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Smitty
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Anyone Had Experience Renting OPE's from Home Depot?
Original Message Mar 16, 2005 7:32 pm |
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I'm planning on renting an Aerator in a couple of weeks, (I'm being optimistic that all the snow will be gone). Has anyone had any experience good or bad renting from the boys at HD?
Ariens 824 Sno Thro, Toro 18" Gas Trimmer, Craftsman 3.5 HP 9" Edger/Trimmer, Echo SRM230 Trimmer/Brush Cutter, Toro 21" Recycler II Mower, Craftsman 8.5 HP Chipper/Shredder, Craftsman 25cc GAs Blower/Vac, Husky Y1000 Air Compressor, Homelite EZ ChainSaw, Husky Chain Saw
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snowshoveler
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Re: Anyone Had Experience Renting OPE's from Home Depot?
Reply #3 Mar 16, 2005 8:48 pm |
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you should have no problem with them or the machine. wear all required safety gear...this means steel toed boots and protective eyewear. do your lawn like they do hockey rinks with the zamboni,you know split the middle. and make sure the machine is atleast as clean when you return it as it was when you got it. later chris
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SnowPro
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Re: Anyone Had Experience Renting OPE's from Home Depot?
Reply #4 Mar 16, 2005 9:36 pm |
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I'm planning on renting an Aerator in a couple of weeks, (I'm being optimistic that all the snow will be gone).
DO NOT aerate your lawn until the soil temperature is up to about 50 degrees minimum. I know that everyone gets excited when spring gets close, but you will do more harm than good by getting a jump on aerating. Beating the crowd to the rental place is not good cultural practices. The whole purpose of aerating is to open up the soil to allow air circulation for the roots of the turf. To relieve compaction and give the roots a chance to move through the soil more easily. Also, by opening up the surface, you will be able to allow water and fertilizer to reach the root zone more easily. BUT..................when you do this too early you risk freezing the roots because cool night air can really do a number on the exposed roots. They don't have the buffer to protect them when the temps fall off at night. The lawn will effectively be shocked. If you want to follow the best cultural practices for your lawn, then get a thermometer and wait for the temp. to come up first, then go at it and pound the crap out of it. More holes the better. The soil will really be able to breathe and your turf will really respond. Timing is everything! Ken 
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Smitty
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Re: Anyone Had Experience Renting OPE's from Home Depot?
Reply #5 Mar 16, 2005 9:51 pm |
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Thanks for the "heads up" on the soil temp Ken!
Ariens 824 Sno Thro, Toro 18" Gas Trimmer, Craftsman 3.5 HP 9" Edger/Trimmer, Echo SRM230 Trimmer/Brush Cutter, Toro 21" Recycler II Mower, Craftsman 8.5 HP Chipper/Shredder, Craftsman 25cc GAs Blower/Vac, Husky Y1000 Air Compressor, Homelite EZ ChainSaw, Husky Chain Saw
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Re: Anyone Had Experience Renting OPE's from Home Depot?
Reply #7 Mar 17, 2005 2:57 am |
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We rented a post hole digger and I thought they were great....good at giving me the rundown of do's and don'ts with it, etc. and it worked great (beat the heck out of the old 2-handled manual post hole digger we used as kids to put up a fence). And I agree with Chris...clean it up before you return it. Paula |
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Re: Anyone Had Experience Renting OPE's from Home Depot?
Reply #12 Mar 19, 2005 6:36 pm |
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I thought that your rented directly from the store. I wondered why I didn't see it advertised more. We don't even have a HD around here. 
AJace,
liking orange, you are a HD natural. how far is the nearest HD from you? they rent pressure washers and other machines you can use around the house.kind of like a mini nations rent. lots of orange machines. wd
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SnowPro...how do you manage to know all this stuff.