Burned Out House With Tall Grass = WORST Mow I've Ever Done
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- 99% of your questions are answered if you decide to read the description:
Q: Are you on cocaine? Why are you touching your nose so much?
A: It was ~90 degrees F during this job with something like 80% humidity and I was there for ~2 hours and 20 minutes from pulling up to driving off. When I tell you like I was sweating like a pig at a butcher's shop, that is an UNDERSTATEMENT. The sweat was POURING off of me, and I had to keep wiping it off my nose almost every 5 seconds, especially when I was on the mower.
Q: What is the deal with this house?!
A: A friend of mine purchased it in it's current state. Apparently it was a rental property and the then-renters accidentally started a fire. I don't think the Fire Marshall ruled it as suspicious, so looks like it was just an accident. The then-owner just decided to take the insurance money and sell it 'as-is' to avoid the headache of demolition, clean-up, and re-construction. My friend is currently researching what the best path forward is.
Q: Why did you do X, Y, or Z before you did A, B, or C?
A: There are several things that affect the order I do things. One is filming, and one is what my goal is for the overgrown lawn. If you are concerned because I am not doing things the same order as you, there is no need to worry. Lawn care is like skinning a cat, there are 100 ways to do it.
I edged first so I could mulch up the edging debris with the mower. If I mowed first and then edged, I would have more debris to manually handle.
I cleaned up the driveway via edging and string trimming, again to get that debris in the yard and mulched up by the mower.
I blew everything off after edging and then string trimming to see what I missed each pass. Only takes a minute and also prevents the mower from grinding dirt into the concrete.
Q: Why did you mow the way you did?
A: One common concern is that I don't stripe. That means going back and forth in big, long passes. I don't do that because it doesn't film well, so I cut in small chunks or boxes.
One question on this job would probably be why I mowed in certain directions, why I backed up sometimes and not other times, etc. My goal with the clippings was either to get them to the woodline, get them on the driveway to dry up before raking to the street, or get them on the road where the city would collect them. All my mowing is based on getting clippings or groups of clippings in certain areas.
I also mowed almost everything at around 4.5 inches before going down to 3 inches later, as it would be better for the mower and safer since there was so much junk everywhere.
Q: Why didn't you mow the back yard?
A: Once I got on site and examined everything, I saw how much junk was truly in the side and back yard. You can not imagine the amount of debris that comes from a house fire. Nails, drywall, metal joist hangers and connectors, screws there is SO much stuff everywhere on the ground, and I mean EVERYWHERE. I know it doesn't show up on camera, but there is no way I could have safely mowed the backyard. There was too high a risk for personal injury while string trimming, and too much risk to my mower (spindles, tires, blades, everything). The fire department does NOT care about leaving things clean when they put out a fire, and seeing it firsthand was crazy.
Q: What tools did you use?
A: TORO MyRide 2000 60" mower, ECHO PAS2620 with straight edger attachment, HART 40v string trimmer, STIHL BR800 blower, & spring rake.
Q: How much did you charge for this?
A: Honestly, if my buddy didn't own this lot, I wouldn't have touched it, and if you know anything about my channel that says volumes. I am the last person on UA-cam to turn down a yard, but with all the debris here, I wouldn't recommend you doing a yard like this or even pricing one. BUT, to answer the question, I did it for free for the video and so my friend would let me film the eventual demolition and chart the reconstruction :D
0:00 Oh Dear Lord...
1:21 I edge first to get edging debris in the yard for mower
13:15 Blowing everything off to see what I missed, get debris in lawn, and remove dirt from driveway
16:17 String trimming the remaining weeds in the driveway
18:13 Another 'rinse' to see what is left
18:57 This section mowed at two heights, pushed to woodline
20:53 Pushing the leaves into woodline to look fresh
21:44 Mowing the front
33:22 The city collects yard debris for free. Less cost for customers and less work for me.
34:52 String trimming
39:14 Found the water meter!
39:33 Mail call
39:44 As far as I got on the left sideyard
40:53 Another 'rinse' to see what I missed and push clippings to woodline
44:37 Final mow at 3" and to push all clippings to street
47:38 As far as I got for the right side yard
49:34 Forgot I went back and got a little more
51:15 Before and after
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As a resident of this town and familiar with this house, neighborhood, and circumstances, much appreciation for the work to make the yard better. I'll have to go by and see it!
Whats the story on it?
@@nickburchfield329 I'd say the video description summarized it better than I could.
Bring a baler.
Before I read the description I deemed it as an electrical fire caused by a squirrel
@@Caspar36 sounds like a standard shit happens kind of things.
