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"Have you checked under the seat? I don't know this mower, but I think that is where the manual states the oil filler is."
"Thanks for taking the trouble to reply Ian - much appreciated. Unfortunately the manuals don't help in that my machine doesn't have a reservoir or dipstick so I'm scratching my head!!! "
"Yet more good advice, charging an hourly rate is an illness which seems to be prevalent in "our" trade all it does is to devalue our skills,experience and investment in our businesses along with pandering to customers expectations for a low cost…"
"Try and price per visit instead of hourly rate. 2-3 hour slots say to custumer £90-£100 per visit.
This will be half your day if you add travel to and from the job. Or have a minimum fee of x amount per visit. If a customer wants an hour or 2 it…"
This will be half your day if you add travel to and from the job. Or have a minimum fee of x amount per visit. If a customer wants an hour or 2 it…"
"A copy of the manual can be found here:
https://www.mowerspareparts.co.uk/v/Etesia%20owners%20manual/Etesia...(early%20version)%20owners%20manual.pdf
or if any help, also the latter one:…"
https://www.mowerspareparts.co.uk/v/Etesia%20owners%20manual/Etesia...(early%20version)%20owners%20manual.pdf
or if any help, also the latter one:…"
"More good advice"
"As relative novices to gardening - 4th year of trading - we have experienced what you are going through and feel your anxiety and frustration and "is-it-all-worth-it-I-might-as-well-go-and-work-at-Tesco" thoughts .
At the end of the day it boils…"
At the end of the day it boils…"
"I sold the Sthil and bought a good second hand BCS 730. It did a far better job, then my son raked it then dragged a pallet around. "
"Mix the job up I do some contracts that work out at £75hr.
Some just grass £500 per day
Some private £25hr
Some priced jobs £500 per day
Don't just stick to hourly rate you'll make nothing. To make bigger money you have to invest in better machines…"
Some just grass £500 per day
Some private £25hr
Some priced jobs £500 per day
Don't just stick to hourly rate you'll make nothing. To make bigger money you have to invest in better machines…"
"Yes I think most of the contributors on here make the bulk of their income from mowing on price work."
"Hi AG
Yes business costs just absorb turnover especially in the early days and I know from experience what a spreadsheet tells us we need to charge is not always reflected by what a customer is prepared to pay and we can end up living hand to mouth…"
Yes business costs just absorb turnover especially in the early days and I know from experience what a spreadsheet tells us we need to charge is not always reflected by what a customer is prepared to pay and we can end up living hand to mouth…"
Hi guys - first post! I've got the above model and really struggling to find out how to check and replace the transmission oil. Just can't locate a dipstick or see how to check the level. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very…
"The other issue is, the Type 1 is not free draining, it packs down into a hard pan, unlike chippings and gravel.
Round river gravel rolls around when driven on, chippings, crushed rock has angular edges and doesn't roll around but are free draining."
Round river gravel rolls around when driven on, chippings, crushed rock has angular edges and doesn't roll around but are free draining."
Etesia Bahia hydro mbhe 2001
Hi guys - first post! I've got the above model and really struggling to find out how to check and replace the transmission oil. Just can't locate a dipstick or see how to check the level. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very…
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How to make ends meet as a professional gardener
Hi all,I'm looking for a bit of advice really if anyone has any thoughts. I'm a mum to a young toddler so work part time and fit hours into nursery runs so for me it works well to have set regular hours at customers' gardens. Eg x2/3 hours a…
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Waste disposal
Hello all,Does anyone know where to dispose of soil in the Billingham / Teesside area?
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Country path
Hi everyone, I was looking for a little bit of advice if possible.This is an existing path through a country park near me. This was done 3 years ago now. Can anyone tell me what type of stone/gravel was used for this top layer?Any help much…
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We were always told by the Sister Solasctica never to wear patent leather shoes, as a boy could see your pants in the reflection (tells you how pervy nuns thinking is) and if you sit on a boys lap make sure that you place a yellow pages on his lap first. What advice, I'm not even Catholic!
I can see the funny side of it now its half a life ago but I don't think its an experience I will inflict on the mini Warners in a hurry! There's only a few of the "old school guard" left in our family so not many incense filled occasions are to be attended. I still can't stand the smell of the stuff though.
We still have priests and nuns in the family, and - I've got to say it - they really are / were some of my favourite relatives. My Aunt Katherine was famed for her wedding cakes - some taller than herself - and its so poignant that this woman never made her own wedding cake or one for her daughters.
Just to reinforce my Catholic street cred - my sister was confirmed by Bishop Marchinkus - the Vatican banker.... he even was featured in the Da Vinci Code.
I love the sound of Aunt Katherine and her high rise cakes. Maybe she thought it would all go wrong making them for loved ones, or that her thoughts, whilst making the cakes,would wander and take the 'loving touch' from her skilled hands.
Were you named after her?