20 Year Old Lawn Gets DETHATCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Took the SunJoe dethatcher over to my parent's house and gave it a run across their backyard. This lawn has likely never been dethached, and I was really anxious to see how much material was hiding beneath the surface of the grass.
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Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Why dethatch and when
3:17 - Dethatching action
4:36 - The results - Навчання та стиль
grass: the ultimate time, money and water waster lol
I’ll never understand it
Fun fact: lawn grass is the most grown crop in the US, second place goes to corn which takes up 4 times less land then lawn
@@metallicakid83 Humans love to "tame" nature. An attempt to make the wild...orderly. To make an "uneven" lawn as uniform and dark green as possible. Its lowkey arrogant lol. Its a game of control, and very expensive to do. "I CAN CONTROL THESE DARNED WEEDS. I'LL MURDER THAT MOLE! WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, I OWN THIS LAND!"
"Get off my lawn" energy extends to everything, not just kids...
Moss lawns is where its at
Money maker if you’re smart
Can't be bothered to deal with my own yard this fall, but I'll watch with fascination as others do their own yards. So satisfying
Thanks for watching!
Pro-tip; dethatch/scarify FROM the outlet to the extremities of the lawn so you don't have to constantly manage your cord; it's always "behind" you.
That is a good tip. Thanks!
Real pro-tip: professionals use gas, not a cheap little electric. Cords aren't a problem.
@@mikecee3058 My 40V and 80V tools put my gas tools to shame and a pair of batteries last all day with fast charging. Gas won’t be king for long.
Best lawn thing Ive bought in 20 yrs, do this every spring , great tool and lawn looks great!
had no idea what dethatching was until now. this explains a lot about the lawn i used to have.
Same bro
Same, my lawn is basically just moss up until spring/summer when the grass grows in between.
Out here in the midwest, we just wait until it gets really dry and call up the local fire department and tell them we are burning our yard off so don't come if anyone calls in.
If you supply the right beer they might do it for you, even.
same, and I think the other 700k views also clicked for this reason alone :'D
Same! lol now I feel like I need to do this to my yard.
This is the first year I’ve used one of these and I was very impressed. I haven’t used the scarifier yet, so this video is helpful to get an idea of what results to expect.
I've never heard of this process before, but we soon as you started and stuff was just piling up immediately I was hooked!
That was awesome! Love seeing all that stuff come out of there.
First Aussie 😁. Jimmy , a great job on your parents home lawn , I am hoping you can work your magic and make that lawn pop like yours . Family time well spent with your father, great memories made. 😎👍👍
I was going to suggest to clean up the debris and then do a second pass in a perpendicular direction, but you mentioned that in the video. Good job, Jimmy. Enjoy a beer with your Dad. 😁🍺
We also did a dethatching last year for the first time in like 17 years lol. We did it 3 times and it pulled out nearly the same amount each time we went over it. Lawn this year though looks perfect though.
I purchased a Sun Joe this past spring and I love it. I had always tried dethatching my lawn with a rake. It never did a good job. But the Sun Joe? WOW! I went over the lawn twice. Once at setting 0 and once at setting -1. I didn't use the scarifier, just the regular tines. One thing I did do. I removed the bagger. The machine worked better.
Yeah that bagger is pointless. Glad to hear it's working out well for you!
2 years ago I manually de-thatched the big part of my front lawn (Groundskeeper rake - great tool) - thanks for confirming I did it at the right time: mid-Fall. I got 12 bags out of a smaller area than what you worked on here - the poor lawn hadn't had any TLC in probably a decade when I bought the house & it was a total mess: 90% weeds & moss. Last year it looked better, but this year I am really seeing the improvement. Next task needs to be levelling (when I have the time, LOL).
Thatch is no joke! I thought it was for years until I watched one of these vids. I bought a dethatcher from Amazon and have detached and scarified both my lawns 3 times in the last month to prep the ground to over seed and prep for winter just in time for our recent rains in the Seattle area. This will prep the lawns for better success in the spring.
I just thatched and use a typical gas unit I rented. Huge work hard to handle if not going straight. Never knew there were electric models , has to be easy to handle.Thanks for the video ...
That's a lot of great material for composting.
I watched your video a couple months ago and I bought the
sun Joe dethatcher and it worked great could not believe the amount of dead grass came off my lawn I have about 2000 sq foot front lawn and I filled 3 - 55 gallon black garbage bags on 1 pass. Will do another couple of passes in the fall.