I have seen a house burn down before and it is the saddest thing to watch. I feel bad for the people who owned this house.
The creator of The bionic Man, once said, "We can rebuild"!
Well since I'm in lockdown, might as well start the day with some CCC and a coffee. I feel as though I'll be watching a lot of grass get mowed on YT today! This video is vintage CCC, love it! Also, my 6 year old son just said 'he has a whipper snipper like yours. He's really good at mowing lawns'
Hey Sean. I don’t think Brad has as much talent as you do with your whipper snipper. But I love it when he has conversations with himself🤣
Oh hello friend! 👋 Fancy seeing you here 😂
@@SandrA-hr5zk I appreciate that. Brad is one of the many UA-camrs I learnt from, and is a pioneer in many ways
@@timthelawnmowerman oh heeeyyyy
Tell your son I am flattered and appreciate his kind words! :D
While this looked really bad Brad, I feel like your worst mow as far as a viewer's perspective was that one crazy house on the side of the road with all those spiders. It had like running water in the bushes or something, but that place literally looked like a jungle. Took you nearly all day and I don't think you could complete the back. I think I remember you even using a hedge trimmer for some of the yard lol. Love what you do brother.
Whenever we see burned & destroyed homes, it is sad. We are reminded a family once called it home. Bravo & kudos for tackling the yard, but I wish this place was also repaired & rebuilt too. Glad you were able to step in and make this look better.
Better yet, bulldozed and a new house put in its place
Insurance is good to have but it does not and cannot replace memories and items we hold sentimental attachment to. I can’t even imagine the pain of loss.
I always enjoy reading the description as I am viewing as it eliminates many of my questions BEFORE I comment. 👍👍
Always of the "I didn't wonder that before I read the description, and now I do" variety :D
How awful to lose your house and everything in it. Bless you for being considerate of the neighbors and mowing and trimming the yard. You are a good person.
I am originally from Florida and the heat is brutal with high temps, high humidity and high dewpoints.
Yeah. Like at least the hottest place in the U.S.A is arizona but it doesn't feel as bad cause its not humid or dew poit is low, they have feels like temps at/below the real temps, whilst we have the news say 89 degrees and ya go outside and,,, THE HEAT INDEX IS 107!
All the best to your friend with this huge project. Looking forward to what looks like a video series, starting literally from the ground up.
Thank you for doing this one because it’s community needed help with this one... you are much appreciated sir👩💻👏🙏🏻✌🏻👌🤝🤝🤝just sooo sad due to it was a burnt home... the drone view was different view most definitely
A fresh-cut lawn and some edging can even make a burned-out house look good. Thanks for the video.
Well done Brad! Looking forward to the demo and reconstruction!
Many years after leaving one of our childhood homes, my sister looked it up on Street View only to find it had been recorded shortly after burning. There was still crime scene tape on the driveway! There’s a McMansion there now, instead of our 3 bedroom ranch ( the lot was HUUUGE). The rest of our old places are still there! I moved a lot as a kid. Our son will only have one house to look up, lol.
sad thing to see... hope the family is safe and doing well!!!! also what amazing job love this channel and love the fact that you support other great channels, I see your comments on other channels all the time!
Well, that comes under a Cut of Compassion. I remember Kevin of The Lawncare Juggernaut doing a burned house and it was as you said, he was dealing with piles of broken glass, etc. and safety was a big factor. Thank you for all the factors you consider while doing a job. The massive amount of clippings from a tall cut tends to look more like a hay field sometimes. You are pretty tough working in 80% humidity. From edging, to trimming, to mowing and all, you gave 100%. It looks like a well cared for property now, not cut at bare minimum. Your idea of following the properties restoration will be looked forward to by all.
It looks much, much better but I think that tall yard you tackled with the Big Dog mower a few years ago was the "winner". Still, with all of the fire debris, I'm sure this one was quite the challenge, particularly with the high heat and humidity. Great job on the front yard; it looks nice.
Nice work, great transformation. The Toro does a great job but I will say, I do miss seeing the Bobcat at work.
love the drone shots. really cool addition
LOL you haven't talked yourself into getting one yet?😁👍
@@CopperCreekCuts I have had a phantom 3 but it's so bulky I never used it but I bought a Mavic mini 2 recently.....and I still don't use it. I need to just take it out and do it.
as someone who hates the heat more than anything, watching you do all this in a florida july/august is making me start to sweat, absolute respect
Seeing this burned out shell of a home made me really sad. I'm glad you were able to make the yard look great again. I hope the family that lives here are safe and they get to build again.
