"PS yes, no membrane around plants in my opinion. It makes future maintenance a nightmare. "

"I've always thought it a pity they don't do the fabric in a darkish brown colour.............I'm sure it would be pretty much just as effective..... In my opinion,  there's nothing worse than seeing bits of black fabric poking up in various places a…"

"Agreed, a mixed soil border with membrane ? "

"AFTER "

"bark after planting but without fabric. 
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"Thanks for the replies i feel reassured .
 
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"We run a small fleet ofvEtesia Pro46's with both Honda and Kawasaki engines.
We prefer the Kawasaki engined variant as it has an "all day fuel tank" and a slightly more powerful engine (6hp vs 5.5hp). The only trade off is that it is slightly heavie…"

"Thanks for the clarification"

"We use hired turf cutters regularly and couldn't imagine lifting old turf any other way before re-turfing, it's certainly a real time saver - no reliability issues for us, but as has been said just don't set the blade too deep, you can always run ov…"

"I think the problem with them is people not using tcorrectly and trying to to use them too deep and too quickly. I have never had a problem with reliability with the one I hire and it's always done the job and saved a lot of time for the hire cost i…"

"The highest platform on henchman tripods when extended is 2ft below the ladder spec. 6ft on the 8ft ladder. The legs extend 18" but they're at an angle so you gain 12" height roughly. 
The tripods fit in so many awkward corners, and really, standing…"

"Great thread, very useful. Have a question about these ladders. So on the Henchman website it says regarding the 8' ladder that the maximum safe standing height is only 5' which doesn't seem very high to me. My question is that if you have the 3 ext…"