Treat and dispose of chemical rinsate
Monitor your decision. These are words to live by once you make a pesticide application. Prior to your decision on how to control a pest through the integrated-pest-management...
Part II: Multiple chemical sensitivity
Here's a health quiz for you.Do you experience any of the following symptoms? -- Headaches -- Breathing problems -- Short- or long-term memory loss --...
Safe Driving:Where the rubber meets the road
In any service business where you need to travel to a client's property to provide care, the issue of getting there safely is a concern. Most organizations...
Managing soil pH in turf
Too often, adjusting soil pH takes a back seat to other maintenance tasks that show more immediate results, such as fertilization and overseeding. However,...
Small-engine emissions
Q: Are stricter emission standards for grounds-care equipment justified?John Dunlap, chairman, California Air Resources BoardCleaner-running lawn and...
Today's Swiss+Army tractors
You move snow. You spread seed, chemicals, fertilizer and topdressing. You aerate, dethatch, grind stumps and place fence posts. You mow, rake and sweep....
Utility vehicles deliver efficiency
It's the norm--not the exception--to go to a job site and find many products from like numbers of manufacturers," says John T. Gillan, executive director...
Obeying the rules of safe hauling and dumping
You have probably witnessed something falling off a truck. Maybe you have had a piece of gravel fly off an untarped dump truck and crack your windshield....
Irrigation access boxes get no respect
Of all the parts needed to install an irrigation system, the valve box is perhaps the most underestimated and under-appreciated. Some of the earliest...
Heavy equipment
There's something about operating heavy equipment that always gives me a thrill. Whether it's a back hoe, dump truck or front-end loader, I'm like a kid...
Manage roadside vegetation
Research Update: Trenching near trees
Ever eat a pine tree? I have a healthy, good-sized lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana), and I have noticed some holes in the trunk, sort of like the dots on...
The demand for heavy equipment
The world demand for heavy-construction equipment is forecast to increase 4 percent per year, with sales reaching almost $87 billion in the year 2001,...
The legal aspects of equipment-safety training
Manufacturers of grounds-care equipment offer a variety of turf-care, lawn-maintenance and lawn-beautification products designed to cut things, or at...
How To: Use a backhoe safely
A skid-steer loader with a backhoe attachment can be extremely productive--if operated efficiently and safely. That means you need to recognize situations...
The essence of beautifying roadways
Roadway beautification once meant planting a few trees and flowers. Today, it means much more. Cities and counties are combining a diverse palette of...
Equipment Options: Loaders
When it comes to commercial grounds-care equipment, the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" does not apply. In fact, it couldn't be further from...
The battle of the bunkers
I'm convinced that the colorful language that emits from golfers' mouths originated from players trying to extricate golf shots from the sand burrows...
Stregthen your machines' muscles
You can't overemphasize the importance of hydraulics in the proper functioning of today's equipment. Hydraulics are its muscles. They aid equipment in...
The cost of routine mowing along North Carolina's approximate 300,000 acres of roadside turf amounts to the considerable sum of $16 million per year. Unfortunately, mowing is an unavoidable part of vegetation management. However, roadside vegetation manag
Today's grounds manager can choose from among many woody and herbaceous ornamentals to use within the landscape. Arboreta, botanical gardens, plant propagators...
Combine bulbs and perennials to extend bloom
We usually think of using spring bulbs for ostentatious displays of color that an- nounce the arrival of spring. While no one can argue about the beauty...
Removing overseeded ryegrass from bermudagrass
Turfgrass managers in the southern United States often overseed bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) with perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) to provide a dense,...
1997 PGMA winners
The Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) and Grounds Maintenance magazine co-sponsor the annual Professional Grounds Maintenance Awards program,...
What to do when you've been sued
It may be handed to you by a process server--or it may arrive by certified mail. However it gets to you, the summons notifying you that someone is suing...
Tapping in to seasonal workers
Tapping in to seasonal workers The Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) titled its 1989 Crystal Ball Report "Personnel: Preparing to deal...
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