By trade

Landscaper

Getting in without damage, working, leaving without a trace.
The landscaper is the only trade where what you have not broken counts as much as what you have done.

This trade also covers: garden creation, outdoor design, green space maintenance, earthworks for private clients, tree pruning, turfing.

The essentials

Common classes: Up to 5 t
Coupler: Mechanical, often
Constraint no. 1: Access and the ground
Auxiliary line: Not always fitted

The typical machine class →

01 The trade

What this trade demands of the tooling

A landscaping job is done at somebody's home.
You come in through a gate, you cross a lawn, you work next to a wall, a tree or a terrace, and the client is watching.
The machine has to be small, and the tool precise.

Here the constraint is neither the power nor the output:
it is the collateral damage. A rut in a lawn, marked paving, a wounded root, a hedge torn instead of trimmed — those are jobs to be done again and not charged for, and sometimes a client lost. The right tool is the one that does the work without damaging what remains.

Mini-excavator on protection mats in an enclosed garden, digging a narrow trench in a lawn — The mats under the tracks, the hedge untouched, the narrow trench. **This job is judged on what it has not damaged** — and that starts before the tool is chosen.
Synthetic image.

The mini-excavator digs from its mats, the lawn stays intact around it.
Come in without damage, leave without a trace.
Synthetic video.

02 The tools

The tools that matter

Working the soil Earthmoving bucket to open up, ditching bucket to finish, and the star screening bucket to recover topsoil instead of carting it away and buying more.
Maintaining the planting, without wounding it The saw trimmer cuts clean and lets it heal, where the rotary mulcher mulches volume.
On a hedge you want to keep looking good, that is not the same result — nor the same client the following year.
Felling where falling is forbidden The shears holds the cut tree and sets it down.
Against a fence, above a terrace, beside a swimming pool, it is often the only acceptable tool.
Handling without a grapple The thumb turns the bucket into a hand:
a stump, a block, a trunk, a pallet.
It is the attachment with the best cost-to-use ratio in this trade.
Boring and laying The auger for fixing fences or a pergola, the trencher for a buried irrigation line without scarring the lawn.

The auxiliary line is the point that blocks things most often. On small machines it is frequently an option — and without it, saw trimmer, shears, auger and trencher are out of reach.
Check it before making up your mind on a tool.

03 Check

What is checked before fitting out

The auxiliary line, quite simply Is it fitted? How many functions? See the 7 criteria.
The weight at the end of the arm On a machine of less than 5 t, a few dozen kilos too many do not reduce the output:
they make the machine lift off the ground.
The real width of access That of the gate, but also that of the machine with the tool fitted.
What you cross Lawn, paving, terrace, flagstones:
that governs the tracks as much as the tool, and it is decided before the quotation.

Have your machine checked.

Give us your excavator model, its auxiliary line if you know it, and the type of jobs you do.
Tell us also what you turn down today for want of a tool:
that is often where the best investment lies.

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Other trades

By machine

Understanding

By trade

The same tool is not chosen in the same way depending on who fits it, and on what is around it.

The 12 trades

Agriculture Drainage, ditches, hedges, land clearing, handling.
Pipelayer and services Opening narrow, laying heavy, closing clean.
Quarries and rock Blasting out, picking up, loading a material that wears everything.
Local authorities and roads Roads, green spaces, winter maintenance, weed control.
Demolition and recycling Bringing down, separating the materials, crushing on the spot.
Railways The tool is the simple part; access to the track is not.
Special foundations Driving, boring, supporting — before anything comes out of the ground.
Forestry and silviculture Mulching, felling, extracting, stump grinding, restoring.
Hire companies A tool that goes on several machines earns; a dedicated tool sleeps.
Landscaper You are here. Get in without damage, work the soil, maintain.
Recycling and waste Sorting, gripping, separating, recovering on the spot.
Civil engineering and roads Opening, laying, closing, and giving the road back in good order.

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We tell you what fits on it — and what does not.

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