brodie
10-04-2014, 04:16 PM
Lawn Hygiene is not something that you hear talked about a lot but I feel is somewhat of an important issue for us as contractors.
The topic was raised by a need client this week. The condition he put on the contract was that we were to arrive at the job with mowers that have been cleaned and free of grass and seed. Now this request is fine by me we have a clean water pressure sprayer on the truck that we clean down equipment with anyhow but it did get me thinking how many people are actually cleaning down equipment and actively trying to reduce the spread of weeds and desease from lawn to lawn.
As a contractor are you taking responsibility for the health of your clients lawns or is it just mow and go and hit the client up for further lawn treatments when problems occur?
This isn't a judgemental bashing of anyone or their business practices but for a realisation that we are responsible for potential spread and how can we as a whole reduce our impact? What methods do you all use? As mentioned we carry a small pressure sprayer for equipment cleaning whats everyone else doing ?
Looking forward to hearing different opinions
The topic was raised by a need client this week. The condition he put on the contract was that we were to arrive at the job with mowers that have been cleaned and free of grass and seed. Now this request is fine by me we have a clean water pressure sprayer on the truck that we clean down equipment with anyhow but it did get me thinking how many people are actually cleaning down equipment and actively trying to reduce the spread of weeds and desease from lawn to lawn.
As a contractor are you taking responsibility for the health of your clients lawns or is it just mow and go and hit the client up for further lawn treatments when problems occur?
This isn't a judgemental bashing of anyone or their business practices but for a realisation that we are responsible for potential spread and how can we as a whole reduce our impact? What methods do you all use? As mentioned we carry a small pressure sprayer for equipment cleaning whats everyone else doing ?
Looking forward to hearing different opinions