Is The Maverick A Good Buy? Getting Cold Feet

[MavStangVa]

Last year we bought 40 bags of Lowes brown mulch and the color consistemcy was terrible. The color in some of the bags were so drastically different that we had to separate them because it would have looked terrible if they were in a shrub bed together.

I found pieces of glass bottles, half of a golf ball, pieces of 2 x 4, rocks, and half a brick in the Lowe's mulch. I bought the black and the first rain it was all gray or natural color. I attempted to get them to honor the 12 month color guarantee. They said I would have to "prove" that was from the bags I bought.

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[Timothyd]

I found pieces of glass bottles, half of a golf ball, pieces of 2 x 4, rocks, and half a brick in the Lowe's mulch. I bought the black and the first rain it was all gray or natural color. I attempted to get them to honor the 12 month color guarantee. They said I would have to "prove" that was from the bags I bought.

I fill up my Mav with old manure from a local horse boarding place always the same and just gets better with age. Price is right too (free).

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

I didn't snap a picture but I hauled the 20 bags of 1.5 cu/ft and closed my hard cover over it, . I don't like to drive with it flipped up and didn't feel like removing it although it is easy to do. Plus The Home Depot is less than a mile as the crow flies from my house so 2 trips is no big deal. That just means I get to drive my Maverick more.
EDIT: I bought the Scott's mulch also and it is 100% better than the crap I got from Lowe's last year. I raked it out of the beds and repurposed it around some junipers that hide it anyway.

The last 3-4 Years I bought the Scott's mulch and have never had a problem with it.

 

[BlueOval1954]

I found pieces of glass bottles, half of a golf ball, pieces of 2 x 4, rocks, and half a brick in the Lowe's mulch. I bought the black and the first rain it was all gray or natural color. I attempted to get them to honor the 12 month color guarantee. They said I would have to "prove" that was from the bags I bought.

I like Menards for the reason they never give me any grief when I have to return someting. There is something said about a family run business as opposed to a Wall St directive.

 

[MavStangVa]

I like Menards for the reason they never give me any grief when I have to return someting. There is something said about a family run business as opposed to a Wall St directive.

I wish Menards was in my area but alas they aren't.

 

[Nittany]

These screen shots of 85 or 66 MPG are not averages. They are what is occurring at that moment in time. You may be coming down an incline and the reading will show that for a short period of time. Just about everyone I've talked you when we actually calculate our MPG after filling up at the gas pump are experiencing MPG rates of "around" 43-45 MPG if we are driving mostly in the city at under 50 MPH, in the mid-to-high 30s if a good mix of highway & city driving, and 33-35 MPG out on the highway.

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