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Spons- Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book

Does anyone use this book , Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book.

If so whet is your feed back of this book, does it work for you, is it essential part of your business or is it a just a guide line for your costings.

Just looking for peoples

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Using membranes on a slope

I really dislike using membranes generally to surpress weeds but I need to plant some hydrangea's on a slope which continually attracts weeds but the area is very difficult to access to maintain yet provides a main view from a main window .

The area w

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Battery drills

Hi, can anyone recommend a brand that will stand up to heavy use.  Currently using De Walt, but fed up with broken chucks etc.

TIA

 

Tim

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19” rear roller battery mower?

I'm Looking for recommendations for a 19" rear roller mower to replace my Honda HRX. 
stiga seem to have one but never used stiga so don't know how good they are. 
any others worth looking at? 

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Pricing

We are reviewing our charging for next year as from Jan.

Majority of our work is commercial and we attain high realistic rates but we do have a small number of long standing high end private clients, we will not take any new domestic work on due to th

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Weeding/planting knife

Looking for carbon steel weeding/planting knife not made from stainless steel. All the major makes seem to be stainless which from reviews all  bend easily unless are used in television soil! Only one that have found is by Darlac which has awful revi

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Waterproofs

What waterproofs are you using? Which do you recommend or don't recommend?

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Sneeboer or Draper?

Looking for narrow border rake, been using Bulldog border rake which has spring tines ( £26) works well but the tines eventually snap or bend. So looked at the Sneeboer border rake ( around £90 with p&p) or Draper 0994 ( £19). Is the Sneeboer worth t

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Shredders

Hi All

I looking into getting a shredder for general garden waste and hedging. One the problems I have is I got a VW caddy van so I can't go for anything too big!

I have been looking at the Eliet maestro city to the Stihl GH 460 so far! Any though on t

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Stihl HLA65 gear replacement

Hi, i'm trying to fix my brothers Stihl HLA65. He has bought a new gear for it as the teeth were all worn. But i'm struggling to disassemble it to swap them out.

This central screw in the attached picture needs to come out so I can remove that plate(b

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Pricing leaf clearance

Hello all. I've been wondering about how to charge for one-off leaf clearance jobs? I have a few customers on maintenance contracts with X visits per year, so their leaf clearance comes under the regular visits and I collect what I can in the regular

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Weed killer for lawn?

Hi, can anyone recommend a good weedkiller for use on a lawn please?   Been using Weedol Lawn, but the formula seems to have changed and I'm being told it's not as good.   I don't normally do lawncare, hence asking.   Thank you!  Sarah.

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Grass paint colourant

Made a blunder spot-treating some weeds in a lawn a couple of weeks back    not sure how I managed it but I've ended up with several brown circles roughly 2' across in the grass  Its possible I mixed up the 2 sprayers and ended up using Roundup inste

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Getting my website motoring

I launched a website a couple of months ago and registered it on Google Business and Google Maps. My Google reviews have been good and I replied and thanked everyone, but they have been stuck on 10 for a few weeks.

I know these things take a while to

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Wages for employed staff

Hi All

Looking for some information as to what everyone is paying staff for skilled hard landscapers these days? I am looking to recruit a skilled landscaper on a full time employed basis (to include pension, paid annual leave etc). 

With lack of indus

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Stihl HSA86 cordless hedgetrimmers

Good day All. It's happened again! Hedgetrimmer has stuttered and stalled. 3 red lights on the battery. I've checked and it's fine for grease, battery was at room temperature, this bit of kit just does not like the cold. This happened last winter and

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Grease gun

Fed up of lever type grease guns that don't work or will not release empty cartridges. Bought a Press brand one which was nearly £40 as supposed to be the dogs whatsits and its crap, plunger won't latch, won't release empty cartridge and air locks fr

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Stihl rma 448 vc

Hi i am thinking anout buying this machine stihl rma 448vc  and i am wondering if anyone has one and think there any good battrry times etc before i make a purchase 

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Stiga flail attachment

Hello, does anyone use or have experience of using the out front flail attachment for the stiga, considering one to put on one of our park pros as an alternative to the ferris hydrowalk we currently use for generic 'wildflower' areas on housing devel

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Battery hedge trimmer expected life span

Hello,

 

Bought a battery (18v) no name hedge trimmer about 5 years ago (3/4 inch tooth spacing. Used it on bramble, some really thick ones for many hours. And lots of managing thin wild overgrowth around fences ... (cuttingvthin branches). Used it in

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