New yard that you've only seen quick time version of, after many requests this is the real time version so sit back and enjoy.

Q: Why did you leave that pile of junk in the street?
A: My city offers free curbside pickup using TL3 scoop loaders. Takes a city worker 30 seconds and no effort to clean it up. Otherwise I would have to charge my client more to pay for me to remove it, so there is no logical choice except leave it for city pickup.

Q: Why aren’t you mowing in straight lines or striping?
A: Striping isn’t a big deal down here. Most of the time we are cutting many species of grass around 2.5” or 3”, and that is too short to leave striping. (Maybe tire tracks, but not actually striping the lawn.) Even when I cut Saint Augustine at 4.5” it doesn’t lay down and stripe, it is just too stiff of a grass blade. I am willing to bet if you think striping is a big deal, you live further North than I do. As far as straight lines, breaking the yard into segments makes a better video, which is my main goal. Plus with as many clippings as were present, stripes would be covered.

Q: You discharged towards XYZ and that makes you an amateur.
A: This yard, at is narrowest, is ~12' wide/deep. I have a 48" (4') mower deck. Generally a mower throws grass clippings two or three passes long, which means that no matter what I am going to be hitting something. Either the house or the fence, pick one (often both), If I don't ever point towards the AC, then I am blasting the vinyl fencing. At the end of the day, everything is blown off, structures and fences and AC's and sidewalks. You can't keep grass off all those places while you are mowing. A chute blocker wouldn't have helped, this grass was much too thick and tall to use a chute blocker or mulch plate.

- Q: You cut the grass too short!
- A: If you cut any grass at this height down to 3.25”, it will be more brown than green. That isn’t a sign I damaged it, just the way grass works. It grew back fine.

Q: That wasn’t tall grass, you should see blah blah blah.
A: Lots of people will also say they liked it better before or it wasn’t too tall the way it was. All personal preference, unless you live in an HOA like this client, in which case it doesn’t matter what you prefer, it only matters what the HOA is going to enforce.

Q: Why are you using electric equipment? I can tell from the second you started using it you weren’t a professional.
A: HART and ECHO have both sent me electric equipment to test out. When filming, I have to move the camera between 50 and 100 times, depending on the project. That means edging a section, then stopping, walking to the camera, moving the camera, adjusting the shot, walking back to where I stopped, start edging again, repeat dozens of times. Electric equipment doesn’t waste gas during that extra time, isn’t loud, and in some cases is a touch lighter.

Q: Is the new Bobcat mower yours?
A: I am currently in the middle of a several month demo from Bobcat. I was not paid to feature the Bobcat mower, am not obligated to say anything about it one way or another, and as this video shows am allowed to put it through absolutely ANYTHING I want to! :D

0:00 Intro
0:10 I've Finally Lost It
0:24 Bobcat Bites Back
0:31 Can't Argue With That
0:50 Let's Prove It!
1:15 READ THE DESCRIPTION OR WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO
1:48 Before Shots
2:14 Sticks And Moss First
2:21 Edging Start
3:46 This Lawn Needed Edging BAD
5:14 Finding The Edge Here Was Challenging
8:47 I Edge These For WOW Factor
12:07 Trash From Interior Remodel
12:28 Lumber As Well
13:14 Edging Cracks Are So Satisfying To Me
14:30 Get Ready For The Sod Farm
16:06 Driveway Cracks Are Satisfying, Too
18:15 Cleaning Up Is The Worst
19:38 Can't Forget The Back Patio
20:20 Taking My Life (Or Bank Account) Into My Own Hands
21:35 The mower!
22:01 It Felt So Good To Mow This Grass
22:46 Like Hot Knives Through Butter
25:55 Giant Plant Makes Mowing Tough
26:03 A Little Slope Adds To The Challenge
27:40 So Much Grass Clippings You'd Think This Was California
29:30 Mowing Under Trees: A Drag
30:50 Mail Call
31:17 WATER You Looking At? (HEY-OH!)
31:34 Electric Equipment is SHOCKING (HEY-OH!)
31:45 Make Like A Tree And Leaf (Eh...That Was Weak)
32:33 Fence Line Trimming
33:14 Having To Trim Through Grass AND Clippings!
33:46 FINALLY! I GOT IN! I'M BEING HELD AGAINST MY WILL!
34:57 THEY MAKE ME MOW LAWNS ALL DAY!
35:55 I DON'T FIND ANY OF IT ODDLY SATISFYING!
36:40 THEY ARE COMING BACK, PLEASE GET ME...
37:22 I don't know how he got out, but make sure and tie him up with the .130 trimmer line this time
37:39 Where Were We? Oh Yes, Messy AC!
38:22 Hand Pulling Is A Necessary Evil Sometimes
39:00 So Many Clippings!
40:00 Down The Trimming Homestretch
42:00 More Hand Pulling Near Backflow Preventer
42:45 UGH, More Utilities To Hand Pull Around
43:52 Nearly Done!
45:10 It really BUGGED ME (HEY-OH! HE EARNED THAT ONE!)
45:31 Putting Her Away
46:00 Blowing off driveway/sidewalk
51:08 Before/After/Conclusion