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    Re: Parklander zero turn mowers?

    BTTT

    Can I just reinterate, if you didn't get the gist above...they are shiiite!!...it's just gone again...this time electrical (again!).
    Stay well clear of these pieces of crap.
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    Re: Parklander zero turn mowers?

    I can say, and have said previously, that the parklander is a heap of shiit!
    I've had the 42 inch deck for two years. I've given up counting how many times it's been in the shop. Mick is right. It's...
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    Re: Cycads getting smashed

    I'll give it a go. Thanks
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    Cycads getting smashed

    Trying to get rid of the white fly that are eating the leaves, and demolishing the cycads
    I've tried white oil, carbaryl, pyrethrum...with minimal success.
    Someone suggested dimethoate?...has...
  5. Thread: Busted Window

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    Re: Busted Window

    did my back window first job Monday. I'm still filthy. Might be time to change insurance's or go the perspex. :whipit
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    Re: Honda self propelled mower modifications

    Brilliant stuff Apples. My mowing guy used to cringe when I asked him to rev it up.(I keep it at 3550).His concern was that it would root the motor. Well I can say 5 years (nearly) down the track,...
  7. Thread: Xmas Pressies

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    Re: Xmas Pressies

    I'll pay that.Good one.:clap:
    The girls have already knocked out 8 eggs so far...bloody beautiful:noel
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    I'll pay that.Good one.
    The girls have already knocked out 8 eggs so far...bloody beautiful:noel
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    Re: Xmas Pressies

    I received some presents yesterday from a lady near one of our customers....five chooks!...I had a lot of explaining to do when I got home.I would've had heaps more if the cops had of pulled me...
  10. Thread: Stolen Tools

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    Re: Stolen Tools

    sorry to hear about that Scoob.Everyone on here feels your pain I'm sure.
    I was doing a vacant place today for the real estate, and the painters where inside.One,in particular kept asking about the...
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    Re: Jim's Mowing v's own business

    ok my bad. you made me go and find the receipt Courty:doh...it was $14.00 for 390kg(I thought it was 490kg when i drove in!!...bloody old age).
    But from what I've read of the other states, I reckon...
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    Re: Jim's Mowing v's own business

    not in Qld mate. I had 500 kgs of green waste at the tip this arv...$15.00You try charging some of those prices you quoted up here and you'd be queing up quicksmart at the local centrelink office.
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    Re: Jim's Mowing v's own business

    the only way he's doing that is if he's leaving the missus to drum up some business along the GC Hwy.
  14. Thread: Busted Window

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    Re: Busted Window

    f***ing did another window on Friday, then had a run-in with some f***wit in a water truck on a new housing estate...we end up nearly punching on. All this in front of a brand new customer. I rang a...
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    New policy for non-payers

    AN Italian village odd-job man gunned down clients who failed to pay him, killing at least five in the small Sicilian community, a prosecutor claim.
    Ugo Rossi, chief prosecutor for the city of...
  16. Thread: Ex-Jims trailer

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    Re: Ex-Jims trailer

    Haha...I just read the thread again. I can't believe it was that long ago.
    Nothing ever came of it...although I've heard from a cpl local Jims blokes that the clown is still a franchisor, and...
  17. Thread: Ride on mower

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    Re: Ride on mower

    Not a parklander:sad:
    The cub cadets seem to be getting a good rap up here.
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    Re: unpaid payment

    talking to a builder the other day about this...he tells me of a bloke that tried to do him on a final payment of $28,000.He showed me a pic of a completely burnt out fuse box, the whole house had to...
  19. Thread: Busted Window

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    Re: Busted Window

    FMD!! what is wrong with ppl. The wife asked the tenant today to move his car off the grass, i'm waiting to go with the blower,nothing's happening. She says the tenant wants to move it into the...
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    Re: Xmas Pressies

    we have two like this...it's like watching the Seppranos from behind the hedger... :frightene
  21. Thread: Busted Window

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    Re: Busted Window

    Had my first test of my "no dicking around policy" yesterday.
    Working away on a vacant rental block. Next thing a Sparky in his new Mitsubishi 4x4 drives up onto the grass right in front of me. I...
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    Re: Dehydration on the job

    as mentioned previously...No Sugar powerade...better than all of them...absolutely zero sugar...just wish they'd put it in a powder form...damn hard to find sometimes.
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    Re: Some people make me shake my head

    you've got buckleys of getting any kid away from the Xbox or i-pods to even contemplate manual work. :russ:
    We had one in our local paper the other day...." gardener wanted for 1 full day per...
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    Re: Busted Window

    mower twice,whippy once.
    Rocks are bad...but it's the bloody cocos palm balls on the ground.
    Not only do they bugger your bag and chasis...they fly off like bullets.
    After this week, I am taking...
  25. Thread: Busted Window

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    Re: Busted Window

    I hadn't done a window in two years...I have done three in 5 days!!!!....and one was to the front doors of a passing bus!..I mean how the F@#K do you pull that off. To say I'm fkn gutted is an...
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