J&J Landscaping, LLC, Durango, CO

06/03/2024

As the owner of Animas Valley Arborist, Inc.y Arborist and J&J Landscaping LLC, every week we discuss safety to prevent accidents in our workplace, and to create a culture of safety in everything we do! This means changing our personal habits and incorporating new, safer habits in our daily lives. This weeks topic is a review but I want to share this with the public, family and friends for your awareness while driving in parking lots. Please excuse the long read, but here ya go!

Parking maneuvers, particularly a vehicle’s maneuver for entering and leaving a parking space, have varying rates of use and safety impacts. In this effort, crash data were collected for parking lots in the vicinity of a university campus and compared to observational parking position data. The campus was selected for this study because a change in the parking enforcement process was expected to (and did) change parking maneuver choices. When entering and leaving a parking space, three maneuver options exist for drivers: (1) forward, (2) reverse, and (3) pulling through an adjacent parking space. When specifically entering a parking space, the maneuver options become: (1) pull-in, (2) back-in, and (3) pull-through. When leaving the parking space, the maneuver options become: (1) pull-out, (2) back-out, and (3) pull-through. This study found that the pull-in/back-out vehicle maneuver’s percentage of total crashes was greater than the percentage of vehicles that were actually observed to use the same maneuver. The analysis from this study implies that the pull-in/back-out parking maneuver is more likely to result in a collision and therefore, is associated with a higher crash risk. Further analysis of North Carolina’s parking related fatal and serious injury crashes found that vehicles backing out of parking spaces was overwhelmingly the main cause for these serious injuries. 90% of North Carolina’s parking related fatal and serious injuries occurred during a back-out maneuver. Overall, this study concludes that the back-in/pull-out parking maneuver is safer than the pull-in/back-out maneuver and is the recommended approach to 90° parking.

Parking maneuvers, particularly a vehicle’s maneuver for entering and leaving a parking space, have varying rates of use and safety impacts. In this e…

04/04/2022

We are hiring for the 2022 season! All positions in Lawns, Maintenance, Construction, and Irrigation. Professional Landscaping. Top wages!!!

10/13/2020

Fall means lots of leaves!!! Check out our lawn crew mowing and collecting leaves!

10/13/2020

It's time to do Fall aerating on your lawns!!! Check out our new Toro Stand On Aerator! It allows us to maneuver in tight areas and get 3"-5" cores! Perfect for preparing your lawn for the winter and next Spring!!!

08/16/2019

Creating a privacy screen from CR 120 using large Spruce, Austrian, and Douglas Fir trees on top of a man made berm. Re are reusing some of the old picket fence to incorporate some of the historical pieces of the property into the new landscape. Trees range in size from 6' up to 16'! Stay tuned for future developments!

06/04/2019

We had a fun and challenging day today planting these two huge Spruce trees! One was 24' tall and weighed 7,500 #, and the second tree was 20' tall and weighed 6,900 #. Both are Colorado Blue Spruce grown at James Tree Farm in Hermosa north of Durango. Head Crane Service assisted has with loading and setting the trees in the holes.

03/02/2010

Photos of the landscape installation and completed project!

02/15/2010

The GreenExpo in Denver gave me great insight for the coming year in landscaping and tree care. I'll be posting weekly blogs that will help with educating current trends in the landscape and tree care! Stay tuned!