GLS's Equipment

[GLS]

Moving blocks and base material at the same time
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Some geogrid in place
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Backfilling
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

[GLS]

Upper view of the wall. There is a drainage catch basin under the cobbles in the corner of the patio to catch the runoff from it. ANd the cobbles going down the side is to prevent erosion because it is so steep.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Moving on to the upper wall
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

[GLS]

Sidetracking to a small job we did, then i'll get back to the other one.

Amending the existing soil
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Worst soil i've delt with in my area. Rock hard clay. At least we don't have boulders to deal with!
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

[GLS]

This little machine will go anywhere!
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Walls complete, and planting beginning
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

[GLS]

Ok, I have like 20 more to upload, but i'll have to get to that later today.

Let me know what you think so far.

[meets1]

I like it. That is steep grading though. Great improvement. Cost for that job - if ya care to share?

[newtostone]

Work looks great, You're killing me with those pictures of the sk650 I want one.

[MikeRi24]

very nice! Just you 2 working on that one?

[GLS]

Thanks for the comments.

That project is actually our own house. So price is materials and sweat only.

Here's some more pics

GMC had some major repairs recently. New head gaskets, injectors, and other items. Then the tranny went out. So here she is loaded up on the way to the repair shop.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Moving a decent size Norway spruce
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Unloading some arborvitae
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Moving some large crushed limestone for a drainage
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Where it is going
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

almost done
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17


More later

[LawnMan19]

Work looks greatThumbs Up, looks like that ditch witch is treating you good.

[meets1]

NEWTOSTONE - I sent you a PM

[bigirish320]

VERY impressive work and thread. Love the beds on the pickups, I've been debating something like that on mine.

[TriCityLawnCareLLC]

Definitely a fan of your work

[A.T.T.]

Great work thanks alot for sharing! The GMC is getting to that point in its life when problems arise huh? How many miles does it have now? The pic of it on the deckover being hauled by a Ford is classic! Just pulling your chain, how is the mowing division going?

[GLS]

Thanks again for the comments.

THe ditch witch has been great, very versatile machine.

We love the truck beds. Flatbeds are great for being able to sideload among many other things.

The GMC has about 180,000 on it now. We may have considered getting rid of it rather than putting money into fixing it, but we have a lot of money tied up in upfits. The flatbed isn't really transferrable for us because it is a 7' bed, and any truck we buy in the future will have 8' minimum. We also would have to buy plow hitch, etc. So we decided to fix it and hopefully get a few more years out of it. And it's nice to actually OWN a vehicle, not the back:)

[GLS]

Mowing division is good. We are still mainly doing lawn maintenance. Landscaping is a much smaller part of our business. We seem to give a lot of bids and get a handfull back. Maintenance work is easier for us to get.

More pics soon

[GLS]

Man, we need a tree auger for our miniskid. I'm tired of digging holes!
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

THought this was cool. Hardy banana growing at our compost facility that produced fruit and has a cool flower.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Rented a tiller for the tractor to mix in some compost
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Another one from the earlier project, raised the grade of the slope a little as it was sunken compared to the rest, and sodded it. No, we didn't let it dry out. It was a very bad load of sod, I was disappointed. It looks better now.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Seeding the lawn
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

[PerfectEarth]

Really nice job on the wall and steps project! That'll be a nice one to show customers- but you get to enjoy it everyday!

Great work.

[A.T.T.]

You do need an auger for the DW! Those are some goodsize holes you dug there.

[GLS]

Thanks. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback from neighbors and referrals/jobs for new work, so that's good. ANd like you said, we get to enjoy it. Hope to move onto the backyard next year with a little patio, walls, and perhaps a pond.


Here's some more

Customer wanted more lawn so they cleared out a ravine area and we pulverized/seeded. Really wish I had taken before pics, but I didn't.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Another shot, grass was coming in nicely late last fall.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17


Here's some more of the earlier project at our house.