Thanks for the info
Love to hear it!
This was a satisfying dethatch. Would be nice how it looks in another month or so.
Before and afters are always good!!
I had no idea this was a thing and yet it makes total sense. Thanks for educating me.
I've never even heard of this process before and so, needless to say, the sheer amount of stuff that you pulled out of it blows my mind. There's like two lawns lying there…
I don't think I have seen a video with that much thatch coming out just from one pass. That lawn is going to look a lot better after getting that out.
5:24 "but hey" *points at dry grass*
Made a funny and didn't even realise it 🤣🤣🤣
start where the extension chord begins and work your way out. that way you don't have to keep moving it as you go.
Gotta love a mansplainer.
He started at the fence so his dad could use the mower to clean up without running over the cord. Also makes it easier for his dad to clean-up without the cord in the way.
@@rhysbertrand8903 did anyone ask for your womopinion?
@@rhysbertrand8903 wow, you actually use mansplaining un-ironically.
I’ve never heard of dethatching but I’ve looked at my lawn like “wtf is your problem?” many times. Now I think I’m gonna make a trip to Home Depot
If you have a small yard to can use a dethatching rake. Inexpensive, easy to use and very effective.
@@gblan it’s big enough for a riding mower, not enough for a zero turn. Gonna check these out online 👍🏻
@@jakeshaffer9176 tell me how it goes please
I've never seen or heard of this process before... but now I want to do it. Too bad it's so late in the season.
Just got mine yesterday and did my front lawn. I was surprised you went with the scarifier attachment. It might not be the right time of the year for me to go that aggressive, but I kinda want to try it.
Love the look of a well maintained lawn, this one looks great. Grass lawns were still one of our worse ideas though
Agreed. Wish we focused more on lawns made of native plants and/or moss. Much better all around.
@@Key2TheBasement Or crops. You bring over some grandfather from the old world and he'll be ripping what's left of his hair out wondering why we're not growing crops with all this land. Lawn grass is the world's most useless crop and with my property I would be able to feed my family almost entirely with food grown on my own land. My property is a weird 25' wide by 200' long and between the house, patio and driveway more than half of that is useless lawn.
well done video and great info as here in NZ we are nearly at Spring and our lawn needs same treatment. cheers for the tip. NZ
So when your dad says I want to dethatch my lawn what he really means is I want you to dethatch my lawn lol.
thats what it always means with parents
and no pay
@@canygmail2631 He got fed and watered did he not?
If you're looking to save on space, you can shrink it down by putting a vacuum attachment to the bag opening after its full, it will vacuum seal and shrink it down to half its size, allowing for space saving dump run if there is a lot!
And if you are looking to actually get rid of the stuff, put it in paper bags and compost it instead.
Thanks for this very informative video! Amazing.
I am amazed that despite such a big lawn, there is not a single flower! Is this normal for America?
We, here in the UK, take great pleasure in having flowers in our, relatively, tiny gardens.
Get your ass over here and plant some flowers for we barbarians.
No that is far from normal. In my area the entire fence line about a meter out would be turned into a garden bed. Also around the tree again a meter out. The shed would have at least some flowering bushes around it.
Many American home plots were farm or ranch land just a few years before. As a result, there are no or only very young trees and little landscaping.
Strangely, because many Americans have become familiar with the look of new developments, some never adjust the landscaping to make the yards/lawns pleasant places to be in.
depends on the person and where they live
@@jaredflurry937 it’s not that they’re used to new developments it’s that people don’t have the time or money… and some just don’t want to deal with the upkeep. It depends on the person and place.
Can’t wait to see the update!!
First time viewer (popped up in my recommended) and I’m only on the intro , but I must say You have an amazing lawn lol
It’s amazing how much ‘lighter’ it feels to walk on a lawn after it’s dethatched.
So true
I just picked up a sunjoe dethatcher, landzie peatmoss spreader and a pull behind dethatcher all for 125.00 on offer up. I can't wait to use the sunjoe dethatcher my grounds keeper will only be for spot dethatching.
SunJoe for life! Great video sir!
Nice job man!! Great video!!!!
Nice work bro! Good to see the old man getting his hands dirty ;)
I love dethaching Thea lawn ..would be great to have a follow up video..great job on the lawn 👍☘☘
growing up we had to go out every spring and rake the dead grass out of our yard. It was huge, but it did the same thing. Just more work in the raking.
