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Commercial contracts and Marketing agencies

Hey all, looking for anyone who has experience with growing their business, looking for some advice in marketing, commerical contracts and so on. Preferablly I want to find out what pitfalls I can avoid and what to keep an eye out for if anything,

 

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Honda bad news

Folks

This was a bit of a surprise this morning.  Looks like Honda to stop making mowers on emission grounds:-

https://www.reddit.com/r/egopowerplus/comments/ycbkyp/honda_to_exit_the_lawn_mower_market/

https://www.greenindustrypros.com/mowing-maintenanc

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Rough cut mower 21 inch and self propelled?

Morning chaps!

 

just started work for a new customer, and I could do with a rough cut mower, for there orchids, and a few other rough areas, I used my Viking 655 yesterday, without the collecting box on, it did a good job to be fair, apart from half w

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Educational Opportunities

Myerscough Open Morning

If anyone is interested in progressing their career, we have an Open Morning coming up at Myerscough. Our new online MSc in Landscape Management starts in September 2023. We also have courses in Animals and Horticulture as Ther

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Stihl KGA770

Has anyone used this machine, I got it for doing the leaves round swimming pools but it's just pathetic. It states it picks up wet leaves but it just constantly blocks up and does not even half fill the box. I have tried it on various heights going o

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Scarifier advice

Hi everyone. I'm in the market for a new petrol scarifier and looking for reccomendations. 

I'm a big fan of Weibang. As I have there shaft drive mower which I think is great. So I've been looking at there intrepid WB384RB. But I don't know about layi

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EGO power head motor kaput

Has anyone else had a problem with the motor on their EGO multi-tool head? Mine had started to self-destruct after 15 months of use. I'm the only one who uses it, so it's not working all day, every day.

The machine shop are going to claim it under war

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payment system

Hi

 

On the website for Mega mow does anyone know what payment system they use ?

Im looking for a payment system i can set up to hold customer card details to be able to debit monthly automatically so there wont be any late payer's or having to chase fo

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Review system for bad customers?

Hi all

 

I have been running my garden maintenance business for 30 years now and am I the only who thinks it is getting harder and harder satisfing our clients?  They appear to hold so much power over us with google reviews etc and I feel it is now tim

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Advice please

Hi again everyone. Thinking ahead to spring next year. How soon after scarifying and overseeding can you apply the usual high nitrogen spring fertiliser? Can you apply immediately after sewing the seed or do you have to wait until it germinates?

I'm t

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Personal Account

Hi

 

How many on here uses a personal account for your business?

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Towed leaf sweeper

Anyone got/used a towed leaf sweeper behind  a ride on ? Any good? What they like in the wet? Any recommended makes? Thanks 

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Sealey earth auger

Thought I'd share our experiences after purchasing a Sealey earth auger. Needed for a 2000 hole planting job . Wanted the convenience of our own machine rather than hiring and budget wouldn't justify a Stihl machine at a£1000.

Plenty of earth augers o

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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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Roof Rack Query

Looking for a bit of help re roof racks. Current van is the new shape Peugeot Expert. I use the van a fair bit out of work too and often have to go under those 2m high barriers at places.

Without a roof rack the van just about fits under them. Does

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Echo PB 9010T

We currently use the Echo PB 8010 blowers,  awesome machines. Seen that Echo have now bought out the PB 9010T which has more power , 48 Newtons as opposed to 44 Newtons with the 8010.

Struggling to find any in the UK anyone know of any dealers holding

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Concrete under lawn.

For four seasons I have been cutting a lawn on an as and when basis with the brief of just keeping it reasonably tidy. 

There is a patch in it which I always assumed is where the concrete mixer stood and was washed out when the house was built. 

This y

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Inflation

Just a heads up on the other threads about rising costs etc.

I have just been given notice that some stock bricks will be increasing by a MASSIVE 28.5% on October 1st. This is from a smaller builders merchants chain in the South East but after giving

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Introduction letter, email - advice, comments ..

What does one think of my introductory email letter re new commercial business to managing agents.Any comments, to short, too long, anything to add, anything to remove, typos!Here goes!----Dear sirs,Thank you kindly for sparing two minutes of your va

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Red thread

Any advice from the forum would be much appreciated on how to deal with a lawn that has brown patches that are proving difficult to clear, despite applications of Dualitas, regular aeration and collecting when mowing. I think it's red thread it happy

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