Nice work Brad, even on a burned down place, which is sad, but I'm sure the neighborhood appreciated your work. 👍👍👍👍👍👍😉
Sir this was so satisfying! One of your all-time best!
Thank you for doing a fantastic job for this family.
Wow! With your work, the sadness is lessened, and the potential shines through. Hopefully, a new house will be there, and someone(s) will have a place to call home Best wishes to you and your buddy.
Fires suck,you did a very nice thing you did for a stranger. I lost everything in a fire along time ago. It still sucks 30 years later . It’s hard to get ID when you have no ID because it all burned up. One again nice job. 👍🏆🏆
He did nothing of the sort. Read the description. Quid pro quo, a deal with his buddy.
As usual you went above and beyond great job keepem coming.👍
Heart wrenching to see how badly that house burned. I can't even BEGIN to imagine the debris field mess your buddy has to clean up. Good luck to him (and, if we get to see this house/property all cleaned up after demo, that would be nice....)
Looks like a nice little 'fixer upper.' lol
You did a great job as always!
Brad, cracking job, your buddy owes you a few beers for sure. 🍺🍺
Another very nice yard maintenance meditation. ;-) Thank you!
Nice job Brad. While the house is gone a yard with long grass attracts the midnight trash dumpers and window bottle thrower so that will help. Plus, it keeps the neighbour hood looking a lot nicer. Can the home owner still get a city violation for not maintains the yard even if the house is gone?
The edging always helps make things better!
Great job as usual Brad!
Another brilliant job brad thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was gonna ask why you did x, y, z before you did a, b, c but then you answered in the description so that I didn't have to ask! Thanks! 👍🏻
😂👍
Great job! Just because no one lives there, that doesn’t mean it should look crappy. Amazing!
Nice job on the lawn. Also what kind of weed whacker string do you use?
That had to be hard.the family had to be on your mind at least part of the time you were there seeing as you have kids yourself. The safety aspects, I can't even imagine, and yet, as always you do a stellar job. Know this was a tough one
Sitting in yet another lockdown here in Australia (our 6th since March 2020, and the 4th one this year alone) bored out of my skull.... What can I do to entertain myself?
Along comes Brad with Copper Creek Cuts, a lawn care company in north-east Florida, with a new video!!
*epic superhero theme plays*
AND THE DAY (well, an hour anyway) IS SAVED!!
So sad. I'm surprised they don't bulldoze it for safety sake. Great job!
By description sounds as though they will
@@davidmollard9832 saw that after I left message. Have to start reading before commenting. Lol
@@davidmollard9832 I think eventually there is not much choice. Can’t do much with half burned framing. Gotta start over from scratch.
@@Engineer9736 absolutely. I went advocating saving it. No way to rebuild that
Don't you wish you could visit some commenters at their jobs and tell them how to do it?
You will have to find some (other) youtuber who advertises "Worst Job Ever" and then proceeds to show an ordinary run of the mill ho-hum task and blows it up into epic drama.
Thanks to you i started edging first. It saves me time with cleanup.
Just a thought about debris from the fire. After demolition, would it be a good idea to use a metal detector, or magnet rather somehow to get up the small pieces ?
Ngl this episode is depressing. But a needed one for the dangers of house fires.
If you overlook the missing roof....vast improvement
LOL
Quick question I have seen other vids of yours and seen you use battery equipment more norm. did u go back to using gas due to the nature of this yard or what happened i like seeing how thing work like that to help me decide if i want to go electric with my company
U should go back and do a pressure washing video on the driveway
Water will be turned off at meter pit. Guarantee you that those water lines in there busted, soft solder and PEX won't stand up to the heat a fire like that will produce
@@davidmollard9832 He has a trailer.. Just bring a 1000L IBC tank with water😛 Or two...
With everything else these people are dealing with I would guess that the lawn is the least of their worries. Thanks for helping helping the neighborhood. Maybe a neighbor could will step up and at least cut the front to keep the market value of the neighborhood up.
Thanks for all you do. You see a need and just get er done.
Boy that thing burnt. Burned out houses freak me out bad. Always have. It's just so sad knowing someone lost everything. And they look freaky I couldn't have done this lawn.
If u use the left side of the deck when mowing it allows the other side of the deck to be free when the grass flows through it gets rid of a lot more clippings what I do never had to rake grass
Such an improvement. Amazing what cutting grass can do. It's a shame about the house!
Ok I got to ask for curiosity's sake - what kind of brand of pants are those? Every time I watch one of your videos it looks like those pants never get any sweat spots, no grass or other yard debris sticks to it... it's like they're made of waterproof Teflon?
