What an idiot!!!!

[JohnnyRoyale]

We have all had our share of funny things hapenning to us. Here's one of my favourites. Post yours.

One of my clients just bought a cottage on the lake and had just moved his stuff into it on a Friday. He met all the neighbours, he's very personable guy and loves to talk. He took a particular liking to this one old guy a few houses down who came from his home town, and they knew the same people, and had moved there when his wife passed on.

Realizing the weeds at his new cottage were out of control, he sprayed them on the following Saturday afternoon, and figured he would help the old guy out and sprayed his weeds too as they had pretty much taken over his lawn also. The old guy wasnt home at the time, but he went ahead and did it anyways. Good neighbourly gesture.

I get a call at 5AM (which wasn't untypical of him as we plow a number of lots for him, and he always calls first thing after a storm to see how we made out overnight, except now its May) and I'm thinking WTF does he want this early?

He goes on to tell me he woke up in cold sweat at 3 AM realizing what he had sprayed all over his lawn and his neighbours lawn was Roundup, and he had just go in from watering it down, hoping to dilute it. He screwed up royally and now we have to head up there and replace two lawns.

[Grass Happens]

ha, there is a little golf course where I live, and the last superintendent put round up in the tanks instead of fert for all the greens. Needles to say he is no longer employed.

[Runner]

Well, atleast you have a clean slate to work with. get the label of the stuff this guy used, and make sure it doesn't have the salts in it (some "season long" stuff) before you plant.

[bill8379]

There was a post in the Pesticide section about a company that killed, I forget, maybe a hundred lawns. They had pics of these white lawns and the only green you could see was where they missed spraying. I think it happened because the spray went bad while sitting in the tanks.

[KGR landscapeing]

Maybe 3or 4 years ago i was on a crew. My buddy's little one crew opp. First cut i was the trimmer boy. I told him the Turf tiger wasnt cutting right he goes your nuts i just sharpend the blades lastnight. I can normaly see any flaw in any cut. I have been doing this since i was little. But he dosent listen and just goes about mowing 17 or 18 places in about 9 hrs. By the end of the day i had just kept telling him it wasnt cutting right. So we cut his house and he pull the tiger in the garage. I am like whats up? Hes like it dosent look right. no ****. Hes got the spacers wrong on one blade. So all of the yards have a cut like this __- so the next day we had to go back over all of them. I was like i told you so.

[cgaengineer]

Home Depot tells everyone around here if they come in in December-Feb that if they have weeds in dormant bermuda its ok to spray Round Up. One of our employees at my full time job calls me from Home Depot and says the clerk told him to use RU on his weeds, I told my friend to go home and pull back the bermuda and look close to the ground, sure enough...still green.

My neighbor 2 houses down trusted Home Depot and his lawn is now dead from the same thing.

[cgaengineer]

We have all had our share of funny things hapenning to us. Here's one of my favourites. Post yours.

One of my clients just bought a cottage on the lake and had just moved his stuff into it on a Friday. He met all the neighbours, he's very personable guy and loves to talk. He took a particular liking to this one old guy a few houses down who came from his home town, and they knew the same people, and had moved there when his wife passed on.

Realizing the weeds at his new cottage were out of control, he sprayed them on the following Saturday afternoon, and figured he would help the old guy out and sprayed his weeds too as they had pretty much taken over his lawn also. The old guy wasnt home at the time, but he went ahead and did it anyways. Good neighbourly gesture.

I get a call at 5AM (which wasn't untypical of him as we plow a number of lots for him, and he always calls first thing after a storm to see how we made out overnight, except now its May) and I'm thinking WTF does he want this early?

He goes on to tell me he woke up in cold sweat at 3 AM realizing what he had sprayed all over his lawn and his neighbours lawn was Roundup, and he had just go in from watering it down, hoping to dilute it. He screwed up royally and now we have to head up there and replace two lawns.

Hopefully its still cool enough that along with watering it wont hurt it too much.

[JohnnyRoyale]

Hopefully its still cool enough that along with watering it wont hurt it too much.

He did water for a few hours, and its been raining for a few days now...he may have a bit of luck on his side, but i think the damage has been done. We'll have to wait and see.

[LushGreenLawn]

Home Depot tells everyone around here if they come in in December-Feb that if they have weeds in dormant bermuda its ok to spray Round Up. One of our employees at my full time job calls me from Home Depot and says the clerk told him to use RU on his weeds, I told my friend to go home and pull back the bermuda and look close to the ground, sure enough...still green.

My neighbor 2 houses down trusted Home Depot and his lawn is now dead from the same thing.

What Home Depot said was correct, you can spray round up, at a certain concentration, on dormant bermuda. Your friends, and probrably your neighbor's bermuda were not dormant.

[Dunn's]

round up will kill trees if enough is sprayed on it. Killed plenty of mulberry's with it.

[KanAg]

and wants 2 dump truck loads of rock brought out and dumped into what use to be their driveway, no spreading, just dumped. They tore the concrete out themselves with a dingo....so I tell her the quarry is closed on Saturdays and Sundays so it would have to wait till Monday. She said that was riduculous that it would be closed. I just said sorry but thats the way it is. Then she says ok could I give her the name and number to the quarry. Then have my dump truck guy call her. I told her I would be happy to arrange eveything for a small arrangement fee, she said no I should give her all the info and have the guy call her at no charge.
I said no, look up the quarry number in the phone book and then start calling all the dump truck guys to see who can and will bring 2 loads by 8am monday morning. Good bye, good luck ma'am.......

something for nothing is what they all want.

[JFF]

As far as accidentally spraying round up on turf or shrubs, I have never done it (knock on wood) but I know plenty of smart people who have been in the biz for years that have done it. Usually through the use of an assistant, but it happens. That's just one reason why insurance is vital.

Here in Arkansas, we never get to complete dormancy anymore. Other than occasionally "wicking" weeds, round up in turf areas is a huge no no.

[Gardens55]

The old guy wasnt home at the time, but he went ahead and did it anyways. Good neighbourly gesture.


Or so he thought! :dizzy:

[cgaengineer]

What Home Depot said was correct, you can spray round up, at a certain concentration, on dormant bermuda. Your friends, and probrably your neighbor's bermuda were not dormant.

This is correct, they were not dormant. I do understand you can spray RU on dormant bermuda, but you have to be careful...especially around here where the winter is very mild. I had bermuda that was green all year in some spots of my lawn, never even close to being dormant. The best thing for Home Depot to tell a customer is nothing, especially when they don't know for sure if bermuda is dormant. They could also steer them towards a broad leaf herbicide which would have not killed the bermuda.