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fairdinkum
Those bloody red volcanic rocks!
yeh 10 out of 10 on that one fairdinkum also the small white pebbles people use a lot on there garden beds ... one of my clients has them and there every where = told her sorry no more mowing til there cleaned up , she said whats the problem your insured , i replyed yeh i am but for accidents and im under obligation to protect my insurer and to keep mowing this insurance would proberly regaurd it as stupidity and neglegence....
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And for @ods sake why do people insist on having no defined edge between the stones and their grass. So all the stones just end up intermingled with the lawn.:dean: So when you wipper the edges all you are doing is sending more stones out onto the lawn.
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Yep, stones, scoria, big lumps of bark. If i get them as new clients I tell them straight up I am taking no responsibility for broken windows or any other damage caused by them.
Getting the same rush of green grass loonies over here too. Had one send me an email today referring to my quote for her over grown block and wanting to know if the $150 included green waste removal. It didn't ring a bell so went back through my estimate requests. She had asked for a quote but had not given me an addresss so I sent an email back asking for it. That was a couple of weeks ago. Told her I wouldn't go anywhere near an overgrown block for that type of money and said I am happy to quote but it will be more than $150
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Bluey
Yep, stones, scoria, big lumps of bark. If i get them as new clients I tell them straight up I am taking no responsibility for broken windows or any other damage caused by them.
Getting the same rush of green grass loonies over here too. Had one send me an email today referring to my quote for her over grown block and wanting to know if the $150 included green waste removal. It didn't ring a bell so went back through my estimate requests. She had asked for a quote but had not given me an addresss so I sent an email back asking for it. That was a couple of weeks ago. Told her I wouldn't go anywhere near an overgrown block for that type of money and said I am happy to quote but it will be more than $150
I do a fair bit of overgrown blocks, $150 would be a descent price, but greenwaste stays where it lands, i use a Deutscher slasher pretty easy money, if the block's clean
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Did a regular the other day, been doing it for 14 months now, well I hit a pile of stones and one flicked out and hit a garden ornament (wooden birdcage... ugly as) smashed it to pieces, well she arced up say I need to be more careful and I should pay for it to be replaced.... asked her where the stones came from and she said straight away her grandson had been playing with them.. I politely requested she send her grandson the bill and also he should stop putting projectiles on the lawn as I wouldn't accept responsibility for any damage caused to her property and she would be paying for damage caused to my equipment.
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spose many have this one ..old old old lady request quote and accepts ..will be there on thursday mrs ..well roll up to find another contactor going to town on the job...knocked on the door to ask WTF is going on ..but in a most polite way of course...shes says who are you ???? what do you do ..what would you do ??? the old mind of oldies can be testing ..nothing much one can do on this one
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A couple yrs ago i was asked to mow a lawn by a sweet old lady, nice neat lawn looked like it had just been cut.Mowed it charged accordingly turned up two weeks later same thing nice and neat looked fresh cut but did it any way as was requested..drive by the next week to see another grumpy lawnie (That i know) there mowing.I say whats the go your on my turf, he says nah I been doing this one for yrs ,some other mongrel lawnie has been trying to take my job..Turns out she has alzheimer`s so i just stopped going..HE`s still mowing it though probably doing it 3 times a week :laughing:
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Customers that get prices for mowing and putting clippings in their green waste bins. You turn up and their bin is full of general rubbish. Then they complain that their bin didn't get emptied cause it was too heavy or why are you not catching the clippings or what I've got to pay extra for ....what!
Then they will complain about the cost of their rates. Well I'm not surprised, the council has to employ who knows how many extra people to separate all the rubbish each year!
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Cranbourne Lawnmowing
And for @ods sake why do people insist on having no defined edge between the stones and their grass. So all the stones just end up intermingled with the lawn.:dean: So when you wipper the edges all you are doing is sending more stones out onto the lawn.
i won't brushcut close to garden beds with stones and no edges i spray with glyph if the client isn't happy with that they can put in edging or get someone else it's not worth the risk
and to answer your question it's because they have no idea some 1/2 wit has suggested it and they go yeah great idea
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ian
i won't brushcut close to garden beds with stones and no edges i spray with glyph if the client isn't happy with that they can put in edging or get someone else it's not worth the risk
and to answer your question it's because they have no idea some 1/2 wit has suggested it and they go yeah great idea
Yeah agree with the Glypho thats what I do on regs now
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Cranbourne Lawnmowing
You turn up and their bin is full of general rubbish. Then they complain that their bin didn't get emptied cause it was too heavy or why are you not catching the clippings or what I've got to pay extra for ....what!
Then they will complain about the cost of their rates. Well I'm not surprised, the council has to employ who knows how many extra people to separate all the rubbish each year!
I can't believe how many people throw their general rubbish in the green bin!
You go to empty the catcher, open the lid and there are a couple of bags of rubbish in there. Some people are just useless.
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At least they put it in the bin. Without being racist I would say there is a certain ethnic group in the wentworthville area who I believe have no idea what that big green thing on wheels is for.
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classic thread. i got a call a few weeks back at 11am from a feller wanting his lawn mowed befor his rent inpecton at 2 pm(also said to leave the bill and he would direct debit it into my account haha genuis) I politly said no thanks but i cruized past on the way home and it was about 100sqm of cruddy looking lawn a foot tall in some places. :thinking Had to laugh about that one
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Cranbourne Lawnmowing
Customers that get prices for mowing and putting clippings in their green waste bins. You turn up and their bin is full of general rubbish. Then they complain that their bin didn't get emptied cause it was too heavy or why are you not catching the clippings or what I've got to pay extra for ....what!
Then they will complain about the cost of their rates. Well I'm not surprised, the council has to employ who knows how many extra people to separate all the rubbish each year!
dont realy have that problem cranbourne my opitions are , mulch , catch and place in there bin , or take them away and for this i charge big $$$$ , a few of my clients where very good at making sure there bins where full of crap before i visited , so i just took the waste away to keep them happy although i told them many times so one day i cracked the ****s and charged them like a wounded bull = very rare now that there bins are full when i turn up i also tell tell them now if the clippings dont fit in green waste bin an additional cost of xxx amount to take them away and reminded them thats the agreement or find some one else .... more than one way to beat them at that game ...
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GreenHaven
classic thread. i got a call a few weeks back at 11am from a feller wanting his lawn mowed befor his rent inpecton at 2 pm(also said to leave the bill and he would direct debit it into my account haha genuis) I politly said no thanks but i cruized past on the way home and it was about 100sqm of cruddy looking lawn a foot tall in some places. :thinking Had to laugh about that one
My plan with ones like that is I will fit them in if I can but on my terms.
Payment up-front after quoting and before starting the job :whipit.
Sometimes it works - most times they're like, "What you can't demand that!" :confused:
Hops in truck and drives away.