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Trying to decide between calamine lotion and aloe. Ah the glamorous life of a landscaper.
Legs are approximately the temperature of the sun and I've had to hack down two patches of poison ivy with the trimmer so far this week. Bossman says to tell people to pound sand from now on.
Legs are approximately the temperature of the sun and I've had to hack down two patches of poison ivy with the trimmer so far this week. Bossman says to tell people to pound sand from now on.
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From: Manchester, CT
^ im goin with that guy
customers are so stupid. over.
guy who shares the yard with us 7.3 is broken down, uncles 6.0 battery light is on, 12-13 volts all the time. rental truck is nice but its only a 450 and only a 6.2
customers are so stupid. over.
guy who shares the yard with us 7.3 is broken down, uncles 6.0 battery light is on, 12-13 volts all the time. rental truck is nice but its only a 450 and only a 6.2
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you said it pulls good, maybe your uncle should consider it!
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yeah he said it pulled pretty nice but as soon as he put sand in for an 18x33 oval (easily 10 bobcat buckets) he said he missed how the diesel would just keep pulling. my uncles not sure what he wants to do... dump money into the truck or take the money for down payment on a new one. oil pan is shot on that truck, it started dripping monday
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Trying to decide between calamine lotion and aloe. Ah the glamorous life of a landscaper.
Legs are approximately the temperature of the sun and I've had to hack down two patches of poison ivy with the trimmer so far this week. Bossman says to tell people to pound sand from now on.
Legs are approximately the temperature of the sun and I've had to hack down two patches of poison ivy with the trimmer so far this week. Bossman says to tell people to pound sand from now on.
I take it you couldn't mow over the stuff?
I once cleared an embankment with a beat-up mulching mower and then kept after the new shoots.
Various 'brush' killing herbacides will take out poison ivy, the sap though can remain 'active' for up to a year.
I carefully apply the stuff and in a couple weeks its dead and I rip it up.
Then I watch for sprouting from the runners and spritzer them.
A more environmetally friendly approach is to put a goat there, either leashed to a peg or penned in.
A farmer told me that goats are immune to poison ivy and will eat it when they get sufficiently hungry.
The farmer couldn't attest to the effects on the goat's milk, I believe he avoided it.
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Tell your uncle I have a 2008 dump for sale, stainless plow, stainless sander etc.......... low miles............. Ha Ha Ha, I said miles. Friggin Aaron, now I cant get the ghost bustaers song out of my head.
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hes even been checking out 650s, but doesnt really want to get into a whole new class of truck. doesn't have time to get a CDL and parking a 650 and driving it everywhere would be kind of hard in some places we go
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that is what i was thinking. we barely squeak by with DOT as it is, usually overweight anyways. most of the time when we travel down 91, 2 or 9 early in the morning we have the guys in the F150 scout out for DOT so we can detour 