How about your opinions on trimming monkey grass in flower beds? Plus what would you charge for it. Goes all the way around the house about 3 ft wide.
Monkey Grass Trimming
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How about your opinions on trimming monkey grass in flower beds? Plus what would you charge for it. Goes all the way around the house about 3 ft wide.
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Can you get to it with your mower??I always run my mower with a bagger on it if I can get to it if not just use your clippers i guess. As far as price I dont know, if i can get to it with the mower I charge nothing if it is my customer.Hope this helps
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I may be able to do some of it with the mower. There is a border and the house on the other side. Would it hurt to use the trimmer? This is a clean up job and may become a regular customer for mowing.
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I would think the trimmer would scatter it out real bad making it more of a pain to clean up.Unless you are going to mulch or put down needles,then you could just cover what you cut up.
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I usually do it in the fall . I use my reddmaxx hedge trimers ann mow them monkeys about 3".works for me!
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I see you are from Texas. Whatever method you use be careful not to cut off new growth (looks like fingers coming out of ground).
We cut back, a lot of it in our area, liriope with string trimmers. Work from the outside-in (so clippings are thrown into cut areas and you can see what your doing as you work through the liriope). Always keep the trimmer head positioned away from the house or anything (car, person, etc.) you don't want a rock or object to be thrown towards.
As long as no new growth to contend with, this is the fastest method for us.
We cut back, a lot of it in our area, liriope with string trimmers. Work from the outside-in (so clippings are thrown into cut areas and you can see what your doing as you work through the liriope). Always keep the trimmer head positioned away from the house or anything (car, person, etc.) you don't want a rock or object to be thrown towards.
As long as no new growth to contend with, this is the fastest method for us.
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MacLawnCo,
Someone stole your glasses!
Just kidding. Everytime I see one of your posts your picture kills me. A lot of times your comments do, or from your last post dodo, the same. I enjoy your sense of humor.
Someone stole your glasses!
Just kidding. Everytime I see one of your posts your picture kills me. A lot of times your comments do, or from your last post dodo, the same. I enjoy your sense of humor.
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i always just trim them with my timmer. if need be, blow them out of the beds and chop em up with your mower. works for me, generally i get about 20 bucks for about 80ft of monkey grass, takes no time at all, have em stickin out of the ground about 3-4 inches.
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Hey, Don't that monkey look like Hugh Hefner. Playboy publisher.
Looks like him to me.
Looks like him to me.
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Well I just used the mower and then the trimmer to trim it up worked just fine. Thanks for the respnoses.
today I went to a new job to "clean up"...I knew they had about 30 big thick heavy wet liriope plants that needed cut way back...I have never seen such monsters....I could barely grab each one with both hands...they're never going to dry out this week and he wants this place cleaned up by weeks end....I wished I had some kind of monster hand shears that I could get under them with but I dont...I've done many of these before but none as thick and big as these....so...should I use the gas hedge clippers and go at them like cutting a cake and then once I get the sides off the cut down the main plant??? there goes my nice mew sharp edges on my Echo trimmer all to heck....like I said they're so soggy which is why I'm not sure how to approach this...thanks for answering this rather fundamental question that I shouldn't even have to ask....but I have to admit it when I'm not comfortable with an approach....problem I guess is really that I only bid that job at 2 hours...stupid stupid stupid...thanks
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