Customers strange demands.

[hamdogg]

Get some pics and post them up after and let us know how it went 👍🏻

[David Cropper]

Or you could leave it untill the ground firms up a bit, in the past i have put boards down etc to save make a mess, but it only half works as the boards squash into the lawn and the mud comes to the top due to working on top of the boards, wait until May when the moisture has gone.

 

Don't worry, that's the first thing I said to him. Give it another few weeks hereand the ground will be hard. We've had it here when we've had a dry spell in April that the ground is rock hard.

[Haironyourchest]

The old mattress thing doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. Apart from the hassle of lugging them around and storing them. Makes you think.

[Vespasian]

LOL funny story..

 

We should have more of these odd ball encounters posted up, makes for great reading and entertainment...

[David Cropper]

Get some pics and post them up after and let us know how it went 👍🏻

 

Will do. Did 4 very big chestnuts last Friday near Limoges, bloke was ok about the tracks making a bit of mess round the work area as he was having some changes made to the garden, ground was quite dry, no mud about which made it easy but still track marks where I had to change position. Most folk are fairly happy to accept a bit of marking as the lawns here are not to the same standard as in the UK. Still try to limit the damage using boards.

[David Cropper]

The old mattress thing doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. Apart from the hassle of lugging them around and storing them. Makes you think.

 

Imagine the stink from old, wet mattresses lying around? I know, after looking at some of the property for sale over here!

[DeltaBravo]

Hmm.. I just wonder if the job is worth the potential hassle?

[David Cropper]

Hmm.. I just wonder if the job is worth the potential hassle?

 

Half a day's pay for one small stump, yes, ,mind you, I'm saying it now, sitting at home, maybe another story when I get to the job! I asked him to email me his details, address etc so I can send him the quote, as yet nothing. If he doesn't reply, that's okay by me. My mate has weighed up the job, including my part in it so I'm not totally in the dark as to what it entails. I'll combine it with another small job the same day. Ironically the date my mate is going to drop the tree is 1st of April!

[Ty Korrigan]

He's now suggesting that I roll up all the turf around the stump to 3 metres and also on the route from the drive to the job which is 30 metres. All this for a 2 foot wide stump.

 

I've never seen a lawn in France worth the trouble.

There are however many overly precious bordering on mania about getting a mark on their cream coloured rendering from branches whilst in the same breath having a lawn peppered with lawn sausages which they cannot see a problem for us working around...

Ty

[David Cropper]

I've never seen a lawn in France worth the trouble.

There are however many overly precious bordering on mania about getting a mark on their cream coloured rendering from branches whilst in the same breath having a lawn peppered with lawn sausages which they cannot see a problem for us working around...

Ty

 

I have Stuart. An eccentric Yorkshireman who spent all his time and vast amounts of money on setting up a complex watering system to keep his,very big lawned areas ,in pristine condition. Bearing in mind that down here we have temperatures in summer knocking on 40 degrees on a regular basis. It was, I have to say very impressive. He was a fanatical cricketer and umpire, had practice nets up,the lot. Luckily I had to grind out some big bays, not near the lawns!