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Hedgecutters flooding

Hi all,

I've got two Stihl hedgecutters, both the same age and well used. Both have started flooding really badly, to the point where I couldn't get either started today.

I'll take them in Monday, but any ideas?

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SE22 (london) quotation required for resin bonded driveway please.

Can anyone help? self-binding Breedon gravel installation?.

if so please email direct to client : it was passed on by Linsey Evans to me.

4m x 4.5m approx?

Kate : Kdrynan@hotmail.com

thank-you - robin

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Organic lawn care product

I have just received this E-mail about a company's product
I am not endorsing the product I am giving info to all the organic garden and lawn providers who use this forum to let them decide if its for them and contact the company.

My name is Jolanta a

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Garden maintenance help required

We're looking to find someone to come and work with us 3 days a week starting on 17th May. Any help would be much appreciated!!

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repair of ground subsidence

Hi all

I'm look for a solution for an issue in a garden we landscaped around 3 years ago. The property is part of an old estate walled garden that has been developed into 5 luxury homes - 3 gardens of which we have carried out various landscape works

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Gardeners Need to Step Up To The Mark

.....so says Titchmarsh in this BBC featured report:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22516087

The report pedals the aged assumption that garden maintenance in all its forms is for the 'lesser abilities'. So be it, that's what makes news - something

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Hornbeam hedge - leaf retention

Picture on left is looking in, on the right, looking out

Hi, this 100m hornbeam hedge is just greening up but it has not kept it's dead leaves through the two winters we've been working here. It was an 'instant' hedge planted at this height and cost

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Japanese gardens in small space

What do you think about the Japanese garden ?

England has a lot beautiful front yards and backyards, why do no transform in a Japanese garden ?

I doesn't saw too much gardens in this style, something know why ?

In my web page you can see a lot of differ

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Lawn query

A customer recently emailed me concerning her lawn (about 20mx20m) , she has a well known lawn care franchise doing there thing but is not overly happy with the results and is considering telling them where to go.She has asked me for advice about the

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Badminton then off to Malvern Garden Show.

Will be at Badminton horse trials Sunday then packing up Monday and moving the stand to Malvern Spring Garden Show.If any one is around come and see use at the Caledonia Play stand.RegardsMark

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Business for sale in North Wales

Hi everyone,

I am now starting my 3rd season doing garden maintenance with roughly 25% landscaping/fencing. I am looking for an experienced/motivated person to take over my business or just the customers if you are already established.

I have been offe

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european commission to criminalise all seeds and plants that are not registered with government

yeah...good luck with that gubberment...please come take my illegal ground elder and bindweed wont you ! )http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html

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Painting fences

I'm wondering do many of you guys ever paint fences for people and if so what equipment do you use for the spray painting?

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Futurescape exhibition

Did anyone visit the Futurescape exhibition at Kempton Park last year? If so,what did you think of it? We are probably going to exhibit this year, but would just like the comfort of knowing that equipment users found it interesting.

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Anyone used a lawn dye, paint or stain?

Bascally, I'm picking up more estate agent jobs and typically the lawns have been neglected. There is usually a gap of 1 week between old tenant moving out and new moving in.If I cut or strim the overgrown lawn it obviously looks brown or at best pat

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Etesia Hydro 80 problem

I have owned a second hand etesia hydro 80 mower for a couple of months now and used it for a few weeks.

I need to get to the oil dipstick etc but I cant for the life of me figure out how to get to it. I can see it and have taken the seat off and plas

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Do you use key performance indicators?

Whether we do it consciously through a spreadsheet, via reports generated through our account packages or just by churning numbers over in our head, most of us will use some kind of key performance indicator.

Analysing business can become all-consumi

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Pensioner rates

Do you have them, I have been asked a few times recently if I discount for Pensioners - What I reply is I offer a good value service for all my customers young and old.

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Can you make a living from garden maintenance?

Can you make your living just from mowing, border maintenance , hedge cutting etc?

Landscaping has a lot of overheads, is maintenance easier?

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Would appreciate you reading this post if you have a moment....

This post is one that I wish I wasn’t making for so many reasons but I’d appreciate you reading it anyway.

Next week my wife, Verity, was hoping to do something called the ‘moonwalk’ where hundreds of people undertake an overnight walk through London,

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