miker

im trying to find a company that will supply me with a green waste bin,660 ish litre with a fortnightly/monthly collection, any body know a firm ?

cheers

mike

i get 5 litres for £28 so not cheap, he wants £24 odd for 1 litre

Unfortunately in today's world of re cycling I am coming across more problems with freshly laid turf because of the amount of Cowboys using re-cycled soil which is basically screened stones and whatever rubbish they can class has soil.

The Turf look great for the first year until the winter and then the problems appear in the Spring .

 

 

Ste

spot on there mate,took on 4 new care home sites last year,blowing the paths off and the new laid turf came up, underneath was stones,fresh ash branches,an old bath mat and god knows what else,like you say, turf was good for the summer but now looking pretty bad

Good call , always the best option when taking on a new lawn with issues.

 

 

Ste

since starting the thread ive found out that the lawn with the most issues was a carpark and a thin layer of soil was laid over scalping and then turfed, this was about 3 years ago apparently, fun and games ahead i think !!

have left the grass to its own devices and seems to be thickening up,full of ragwort tho, so im going to treat with a 3 in 1

spuds your man , but i reckon your needle in the carb is stuck

According to the husky website max bar lengths

372 and 390 max bar 28" ?? 390 has 18cc more than 372

576 can have a 32" ?

555 can have a 24" but 560 xp only 20"

WTF :lol:

a lot of numpties out there, i sold a nice 268, 9 months later the guy contacts me to say the rope in the starter had snapped and wanted a refund !!!!!

Any idea how to get rid of this triffid ?

Tried gallop 360, on the leaves, tried digging it out, but the tiniest bit left grows a whole new plant ???????

or run that mulcher in your picture over the hedges, job done for the season lol

ive got husky 327ld split system,short reach hedge cutter and extension pole to turn it into long reach,also have chainsaw,strimmer attachments,powerful bit of kit,not cheap tho,similar money to stihl

if you have a known running saw/strimmer, check the plug is the same and try that in the saw

By concrete saw you mean a power cutter? if so the Husqvarna K760 12" is a good machine, all parts are readily available at reasonable prices, always remember these machines work in a very dirty dusty enviroment, so if the filters have not been maintained and concrete dust has entered the engine it will quickly take out the cylinder, crank and bearings, avoid the K650, poor spares availability and pricey.

All of that and will probably have been abused big time,allow for av springs etc aswell

if you can smell fuel,i would check you have a spark

Not far off kew gardens then!?! Personally I'd apply a nitrogen feed @ review in a fortnights time but re-seeding will be cheaper than turfing. Got any pictures?

i will get some pics when i am there next:thumbup1:

Lawn seed is cheap, throw some around.

grass area is 3000 + sq meters so wouldnt be cheap !

What's the thatch layer like? Maybe scarify first? This will promote new growth as well by splicing the rizomes and stolons.

no thatch layer at all,just very short grass and bare earth:thumbdown:

if id known i was gonna start a row i wouldnt have posted anything lol

i have been in this game 25 years and never seen a lawn (if you can call it that) in such a poor state, i really think i will have to overseed or possibly lay new turf.

thanks for all the input

Just taken over a contract and the existing maintenance person has been cutting the grass all winter and spring resulting in next to no grass ie length, do i let it grow and hopefully will come back as a half decent lawn or overseed ?

i reckon the grass(whats left of it) is about 10mm and very sparse,really been scalped all winter

what do i do to give it some body for want of a better word ?

cheers:thumbup:

Oaks here

skip chain

Stihl 084, snapped your wrist starting it, that's a mans saw!

husky 2101 , again a mans saw, never had problems starting it,its all about getting it just past tdc, they catch you out now and again tho:thumbup1:

husky 340, bought it new in 1999, never let me down, originally bought for fencing work,ie ending rails,pointing posts etc , but that saw has cut many tons of firewood,felled and processed,ended and scarfed rails,pointed posts and anything else ive needed it to, goes pretty much everywhere with me, cracking little 40cc saw

or dolmar ps 32

husky 236 wouldnt like an 18" bar imo