I'm going to advertise as an add on service, bagging of grass clippings. Where do you guys get rid of your grass? Also when you bag, do you cut the lawn first then bag, or just bag the first time.
Getting rid of bagged grass
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I'm going to advertise as an add on service, bagging of grass clippings. Where do you guys get rid of your grass? Also when you bag, do you cut the lawn first then bag, or just bag the first time.
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Check around your area and see if there's a city (or county) that has a compost pile you can drop clippings at. There's a city around here that does that. It's cheap for the residents but the LCO's get charged more. Other than that, I know a guy who's got some acrage and he has a burn pile that he lights off 2-3 times / year and he lets me drop off there.
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I don't advertise or up sell bagging but will do it if a customer requests it at a premium price. Will also bag if clippings are excessive, on my dime, if they are just going to be piling up (usually in the spring) I have acreage so i just haul back to shop and compost.
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Why can't you leave it at the house?
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mix with leaf compost from last falls cleanups. Stir piles couple times a year. I even mix in some clay/topsoil form cemetary that I dig graves at. Takes about three years for some premium potting soil/ topdressing material.
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In the heat/sunlight of summer, I have found I can spread grass clippings on my driveway for three to four hours and they dry up enough to burn without a problem. You have to turn them a couple of times though. A pitch fork makes fairly easy work of this.
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How do you top dress with compost? I have heard a lot of people talking about it on this site. I am purchasing a shop and will have space to start a compost. My wife is a master gardener so she will use a lot of it for clients beds. Anyway, how do you spread it and how much for top dressing?
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Good question. So far most of my compost has ended up in gardens and beds. Some i have mixed/tilled into over dig/clay soil on new construction to help make better soil for yard. Have been looking for good way to top dress with this stuff. several companies out there make top dressers and I looked at some last fall at GIE show. Will need to find or rent a screener to run this stuff through cause all the leaf debris gets rocks and trash in it from the fall cleanups. As far as price, my cost is about $8 to $9 a yard to process from time it was dumped till ready to use. I have between 20 to 30 yards a year to use (started out as 60 to 80 yards of ground up leaves, 10 yards of grass clippings and several yards of dirt). Have not been to concerned about price to sell cause this started out as a by-product of my cleanups and bagging. If I bid it in part of a landscape job, I price it a $25 a cubic yard.
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because thats very unprofessional,also not allowed in alot of areas.
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I never bagged the clippings its a waste of time plus the clippings supplies nutrients to the ground after you cut the grass.
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Let me know if you find a spreader. I would be interested in seeing how that works. So you charge 8-9 to top dress a bed, but up to 25 for a new landscape job? Just curious because I agree with you that you have already done and charged for the work to get the compost. Thanks
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The $8 to $9 figure was what it cost me (per cubic yard) to process the compost (labor to mix and stir the piles) and the $25 was the price per cubic yard that I used on landscape jobs. Sorry I was not clear on that. My bad.
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Thanks for the info!!!
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Were you aware that in Maine if you remove any green waste from a clients property and are going to compost it at your property or shop, you need a DEP Composting permit. Quite a few hoops to jump thru.
If you just dump it in a pile on the property it was generated on you don't need any permits.
If you just dump it in a pile on the property it was generated on you don't need any permits.
when i started in 1986 we didn't bag and i thought with the way things go with being
GREEN i would never have to bag, my son just joined me in business and all the new clients want bagging, i HATE bagging but its a way of the times. You don't do it the other guy will.
GREEN i would never have to bag, my son just joined me in business and all the new clients want bagging, i HATE bagging but its a way of the times. You don't do it the other guy will.
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