Old forum members...

[cutntrim]

Old forum members never die, they just...

In my case, they fade away but check in now and again. Being married with a toddler to look after doesn't allow much time to peruse the forum regularly. In the daytime I'm too busy, at nite I'm too tired.

Nice to see the forum is so successful. I'm sure it's helping a lot of guys out. I see a number of the original guys (those that were on the old site(s)) still post regularly. Others may have run out of steam, or scaled back to devote more time to family - like me. If I were single and not a dad, I'd probably still be on all the time.

[Eric ELM]

Lawnsite has grown a lot, especially in the past year. We have at least 2000 more members than 1 year ago and we have had as many as 115 on at one time and as many as over 100,000 hits in a day. It makes the Lawnicure days seem like dinasaur days, but that was just 2 years ago. :)

[TLS]

Eric,

Is there still any archives or info from the Lawnicure days? I was a visitor there and watched Lawnsite grow from the beginning. I guess you were responsible for me finding Lawnicure back in the early stages. I was and still am a Dixie site reader. Its fun to reminise (sp) the good ole days!!

[1stclasslawns]

Good to hear from you again cutntrim. I know what you mean about the toddler or should I say toddlers. Mine are now 3 and 4 I have more time now to look in on things here.
Jim

[Vibe Ray]

I can't imagine how i'm gonna keep up in another year! I have a hard enough time as it is! Would you believe I logged out at 9:00 PM yesterday and when I came back on today about 8:00 PM I was 4 1/2 pages behind!!!!!!! I am just about finished catching up 2 1/2 hours later and have to go to sleep now, but I am not gonna be able to keep up with any more!!!!! And I don't even read all the threads! How do you do it Eric?!Is it getting harder to keep up for you too, Eric? BTW, wish I was here when the forum first started too, but I didn't know about it! Must've been interesting! What was it like when it first started out?

[Eric ELM]

Dixie1, as far as I know there is no archive for Lawnicure or Hall of Forums. I think anything we talked about back then has been rehashed a few times anyway. :)

Vibe Ray, Now you know why I needed help with doing this. Back when we had the Lawnicure.com, if there were 10 or 20 posts in a day, we got excited. It was a basic forum compared to this one. What is cool is, most of the original posters from that era are still here. As long as we are talking about it, how many of us are former Lawnicure members? :)

I would guess most of the members that were on the Hall of Forums.

[65hoss]

With the weather great and things growing, I have been so busy. Its been hard just to log on and check my email. I am to tired to stay up until 3 am anymore. :)

[HOMER]

I came aboard in Dec. 99, I think it was Hallof Forums then.

[little green guy]

I remember when it was hall of forums, I used to check that out but didn't become a member untill febuary when it became lawnsite. I still can't believe how many post a day there are now and how many new members there are. I was reading TURF today and even saw a couple of our discussions in there.

[joshua]

hey what is the address for turf i would love to get their mag. but not sure how to contact them. any help would be appriciated.

[LoneStarLawn]

Turf Magazine
http://www.turfmagazine.com/

[joshua]

Originally posted by LoneStarLawn
Turf Magazine
http://www.turfmagazine.com/

thanks lonestar, i get lawn & landscape and pro but could never fing out how to get turf. thanks again.

[Eric ELM]

It is amazing how far this forum has come in such a short time. I was just thinking about the day I joined Lawnsite.com after being part of the other two.

I got registered and started looking around the new site and I found a Welcome to our newest member, Eric ELM and I thought, gee, how cool can it get. :cool:
Registered Members, 5
Threads, 2 (Both Tests by the administrators)
replies, 1 (Another test) :)

On the previous forum, we just posted and that was about all it did, but it was still great.

Who would of ever thought it would become this big, this fast. I feel I have gained a lot of friends here and met several of you members personally. I hope to meet a lot more of you this year too. :)

[paul]

I remember being on Lawnicure, was happy to see three new threads a day, in the year and a half since then it has grown from 80 members (when I joined) to almost 3000.

Chuck thanks for a place to learn and teach.

[moonarrow]

Cutntrim glad to see ya back, I remember those days as lawnicure and hallofforums. I became a member shortly before lawnicure changed to Hall of Forums I was going through my favorites a short time back and still had both listed there. It has been great fun and very educational, and is amazing what chuck and all the others have done for this site in making it the great forum that it is.

[jeffyr]

I belong to a couple of forums on different topics (like digital photography) and I can say that they are not as together and don't have the friendly atmosphere that we have here. It is also depressing to post a thread and have 3 days go by without an answer....you can almost hear the echo of the keyboard.

jeffyr

[Greenkeepers]

I remember lawnicure days... Boy this place has come a long way. Thanks guys.

[bob]

I also joined back in December 1999. I was member 80 something. Some how part of my profile, including my date joined and password were erased in June 2000. Eric or Chuck, can you change my joined date?

[Eric ELM]

Yes I can and I will Bob. I do remember you mentioning this before I could make changes.

[bob]

Thanks Eric. I once again feel like an old geezer!

