Are mulch kits for com. walk behinds practical?

[lawrence stone]

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Excuse me Mr. Barbie car driver but some of us don't have to travel around three states because we have a good reputation in your local area. Therefore my work truck only was used for 5K miles this last season and NEVER gets driven in snow. Now maybe you can understand why a single truck can last for 40 years. Plus it still looks fabulous darling simple fabulous!

And also some of us actually enjoy our lives and don't act like card-carrying members of the Mormon or is that Mowron Tabernacle Choir.

BTW I will be leaving for FLA in less than two weeks for a 32-day vacation with 8 days in the Keys and a weeklong sea cruise. I hope you will enjoy plowing snow with your crew and arguing with Zack during my extended absence.

[Scaper-S2k]

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Stone, you have told us before that you go down there to work. Maybe charging more, or covering a larger area would insure enough $$ to just go there and have fun. I can get to 3 states from my shop within 15 minutes each direction. (Cincinnati Ohio)

You only put 5k miles on your truck in the whole season? Either way, keep me posted on that 40 year old truck once it reaches that age!!

Your "Barbie car" comment is funny. Sadly, going by your own tale of your overweight body (as you told us), you couldn't fit in an S-2000 anyway without using bacon grease. I enjoy the car. You can call it whatever you would like, doesn't bother me at all. The 'Stang' boys think the same thing as they watch my tail lights fly by them when they try to race! 0-60mph in 5.2 seconds (Motor Trend)

Have a great day, thanks for your compliments, they always make me feel GREAT!!

[Zack.]

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Personally a souped up Honda Civic is not my personal vehicle of choice. I prefer a big azz luxury truck & I believe I'd fair much better in a collision. But that's just my preference.

Bragging that you have to drive to 3 states to service accounts indicates someone who is way out of touch with the mowing biz. In a mow/maint biz you want to keep your routes & service radius tight. Windshield time kills.

[Scaper-S2k]

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If you prefer it, you should get it. I can definatley understand why a person like you would prefer what you just said. It's funny, in the past, you called those big type trucks...Uh.....what was it again??? Yep, you know it!

Driving in 3 states when you live in Cincinnati is no big whoop. Check the map bucko!! Again, read, I can get to Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio(of course) in 15 minutes. Putting lawns on a route lowers travel time ALOT, and becomes no big deal.

Windsheild time does not kill when you are getting PAID for it!! You think I mind driving to the next fast food joint or bank when they pay $80 to mow 5,000 sq ft!!?? Now put them all on a good route...yep, it's gold. You're smart enough to figure that out.

You're entitled tou your own opinion, regardless of how correct you think you are. Windshield time does not kill if you are being paid to drive!! I'd rather sit in an air conditioned truck designed to pack on miles (cabover) getting paid to drive and work less, raher than mowing 45 lawns a day hustling and never slowing down. Like you say "but that's just my preference".

Have a great day Zack.


P.S. In a collision, you personally aren't hurt by hitting the other car, you are hurt by hitting the dash board or having your head fly out the window and smack the front pillars. In fact, in a wreck, percentage wise, you are more likely to be hurt in a big boat of a truck, than a regular car. That's a fact proved over and over by insurance companies and testing facilities. Cars are designed to crumple around the outside, with a hard inner core protecting occupants. Trucks are not. A car will look destroyed even in a small wrech, yet drivers will walk away. That's EXACTLY what the car was designed to do in a wreck...crumple. Trucks? Nope, your head will take the crumpling...FACT. In a bad wreck (equal), you are 17 times more likely to walk away if you were driving the car.

[lawrence stone]

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Scraper when my 3900lb full framed GM rear drive car hits your Barbie car the sheer force of the impact will snap your pencil neck in your undernourished 150 lb girlie body.

Now on the other hand a manly man like myself at 6'2" and 273lbs with a 19" neck, 52" chest, 16" biceps and legs like tree trunks can take the force of such trauma and survive.

Take the case of the Princess Di crash. Only the well build bodyguard lived another day.

And if you want to get into an acceleration contest I have a 20 year old street driven Suzuki motorcycle (with no internal engine modifications and 30K miles on the odometer) that we could run for titles over a 1320 feet at the controlled environment of a drag strip on any Sunday.

You name the time and place I will be happy to teach you a lesson in what REAL acceleration is like.

[Scaper-S2k]

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The body gaurd was belted in. And where did you get that I weigh only 150?? I weigh 180 and cut. Thank you. You at 6'2" and 273 pounds says something else (and it ain't muscle!). My father once weighed in at over 400 pounds. But stating his bicep size didn't mean much now did it??

Are you hoping to kill someone in a wreck Stone, no wreck is a good wreck! Here, let me re-word what you wrote...only using my dumper!

Stone when my loaded 18,000lb full framed dumper rear drive truck hits your Barbie Chevy 1/2 ton, the sheer force of the impact will snap your bulbous neck in your bloated 273 lb walrus body.

There, think about that.



Comparing the speed of a car to a rice rocket is like comparing your Chevy 1/2 ton to an F-550. Had I wanted a fast death trap, I would have bought a rice rocket.

Not to mention your rice rocket in a collision (with anything)!! Which is what the discussion had turned into!! Jeez, how ironic.

[lawrence stone]

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Scraper in less than two years you won't have all those cabover trucks.

You will have defaulted on all those leases when the Symbiot Business Group captures all your national fast food accounts.

McDonalds is tightening their belts; all the rest of the chains will follow. Fast food customers and grounds maintenance purchasing agents of National commercial concerns want consistency.

Symbiot will be able to offer this at a much better price. Plus with proper specifications they will to be able offer a much better product.
Over a period of time they will have the control of almost national chain at every location in every state. This will give the tight fisted grounds maintenance sub contractor like myself the density to be able to make all these small stops profitable.

All these small national commercial accounts are going to realize they are being ripped off by the bloated regional/local FORMER grounds maintenance contractors. A real professional would never miss a scheduled service. The contractor that will replace those (such as myself) will have a better understanding of agronomy and apply the proper fertilizers for the microclimates of such heat islands. If the grass was not growing do to drought the scheduled service will take place and lengths of hose will be removed from the 10-year-old K1500 service trucks with ramp gates and the two-man crew will hand water.

The problem with past and present day dinosaurs is that they never saw their future demise and died of extinction.

Just remember when you go hunting sometime you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you!!!

[Scaper-S2k]

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That's fine, I sign 3 year contracts. My fast food joints don't really make or break my biz. They are very happy with my services, as are all other commercial accounts I have.

I will agree with you that McDonalds and BK are tightening their belts. I've seen first hand from BK tightening up on work they have done. My Arby's account is actually having their best years. People are tired of the burger I suppose? Arby's around here just opened 2 locations this fall, and 3 last year. I now service over 50 of them here. They are very satisfied, hence the 3 year contract. Our prices are competitive also. And they have a very strict policy against sub-contractors. They will NOT deal with them. Trust me, I tried.

[Zack.]

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No offense, but the image I get with those little souped up Civic cars is middle age-mid life crisis desperation. I like a big azz truck. Functional & I could squash your little Honda like a bug!

& since this thread was originally about mulching & not Mr. Skaper's possesions & precarious com. accounts, I say mulch away it will save you time.

[qualitylandscaping]

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I roll up to the customers house on a 2002 Mongoose DX Dual Suspesion Mountain Bike with custom shocks and off road tires! Who can beat that? HA HA.. I'm buying a truck soooon! The k1500 I was gonna buy, ending up needing to much work ($4500) estimate to fix it, so I didn't buy it.. I'm looking at a 1997 F-250 4x4 w/ plow ($8900)...