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Ground prep machine??

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Ground prep machine??
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A shoulder in times of difficulty

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Philip Voice replied to Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt's discussion 'Ground prep machine??'

Hi Neil I used to own a Kilworth stone burier 90cm wise. It had contra-rotating blades and a serrated rear roller. A great machine but two faults. One - soil can enter the holes of the roller into the hollow centre and if a little damp it will a...

on Tuesday

Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt replied to Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt's discussion 'Ground prep machine??'

The Condor Stone Burier! That's the very one. Thanks very much. The power of the network! Beats google!

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Horny Handed Ton of Soil replied to Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt's discussion 'Ground prep machine??'

Or try www.tracmaster.co.uk and check out their stoneburier.

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James Tucker replied to Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt's discussion 'Ground prep machine??'

is this the machine your are on about? Never used one myself but have used other Blec machinery and found them very well made. http://www.blec.co.uk/Blecavator.pdf

on Monday

Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt added a discussion

Ground prep machine??

Can someone help me out. Looking for the machine that turns turf into a newly prep'd fine tilth with one pass. You know what I mean... I'm sure someone had a link to a video of it on here somewhere...but where??? Much appreciated. This is the kind...

on Monday

Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt replied to Philip Voice's discussion 'A shoulder in times of difficulty'

That's great Phil. You never do know when you may require that much needed shoulder! If we all go to you though, who will you go to when we and all our problems become too much for you?!

on Monday

Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt replied to Stuart Marler's discussion 'A NICE post! Who have you met through LJN you can recommend?'

Much help from many folk on here! Martin, Graeme, Paul, Kerrie, John...and Karl of course - a massive help when it comes to a large bit of high quality decking I'm currently pricing up... some of the ones that I take note of regularly and that I'm...

on Monday

Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt replied to Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt's discussion 'Petrol Hole Borers?'

Well I hired one to see what it was like and it was the stihl bt121. The verdict...? Waste of time!! Worth a try, but ended up using spade and bar. It may be the answer on more solid ground or if hundreds of holes to dig. Between 2 of us we dug 2...

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Profile Information

Company name (if applicable): Core Landscapes

First Name:: Neil

Surname:: Petrie

Telephone:: 01292286435

Email:: neilpetrie@live.co.uk

Website:: http://www.corelandscapes.com

About Me:: Core Landscapes primarily deals with landscape management and maintenance and is based in South Ayrshire, and covers all of Ayrshire and Strathclyde regions. We primarily focus our efforts on year-round grounds maintenance work for domestic, commercial and industrial clients but also regularly carry out landscape projects. We also hold a close network of sub-contractors who carry out specialist areas of our landscape projects. Core Landcapes also carry out rural woodland and estate services to landowners so as to look after the needs of their wider landscape and the surrounding rural environs.

We are fully insured and are SEPA licensed waste carriers so can remove all green waste from our sites to licensed waste recycling plants. Where necessary we can use pesticides to control the invasion of specific weeds on customers land - where possible, though, we will use more environmentally friendly methods.

What is your profession i.e. Landscaping, gardening, greenkeeping - other: Landscape Maintenance/Management

How did you find this site?: stumbled upon it a while ago now

Rain incites a trip to Etesia dealer.

With the sunshine yesterday I literally worked until it was so dark I couldn't see the lines in the grass...then today. Yes, you guessed it the rain and gales. Weather warnings from the met office. Work rescheduled for thursday.

Positive steps though. My local JD dealer doesn't have the machine I want in stock so taking a trip up to my nearest etesia dealer to have a chat and see if I can get a demo of a new machine up there in East Kilbride. £2000 is a lot to spend without a wee shot... and this is the perfect day for it!!

After all, what the dickens is the sense in having 2 machines sitting in my van that I can't use every time it rains??

Comment Wall (10 comments)

At 8:44pm on May 7, 2008, Philip Voice said…: Hello Neil

Welcome to Landscape Juice and wow! what a wonderful place to live and work.

I hope we can all benefit from the experience of using this network.

Phil

At 9:10pm on May 19, 2008, Philip Voice said…: Hi Neil

How are things?

Have you found the network of any use so far?

We are starting to get busier so hopefully we can all benefit further.
Kind regards

Phil

At 6:42pm on August 12, 2008, Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said…: I am considering changing direction and location of my business and wonder what your thoughts are. An oppertunity has arisen to move into taking on larger scale private landscape projects. I am investigating the extent to which the 'hands-off' project-management-only side of things would work - i.e. liasing, brainstorming, commissioning the design work, sub-contracting the construction and seeing the project through in and oversight/managment position.

Does this only work if you are a registered landscape architect or is it feasible with the right savvy?? I have some great contacts and know people who know people and have been offered the chance to do a fantastic project which would be showcased on a fairly grand scale to prospective clients but have been out of this loop for a while and so am just, at this stage, looking for views...

If I am being vague question me as you please!

At 6:46pm on August 12, 2008, Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said…: I have just had a brainwave as I went to look into the 'events' section of the site. Once we get enough members built up in Scotland why don't we get Phil to organise some LJ events to liase and drink wine together at!

At 9:09am on October 28, 2008, Philip Voice said…: Hi Neil

Thank you for the feedback.

This is the third time (that I know of) that this has happened in the last month.

I will look into this later today and contact Ning.

Could you just confirm for that you didn't click the little grey square with a white cross to close the post?

Phil

At 10:46am on April 3, 2009, Cornwall Landscaping said…: Thanks for your comments;

we are basically a cooperative, we have a plantsman, a stonewaller, a pond man, an environmental engineer, a retired professor of landscape and heritage issues who does consultation, 3 general landscapers and myself, a silviculturalist - I actually worked in Scotland, Argyll for many years, before moving to Cornwall and onto France where I manage the company, remotely with Shane Kneebone who is based in Cornwall.
We have found that keeping it as a cooperative so that everyone still has their own company is favourable to the client, ie cheaper. Combined with the ';sustainable' approach it has resulted in a very safe business model which is starting to be copied. We are not competition for other bigger branded firms, although we dominate the google seo for Cornwall, because we do not touch commercial contracts, save 'consultation', which is mainly direct to Government and Europe based companies.
The biggest problem has been in charging efficiently it is all too easy to waive payments etc.,. to chase a contract which appeals - I would be happy to help in anyway with any questions you may have. But certainly in the short time we have been on this site we have found it very useful indeed.
Hope this helps. I presume you can see Kintyre on a good day, I used to live there and miss it, beautiful part of the world.
Pip Howard

At 6:08pm on April 29, 2009, Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said…: What do you think? Just had website put together for me by david at embryodigital and would like to hear what you think. Be aware I haven't had time yet to correct some of the detail (my very-little-to-do-with-the-business wife briefly threw some details at him to load on) so not 100% yet.

Many thanks in anticiption.

Neil

At 9:24pm on June 20, 2009, martin said…: Np Neil i have sent you an email with my elf and safety policy hope its ok for you m8

At 7:27pm on September 22, 2009, Ace Garden Services - John said…: Hi Neil,
Sorry I have only just spotted this message, I did not realise that I had a comments section on My Page.
I cannot remember at the moment the name of the fencing, as I lost quite a few files on the computer a while back, but I will be seeing the client soon, and he may remember, as he had a fair amount of imput on the choice.
Regards John

At 11:59am on September 27, 2009, Ace Garden Services - John said…: Hi Neil, I missed him this week, but I managed to get more photos. I have left a note there for him.