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Training courses for lawn care

I have been looking at training courses (online) for lawn care.  I came across a lawn mowing and turf care training course through Warwickshire College which gives you an ACS Certificate.

Im not sure what weight an ACS certificate holds from a profess

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Stihl FS360 clutch housing

Hi,

My FS360 has developed a crack in the clutch housing where it clamps to the shaft meaning the shaft is now loose. Has anyone replaced this part before and is it an easy job/possible without any special tools. 

This is the part thats broken. Thanks

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Tool insurance

I've been Doing this amazing job for 15 years and got all my insurances but never bothered with tool insurance. I'm buying a new £12k John deere x590 and I've got most Stihl kit in the kombi range and 8 or so battery tools and £1k of batteries.
My qu

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Price increase

Evening all , raring to get back at it now and I'm going to increase my charges across the board 

I'm wondering if it's best to increase by a set percentage and how everyone else goes about it ? Email?? Fuel and equipment costs are rising so I feel we

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Battery Mower thoughts?

Evening all

 

Anybody running a Self propelled cordless mower? & would have any thoughts on what they are like.

With fuel rising daily ( it will never drop back) & battery tech getting better & better i'm ready to make the leap

I'm very tempted to get 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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Petrol chainsaws

hello all. People may have noticed that retailers have reduced their range of nasty smelly noisey petrol chainsaws. \Some have completely stop selling petrol. I may be a conspiracy theory nut ,but does it sound too far fetched to imagine that there i

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Large walk behind mowers

I have started picking up a few larger sites to mow now, and it's getting a little bit tedious with the 21" and I am starting to look at bigger machines, to cut down time on the job giving me more profit.

The 2 main sites I have are a slightly rough c

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Stihl RL540 / Viking LB540

Following on from our previous post asking for scarifier recommendations, we've more or less decided on the Stihl RL540, appreciate it's not a Camon or Sisis but for the amount of work can't justify that cost.

It seems identical to the Viking LB540 ?

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Countax decks

Morning all I have a countax with sweeping collection but want to take it off and mulch the cuttings. Does anyone know if you can do it simply by different blades or do you need a different deck? Thanks

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Signal blue dye

I've spilt a fifty pence size of blue on a concrete slab, I know over a little period of time it will disappear but the client is getting a little excited about it is they anything that will make it shift quickly?

Thanks

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Struggling at the moment, any tips?

Hi folks,

 

As you may or may not know I am starting up as my only job this year. Previous to this I was doing a few gardens along side my job. 

At the moment I have put flyers out, ad's in shop windows, Facebook and Gumtree, so I have that covered pret

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Palm tree

We have cut a palm tree down today and now need to kill off the stump. Is there any stump killer that is best to use on this type of tree. 

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Tree advice

Hi everyone 

I received a call from someone wanting a small ish tree sorting out after it has moved in the strong winds we had the other week.

It has supposedly moved to the left. I have tried pulling the tree but there is little play in the ground so

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Insurance

Now the new season is upon us

 

And i'm starting back up as of next week now the winter work is all done

Can anybody recommend Insurance specialists for public liabilty etc that we all need please.

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Mowing and maintenance schedule

Hi all , will be starting back mowing tomorrow (weather permitting) 

Just wondering how you all plan it..? 

 

Last year I did set lawns on set days ( so on a Tuesday I might do ten)  whereas this year I'm thinking of just squeezing as many as I can in a

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Stihl KB KM Bristle Brush Kombi Tool

Hi

Anybody got one of these? Looking at buying one just asking if people have either got one or used one & want they think/thought of it.

Cheers

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Applying Fungicide - Advice Required.

I have a regular customer who would like me to apply fungicide to the hedge at the front of the property. I am aware that for applying pesticides, a licence is required. I tend to avoid these types of jobs, hence I have not got a licence. I have init

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Lantra pole saw training for people with a chainsaw certificate.

I am trying to book the Lantra one day pole saw course including assessment during the training for people who have already completed the basic chainsaw training and assessment.

This is proving to be rather a challenge as the trainers need four people

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Clematis Help

Wondered if anyone might be able to advise best course of action for this cleamtis. It's a new garden so don't know which type the clematis falls into. Should I just cut it all back to around 30cm or would you advise something else?

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