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How can I avoid punching holes on my customers skirting with my weed whacker? I mow in a trailer park, and I'm VERY careful when I weed whack around the skirting, but holes still get punched! How can I avoid this?

I just got canned by a customer last week because of this.

My house is pier and beam so I have skirting around the sides and back. I spray around the house with round-up to eliminate cutting the skirting. I spray a close and narrow strip.

X-man said:

How can I avoid punching holes on my customers skirting with my weed whacker? I mow in a trailer park, and I'm VERY careful when I weed whack around the skirting, but holes still get punched! How can I avoid this?

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Very easy stand next to the house not facing it and walk backwards tilt the head so the line hits the ground.

Slow down and don't try and cut all the grass at one time.

Don't run your trimmer wide open slow it down some use thin line like maybe 65

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

The right way to install skirting is to put something under it so the grass and weeds do not grow into it. Around here at parks the use shingles

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

X-man said:

How can I avoid punching holes on my customers skirting with my weed whacker? I mow in a trailer park, and I'm VERY careful when I weed whack around the skirting, but holes still get punched! How can I avoid this?

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I usually take the weed eater hold it upside down and run the line parallel with the house to scalp a small strip of grass then maintain by weedeating with the line hitting the ground. The initial line shows the customer you care enough to not hit it and if you stand back and look you can't even tell you did. Make sure you take your leaf blower to the siding as you will prolly get it dirty or if your customer has a hose spray it down

Carscw said:

Very easy stand next to the house not facing it and walk backwards tilt the head so the line hits the ground.

Slow down and don't try and cut all the grass at one time.

Don't run your trimmer wide open slow it down some use thin line like maybe 65

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

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We just walk backwards and take small amounts of grass at the time. Also run the trimmer at just high enough RPM to cut. On a regular customer we also reccomend a thin line of Roundup and will apply it free if they let us.

Any time a regular customer lets us put Roundup out in a difficult place we put it out free. It is much to our advantage to do that rather than have to weedeat every week.

Spray that new product out,,monkey **** all over the skirt then tell the home owner to shove that cheap trailor park **** up thier pooper. Even easier just plain don't do it and let the monkey **** product handle it

Go back and talk to them. Tell them you are working on how to trim around skirting. And you will give them two free grass cuts and spray roundup around the skirting.

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

AmericanTurf said:

Spray that new product out,,monkey **** all over the skirt then tell the home owner to shove that cheap trailor park **** up thier pooper. Even easier just plain don't do it and let the monkey **** product handle it

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How about a normal answer, not something that has to do with monkey s**t.

jimrs said:

My house is pier and beam so I have skirting around the sides and back. I spray around the house with round-up to eliminate cutting the skirting. I spray a close and narrow strip.

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I have considered buying weed killer so I can talk my customers into letting me kill the grass around their skirting.

It's been a major problem these past 2 years.

X-man said:

I have considered buying weed killer so I can talk my customers into letting me kill the grass around their skirting.

It's been a major problem these past 2 years.

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Make sure you get the proper herbicide licencing