Just a small planting we did in the corner of the property. Kind of going for a japanese theme here. Nursery had a 40% off sale late fall, and we are weak.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

More plantings
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

The after shot of the seeding. Seeded with turf-type tall fescue. This area will eventually get graded better once we are done with the landscaping out back
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

[GLS]

Moving into cleanup season...

Pushing leaf piles back at our dump location
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Fairly large leaf pile, two properties that both have numerous mature white oaks in back.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Another shot
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

One of our weekly cleanup accounts, just to show off the leaf cleanup rig
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17

Last one, got some new tires for the Ford. Many they have gotten pricy
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2011-12-17


Crossing my fingers for some snow, we could really use some white stuff!

[stuntmanlogan]

Everything looks great. Are those nitto's you got for the ford? I just picked up the same set if there terra's. Great tires.

[TriCityLawnCareLLC]

Did that huge pile of leaves fill up the entire trailer?

[GLS]

Good eye, they are terra grapplers. They seem to perform well, hopefully we get decent miles out of them.

Actually, that pile fit with room to spare! We didn't even have to untarp and stomp them down like we occasionally do.

[iowa]

Nice work. Where does your outcropping come from? We buy a lot of outcropping that looks almost identical to the stuff you use, it comes from either Beuchel or Halquist stone in Wisconsin.

[GLS]

Thanks.

Stone is from local supplier (quint city stone), i'm not sure what their source is.

[ProTouch Groundscapes]

Did u remove the dpf and put a tuner on the 6.4 yet? Never looked back after I did mine, I hated regening while plowing. Mileage and power has increased substantially along with reliability. Id recommend h&s tuners
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[GLS]

Not yet on the ford. We just ordered one for the cummins, just have to install it. Got a smarty with egr delete.

We may do the ford if we like how the dodge turns out. Hate to not have warranty, but the regenerating sucks.

We'll have to consider the h&s, we almost went with that for the dodge, but didn't really want a screen in the truck.

[idealscape]

Terra Grapplers are great...Ive got 12k on a set and cant even tell they have been driven on. I highly recommend them!

**Also, if you want to tune that Ford...I have a programmer for ya (listed in classifieds), you wont need a delete, and it will still regenerate, but after riding in this guys truck - I would have one...huge difference & wont effect warranty.

[ProTouch Groundscapes]

I found a mod friendly dealer where all the techs have modified powerstrokes. Mine has a 4" afe ss delete pipe, sb intake and hs tuner, guys have dynoed this combo and gotten 597hp and 1193tq at the wheels. Hs is the top tuner for the 6.4, some guys swear by spartan but the hs are more reliable. I also havea custom kem tune sd card that has a 345 tune that is wicked but i cant run it till i get ladder bars, way too much axle wrap...
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[roelex14]

Hope you weren't bankin on pushin a lot of snow this season... haha
We'll be lucky if we have snow by new-years....

[GLS]

Not really looking to add power to the trucks. We went a little crazy with the GMC back in the day, and swore we wouldn't do it again. It starts with a little power, then you get the tranny done, turbo, different tunes, etc. It's fun, but is just too costly!


You're not kidding about the snow. I guess we were lucky the last many winters to have decent snows. I can't take much more of this!

[A.T.T.]

You have two sets of tires for the Kubota? Turf and Ag?

[GLS]

Yeah, we purchased it with the industrial tires (R4) and later purchased a set of wheels with turfs. The industrials don't do terrible damage to turf, but the turf tires are far superior. We normally run the turfs, but switch over to the industrials for winter or when we are going to be in mud.

If we could go back, we would have ordered with turf tires and run them year-round. But it is nice to have the industrials on some occasions.

[kirk1701]

#5 Apr 23, 2003

How you like that walk behind? I had one just like it, 20 years old.

Mine died 2 years back and I got the newer JD model now, wish I'd spent the money and kept the one you got there.

Newer model
Bagger is a pain in the tush
you can't let go of the handlebars it shuts down

EDIT
OH WOW!
Didn't realize we were on page 54 LOL

[GLS]

The WB does everything we need it to. We only use it on a handful of accounts these days (hills where the stander can't go). The cut is pretty good. Hopefully it'll last another 9 years for us.

