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Commercial mower for gardens with steps

I'm wondering if anyone has knowledge of a good 4 wheel commercial mower that has wheels that stick out the back a bit so that it can be wheeled (bumped) down steps?

I'm looking to upgrade my 21" mower to a commercial model, but steps are an unfortuna

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Website

Hello, I don't seem to be able to view certain posts on here, Does anyone else have this issue?

I'm new on here.

John

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Most efficient setup for someone without a trailer license (Grounds Maintenance)

Hi all...here is an interesting challenge. Basically to come up with the most efficient way of acres/hr with commercial mowing and general maintenance in mind..with 2 perhaps even 3 persons per crew. Lets set a realistic budget of £10k as a base poin

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Type of oil for my Hayter Motif 48

Hello, I was hoping for a bit of advice please. I emptied the oil out of the Hayter today. I went to put to put fresh oil in but it was red coloured so through me off a bit. I'll attached a photo of the bottle. I've knackered tools before trying to '

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Ants in Lawns

Hi all,

What products are we using for ant control in turf? Seems to be a complete pain for some of mine. I don't currently offer a product. 

Increasing the level of disturbance for the lawn through scarifying and aerating to my knowledge helps as shou

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Mow like you mean it

https://www.facebook.com/failarmy/videos/1389238681173290/

Enjoy:-)

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Garden Chemical Disposal Sites

I saw this tweeted earlier and thought it could be a useful resource:

"Using garden chemicals and not sure what to do with the empty container?

Visit garden chemical disposal website here" 

I haven't been through it yet, so do not know what restrict

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Hourly Rate v's Priced Work

I know this topic comes up regularly but would like to know how to change to priced work as it might work out better for us, but wondered how it would work in practice. We normally visit fortnightly for 1 or 2 hrs for general garden maintenance, mowi

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Spray person required in Hampshire/ surrey border

Lady requires qualified knapsack person for some jobs. 

Postcode is GU52 - which is Church Crookham - I believe.

Get in touch and I will forward your details to the customer...

Richard@Progreen
info@progreen.co.uk

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Hard Pruning a Mahonia

Good evening,

I have a new customer whose garden is rather overgrown. There is a Mahonia (not sure of the exact type) that is around 8 ft which is which needs to come down to around 5 ft. Has anybody ever pruned one so drastically? I'm unsure if this

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Choice of Mower... ??

Hi guys,Just wondering what peoples choice of Pedestrian, roller mower would be?I currently have a Hayter 56, but am thinking of getting a Honda or the new Weibang I have been hearing about!?Many thanks ...

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Mobile plant watering

I've been putting together the pricing for maintaining a large area of planting (which we are also doing) for three years after the install.

There is no water on site, so all will have to be shipped in. I am pricing up an IBC container for that, along

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They don't make them like they used to!

Clearing out the office yesterday and found this old price list from 1989. Page 2 makes particularly interesting reading as the most basic 4 wheel push mower back then, even without a grass box had a price tag of over £200 and that is at a VAT rate o

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Cobra mowers

Evening,Ive have a quick search on the forum but looking for reviews from anyone using Cobras. Would you recommend and specifically does the fan assisted collection make a huge difference? The model I'm looking at is the RM48SPS. We currently run Hon

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Husqy manual strimmer head

I'm sure this is easy - but I don't know how to feed line on this - can someone tell me please..

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Gardencare long reach hedge trimmer

Hi, I've recently set up my own grounds maintenance business. At the moment until my business grows I am using cheap secondhand machinery (not much budget for new gear yet). Unfortunately yesterday my split shaft hedge trimmer attachment broke and di

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Devil if you do, Devil if you don't - Hefty fines for drivers who move aside for emergency services

Interesting conundrum - Do you pull over for blue lights and risk a Council fine or do not pull over and face possible Police action.

All is not as clear as one believes :

"Most drivers don’t realise that they can incur fines for not moving out the

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Retaining your apprentices

Hi All,

Wondered if anyone has any good advice on how to keep hold of an apprentice?  My one has just finished his training and has promptly handed his notice in! I Have had a good year out of him but its not really good enough considering the time an

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Preparing and seeding a lawn

Hi priced a new build to prepare soil and seed new lawn, we priced for heeling and raking all stones off, applying pre seed fertiliser, getting a slight fall for water movement, seeding and coming back to overseed a 312m2 area and estimated £900 as b

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Weather forcast websites

Anyone recommend good websites for weather forecasts : 

Presently using met office and http://www.weathercast.co.uk which i much prefer 

Met office doesn't seem to give quantity predictions of rain - just likely hood 

Anyone have recommendations ?

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