crapy yards

[Charles]

I do 2 trailor parks that I have done for along time. Have run over everything imaginable buried in the grass. I have 3 farm type yards. Alot of weedeating to those and not very profitable. But nice scenery.

[grasskutter]

I have a trailer park in my area( approx 100 units) that we do, I thought I had seen everything until I had one of my employees tell me the mower sounded funny, when I checked it out I found a condom rapped around the mower blade, a very unique sound I may ad, just hope I never hear it again. Felt bad for the new guy,he had to take it off. I just couldn't do it myself. Ha Ha. Sad thing is that these people have to live in that filth.<p>----------<br>grasskutter@cs.com<br>

[Barkleymut]

I mow/trash pickup at a plant that manufactures office furniture. It takes about 3-4 hours to pick up trash, 4 1/2 hrs. to mow and 4 hrs. trimming. The place is a dump. I fill up 8-10 55 gallon trash bags every time with nothing but trash. Everything from old paycheck stubs to Burger King takeout bags to old socks. I told them this year, no more cigarette butts! There are literally millions of them. I never picked them up before but acted like I did. Thank god the place pays well or else I would drop them like a rock.

[osc]

Manufacturing plant. Truckers bringing in loads throw steel banding and bungi chords in the grass. Along with other industrial debris this place is a mine field for lawn mowers.<br>We had 6 flats in one day, 2 tires beyond repair.

[little green guy]

I had one lawn last year that was cursed. Everytime (realy everytime) I went there something went wrong with one of the mowers. They would be fine on the job before then just randomly break and be fine after we left. stuff like reciols, flats, carbs, deck bolts fallying out of the deck. Got ride of that lawn.

[Charles]

I feel better now lol. Thought i was the only one who had the crap hehe. One time of the farm yard I let out one of the horses. I tried to tell him or her to go back in but it just stared at me. Like who the %$#*& are you to tell me what to do? I kick your butte all over this yard. Luckly the old lady who owns the pace finally came out and made it go back in. One time I ran over a rug in one of the parks. Took me about an hour to cut it off the blades. It was covered by some leaves.

[grasskutter]

Charles never feel crappy about those lawns if they pay good money, which my good ole trailer park does. no worries equals good money, whats a few dinged blades worth anyway?<p>----------<br>grasskutter@cs.com<br>

[cantoo]

Two things I hate are golf balls and steel horse shoes. Oh yeah and wooden croquet balls.

[AB Lawn Care]

Hi guys.Well I don't have any condom filled lawns but...........I had a real pain in the butt lawn job!You know the term tree hugger?Well I cut a lawn for the biggest tree hugger in the world!Picture this,a 8500 square foot home.It has a tiny front yard so most of the lawn is in the back yard.The front has 3 trees,and yes this is a correct number they have 90 trees in the back yard.YES 90!!!!Most of the trees are 1-10 year old pine,spruce and maple.They planted them in criss-cross rows and we would have to cut over and over some section becouse you would have to come in at all diffrent angles.It was a real challenge not snapping the trees with are walker.Do you remember those where three stooges movies where they would be walking through the woods and one would pull a branch back and get the next guy would get slapped buy the branch?Well same thing here but I'm sitting on a walker going through 90 trees sevral times and geting slapped poked and scraped by mainly pine branches!Think of it I was any one of the three stooges on a Walker!It is safe to say that that job is in my past!Hope this gave you guys a laugh!<p>from:Adam<p>AB Lawn Care

[cjcland]

i guess you know where to get your pine straw in the future<p>----------<br>CJC Landscape Management<br>Winter Haven, Florida

[1stclasslawns]

After reading the previous post I feel lucky!My worst is a nice place that sits on a scenic hwy (trash) that has lots and lots of flowers (sounds nice) but no defined beds they just plant them whereever and they show me every flower every time I mow, it sits on two lots, the extra lot is rough with several large holes they dug with post hole diggers and 2 large brush piles. But the people are nice, they pay, hes a local chancery judge, excelant exposier, and relitives. So I made a map of the place where the obsticles are and we just go on. Jim<br>

[pete]

The house next to one of my clients is owned by i guess you would call her a hippie, this lady is very back to nature. She rents her basment out to this guy who is a construction worker and he has to mow the lawn as part of his rent. Its not a big yard a little over a 1/4 acre. She insists that the guy use a push reel mower to mow the yard because she is anti gas /polution, etc. Now comes the insane part. This woman lets the grass get long, like make hay long. She wont let they guy mow it every week, he mows it like every month or 2. What ends up happening is he gets a hold of me and we go over and do it while this woman is at work and no one is the wiser. Now to make things more interesting, my customers front yard was full of junk trees and briars and other trash. One summer we cleaned it out and seeded it. The place looks great now. The crazy hippe lady thought we were killing trees and hurting the environment by cleaninig up the front yard. In protest she didnt mow her yard untill the health department came and told her mow it or we go to court.

[lawnforce1]

Ok, here is my worst. We &quot;maintain&quot; (because it's so badly seeded it can't be mowed)a very upscale condo complex near the University of Tennessee. I would say that we pick up 150-250 beer bottles per time not to mention keg caps, Marlboro Light butts, condom wrappers, every kind of hambuger wrapper you can name and yes pet droppings. We also cut a field that the frontage road leads into a gated public housing complex. Hubcaps, 40 oz. beer bottles, plastic toys (like 4ft. Fisher-Price basketball goals), Kroger shopping carts, liquor bottles and one day I am sure we are going to find a body. One time about ten years ago I found a sawed off shotgun there.

[cantoo]

wanna sell the gun?<p><p> Just kidding. I already have enough. <p><br>

[Toroguy]

Sell the gun on ebay...and the shopping cart.

[grasscapeinc]

....and the organs when you find the body.

[grasscapeinc]

Beat this!!<br>I once was working on a small travel agency in the city, when on of the crew went to move some blankets, and such to mow the area.<br>I homeless man pops out and starts bitchin at us for disturbing him.....