And this is why there are license requirements

[Classified]

So I had a customer ask me to fertilize, ok no problem. I quoted her and I get the usual "Oh this other guy is also cheaper" and then I reply with my usual "Great! give him a call back, I am unable to work for any less". I always love that response that I get back from customers. I had to try not to laugh its so funny. Anyway it normally ends up in a sale with me anyway but this time this weekly mowing customer of mine said OK I call him. So I show up to mow 2 weeks later after my last visit and this is what I came to mow. Looks like he wasnt so cheap after all! That is once you fix your fried green grass!

Just thought id share because of how bad it is.

[robertsturf]

What did he use to spread it? A shovel?

[Firefighter337]

Spread it with a bucket?

[Classified]

I wish I would have proof read what I said. It looks like im speaking another language. I just got home from a really long day so I appologize for the jibberesh.

And I have no clue what they used to spread that. I was trying to figure that out myself.

[ted putnam]

I like how he tried to minimize damage by cleaning up that 2 ft around 3 inch deep spot of fert:laugh::cry::laugh: I guess he thought if a little does good, a lot will do great! Either that or he got a "Booty Call" on his cell phone and forgot to turn the spreader off.:hammerhead:

[tlg]

Some days the Lawn God's get even with those that only look at price. This was one of those days. :)

[Uranus]

My neighbor's wife got a hair up her butt once and decided that her husband was taking to long to put down the fert. So she put the fert down herself. Looked just like your pics. 2 years later you can still see the burn marks. Looks like she got to the end of the pass and spun the spreader around in one spot. There are little half circle burn marks everywhere. Oh, the things people think they can do themselves.

[TPendagast]

so now what does your customer have to say?

[bug-guy]

hey come on guy's your not being fair. we all know any body with a spreader can do fertilizing just like all the guy's who buy a lawn mower and cut grass on the side. come on now it's now rocket surgery or brain science now!

[Runner]

LOL! really! Well,...ONE good thing about this scenario,....this woman definitely got everything she paid for.

[Mscotrid]

I'd like to say I've never burnt a lawn but my nose would start to grow. Nothing like clipping across a lawn and your spreader tire finds that new hole or rut in the lawn. Well that handle is level with the "family jewels" and my momentum kept going long after the spreader stopped. Needless to say I'm on on knee, bent over in serious pain..:) as I watch the fert pour out of my now tipped over spreader. Yea, I know the question coming "where was your hopper cover?" .......back on the truck. Try as we might rake, pickup, kick around doesn't matter I will be digging and resodding the area. I have heard of guys using a shop vac attached to one of those sig lighter watt adapter you can buy to suck the granuals off the lawn but never tried it myself.

Anyway thats my story and I'm sticking too it.

[AI Inc]

almost looks like he stopped to talk and it dribbled out , when he saw it he kicked it around with his foot.

[cantoo]

Stihl shredder vac, suck it up no problems. Wanna play the game you gotta have all the tools.