You know you're a landscaper when.....

[sodgod]

You know you're a landscaper when....
-you hear a lawn mower running and you can pretty much tell what type it is or kind.
-you find yourself looking at the lawns that you drive by and not the road
-the smell of gas oil diesel bar-chain oil and grass makes you turn your head and or puts you in a good mood
-the tops of your fingers are white and the rest of your hands are tan. (tops of your fingers are griping the handles of the mowers and facing down....no sun)
-you wear your work boots more than your regular shoes
-the inside of your truck looks like a recycling center

lets hear em!!!!!

[meathead1134]

your personal lawn looks like crap and all your customers lawns look great. :help:

when you critique other LCO work and point out the mistakes to your spouse and they really don't care

[gator-town]

when you would rather take your wife to Home Depot - instead of the mall ...

[KathysLGC]

When evening drives are to look at used equipment for sale.

[rodfather]

Some lawns ya just gotta stripe them twice is how nice they'll look...

[kc2006]

You watch sports just to look at the stripes on the field (i find my self doing this often)

[blkberry]

...When your dog smells better than your boots. :rolleyes:

[Michael J. Donovan]

...the smell of grass puts you in the mood more than your wife's perfume
...your evening shower consists of 10 minutes worth of scrubbing the green out of your leg hairs
...your wife needs to plant shrubs and put down mulch at your house since you don't have the time

[Sean Adams]

When you go to a candle store with your wife and you purchase the scent "fresh cut grass" for your office....

When you put on a pair of sandles at night and from your boot line down looks like you still have socks on....

When you fall asleep from exhaustion without showering and wake up and have to brush the grass clippings off your sheets.....

When you have a date/occasion to attend and you run your truck through the car wash, remembering to remove your magnets at the last minute....

When you are a guest at someone's home and you offer to mow thier lawn, excited to show them how well you can make an edge with a regular trimmer...

When you scrub your hands after work, go home and take a 45 minute shower, get dressed for a night out and realize your hands still smell like triple shredded dark mulch....

[fromTEXAS!]

you find out that you are highly :help: :help: :help: alergic to grass!!(wich happens to be me!!!)

[John P.]

You know you're a landscaper when....
-you hear a lawn mower running and you can pretty much tell what type it is or kind.
-you find yourself looking at the lawns that you drive by and not the road
-the smell of gas oil diesel bar-chain oil and grass makes you turn your head and or puts you in a good mood
-the tops of your fingers are white and the rest of your hands are tan. (tops of your fingers are griping the handles of the mowers and facing down....no sun)
-you wear your work boots more than your regular shoes
-the inside of your truck looks like a recycling center

lets hear em!!!!!
I could clean the inside of my truck every day but it always ends up looking like a trash can was dumped in there. I think its dirty always cause the last thing i want to do after working is to pick garbage out of the inside of my truck.

[Reliable Lawn Care]

When you run up the curb with your truck while rubber necking to see another LCO's sign on their truck.
When you are at Home Depot with your date, and reading pesticide labels might as well be like reading porn. ok that's bad!

[proenterprises]

I could clean the inside of my truck every day but it always ends up looking like a trash can was dumped in there. I think its dirty always cause the last thing i want to do after working is to pick garbage out of the inside of my truck.

YES. I dont know what it is, but my truck gets to be a mess! I clean/wash it every week, but it always seems to get just as bad the next...

[BCSteel]

When the person who your reading this too is politly smiling and nodding but really wishing that you would just shut up with all the lawn talk for 5 minutes.

[Olylawnboy]

That was great BC :)

[steve in Pa.]

when your main fix it things are duck tape and weed eating string. by the way weed eating makes a nice belt!!!1

[BNC SERVICES]

when the amount of landscaping supplies / debris piled up behind the garage exceeds the amount of landscaping in your entire yard......

when your truck has more garbage in it than your garage , why is it so hard for friends to understand we live out of our trucks all day......Bryan

[out4now]

When you start watching the lingerie bowl and all your attetnion is spent on a critique of the field :p

[procut]

why is it so hard for friends to understand we live out of our trucks all day......Bryan
Tell me about it.

[KINGjosh]

your personal lawn looks like crap and all your customers lawns look great.

BAHAAHAHAAAAA

[Itsgottobegreen]

your personal lawn looks like crap and all your customers lawns look great. :help:

I am thinking about putting a picture of my house and one of my customers. "Ours looks like this, because we spend all of our time making yours look like this."

You might be a landscaper if your lawn mower is worth more than your car.
You might be a landscaper if your girlfriend gets turned on by the combination smell of sweat, diesel, mulch, grass, etc.
You might be a landscaper if you vacuum the carpet in your house so it has strips in it. (don't laugh, I am not the only one who has done that)
You might be a landscaper if Play Boy and Turf come in the mail on the same day and you read Turf first.