[Scraper]

I was a lurker in the Lawnicure days until just before it changed to Hall of Forums. It has been great watching this evolve to what it is now! Amazing!

[1MajorTom]

Hey now, no fair.

We've been members since March, and our date doesn't reflect it. Need some proof? :) http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?threadid=1708
Eric had to unregister us because we had been very
bad troublemakers. :)

Just kidding about that. I had him unregister that name because I couldn't get our password to work, and I ended up having to re-register under a slightly different one.

[Currier]

I found Lawnicure by just stumbling around over the
internet. I remember during the Hall of Forums Chuck talked about doing a HUGE price jump. I always wondered how that worked out? I think though that he must have sold his lawn service to keep this baby going. Thanks!

[cutntrim]

It's nice to see some old faces..er, ID's...on this thread. Might be cool to have a "senior members" section of the forum. Accessible only to those with senior status. A little back room for the old pros to chew the fat.

[1stclasslawns]

I joined during the days of lawnicure, and remember a coulpe of different Hall of forums formats. But I keep quiet a lot of the time so can I have a pass to the "back room" please.

Jim

[Eric ELM]

Maybe we can start a Lawnicure Days Club. ;)
I haven't seen this many old time posters on one thread in a long time. Most are from 1999 and early 2000 :)

[cantoo]

Dec.26 of 99, I guess I am an old guy too.

[Evan528]

I joined November '99! Sure has gone by fast! I remember the days when i could sit down after work and read all the new posts for the day in 10 minutes! Now its 5 pages worth and many hours!

[Kevin]

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.... I remember the Hall of Forum days...its good to help out others.

[Roger]

I was around in the Lawnicure and Hall of Forum days too. There were some troubles in the continuity for awhile, plus some hostility. I recall somebody breaking away .... thought they could do the job better.

I dropped out when the season started last Spring, and didn't return until this Winter. But, I learned many useful things to do, and also learned how differently I think about the business than most. I'm sure I've taken away much more than contributed. So, thank you to those who have been so willing to share ideas, tips, etc. Since we are spread out and are not competition, we have little to loose by being open.

Several have commented about "too much to read." I agree. Soon, my time will be better spent working full-time outside. At the risk of upsetting a great Forum, one suggestion might help with time management. A good thread title would help in determining which threads to bother to read. We use headlines in newspapers to help us decide which stories to read. Vague or ambigious titles of threads means opening the thread, often to learn the topic is not of interest. Thoughtful titles would be of great service to other readers. Do I open it or not? I know this is not fail-safe as often a thread takes a tangent and good information is in a thread that is loosely related, or not related, to the initial topic. ... just a thought.

[MOW ED]

I just must have missed Lawnicure but I got in in Feb 2k from Turfquip.com's link to this site. (your welcome ed).

[Eric ELM]

Mowed, I just looked and you actually joined LS on Jan. 31, 2000. I noticed you said Feb and it said under your name January, so I looked to see where the mix up is. It wasn't much of a mix up, could of been just hours before Feb. :)

[kutnkru]

Can I get an honorary membership??? Its great to see that some of you have stuck it out this long and from time to time are able to rehash old memeories.:)

Good Luck this season!
Kris

[jason2]

I missed out on the lawnicure days, but was a member of the HOF. It is truly amazing how far this place has come. I used to be a senior member but due to a glitch when servers were switched my name was changed and I started over with 0 posts.

Nice to see so many people here, I can't keep up with all the posts anymore.

[yardsmith]

OLD SCHOOL BABY!
I just got started at the end of Lawnicure, about a month or so before it changed to HOF. I don't remember much (geez it was only 2 yrs. ago) except that I had frequent trouble accessing the site. My member date to LS was Dec. 99, but came on as Jan 2000. Alot has changed since then.......
Nowadays when I do have time to get on, I only have time to peruse about 0-40% of new material from the diff. forums here.
Great stuff guys & gals! Keep it up.

[Edited by yardsmith on 03-17-2001 at 01:00 PM]

[Guido]

I've been reading threads with 30 posts and I only recognize 2 or 3 names, but this one has most of the old guys I remember (and I haven't really been around that long)

Felt good though!

[weve]

I also found Lawnicure in 1999 while searching for lawncare sites. There was a page there to mark which mower brand we use and showed the percentage of each. I think most were Scag when I found the site, so I voted for my DC.

Larry

[TLS]

Bump for old times...

[Rcgm]

Hey I still check in from time to time.:waving:

Cutntrim WOW been a while since I have seen that name up on the boards.:usflag:


Yack at you all soon.

Take Care
Brad
RCGM

[Rcgm]

Bump for old times...

LMAO TLS

You dug and dug and dug for that oldie but goodie:laugh: I thought all the old guys were back on.



RCGM
Brad

[TLS]

Something reminded me of Lawnicure.com and I did a Google search....this is what came up. Thought I'd bring it back up and see who still gets email reminders. I only know of one who won't be responding.... RIP

[procut]

Wow, I've been here awile, but missed out on the lawnicare and hall of forums days. It is amazing how much the site has changed even since I joined in '04.

