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Stolen from locked van outside house in broad daylight

Malmesbury, N. Wiltshire.

All my main machinery was taken from my van last evening. It was parked within 15 feet of my front door at about 9.30, which was in complete daylight.

I was watching TV and heard a car door slam, looked out the window to see t

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New Maintenance Business Mower Advice

Hi guys my name is Lee and after 15 years of working in various aspects of horticulture I am going to start up my own garden maintenance business. I have £1200 redundancy money to buy equipment with. I know thats not a lot and I can spend a bit more

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Artificial turf

Any recommendations for the best artificial turf for a family garden?  The area will be well used by children, especially a football mad boy, clearly it needs to be tough and hard wearing!

Many thanks 

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Box blight

A client has box blight starting on a couple of the buxus in the garden, I've been reading up on the rhs site, that spraying with a fungicide( which I have in storage) , but it also said about sterilising cutting equipment with bleach, but I was wond

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Parts Lists

I've had a big problem this past week with my main mower, a Viking by Stihl. The biggest problem I've had is the small changes made to parts as the mower progresses through its production life. In the past spares supplied have been different to those

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Guarantee for works

Hi

Long time since ive been on here!

Question. Guarantees. 

Do you give any?

What are you actually guaranteeing?

Whats reasonable?

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Plant ident apps, suggestions and reviews please

As above

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400m Running track - ARhhhhhh - Line printing

Help - Just picked up my first Junior school, and nothing like a bit of notice, They want a 400m track done by next wednesday. Yes i know i haven't done this before, Cross this bridge when i come to it. 

Now nice people who can help me out or push me

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Client contact sharing with staff.

Hi, 

I need to share out my client(s) with a few particular members of staff, what is the best way, what and how do you use. 

Thank you for your advice. please no comments re wouldn't share contacts, i'm sharing with my brother, who is my right hand ma

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Seen It All Now

On my return from my last job going down the A3, I came off at my junction had to stop at the roundabout. As I am at the junction waiting to pull out. I check traffic coming from the right and I can't believe what I saw.

I van with the side door open

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Combi system stihl probably

Hi all I know in the past I've been on here saying I don't like the combi systems but.....I've got a job lined up for after grass cutting season which will be hundreds of metres of edging of grass!As in cutting the grass back to its proper place on p

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Does anyone propagate their own plants for sale?

Interested to know how many of you propagate your own plants, and commercially, how viable is it alongside a gardening and tree business.Those of you that do, small scale? Commercial? Polytunnels? Do you already have space, or do you rent? And so on.

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Anti vibration gloves

Can anyone recommend some decent anti vibration gloves.  There is loads on the Market but which work the best?

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Etesia Hydro 100 mkehh

Hi all, Thank you for previous replies to questions I have asked, Your info is invaluable.

I have recently bought a new Etesia  and in the service book it says the hydrostatic transmission oil should be changed at 50 hours and then every 300 hours. (D

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Cast stone mix

Hi, anyone know where I can purchase a bag of loose mix for casting. I need to cast a bespoke stone step but cannot find where to get hold of the loose mix?  Any help appreciated, thanks

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Weibang tips

Hi all fellow Weibang owners and other mowers too :-) 

Today was the wettest so far for my new one and found I was having to cut 1-2 settings above what I would be cutting on if dry and then going over it again at that lower setting.

This meant I could

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Clothes and footwear for ladies? Any recommendations?

I am really struggling to find suitable footwear and clothes, especially hardwearing trousers. 

As I am smallish 5'3 foot and have a small shoe size 5, I really struggle to find suitable safety wear.

Currently I stick to Craghoppers for the clothes and

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Winter

Morning guys, sorry to bring the subject of winter up when we are in the middle of summer! I was just wondering how much of it people tend to work for? I saw somewhere somebody said as a rough guide to base pricing on 46 weeks of the year but that in

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Jobber scheduling

Any one out there use Jobber to schedule work?

I've signed up for a trial and setup our clients. However it would seem that I need to setup four different "jobs" for each client that follows a seasonal visiting schedule. (monthly in winter, fortnightl

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Weather & lawn care

How are the dedicated lawn care guys dealing with the recent, very variable weather conditions - from extreme rain to extreme heat and now back to heavy rain - all in one month ?

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