[grassmanvt]

you're on this site when you should be sleeping
every pair of jeans you own are now green
after a long week's work, you drive by a couple of your best striped properties
you see one of your customers driving on their lawn and you mutter under your breath "get of my lawn a-hole, you're ruining my stripes"

[Sean Adams]

forgot one....during slow growth season you drive past one of your properties and for a split second you swear it looks like it was cut...and not by you, and you sit motionless in the middle of the road in your truck staring to see if someone did actually steal one of your accounts, only to realize the grass hasn't grown, you let out a sigh of relief and then you and the 7 cars behind you get to contnue on their way.

[gator-town]

bottom line ... you know you are a landscaper when you have been sporting the same haircut (the mullet) for the past 25 years because some one told you in the early eightys (between bong hits) that it was known as "The Landscaper Mullet (a.k.a. The Ape Drape)" ... because the mullet was short on the top and sides, yet long and wavy in the back, it fit your landscapers philosophy of "Business in the front, party in the back" ... yeah thats the ticket !!!!

[twins_lawn_care]

You know you're a landscaper when your wife makes you leave your work boots outside/in the garage, because if you bring them in, the house smells like your truck overnight!

(goes along with the dog smells better than your boots!)

when you get excited about opening a new pair of ear plugs, instead of using those nasty ones from last week one more day!

when you'd rather wash the inside of the bed in your truck than the actual painted body!

[Turfdude]

You have to remove your boots & socks before entering the house (grass must come off of socks prior to hitting hamper so you can't get sreamed at for grass in the washing machine again)

You get hollared at at least 2X's a week for leaving ear plugs in your pants and they come out in the wash

You forget to turn your socks right side out befor putting in the laundry and they dry in whatever position they leave your feet because your feet sweat so bad in workboots all day

You can no longer smell mulch and if you do it doesn't offend you

When you come home after a long day, the kids say man dad you need a shower - you stink!

When ever your wife points out a house she likes, you automatically go off critiquing the landscape

[nobagger]

When the person who your reading this too is politly smiling and nodding but really wishing that you would just shut up with all the lawn talk for 5 minutes.
BC you too? She acts like she cares but is really interested in American Idol. :)

[A+ Lawncare]

BC you too? She acts like she cares but is really interested in American Idol. :)


did u mean American Idiot? :rolleyes:

[Mo Green]

When you pull into a neighborhood and can tell by the scent of grass in the air that a lawn has just been cut within a 5 block radius.

[chuckers]

When you have a sprinker key on your key rings for the trucks.

[sheshovel]

When your hairstylist asks"what exactly is this in your hair?"
"When you have to buy new work boots once a month in summer and you get to the shoe place and have on two different boots on your feet.

When you get to a potential clients house to meet with them ,open the door of your truck,and garbage and drink cups fall all over the street.

When you have to refuse a dinner date because you just cant get your fingernails and hands clean enough to eat in a public place.

When you tell the customer to stay out of the way intell your gone for the day.

[Eho]

.....when you notice that your hand has turned into one big calous

[l1011100]

On your day off, when you are backing into a parking spot, (or driveway) and you start to turn like you still have a trailer behind you. Did that the other day and I could'nt help but laughing!!! :laugh:

[shortgut]

YES. I don't know what it is, but my truck gets to be a mess! I clean/wash it every week, but it always seems to get just as bad the next...
seems that the harder I try to keep it uncluttered it gets worse especially on passenger side as everything either goes on dash and lands in the passenger seat or it get tossed in the passenger side and when my wife goes with me it takes her a bit to get in as she sacks the trash up on her side so she will have a place to sit

[BCSteel]

On your day off, when you are backing into a parking spot, (or driveway) and you start to turn like you still have a trailer behind you. Did that the other day and I could'nt help but laughing!!! :laugh:

Glad I'm not the only one that does that :rolleyes: Makes ya feel like a knob because ya cant back up your own truck by its self but put a trailer on the back and parallel parking in down town rush hour is no problem :alien:

[coastallandscapesolutions]

Your wife wants to go out to dinner and a movie and your idea of "going out" is going to the shop/garage to change blades on the mowers, do maintenance on the equipment while sucking down a beer or two and some wings.

[nocutting]

Its Friday, you breath a sigh of relief that the weekend is here!......Nothing to do.......But, go to the nursey and wait for that delivery of 3000 perennials you ordered?......."Thank God" its the weekend.........

