Phases Of Landscape Training

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Phases Of Landscape Training

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Eight Phases of Landscaping

• Estimating, Bidding, and Planning
• Instrument, Grading, Drainage
• Hardscapes
• Specialty Features
• Plants and Planting
• Edger Installation
• Turf Irrigation
• Irrigation

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Estimating, Bidding and Planning

• Key phase to profitability for landscapers
• Meet with GC or property owner
• Discuss timing and desired outcome
• Soil tests and topographic maps are completed
• Proper PH balance for plant
• Insure adequate drainage
• Limited equipment rental opportunities
• Possibly skid steer- move dirt, drainage concerns

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Instrument, Grading and Drainage

• General Contractor is finished with outside work
• Possible equipment rental needs for final site
  clean up
• Site is marked for movement of soil
• Rental equipment used for
• Finish grading
• Ensure proper drainage
• Equipment rental needs
• MTLS, track loaders, skip loaders, skid steer
  loaders,

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Hardscapes

• Features in a landscape plan which will never
  change
• Used to enhance the landscaping
• Concrete structures
• Rock gardens, retaining walls, sidewalks
• Wood structures
• Decks, gazebos, benches
• Equipment rental needs
• Retaining walls, rock gardens,
• Skid steer loaders, mini-hydraulic excavators,
  backhoes

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Hardscapes (Cont)

• Sidewalks, Patios
• Tampers plates, concrete screeds, floats
  darbies, concrete edger's, cutoff saws, trowels
• Wood structures
• Skid steer with augers, track type loaders, MTLs

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Specialty Features

• Generally limited to water and lighting features
• Water falls, ponds, streams
• Side track lighting
• Equipment rental needs
• Water features
• Excavators, skid steer loaders, backhoe with
  attachments
• Lighting features
• Trencher with work tool, skid steer and mini
  excavator with work tools

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Plants and Planting

• Installation of all vegetation other than lawn
• Smaller plant installation is manual labor
  intensive
• Larger plants will require machines for handling
  and planting
• Regional practices differ for handling larger
  plants
• Tree booms acceptable in the southeastern U.S
• Not advised operation in other parts of U.S.
• Equipment rental needs
• Small plants
• Consumables- shovels, wheelbarrows, rakes etc.
• Large plants
• Skid steer with pallet forks, augers, tree bits
  and spades

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Turf Installation

• This phase consists of seedbed preparation, and
  turf installation
• Methods of turf installation
• Seeding
• Sodding
• Hydro seeding
• Soil preparation consists of
• Cultivating
• Loosens soil and removes and weed growth
• Grading
• Ensures proper runoff
• Lawn grasses dont grow well in water logged area

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Turf Installation (Cont)

• Smoothing Firming
• Usually a function of the grading process
• Utilize different equipment due to geographical
  varying of soil conditions
• Texturizing
• Will differ depending on the type of turf
  installed
• Sod or broadcast seeding- a smooth,
  clod-free-surface
• Packer-type seeder- slightly cloddy condition
• The desired surface will dictate equipment rental
  needs
• Utility tractor or skid steer loader with
  tillers, harley rakes, box blades, landscape
  rakes and York rakes
• Rollers- sodded areas

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Irrigation

• Final phase
• Topography must be set before sprinkler heads can
  be installed
• Three ways of inserting pipe into the ground
• Hand installation
• Open trench installation
• Trench less installation
• Manual labor is used for digging sprinkler box
  openings and pipe layout
• Equipment rental needs
• Trencher or vibratory plow (cable plow)

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Summary

• Can be very simple or very complex
• Vary from region to region
• Vary from contractor to contractor
• Contractors have very little time for sales reps
• Weather and labor are major concern
• Understand what they are doing
• Understand how they doing it
• Solution to save or get work done ahead of bad
  weather will increase likelihood of doing
  business

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Skid Steer with Landscape Rake
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MHE with Auger
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Skid Steer with Trencher
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MTL with Forks
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MHE Wheel Loader
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Discussion

• Questions, Comments, or Concerns

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