WOW that was amazing! loved watching you get all that up... incredible there was that much there
That was so satisfying!! Wish I could do that to my lawn but down here in Florida on St Augustine that's a no go. Congrats on the 10k subscribers!
why is your area in Florida different is it sandy ground?
@@vmexican11 the grass I have is st augustine floratam. It grows with thick stolens or runners that grow across the top of the soil and shoot grass blades up and roots down. If you use this machine on it , it will cut all the runners up and damage the lawn severely
@@vmexican11 yes its all sand. and the grass grows across the top of the soil. same with centipede grass. if you dethatch here you wont have much left in the way of ground cover.
I definitely need to do this in my front yard! My front yard is a mess. The backyard is lush and beautiful.
Plant something useful instead and ditch the grass. Dandelions, thistle, clover, and anything not grass.
Got mine delivered by mail today, put it together and WOW!!! Does this thing work GREAT!!!
I have a crappy lawn and hopefully this will help with seeding and fertilizing.
No more raking for this guy.
Im going to buy that dethatcher you have and go to my parents place. Dad planted zoysia grass back in the 70's and it has only been dethatched ONE time. ANd that was back in the mid 80's. The yard does look pretty bad, and yet all the lawn services I have had look at it never recommended dethatching.
I should probably make a before and after video for this project.
Hey Jimmy, I don’t know if the lawn is happier it was detached or if you are happier it’s over. Either way your father should be the happiest his lawn will look better. Are you going to install a more efficient sprinkler system? I’ll watch that too. Thanks Jimmy.
" he wants to look like he worked hard with his beer. Lmbo too funny
Just bought a Sun Joe, delivery next week and hope it will do a good job
great job, dad & son always make s it better, tot u were gna seed/moss while it was sort of bare , maybe next vid? thanks!
Your parents have so much space in their backyard. They should watch James Prigioni and turn their backyard into a food forest.
Great product!
I didnt even know this was a thing!!!! You learn something new everyday. I need to do this now LOL
Holy smoke! That alot of material coming out that lawn.
That's great compost material. Let nature break it down and reapply to the lawn before winter
Gonna need some water to spray on and some worms
Always good to do some yard work with pops. I’m wondering if the spring attachment would pull out more or less.
Quality time with pops for sure. I’ve found the scarifier to be more effective personally. But the spring one works good too. Just less aggressive.
De-thatching is great. You should then aerate the lawn and put your your fertilizer. You can even do fertilizer before hand to help the lawn recover from the damage of de-thatching.
I recognize that lawn. I used to dig sugarbeets in that field back in the 60's
I would hazard a guess and say virtually no one dethatches their yard and this is the first im hearing of this lol.
woooow! So much came up!!!
Me: What does de-thatched mean?
My yard is 4 different grasses with lumps and divets... mowing the lawn is like playing minesweeper.
Its like deep cleaning a carpet, but with grass. Too much dead material, and we (weird) humans don't ALLOW the dead grass to decompose like it should. We don't want patches. So much maintenence keeps the lawn fragile and easy to "fail" to our standards. Lawn industry likes this. I give my bermuda tough love and little maintenence, which makes its roots grow deeper. Moles can't kill it as easily JUST because of this.
Instead of allowing decomposition, we use *chemicals* to nourish the hyper-aggressive grasses. Said chemicals from average lawns are *more* harmful than farmers using pesticides and herbicides, and we often let it drain into our water systems.
@@br9760 and I love it
@@br9760 Dang you are scaring me, even though I know it's true
@@br9760 I dont understand lawn culture at all. This looks like a handy tool for generating a bunch of compost material. Not sure if I see the point if you're just gonna toss it.
I had no idea this was a thing. Definitely doing this next spring!
My lawn is 6 years old and I had so much dead grass. Best investment I have made in a long time. Don’t put the bag on. Just rake it up lol
You could sell this idea and make a killing in your area if u put in the work i never even heard of this
It’s not a thing. If you watch American DIY UA-cam you’ll see a lot of stuff they do is just not done anywhere else on earth because they’ve invented a bunch of things that corporations can make money from.
@@stebaann that's only if you live somewhere with many shallow people who's worth is based on their yard.
Nice work gentlemen
Great video 👍🏻
Man can I relate. Very informative. Thanks.
I use the grass clippings to mulch my flower beds.