EDIT: I see you meant the 21", not the 36". We got rid of that jx75 a few years ago. It was a decent mower, but the cut quality was not up to par, especially when mulching. We run the overpriced commercial toro units now.

[A.T.T.]

"Overpriced" How true that is...

[A.T.T.]

How are the trucks running GLS? I'm curious about the Powerjoke 6.4 and the Cummins. How's the snow season for you guys?

[GLS]

Trucks have been running good, but they haven't been seeing a whole lot of use.

Duramax had to go back to the shop for a minor repair. The flex plate was cracked which may have been a result of improper torque convertor installation, so we only had to pay for parts. All is good for now.

No problems recently out of the cummins or powerstroke. We did take some parts off of the cummins:nono:, she runs so much better now.

The dodge definately has the better powertrain IMO, both motor and tranny. Not that we've really have trouble with the powerstroke.


Snow season could be better. We have only made ONE full run (2"+), but have had a handfull of 1" and salt runs. So I guess it could be worse. I know it hasn't been good anywhere.


We were going to purchase wide tracks for the miniskid and a light materials bucket for the tractor (big mulch job this spring), but not sure the way this winter is going.

[A.T.T.]

Glad to hear from you!

"We did take some parts off of the cummins." So you did the EGR delete? Thats good that you haven't had too many setbacks, sucks about the GM though. What bucket do you have on the Kubota now, I thought it was a light material bucket?

[GLS]

The DPF, EGR, and EGR cooler are in storage now. Sucks to kiss the warranty goodbye, but we would rather stop sooting up the motor for when the warranty is gone.

Ford is staying stock to retain the powertrain warranty. We will likely sell it within 2 years (remaining warranty), so it isn't worth modding at this point.


The kubota currently has the 72" heavy duty roundback bucket. It is excellent for general purpose, holds a full load of gravel and other heavier materials about to full capacity.

Looking to purchase one of these berlon buckets for mulch and snow: http://www.berlon.com/pdf/mdhv.pdf . They have light duty, medium, and heavy.

[LawnMan19]

Those buckets look like they would be great for mulch.

[A.T.T.]

Awesome, glad the emissions crap is off the Cummins, hopefully the tranny holds up now, and you'll love it for sure. Are you still partial to your GMC after all this time you've owned it?

[Swampy]

Nice thread, suprised I didn't find this earlier.

Few Questions:
1. You started with one truck plowing. How did you feel about only having one truck, in case something happened mid snow season? I only have one right now, recently sold the unimount (it needed a new A-Frame slight twist and a cracked) But looking into buying another (still have the truck side).

2. I was throwing up the idea of either dump insert or flatbed on my K3500 SRW. Whats betting in your opinion dump insert or straight up flatbed? After reading your thread I'm leaning towards dump insert thinking it would be more handy with fall clean ups and material handling. Unfortantly I don't think I can swing for a dumping flatbed.

Thanks

[GLS]

We still like the GMC. It has been a great truck over the years. We are hoping to keep it in service for years to come. Our eventual goal is to replace it with a dodge medium duty (4500 or 5500). But that is down the road.

Back when we only had one plow truck, we didn't have very many accounts. Mostly just driveways that could be cleared by other means. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable with no backup machines now. I would make sure you have a backup plan incase there is a breakdown if you are doing commercial properties.

I would definately go dump insert over a stationary flatbed. Dump ability is very important to us.

[Swampy]

Thanks. I've just didn't want something happen and wreck the business name right away, if my truck was newer or if I was the original owner might have been a different story. Didn't want to gamble unless I had a back up, mainly if the trany went out without a back up, snow waits for no mechanic. But this year seems horrible for snow.

[David W]

Great work and thread. Love your deck over trailer. Who is the manufacturer and is that dovetail hydraulic or something to see go from the dovetail to flat in pictures?

