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As Blue Monday is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to give a small reminder to our community here on Landscape Juice to remember to tell people about your worries and if you’re having negative thoughts. Talking about emotions…
Britmow weren’t aware how much of an impact attending a trade show would have on their future endeavours. In the run up to their 50th anniversary, they were exploring ideas of how to celebrate. It’s only when they met Kate Cooney from…
“Gardening programmes tend to be very ‘traditional’ white middle-class in their attitude towards gardening”, Julia Sargeant said in an interview after she won gold at Chelsea Flower Show in 2016. She was the first black gardener to design…
A carefully-planned turf nutrition and treatment programme utilising three key Sherriff Amenity products has produced a sustained rise in the health, condition and playing standard of greens at the Milford Golf Club in Surrey.
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"There is a recent thread here:
Day rate for landscaping?"
Day rate for landscaping?"
"Purchase quality whenever you can I know dependant on income but I would now aspire too purchase quality whenever you can cheap false economy doesn't last "
"The problem is two fold we need both metric and imperial sockets and spanners as we have some american machinery which makes it a dear job ! Also unless you are prepared to spend a fortune on the likes of Elora what you think of so called quality…"
"What are people charging now.
Man hourly rate £25hr
removal of waste £50 8x5 trailer load"
Man hourly rate £25hr
removal of waste £50 8x5 trailer load"
"Mixed thoughts usually only buy more expensive end stuff. However when I turned 18 my dad grabbed 3 sets of £10 socket sets I thought cheap crap I'll break that in seconds. I'm now 39 and haven't broken single thing it lives in my van and used most…"
"Never tried Bahco, but for us, if affordable, we always go for quality over price. When you're starting out and funds are tight, you have to do what you have to do, but really, once you're established, cheap is definitely not chearful. It is an…"
"Bacho are generally good tools, halfords socket sets are also good, i had a friend who used them in his business and only ever had to replace them when the guys working for him had lost enough bits of the set, that it had become no longer usable!
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"A key challenge, you might have seen it but within the Business Objectives Group (BOG) there is:
Phasing in price increases whilst staying in control"
Phasing in price increases whilst staying in control"
"....nailing the price increases both asap and meaningful"
As we approach the new year, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the challenges and successes of 2024 while looking ahead to the opportunities 2025 might bring for the landscaping industry.
This past year has proven, once again, the resilience and…
This past year has proven, once again, the resilience and…
"Halfords... on the basis that I can buy lost items locally.
The catch with the CHinese ones is when they turn to toffee on a particular job - it will be totally the wrong job/time/client for them to have done that"
The catch with the CHinese ones is when they turn to toffee on a particular job - it will be totally the wrong job/time/client for them to have done that"
"Nick, we normally use half inch drive , just wondered how useful the three qt and quarter sockets are along with the screwdriver / torx bits are ? Thanks"
Looking forward to 2025
As we approach the new year, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the challenges and successes of 2024 while looking ahead to the opportunities 2025 might bring for the landscaping industry. This past year has proven, once again, the resilience and…
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New garden robot putting more of our jobs at risk
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Stihl Motomix fuel
I've always been sceptical about using this fuel as I just reckoned it a waste of money at 3x the price at the pumps. Anyway, read you can leave it in machines for years with no problem and having some tools that just get used once a year at the…
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Bahco tools vs Chinese?
Well it's that time of year for some serious machine fettling.The shortcomings in our tool collection have once again brought us to a halt with some jobs, where did those Whitworth spanners come from!? Like most people our tool kits have been built…
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