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Hot weather Tips

🥵 another scorcher of a day and been drinking plenty of water and where possible working in the shade. Maybe a change in diet would be good when it's hot?

got a feeling the next van will have to be a lighter colour not dark grey !

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Construction Industry Scheme Private Gardens

HI there

We are a garden and landscape design company. All of our clients are private, apart from a couple of school gardens we've done. We design and construct all of our gardens, including all the hard landscaping. Our accountant thinks we should be

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Van Repair Day options ?

My van needs to go in for a mechanical repair and a small job doing but looking at Two days without it . 

If i take Two days off i lose earnings and it sets my schedule back 

If i hire a van for Two days its an extra expense and when added on to cost o

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Battery hedgecutter

I've had alot of trouble with  long reach battery hedgecutter husky 536 lihe3 , first year had to go back twice for loose wires , last year kept overheating in hot weather and now motor has gone and wires need replacing , after just 2 years and shell

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Stihl Cordless Mower RMA448TC

Evening AllI am looking at picking up one of these to run alongside my Izys. I use these for any of the jobs where access is difficult for the roller mowers, up steps, over walls etc. I wondered has anyone on here taken the leap. I already use much

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Mowing nose down

Evening, I've been mowing all day today, lovely dry weather. Hoping I can pass on a useful tip I got from here. In the past when mowing mossy or thick grass I've always lifted the front a little to give the mower some breathing space, but the grass b

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Smaller Cordless Mowers

I am considering a smaller, minimum 14 inch, cordless mower for the smaller lawns.  Has anyone found an alternative to Bosch ?  Anyone used the Viking ?

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Yorkshire fog

I started at a new property in April with a 600 m2 lawn full of moss and trying to restore to a croquet lawn. I've scarified and need to do again when the skies above allow. My issue at present is there is quite a bit of rogue Yorkshire fog and anoth

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Stihl strimmer running flat out

Replaced the carb as it's wasn't starting at all.   It now starts and runs, but runs absolutely flat out, no amount of adjusting does anything much at all. If you squeeze the throttle the power drops back a bit  almost like it's flooding, which it pr

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Starting your lawnmower

on Saturday I arrived at a customers house that I have been mowing his grass fortnightly for the last three years,when all of a sudden one of his neighbors came over and started having a go about me cutting the grass at 8 in the morning,I will just a

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Which petrol hedgecutter

Looking at changing my hedgecutters currently running stihl hs86r but stihls build quality seems to be going backwards my current ones are 2009 and 2013 models and have been great without any issues. I got a 40inch cut stihl last summer makes a lovel

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Struggling to find a good professional mower, and would like some recs please.

I am struggling to find a  good professional mower that covers both rougher graveyard type ground and also medium sizes customer lawns.

I  started off with a Cobra mower thanks to a rec on here- and to be fair for a small,  fairly cheap roller mower i

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Stihl rm650

Hello, today my etesia pro46 found a cricket ball in some long grass and after a brief confrontation spat it out through the side of the deck!! So a new mower is needed, just wondering if anyone currently or have previously run a stihl rm650 mower as

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Kubota or Iseki

I'm on the verge of buying a new cut-and-collect ride-on mower which can cope with lawns of a few thousand m2 and in particular, will cope in the wet. The main contenders seem to be the Kubota G231 and the Iseki SXG323+.  What are people's experience

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Cheap Secateurs

Hi, I'm forever loosing secateurs. Even after painting many felco's bright illuminous yellow I still misplace them. Any suggestions for a cheap pair? If I can get some half decent for around a tenner I'd buy three pairs. Anyone purchased any cheapos

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Knapsack sprayer

Looking to replace a couple of sprayers, I only have cheapy's at the moment & the straps are a nightmare to get on.

These are only for occasional use, Herbicide & one for stuff like Braco. I don't think I can justify Cooper Pegler for the amount of us

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Design business case study

I am a second year RHS MHort student looking for a design business that I could use as a case study for my current assignment. My assignment is to create a business development model for my own business, which is maintenance, and develop it into a de

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Stihl RM448

Hi all

 

anyone had any experience with this ...was thinking of getting one...I cut medium and a couple of largish lawns ,,,also what's the difference with the T model

 

thanks 

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Carburetter issues and E10 petrol

Some other petrol-powered equipment may not be compatible with E10 petrol including:

• petrol-powered garden equipment or machinery, such as lawnmowers and chainsaws

 

gov.uk

 

Had an interesting conversation at the mower repair shop about older mowers, car

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The Lightest mowers 22 inch . Petrol or Cordless

 I have a mowing job which entails having to literally carry my petrol mower up and down some very steep garden steps . 

The mower weighs 40 kg and lifting it has started to cause me back and knee problems . 

I realise the recommended safe lifting weig

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