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    Quote Originally Posted by cadase View Post
    I don't work weekends, i know it's extra $... but if you work Saturday service the equip on a Sunday, then it turns into a 7 day week job. Which i don't want
    Same here mate. But isn't it funny how the indians all start calling about 3pm friday wanting their lawns done that afternoon or satdy or sundy. "It is not far from you", "It is very small lawn", "I It vont be taking you long", "My lawnmower broke", "I work weekdays"......Do they think lawn mower blokes are unemployed degenerates who just pop up out of the ground when they get home from work and work for peanuts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fairdinkum View Post
    Same here mate. But isn't it funny how the indians all start calling about 3pm friday wanting their lawns done that afternoon or satdy or sundy. "It is not far from you", "It is very small lawn", "I It vont be taking you long", "My lawnmower broke", "I work weekdays"......Do they think lawn mower blokes are unemployed degenerates who just pop up out of the ground when they get home from work and work for peanuts?
    The same Indian blokes that have been calling me each Saturday afternoon must then find you haha. The last 3 Saturdays I have had a call from one wanting a mow. Yesterdays message was "I would like it done this evening or tomorrow morning". I don't bother passing details of you guys onto those people.

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    It is rife at this time of year with a lot of rentals expiring. I had one although not Indian a while back wanting a job done on a Saturday. I told her I don't work weekends. She pleaded with me saying that she only had the weekends spare and had to be there when it was done. I continued to say no and then she had the nerve to say to me what sort of buisiness are you running if you don't work weekends. I replied it was probably similar to her work and that I too enjoyed my weekends and used it to do stuff for my self. She just hung up.
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    if everyones flower beds have been slowly but surely been filling up with couch grass for a good few months wht do they all suddenly need to have them weeded the week before xmas?it's the only gardening job i hate and i have4 of them next week! i've tried offering the cheaper alternative ( or lazier) of spraying but no, everyone wants it pulled out. i guess santa only comes to houses with weeded flower beds

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    i guess santa only comes to houses with weeded flower beds
    No but all the family comes over for Christmas lunch, or Christmas eve and everyone wants their family to think they always have an immaculate garden.
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    No but all the family comes over for Christmas lunch, or Christmas eve and everyone wants their family to think they always have an immaculate garden.
    yer i know but what about those times they visit in the middle of the year? am i going to have sore fingers at easter too?

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    yes! But you eventually get to know the cycles. Get your regulars to plan ahead....offer the add on service of spraying about a month ahead in preparation, you get extra $$ and less weeds to pull.
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    yer i know but what about those times they visit in the middle of the year? am i going to have sore fingers at easter too?
    It's pretty rare that i hand weed, i always bump the cost up a fair bit to discourage them, but there's always that one person ..... In the end it's not so bad, as long as your making a good profit.
    I've got a customer who books me in for when her friends come over for lunch, she likes to have the hired help there, a gardener tending her garden, the dog groomer washing her mutts. Vanity = $$

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    i need to start putting more effort into selling the extra services such as spraying fertilising etc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs HMS View Post
    yes! But you eventually get to know the cycles. Get your regulars to plan ahead....offer the add on service of spraying about a month ahead in preparation, you get extra $$ and less weeds to pull.
    Reminds me of a regular of mine, msgs me last sunday saying could you weed the back garden if i pay your xx$ more. Prob 3X1 mtr, 1/2 mtr wide bed and full of weeds, i sprayed it last mon..hoping it dies off before next wed, wishing she could have perhaps decided upon it a bit earlier. Other than that looks like a good hrs work, she is a regular of 2 wkly and a good payer..sorta takes the pain away
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kathryn View Post
    if everyones flower beds have been slowly but surely been filling up with couch grass for a good few months wht do they all suddenly need to have them weeded the week before xmas?it's the only gardening job i hate and i have4 of them next week! i've tried offering the cheaper alternative ( or lazier) of spraying but no, everyone wants it pulled out. i guess santa only comes to houses with weeded flower beds
    Bugger that....get in there with the brushcutter, blow it our then spray what remains. Winter is a good time for that kind of job anyway!

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    weeding is a lot easier in summer here as thats when we get rain. pulling couch out of a dry bed is a total bastard.

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    It's seriously one of the worst jobs to do. Not much easier even when the soil's wet and you dig it through with a spade or fork. Next worst on my list would be trying to pull out Scotch Thistle. Ouch!

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    i'm finding another thistle thats even spikier at the mo. its kind of blueish with monster spikesthat make a scotch thistle look like a babe. its only couch i hate weeding, oh and clumps of panic grass that grow through mesh fencing right next to a rose

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