[GLS]

Thanks. The trailer is a B-B by Bhenke Enterprises (http://www.behnkeenterprises.com/). It is the same brand as our dump trailer. We've been very pleased with them.

The dovetail is simply mechanical. It is spring loaded (there is a leaf spring underneath) and you just pull a couple of pins, raise the tail, and a couple of metal blocks swing into place to hold it. Very simple and effective.

[Petr51488]

Good eye, they are terra grapplers. They seem to perform well, hopefully we get decent miles out of them.

Actually, that pile fit with room to spare! We didn't even have to untarp and stomp them down like we occasionally do.

You should try mulching them as their being sucked up. What i do is have one guy mulch the pile of leaves before it gets sucked in and re-mulched. You would be amazed how less space it take up in the trailer. That one pile would be 1/5 of the size after mulching it. I use a 21'' mower that i dont use anymore. A pile that size would take about 5 minutes.

[GLS]

A lot of our larger accounts get collected with a ztr, then re-collected through the leaf vac. You are right that it takes up much less trailer space. However, we find it faster in most cases to suck loose undisturbed leaves. The mulched leaves take a lot more effort to suck. And so long as the trailer will last the day, we're happy. Thanks for the idea though.

[Petr51488]

A lot of our larger accounts get collected with a ztr, then re-collected through the leaf vac. You are right that it takes up much less trailer space. However, we find it faster in most cases to suck loose undisturbed leaves. The mulched leaves take a lot more effort to suck. And so long as the trailer will last the day, we're happy. Thanks for the idea though.

Do you have to pay for dumping of the leaves?

[GLS]

No, fortunately we have a place to dump.

[Petr51488]

No, fortunately we have a place to dump.

hah, well that explains it. At 180 per a load, you wonder why i mulch and pack in as much as possible lol

[A.T.T.]

Yeah no kidding! I'd be doing that too, GLS do the piles where you dump get burned every so often or used for something else?

[GLS]

Yeah, if we had to pay per volume I'd definitely pack in as much as possible. We do pay to dump on occasion (when it's too wet to get to our dumpsite), but it is per ton not cubic yard.

We don't burn the leaves, they just sit and compost. The piles reduce drastically in size over time. Past attempts at burning were unsuccessful, just not enough airspace. They just smolder. We may harvest some compost out of it someday.

Here is another shot of our dumpsite. We stack it up with the tractor, it settles throughout the year, and we do it again the next fall.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2376/img2942yn.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/12/img2942yn.jpg/)

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7320/img2951a.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/39/img2951a.jpg/)

[A.T.T.]

Cool! How has the Kubota been working out for you lately?

[GLS]

The kubota has been great. We haven't gotten much use out of it lately due to severe lack of snow (9" officially, only one storm over 2"), but it's been out a few times. Zero issues with the machine. It does exactly what we wanted it to, i'm a satisfied customer.

Here's a shot of it in snow mode. We plow downtown sidewalks with it, and stack snow in parking lots (not this year though).

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8205/img2188t.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/img2188t.jpg/)

[A.T.T.]

Awesome! I'm glad you're happy with it, I hope we all get a little more snow too!

[A.T.T.]

Whats new and exciting!? :)

[GLS]

Not too much.

Spring came EARLY this year! We had a stretch of 80 degree plus days that really greened the grass up. We started mowing about a month ahead of normal.

Made one new purchase. Bought a Toro 48" hydro floating deck walk behind to replace the old 36" deere. We wanted a bigger deck for hills and wanted to upgrade to a hydro. It's been working out really well. We were going to keep the deere as a backup, but I think we are going to try to sell instead.

Been very busy with various other projects too. We are in a wet spell right now (rained like the last 4 days with rain chances daily for the foreseeable future) so we are way behind on mowing.

Getting caught up on paperwork right now. Better get back to it (i HATE paperwork!)

I'll try to get some spring pictures up when I get a chance

[A.T.T.]

That would be great, good to hear from you.