[Gruneich Lawn Care, Inc.]

Wow, its crazy this came up today. I was working in the shop, looking at a striping roller, and thought "hmm, wonder if I can get my stripes as defined and straight as Erics where" Every so often I get a email from a hallofforums, or lawnicure memeber. I think I was like 13 or 14 when I found hallofforums. Things sure have changed since then... Good to still see some fimilar names lurking around

[nickslawn]

i joined in 2004 and thought i was here for a long time. hats off to you old timers. this site really has changed over the last 4 years and many more members have joined.

[Richard Martin]

I actually predate my registration date. I started with a different name and came back with this name. I may have initially registered prior to the Lawnsite name. It's been so long I can't remember.

[Charles]

I actually predate my registration date. I started with a different name and came back with this name. I may have initially registered prior to the Lawnsite name. It's been so long I can't remember.

Yea me too, maybe by a couple of years:dizzy:

[MOW ED]

WOW, it still must be winter but no, today is spring!!!.:usflag:
Some good times back in the day. I remember when you would post something and only have to digitally defend yourself to Larry Stone. Now it seems that there is always someone to disagree with you.
I still come here just about every day, many times a day and I still have my old Lawnsite mouse pad that I won a few years back.

[TLS]

I started back in the winter of '96/'97 on the Dixie Chopper Forum. If you thought Eric was Godlike on here.....

[DLCS]

I was actually on here back in 2000 under a different screen name too. Charles you can predate mine if you like.LOL

[Charles]

I was actually on here back in 2000 under a different screen name too. Charles you can predate mine if you like.LOL

Well I was 15 when I joined...I wish:laugh::cry:

[Reassurance Property]

when was this forum started?

[Runner]

Wow...THIS takes me back! :) It is good to see these names. I would love to know what happened to Homer, Hoss, and all the crew.

[Evan528]

We are getting old......:laugh:

I wasnt even old enough to drive when I joined Hallofforums....gonna be 24 in May.:dizzy:

[LindblomRJ]

Dang it hard to believe I have been around since 2006. Almost 2 years... Not that long. Its great to go back and search to see what some of the "old timers" have for wisdom.

[Sammy]

I have been here almost 8 years.

Seems like yesterday ! :)

[cantoo]

Hi, I'm new here. this looks like a great site. Seems like I said that awhile back.
Anybody know if or where Homer is? And of course Larry Stone is still keeping ric company in Florida.

[TLS]

Homer just posted the end of February.

[David Gretzmier]

I'm still around, have bought and sold a couple of lawn care companies, I do x-mas lights big time, landscape lighting and a few lawns. I check in from time to time, and really miss Eric Elm.

[weve]

I found Lawnicure back around 1996. I'm #28 on the Lawnsite membership list. In a few days Eric ELM will have been gone six years.

[Cutter1]

wow its been a long time, eric was the man.

[Paradise Yard Service]

Wow! Those names! Eric ELM, Kutnkru, Stone, Homer, Martin, Hoss, Guido, Cantoo, Runner, Vibe Ray. Just to name a few.... this post has been a bright spot for my day!

And as always, its....Aloha!
P.Y.S.

[Lawn-Scapes]

For some odd reason I was thinking about old timers last week.. like lawrence & guido and what has become of them. There were some really great lengthy discussions back in the day...

[Cutter1]

guido and hoss!! I remember them

[bob]

I remember all those names. Even though he's gone, Eric still is the king of stripes! Didn't Stone get banned? Homer had that great avatar!

[Cutter1]

a lot of late nights on the old chat room with all those guys

[MJS]

Wow, and I thought that I had been on here awhile. . . I remember when I stumbled on the site in 01 or 02 - I didn't bother to join until 2004. Man, has it changed alot, even in four years. Now 70,000+ members, wow. . . kudos to you guys who have stuck around since the beginning.

[Guido]

I'm still around.....its been a long time since I've been on here and decided to check in and I found this post! Thats funny,......I'm a famous "old timer" at Lawnsite! ;)

I was on here much more while I was stationed in Germany because I was running the grounds maintenance shop on base and doing a lot of landscape work on the weekends in the local area.

I'm stationed out of Las Vegas now, and still keep busy on the side with Landscaping, but I do a lot more remodeling and handyman type stuff there. Of course I'm only there 3 months a year because they keep sending me to Iraq and Afghanistan!

I'm in Iraq right now doing convoys again like last year, and will prob be headed to Afghanistan in a month or so as we shut down a lot of the small bases here in Iraq and work ourselves out of a job.

Well if anyone wants to get in touch I still get e-mail notifications when I get a PM on here.

It was good seeing some familiar names on here!

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Ciao

[TLS]

Wow, glad to hear your OK.

Get anything stuck lately??? :laugh:

[MOW ED]

Cool to see Guido. I thought he forgot about us. Stay safe buddy.

[Richard Martin]

Check this one out! It was the first post that the LS database has for me. Thread number 923. We're now over 254,000.

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?t=923