[Eho]

seems like most of these aer true for me lol....My truck is always such a mess and when I let people ride in it, I have to clear out a space for their feet. Nothing but old cups, sunflower seeds, ear plugs, and just trash that I dont know what it is. sounds like we all have this problem...Heres one more for the list: you have a very nice watch tan line
EHO

[Pro-Scapes]

When the person who your reading this too is politly smiling and nodding but really wishing that you would just shut up with all the lawn talk for 5 minutes.


Too funny I just read my wife that one while we are on vacation and I'm surfing lawnsite on my pda lol.

"I'm interested but would like for you to ennjoy being here and forget about wrk for the weekend. U don't believe I'm interested?"

That was her reply.

If you climb in bedd at night with equipment catalogs you just might be a landscaper.
If you go on a 4 day weekend and you gotta surf LS from your wireless you just might be a landscaper
If the first thing you look at is your parents grass instead of your mom. You just might have a problem.

Enjoy your weekends yall

[sheshovel]

You know your a Landscaper when..You don't have a weekend and have forgotten what they are for.

[BNC SERVICES]

Its Friday, you breath a sigh of relief that the weekend is here!......Nothing to do.......But, go to the nursey and wait for that delivery of 3000 perennials you ordered?......."Thank God" its the weekend.........

yaaay its the weekend, finally here. time to go touch up a couple of jobs , fix the retaining wall you hit with the ztr on wed , do a couple estimates , order supplies / materials for next week , start to clean out the truck and get a call for a quick job , get back and fix the wheel on the ztr(retaining wall) , hit lawnsite , sunday , stare at the pile of paperwork that needs done for two hours while checking out lawnsite again , finally take care of the paper work , give advice to all your friends while they call you all day asking stupid questions about there houses/yards .........................did i get it all.....gotta love weekends.......................Bryan

[turfmann]

When your lawn is the disgrace of the neighborhood.

Mine is dead, except for the crap that the hydrodseeders threw down when they fixed the utility trench.

Six or seven million feet of fertilization a week and I haven't fertilized the homestead in over a year. Great Dandelions, better Poa trivialis, Japanese Beetles that belong in a museum.

My 21" mower, the only one I own, is broken. I haven't put its replacement on the to-do list.

Sprayers, spreaders, trucks, trailers, computers, fertilizers...buy all we need - a stinking mower? Are you crazy? Do I look like I'm made of money?

I think I'm going to call Dr. Phil.

[Chris Wagner]

You're know you're an landscaper when you take off your hat everyday and note the increasing sweat and dirt line surrounding the brim (which can never fully be washed out). While disgusting you wouldn't dare leave home without it the next day.

[Triple R]

When you refer to your clients' lawns as "my lawn"
When all your friends are other landscapers
When your reading this, got ya

[txlawnking]

When you mow in your sleep.... When you think using a line trimmer should be an Olympic sport....


When you can tell what kind of blower the competitors crew is using on the home behind the one you're servicing, and laugh mockingly, knowing your Redmax enables you to be jumping back in the truck when their feeble sissy blower is restricting their performance.... :cool:

[Ferrante/TDF]

When you are more worried about the amount of grass on a accounts sidewalk than in the CAB of your truck!

You give your Z more oil changes than your wifes van!

When you can talk on the phone, eat lunch, tie your work boot, all while strinng you trimmer!

When you should be sleeping but thinking of the 8 ton of river rock that you have to move the next day by yourself!

[LHSlawnman86]

i often find myself judging the equipment of other lco's and muttering a few choice words when i see them in my own neighborhood. i often point out mistakes to whoever i am with.

[grasshopperslc]

1. You know you're a landscaper when you drink 2 gallons of water or more a day.

2. When you got the biggest,baddest most powerful lawn mower on your street.

3.When you have a pile of yard waste the size of a boat in your backyard.

All the really funny ones where taken

[sheshovel]

Mabey this thread should have been titled You Know your a Lawncare Operator instead of You know your a Landscaper when...cuz I am a full time Landscaper and my shovel is much more important to me than my mower .And you Know your a Landscaper when you wear your kneepads so much you forget to take them off and go walking around like an idiot with a pair of Nailers on after work,to the bank,gas station,hardware store,bar.
When your shades are standard equipment and you go thru
4 pairs a summer cuz you leave them on posts,rock,porches,patios and under plants and in ditches
AND when you lay down in bed everybone in your body pops and creaks and you shower is the same color of the soil at the last job you did.

[liquidforcedude7]

you vacuum stripes into your carpet.

[Itsgottobegreen]

you vacuum stripes into your carpet.