We're in the same boat with the start of the season, early and lots of rain. I hope everything straightens out for you, especially the paper work!

[LawnMan19]

Glad to hear from you'll again.:waving:

[GLS]

Ok, I've finally gathered up some pics from this spring.

I'll start with a few random mowing shots.

Early spring juicy grass
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

The new machine
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

Another one with the new machine on some long juicy grass
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

[GLS]

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

Yes, we do a lot of 21" mowing as well.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

Another place we do
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

[M RASCOE&SONS]

looks real good gls!!hows biz this yr so far.

[dieseltech]

Looks great man! Nice job
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[LawnMan19]

Mowing looks great man, and real nice new machine also.

[orlawncaresvc]

Nice lawns there. Those Toros' look like they getting a work out.:laugh:

[GLS]

Thanks for all the comments. After a lousy winter, we were fortunate to get a very early start on work. Work has been very steady so far. By the time we get caught up on mulching and other landscaping work, it will be bush trimming time and another round of lawn apps. That should keep us busy through june.

Yes, those toros do get a workout. That new one seems to be a gas guzzler, but thats probably. Ecause were used to the diesel ztrs, they really sip the fuel.

I'll have some more pics to load later (mostly landscaping), i ran oit of time to post them all.
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[A.T.T.]

Are you talking about the walk behind using a lot of fuel?

[GLS]

Yeah, it seems like it anyway. I guess it only has a 5 gal tank though
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[A.T.T.]

What kind of fuel usage do you notice? How many hours does that 5 gallons last?

[Cat 320D LRR]

how do you like the ztr style controls on a walkbehind?

[GLS]

I'll have to keep track of the fuel/hours next time we fill.

The controls come naturally. They are basically the same as our wright stander. I have never used a different type on a hydro walk, so i cant compare. Did demo a ferris 52" wb, horrible control system! Anyway, i like the controls.
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[lawncare18]

Nice equipment. How often do you wash/clean the decks and how often do you sharpen your blades? Keep up the nice work.

[GLS]

Our mowing equipment is seldom actually washed (every once in a while). The decks get scraped based on "juiciness" of grass... Sometimes thats daily (or more), but usually every week or two. We try to change to sharp blades weekly, but sometimes it doesn't happen for 2 wks. Probably should do it more often.
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[GLS]

Just getting home from some fert apps (man it stays light out late this time of year, makes for a long day). I'll try to get the rest of my pics up when i get inside.
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[GLS]

Ok, here are the rest of them.

Loading some edging scraps
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

Mulching
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

A short section of the very long row of korean lilacs to mulch
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

[GLS]

Parking garage, low clearance
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

[GLS]

Brought big orange along on this one due to long distance mulch transportation. 17mph +/- beats the 3-4 mph on the miniskid for the long trips.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

Back at the "shop" doing some routine maintenance. These 18V impact drivers work great for blade changing. We actually got this one free many years ago with the purchase of a combo set. Glad we got it, never would have thought it would work this good.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

Last one. Just a random "shop shot". Keeping the granular pesticides out of the rain without having to handload everyday.
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By ryangall (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/ryangall) at 2012-05-09

[LawnMan19]

Looks really good man.

[teamgreendude]

Snap Shot for bed use? Whats in the second bag? Also are you guys about to start your second round of apps?

[TriCountyLawn]

How many yds of mulch fit in that trailer ? The grass looks like the same stuff we have been dealing with. Looks like the Toro's handle it fine. Looks good

[eatonpcat]

Work looks great...Is that the worlds oldest lawn chair in the last picture?? LOL

[GLS]

Thanks again


Yes, snapshot for landscape beds. We go through quite a bit of it. Other bags are lawn fert + dimension. We are now done with "step 2 - broadleaf weed control", so we will be moving on to our next round of fertilizer soon.

The trailer will hold 12-14 cu yds of mulch (depends who loads it and what they consider a "yard").

Lawn chair is pretty old, probably 15+ years. I don't know if you can even get that type anymore!