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i noticed the other day an article in the evening post ,about the quaility of grass cutting, on grass verges ect.i dont know what other people think, but i think it looks rubbish when cut.not the council guys proper gardeners,but the other firm,not to metion names (based in horsforth)they allways cut the verges in the rain,even when its been nice for a while.first you get the guy with the strimmer, hes good he misses most of it,after all the bits stick your car !then the guy on the mower comes down,he is great, a blunt blade, goes over grass cuts a bit leaves the middle bit.and the best one is the man with the blower. now wacth him this guy is great, blowing bits of wet grass off the pavement, the bits that do come off, guess where it goes.yup all over the car!i missed them this time i was at out, but driving through our estate, there was an oap looking at his car, full of grass cuttings, talking to his mates,i can imagine what he was saying..we have to pay for this rubbish service.dont bother complaining to the council ive done that.all i got was a letter asking what i thought of the grass cutting.

There appalling.. I'm not one for 'Victor Meldrew' type grumpiness and complaining, But even I reported the 'no names mentioned' firm for spraying weedkiller over all the bits of grass they'd have to strim. Can you believe they actually kill grass, so they don't need the guy with the strimmer?Sack those cowboy Glendale* I say! I can't believe they've still got the tender!    

Ive not got one good word for em!they have paggard all the trees around here by strimming too close and taking off all the bark at the bottomNot to mention the mess that the doylem with the blower makes! what's all that about???He comes running down after the grassbutcher has finished and starts blasting away like something out of ghostbusters! there's grass everywhere when he's finished,how come when they cut the grass before, they never had Johnny jetpack and his blasted blower did they?? and to my knowledge we didn't have the mess that they make!

im glad someone agrees.in lincolnshire where my partner is from,all the verges are well cut,clean and tidy,they pay less council tax than us.maybe if our council estates looked tidy. it would stop kids dropping rubbish everywhere.

brandy ghost busters lol

Ever see how they cut hedges? Around us we see the efforts of the local farmers - Hawthorne rows, cut so prcisely you could put a level on them and be happy - and that's using a cutter on a blooming great tractor!Council contractors had five guys 'dealing' with a similar hedge along the road nearby, doing it by hand and what a mess - undulating to plus or minus a foot and a half. Actually, it did look as though they'd done it by had, litterally, looked as though branches had been wrenched off. If the general level of (very loud) vocabulary was anything to go by, every second word punctuated with inaccurate and anatomically impossible descriptions, no wonder the hedges stood little chance!Won't even go near grass-cutting.

i knew this tread would get response.try finding the horsforths firm who does the grass cutting.i asked a so called grass cutter for the phone number.began with f then oxx nice guy.its not on the net

Just as an example of how the Council's chaps view their jobs -An eldery neighbour has a large area of grass outside his house which frankly, can look an eyesore if left alone.Dilligntly, every couple of weeks he's out there with his petrol mower, covering the now neat grass with stripes. Last week end, the large road sweeper chappy came round as he was finsihing the edges and srcaping the kerb edge. Sweeper chappy clearly very impressed and by way of support, made three or four passes back and forth until all signs of resultant mess was gone and the area was pristene. Browny points were due I think.

he worked for a proper firm the council

This always seems to crop up in the YEP, but the useless morons at Glendale cut the grass without so much care - How difficult can it be to simply cut the grass, without damaging anything, without causing mayhem, and move on?Surely a 2 year old could do a better job than some of them.