What did you do today non-detailing related?

Well after 7 and a half months of looking after my neighbours property mowing, blowing, push mowing, whipper snipper, feeding a cow and 3 chickens including, making sure I'm always home around 4:30 feeding time and changing the water when needed.

I was finally told I'm not needed anymore well sort of.....They told me via text msg that they will take care of things and a thank you to blah blah etc...

Why do I feel like I've been fired from a job??? It feels odd.


Any way I will continue keeping my eye on the animals water as my neighbour has a gold fish memory which is concerning me lately.

"Wish me luck"
 
Picked up a new garden client at the end of May. No mowing, just general gardening work. It's a large sweeping garden that backs onto bushland and the river, which I worry about come spring and summer as the snake population wakes up. There is also a large flowing creek bed and pond, of which the surrounding garden had been smothered in weeds and took two visits to get on top of. I also cut back three overgrown Yucca's.

This week, the client wanted a heavy reduction on an overgrown Oleander. Well-established, this specimen was at least 5-metres in height and had a lot of thick branches, some approaching 4- to 5-inches in diameter. Overall, I brought it back down to about 2-metres, the idea to stimulate fresh growth and have it flowering where the customer could see it.

I'm so glad I bought a pole saw last year, it makes jobs like this so much easier and safer (I hate ladders).



Now that I've gotten on top of the big stuff, it should just be a matter of maintaining it. To give you an idea of how much work the garden has required, I've taken away 10 heavily stacked loads of green waste to the tip at $25 a pop.

Who needs a trailer........................

 
DFB said:
Picked up a new garden client at the end of May. No mowing, just general gardening work. It's a large sweeping garden that backs onto bushland and the river, which I worry about come spring and summer as the snake population wakes up. There is also a large flowing creek bed and pond, of which the surrounding garden had been smothered in weeds and took two visits to get on top of. I also cut back three overgrown Yucca's.

This week, the client wanted a heavy reduction on an overgrown Oleander. Well-established, this specimen was at least 5-metres in height and had a lot of thick branches, some approaching 4- to 5-inches in diameter. Overall, I brought it back down to about 2-metres, the idea to stimulate fresh growth and have it flowering where the customer could see it.

I'm so glad I bought a pole saw last year, it makes jobs like this so much easier and safer (I hate ladders).



Now that I've gotten on top of the big stuff, it should just be a matter of maintaining it. To give you an idea of how much work the garden has required, I've taken away 10 heavily stacked loads of green waste to the tip at $25 a pop.

Who needs a trailer........................

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How heavy is that cutter 💪 cleanest work ute in Victoria
 
Tasmania said:
How heavy is that cutter 💪 cleanest work ute in Victoria
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Published weight is 3.6kg, but that figure is without a bar, chain and battery. I hate Stihl for this, what value is a published weight if it doesn't actually represent the weight of the tool. They force you to dig through specs in several places to add up the weight of the tool in a functional format.

When fitted with the recommended AK20 battery, bar and chain -

Tool - 3.6 kg
Battery - 1.2 kg
Bar - 0.247kg
Chain - Not disclosed

Total - 5.047 kg

However, it's not the weight figure that matters here, rather the distribution of that weight. A petrol-powered equivalent is extremely heavy at the engine end and light at the cutting end. That makes it harder to control and puts strain your arms and shoulders. The battery version is much better balanced. The battery is at one end, which balances the electric motor and bar at the other. That means you don't end up fighting the machine.

For a professional user, this is one of those tools where I think battery power makes sense over petrol. The same applies to hedge trimmers and smaller chainsaws for pruning. With grass trimmers, I personally prefer the extra control you get with a petrol engine and throttle than a battery equivalent. For leaf blowers, I need the run time stamina from petrol, same for lawn mowers.
 
Last Saturday night I saw what appeared to be space junk re-entering, or skipping across, the atmosphere while I was walking the dogs. I often see satellites or meteorites but this was different. It was moving at a different speed and going north to south which is unusual, also it was fluctuating in brightness and leaving a faint orange tail. So I reported it to the Australian Space Agency. I got a reply this morning, they said it matched the re-entry profile of a Starlink satellite expected to re-enter above NSW, but they couldn't confirm that's what it actually was, and they had a few reports from across NSW matching mine. It was very cool to see, I did try to get a video of it, but it was so dark it's barely visible. If I hadn't looked up at that exact time, and in the right direction I would have missed it completely.
 
DFB said:
Picked up a new garden client at the end of May. No mowing, just general gardening work. It's a large sweeping garden that backs onto bushland and the river, which I worry about come spring and summer as the snake population wakes up. There is also a large flowing creek bed and pond, of which the surrounding garden had been smothered in weeds and took two visits to get on top of. I also cut back three overgrown Yucca's.

This week, the client wanted a heavy reduction on an overgrown Oleander. Well-established, this specimen was at least 5-metres in height and had a lot of thick branches, some approaching 4- to 5-inches in diameter. Overall, I brought it back down to about 2-metres, the idea to stimulate fresh growth and have it flowering where the customer could see it.

I'm so glad I bought a pole saw last year, it makes jobs like this so much easier and safer (I hate ladders).



Now that I've gotten on top of the big stuff, it should just be a matter of maintaining it. To give you an idea of how much work the garden has required, I've taken away 10 heavily stacked loads of green waste to the tip at $25 a pop.

Who needs a trailer........................

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So what do you actually do? Just watch for the snakes? Or are there measures you can take to deal with them?
 
Big Dave said:
Last Saturday night I saw what appeared to be space junk re-entering, or skipping across, the atmosphere while I was walking the dogs. I often see satellites or meteorites but this was different. It was moving at a different speed and going north to south which is unusual, also it was fluctuating in brightness and leaving a faint orange tail. So I reported it to the Australian Space Agency. I got a reply this morning, they said it matched the re-entry profile of a Starlink satellite expected to re-enter above NSW, but they couldn't confirm that's what it actually was, and they had a few reports from across NSW matching mine. It was very cool to see, I did try to get a video of it, but it was so dark it's barely visible. If I hadn't looked up at that exact time, and in the right direction I would have missed it completely.
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"Space Junk" = 👽 They crash landed into one of the ponds you walk by be careful they will clone you Dave.
 
Silly Rabbit said:
So what do you actually do? Just watch for the snakes? Or are there measures you can take to deal with them?
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I second this question. Snakes freak me out and I've been told to visit NZL instead of AUS.


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Went for my 8km walk, saw a speed,seatbelt, phone camera about BLOODY time everyone was actually doing 60 limt.

And I won $16 from an old scratch pack that I got for my birthday.


I'm rich.
 
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