Also, when your buddy decides on the house, perhaps see if they want to do a UA-cam series of demo and then building? I think that would be a neat tie-in!
My 1 1/2 yr old son is casually watching this video with me. How did i get my toddler interested in lawn care 😅
Great explanations in the description.
Do you like the battery weedeater. I have one and I love it!
I’m surprised they haven’t bulldozed the rest of the house and rebuild
It’s a danger to the community as it is right now but the lawn looks fabulous
I do hope everybody that lived there got out safely
We had a big house fire like that a few years ago right around the corner from us, sadly the three boys didn’t make it out the mother has never gotten over it.
No it was my house. sadly I died
might need to get me one of them string trimmers mine is annoying the weeds just wrap around the end every 5 seconds and it makes for a long afternoon
Very sad to see this . We hope all the people got out and there ok .
The drive head of that electric weedeater needs to have a small hole drilled in it so that you can put grease in it. (plug up the hole after). Really you should have done that before the noise got bad. (Wrong pitch teeth) Top quality gear heads have a different type gears that don't get noisy if you skip a grease period. (You probably have straight cut gears inside. The best gears are screw gears or hypoid gears for weedeater heads)
29:28 - I wonder what's going through Brads mind here.
Probably something along the lines of "After this mow I'm gonna have to leave food out for the trolls again. "
Well thank God no one died in there. What a shame and good luck to you friend the new owner on the demo and cleanup.
Love the edger between the concrete sections / cracks. Most guys weed whack them. 🤘🏻😎
Can you do a setup video and also a review on the hart weed eater?
What do you normally charge for cleanup like that I have a neighbors his yard 3 foot tall ?
No talking! Best yet!
How often do you change/sharpen your mower blades?
Looks good drone shots was awesome
Nice job, I feel for the family that once lived there. I hope that they all got out.
Look at B, even cutting the homes that aren’t really homes anymore…
I like how he even trims it in the side of the sidewalk when no one even gonna step in there for like a year or more xD
So sad,seeing someone’s life. / house burnt out
My heart goes out to them
Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no roof!
Do customers ever notice or comment any scratching or scuffing from the blade on the edger?
Seeing this makes me sad. This was once a home to for people. This was their retreat, their safe haven. Memories were made in these walls.
1 thing I don't understand is ,, why do they clean all the driveway off after clipping the edges... then they run the lawn mower in the direction of the blower pointing right back at the CLEAN driveway ??? But I love your work,, very very good job!!!!
I don't guess you read the description. 😔
I blew the driveway off after edging so I don't grind the dirt I kicked up into the concrete with the mower wheels and also to put the edging debris in the lawn so the mower can mulch them. I then blow the clippings onto the driveway so they will dry out more quickly than leaving them in the lawn, which makes them easier to rake and blow.
That yard seem endless. Looks great, though.
Stay safe too now that the Atlantic is becoming more active. How many hours are you from the East or West coast of Florida?
Hes in Jacksonville, if i remember correctly.
The worst yard was the first video you put on youtube. That lawn was a tall extreme mess to deal with
So...where's my discount code for watching this? 🤣
I enjoy watching this kind of videos!
Excellent job
Amazing video bro 👍
*THAT IS NOTHING* My backyard has 6'+ weeds and grass I'm slowly working on
I love the work you do but my OCD kills me on how you don’t mow like most people like going in a circle around the front and side yards. Is there a reason you don’t go in a circular pattern?
If my videos ever leave you with questions, I always encourage you to read the description🙂👍
GREAT JOB , CAN YOU TELL ME WHY YOU BACK UP LIKE THATS A LOT OF OVER CUTTING JS
Great job and video
Does it mess with your analytics when I watch it at 2x speed? I normally do for these longer ones
Gods. Someone's gonna have to get in there with a bar rake and go over every square foot to even start to make it safe.
Uraltes Grundstück, das lange leer stand oder vom Sturm kaputt gegangen ?
I bet this guy wishes him self a decent broom for next Christmas, and some decent work-clothes. :)
That ac unit would long gone here... lol.
Nice job , you didn't edge up the curb
Could you please do a power washing on the cement
Will this be a Time lapse or sped up?
It's looking good though nice job 👍
Just remembered I can put the video to 1.5 speed. Awesome.
The city collects debris with a bucket crane, no? Seems like a bunch of random clippings would get left...I don't think the operator is getting out there with a broom to pick it up.
Can u do a video Cuttin grass for around the pool