not sure why. I have done my best with the page preferences and descriptions/titles e

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THE BEAST! (Warning - Etesia content)

Aah, what a good garden clearance today. Got all sorts done, the highlight for me was clearing a large area of scrub in 15 minutes with the 56. Good thing was the scrub then turns to mulch and saves a lot of time bagging and clearing! A couple of mow

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Multi year parish contracts

I have been asked by one of my local parish coucils to quote for their grass cutting contract. This in its self is not too bad, but it is the first 3 year tender I have been asked to complete.

What I was woundering is what would be a good % to increas

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Croquet lawn Mower

Hi allWe have been asked to tender for the cutting of three croquet lawns for our local club from next year. so what I was wondering was if anyone has any experience in this what mowers would you recommend, the tender stipulates that it has to be a 2

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Honda HR series mowers.

Has anyone on LJN used These mowers in the past? We have a HR194 on the fleet and love it.Just wondered what views people had on them?!

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Mowing equipment for sale

Advertise your surplus garden or amenity mowing equipment for sale here. Please either add the detail;s of the equipment together with the relevant contact details or a link with short description if the details are held elsewhere.

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