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Engines, Parts & Shop Equipment

Powering Your Equipment with Lightning

With a single battery, STIHL Lightning Battery System users can power a wide range of landscaping equipment.

Brave New Trencher Operates at Up to 20 Feet per Minute

Great Northern Equipment

Powered by a Honda engine, the Brave belt- and pulley-driven trencher features a 7-inch trenching depth.

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Mowing & Maintenance

Michigan Man Wins Gold for Lawn-Edging Invention

The Shark Tooth Edger attaches to front-wheel-drive lawn mowers, edging as the lawnmower cuts grass.

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Mowing & Maintenance

Undocumented Man Hiding in Grass Injured by Mowing Tractor

The tractor's safety equipment chain snagged onto the man's leg, dragging him about 15 feet before the worker saw him.

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Mowing & Maintenance

Outdoor Power Equipment Institute Buys New Headquarters Building in Alexandria

Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI)

This space will allow members around the country and overseas to participate more fully in association business and activities.

TurfMutt explores the new headquarters during renovations.

Mowing & Maintenance

Lightweight yet High-Performance Chainsaw

Husqvarna’s 536Li XP lithium-ion battery-powered chainsaw is ideal for landscape and tree care professionals.

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Debris Handling

Police Searching for Brazen Burglars in Outdoor Power Equipment Robbery

Just over 30 items, worth almost $15,000, were loaded up into the back of a pickup truck and hauled away.

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Mowing & Maintenance

40 Years of Old-World Workmanship with a New Twist

It’s only natural that the second-generation owners of DeMelo Brothers Inc. continue to enhance the natural beauty of Cape Cod.

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Mowing & Maintenance

Running the Lake-House Loop

Kesslers Lawn Tree & Garden

Kessler Lawn Maintenance works in an area that’s full of lake houses with a trailer full of proven, reliable equipment.

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Mowing & Maintenance

Telling It Like It Is: A Family Legacy

Scag Queen Lacey Gassett will reign over Gassett’s Lawn Products with the gentlest of iron fists—with honesty and true concern for customers’ needs.

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Making a CASE for Skid-Steer Snow Removal

CASE Construction Equipment

Controlling operational costs is key for Nate’s Landscape Company, a Wisconsin landscape contractor, and snow and ice removal company.

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Industry Updates

What You Don’t Know or Don’t Do Can Hurt You

Reputable landscaping companies need to understand and follow local and state highway regulations pertaining to the operation of vehicles and trailers.

“Our drivers pay more attention to their trucks now. We have fewer breakdown on the road, truck and vehicle appearance improved, and we have fewer accidents,” says Dennis’ 7 Dees operations manager Nathan Dirksen.

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