Hope they composted what they pulled up and spread it back on the lawn. That stuff is how your lawn perpetuates organic matter and creates a healthy bio system under the soil (presuming you don't kill everything with herbicides and pesticides). That thatch also helps retain moisture reducing your water bill. City and suburban people don't understand how soil works and what it needs.
Very affordable dethatcher too! This would save me hours and hours of raking my yard.
Love the fence your dad has.
I've thatched my lawn 3 years in a row and pulled tons of thatch or old clippings out each year
Congrats on 10k subs! Everytime I see a SunJoe I continue to be more and more impressed with it
Thank you so much!!
@@JimmyLewisMows 10K welcome to the club!
Soo thats why I always saw a ton of that in the grassy areas of the school grounds when I was young lol
This is the sort of thing that nature sorts out with fire!
I don’t think there is much fire where turf grass comes from. Like at all. Grass that grows in the americas is not a turf grass, it is mostly bunch grass, stuff that grows in prairies. (Which, prairies were only a big thing because of fire. Also, there is a chance that native americans were a big part of the fires, because they would use it to clear land. So there is a chance that they affected the ecosystem by continually putting fire on the landscape when there may not have been a fire that often. Anyways.)
Also, in nature this grass wouldn’t be constantly cut (although I am not totally sure of that.) So the grass would be growing up tall, making seed heads, dying and doing it all over again. It would be a much longer process and it woukd be its own ecosystem.
You're an earth hater. I can't believe you would say that! How dare you talk about mother nature and the way she actually works. ha.
I am actually wrong about saying it wouldn't get cut, it would be eaten and trampled by animals.
You do realize his comment was sarcasm... right?...... right??
Hey the dog is fertilizing the yard that’s a start 😂
Perfect amount of grass for the turbo burn barrel
This is not often needed in WA but people still do it, I thing because pine needles, but thats a whole different game truely!
i never knew dethatching was a thing
my dad always had us working in the yard but the only tool we had was a mower and a weedwacker for edging it was not fun
When I read the caption “So Much Junk”, with you kneeling next to a SunJoe, I honestly thought this was a really negative review of this wonderful machine! I was so relieved that you were referring to the junk (thatch) in your lawn as I am very pleased with the job my SunJoe always does in thoroughly cleaning out my dead grass. Unfortunately, there may be others who just see the headline and gain an unjustified negative opinion of this machine.
Thanks for this..I have never dethatched before..do you have a how to video for this?
Well done!
0:40 what a beautiful lawn😍 ok i'll listen to ya
Great video short and sweet. 👍
i thought the lawn looked great before but now that you dethached it i bet it is a lot nicer to walk on and mow
So much better. It's amazing how much different the lawn feels when you walk on it after doing this.
Well done mate.
This is why I always bag the clippings.
Never has to do this at 'home' now i have my own house and lawn and im getting a dethatcher.
this is why I burn [prescribed burn] my yard every couple of years
Dad's lawn?!.....looks beautiful.
He must have been beaming after the lawn got dethatched.
That's alot of gunk. Have you considered using paper yard bags to collect the debris versus plastic? The paper decomposes with your yard clippings.
Just did my lawn as well. Mine is only 3 years old but couldn't believe how much I got up. Check it out. Congrats on hitting 10K, brotha!
Thanks!
@@JimmyLewisMows Do you recommend doing this once a year or twice a year? How often should this be done?
@@jillthompson6110 Best way you know when to do it is to dig your fingers into the lawn and see how hard it is to get to the soil. If there is a lot of material preventing you from finding soil then water and fertilizer will struggle too.
I dig the last name. Awesome video!
Great videos.
Worked great for me
That is crazy. The ants must have gotten everything stuck against the clutter, now they can haul bigger stuff around :)
Congrats on the 10k. I am catching up to lol :)
Thank you, friend.
Really would love to see an Ego dethatcher/scarifier. Their electric lawn mower is great
That would be cool
Agreed
I was thinking the same thing!! Currently have an Ego mower, string trimmer, hedge clipper, blower and just picked up the Nexus power station!
Detaching is as satisfying as rubbing out an old oxidized white hazed red car on a detail huge results
I was shocked to see the amount you got from 1 pass. Bet the lawns lush now
Yeah it’s doing awesome
Genuinely surprised at how much came out
I cut my lawn on a back wooded area about neck hight and it turned into hay...im trying to clean it up slowly...and get grass growing again