Man I thought I was the only one who did that. I feel normal now. :D

[iluvscag]

You know your a landscaper when your on vacation in the Bahamas and your still thinking about what pattern of stripes your going to put in your client's yard the next day. :)

[Holistic Landscapes]

You start growing grass in those hard to reach areas..... :waving:

[sheshovel]

You know your a landscaper when,you install the grass that you all cut.And in doing so help others to make a living.

[sodgod]

You know you're a landscaper when you take off your shirt and it still looks like your wearing a white t-shirt. Gotta love those tan lines lol
.....ur a landscaper when no matter where you go or where your driving...u always seem to see someone you know, have done work for, or does landscape work. I can't go anywhere anymore lol

[Kate Butler]

-the tops of your fingers are white and the rest of your hands are tan. (tops of your fingers are griping the handles of the mowers and facing down....no sun)


Are you sure that's not white finger disorder from vibration?? :D

[Paradise Landscapes]

You're know you're an landscaper when you take off your hat everyday and note the increasing sweat and dirt line surrounding the brim (which can never fully be washed out). While disgusting you wouldn't dare leave home without it the next day.


Something will help that! Have you guys hear of OXY-CLEAN? Try it with dish soap and an old tooth brush! Works great! Just let it soak first. :waving:

[Paradise Landscapes]

PS: You come home late at night, fall asleep on the couch or bed still in your work uniform and waking up feeling like you had a hang over due to the heat the previous day! This happend to me.

[coastallandscapesolutions]

When you come home and finely take a shower only to discover the bottom of the floor is now green.

No matter how many q-tips you use, dirt always still comes out of your ears.

[rodfather]

No matter how many q-tips you use, dirt always still comes out of your ears.

You hit it there Brian...sometimes have used as many as 6.

[Lux Lawn]

You might be a landscaper if your legs are all scratched up from weed eating in shorts.

[Lawn Masters]

You might be a landscaper if you mow in your sleep.

[sodgod]

I just found out today that i'm a landscaper because i looked in the back of my truck and found grass growing in it. I've been doing a lot of work in the dirt lately and there a one spot in the truck bed where theres a good 2" of dirt....to day i notice that theres grass growing in it and it looks like it needs mowing :p :rolleyes:

[topsites]

when your main fix it things are duck tape and weed eating string. by the way weed eating makes a nice belt!!!1

Yes and duct tape can be used for sealing deep cuts (lacerations) instead of running to the ER for stitches.

[MowingGuru]

The laces in your work boots are starter cord.

[antlernut]

you might be a landscaper if when you hit a hiden piece of dog crap and you're more upset that it is in the groves of your mower tires then the groves of your work boots!

If when you're trimming the hedges and you think that Edward Scissor hand was a rookie

when you're edging the sidewalk and try to do a better straight line then the guys that put the walk in did

when you could drink water right from the hose no matter how warm the water is

and last but not least, when you can take a wizz anywhere and pretend your adjusting the height of your mower wheels

[JS Landscaping]

You know your a landscaper when you have the t-shirts from the brand of mower you use.

You know your a landscaper when your favorite pair of sunglasses are made by stihl.

You know your a lanscaper when you look at a new home being built and can immagine a entire landscape design/build for it in your head.



Landscapin is definatly a labor of love dont you guys think?

James
JS LANDSCAPING

[Kate Butler]

James, you betcha - see my signature and the name of my business

[fromTEXAS!]

when you super highly alergic to grass and have no job again!!! quit becuse of health issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Woody82986]

You know you are a landscaper when you name every one of your plants and tell your girlfriend not to sit where she is because it is blocking Bob the Bamboo's view of the television.

[wacamaster]

When you get all your outdoor work done with no problem, but can never seem to get the damn bills done.

You eat twice as fast as everyone (always eating quick to get back out to work)

You hate hearing someone say they had a tough day at work because you know yours was twice as hard.

Your very good at remembering names

[ken0564]

- your wife can't park in the two car garage because the precious mowers go on one side and the other side is shop area

[DiscoveryLawn]

The ER doctor attempting to stitch up your leg (from debris cutting you) complains because he is having a difficult time getting the needle through the leather-like skin on your shin.

Really happened.

David

[kootoomootoo]

You know you're a landscaper when.....you dont own a lawnmower

As budweiser says...true. :)
Heres to you lawnmowing guy.

[jeffex]

when you tell your family that when you kick the bucket you want sod placed at the casket during the viewing

[Itsgottobegreen]

I been saying for a while now. If I ever get a really big company, like 20 trucks or so. So we can buy want ever we want.

That I want my office to have a dirt floor that is irrigated and is 100% Kentucky blue grass. (except right behind the desk so I can roll around in my chair.) I would have to put glow lights in the office.

It would be fun to cut every week with a pair of hand trimmers.