Step 1 · Documents
Licence category and inspection, both current.
Four kinds of work, with the documents produced before the first pass.
Two documents decide whether this work may be done at all, and both expire: a phytolicence of the right category, valid six years and renewable only on continuing education, and a valid periodic inspection of the equipment, due every three years. The conditions on the product authorisation then govern everything else — dose, timing, buffer zone to surface water, and whether drift-reducing equipment allows that zone to be narrowed. Where a product authorisation and a client's preference conflict, the authorisation wins.
Licence category and inspection, both current.
Dose, stage and buffer from the label.
With drift reduction where it is required.
Product, dose, date, parcel, to you.
What, where, and in what window.
Whether the soil will take it.
In the window the soil allows.
What was done, where, and when.
Contract work lives or dies on turning up at the right moment, and the right moment is set by the soil rather than by the diary. So we will say when a field is too wet to travel on, even when that is not the answer anybody wants, because working a soil in the wrong condition causes compaction that outlasts the crop and costs more to undo than the job was worth.
The most expensive minute on a groundworks job is the one spent striking a cable nobody had located. Requesting the plans before digging takes almost no time and settles where the risk actually sits; working from assumption, or from where a previous occupier remembers something being, is how a small job becomes a utility repair bill. Plans are requested first and the work is set out from them.
Plans requested before any digging.
From the plans, not from memory.
Cleared, levelled, spoil dealt with.
Access restored as it was found.
What is included, and what is not.
What must be ready before we start.
To the scope, with changes recorded.
Listed openly, then closed.
Finishing work is where a programme usually slips, because it depends on everything before it having gone right. We price it as its own job with its own start condition, so that a delay earlier in a project does not quietly become our problem or yours. What has to be ready before we arrive is written down, which also makes it obvious when it is not.
A free first conversation, with no obligation. If the window has closed or the soil will not take it, you will hear that rather than a yes.