4 Main tools that all Landscape or Lawncare Contractors Need - This became #5

for for 33 years I thought that there were four basic pieces of equipment that is lying is any landscape company owned they can tackle just about any project and then three years ago on a pure whim I picked up what's going to turn out to be number five but it didn't become number five right away in fact it did become number five until I noticed that on every single one of our projects the crews would eventually bring it out and put it to work sometimes they would put it to work every single day in a project and other times they would only bring it out into the very end of the job but nevertheless it always went out on every single one of our jobs now when some of you guys find out what this tool is you're gonna go no way nohow and that's fine I don't care because I would have said the same thing four years ago before I owned one I would have never guessed that this thing would become such an asset to our company so I don't blame you for not believing me but what I'm talking about is called a multi-tool now guys a typical multi-tool can handle a variety of attachments chainsaw heads pruners edgers bed Reedy Finers but my favorite attachment by far hands down is the paddle wheel that thing rocks I'm actually putting my hand and you guys watch don't do this at home actually I'm at home don't do this at my home and in this case the one I'm using is an echo pas 280 multi-tool so I'm not wasting any more time let's get into the video whoa-ohh-ohh now before we get too far under this video I want you guys to take your best guesses what you think the four most critical pieces of equipment are that any landscape company should own but be specific if you guys want to know what I think they are let me know in the comments down below and I'll make those four videos for you or maybe I'll make them into one video and save you guys a lot of time alright guys so I contacted the company that I got mine through and they agreed to give one of these away to one of you guys but we're now doing it through YouTube we're going to do it through Facebook so stay tuned because after today's review is all done we're gonna show you guys how you could possibly get one of your very own and if you don't have them to be given one I'm gonna put a link down below to the cheapest place I found online where you could buy one for yourself literally guys this is one of those tools that now that I own I know I could never unknown now over on Instagram you guys have watched this video over five hundred and seven thousand times just in the last few weeks and another hundred and ten thousand times for two other versions that I put out since then now look down on here you can see we call this the I don't know this is called the neato wheel I don't even know if this is the right term for this it's actually called a pro sweep attachment we're right next to it we got the paddle room if you guys are gonna go with one accessory or the other for your P own multi-tool get this one get the paddle broom this thing is okay but it's got very limited uses that one is more effective now the reason I'm standing here are the shows I want to show you something you see this steel edge on this shovel this is a composite deck now I'm not going this steel edge on this composite decking because I don't want the little fine scratches that's something like this elite some of you guys when you're out there doing your own snow clearing whatever you're gonna use something like this for you can damage a soft surface with that this is not really a snow blower but it works almost the same on lighter snow so anything up to about four inches this thing is gonna be very effective when you get above four edges while you figure it out hey here's a brilliant move for you it kind of helps if you open the choke when you're trying to start a cold piece of equipment let's see how long it takes me to figure that one out that's number two three four five six okay when you want to start it don't have it in the stop just adjusted no actually it was in the start position with the choke off and now I put it into the stop position with the choke off some of you guys actually think I know and still I haven't figured out all I have to do is turn the choke on and now I'm going to flood it by trying to hold the throttle down and start it genius seventeen point six twenty seven come on I believe in you dirty you can do it you can figure it out I didn't have the toka my bad the internet camera I mean I get all nervous now this is the pro sleep attachment and it works pretty good but there's one place that you can use this you can't use the paddle broom now I told you I was gonna show you the one and only time that I think that this need a wheel bristle broom attachment comes in handy it's a pro sweep not that hard to remember i'ma show it to you right now let's go around the front of the house now some of you know that my car is right aligned but my hood is not in fact my hood is painted just like any other car in this before all sweepers had been affected at all this is the only time I would use this attendant over the panel tool all right guys let's get something straight the only reason I'm showing you how these paddle group works on snow is that's when I got around here right now it was the middle of summer I would be definitely cleaning streets join me how I'm mud and debris I've got to work with what I've got available way it is [Music] so the answer to your question is if you own a car dealership and you've got to clear a whole bunch of cars then you're gonna get that right yep no you're not you'd be nuts I think the other attachment is pretty monitor it's better because it's just more Universal meaning that we're gonna now we're gonna switch a tenth actually let's start this one up and see how it does on this way on the driveway and then let's see how the other one does because some of the guys wanted to see what it was like on compacted snow okay that was one of the questions so let's do it this is I've been driving so I could test this thing out so really the best application for this full speed content is if you have to clean rocks debris construction items on a side or turf then this thing comes in really handy if you're trying to clear hard surfaces of compacted debris then you're gonna want to go with the paddle attachment which is what we typically do when you're doing landscaping projects when we dump our dirt or soil in the streets that's why we prefer that attachment over this one let's see let's switch attachment the other one oh yeah with stuff like that I came out the first time without even having to go back again so that's why we left this part right here because we're gonna see if that's actually true or not now Andy's operated this machine quite a bit and he's gonna get the other attachment put it on but we're gonna actually see how effective it is against compacted snow both of these attachments will work great on soft surfaces this one I trust more for really soft surfaces like a car I actually wasn't being facetious when I said if you own a car dealership and you need something to clear your car as well you could do this but I probably wouldn't but you can I wouldn't let's talk about this TAS 280 real quick now the newer version is called the PAS 26:20 it actually has more power I want to share my long-term experiences now I've owned this machine for over three years it's actually going on for years now that's okay we forgive you year old every crew grabs this machine at the end of the job or the end of the day and they bring this out to the job site to clean up the roads because a lot of times we're working off the roads we've got to leave the roads pretty much and span when we're done it's been it's been flawless the machine is not giving me a single issue in three years of running it it's never been in the repair shop it's never had any problems whatsoever you know how to switch that out ok Andy thought I did is usually yeah you gotta remember that part we got that up and unlocked sort of switch power heads all there yep then I slide the part line it up line up the arrows make sure your key is unlocked so you have the yep these are mock goes in up to the arrows lock the key tighten it up that is right there guys that is how hard it is to switch heads now this machine will take a chainsaw head it'll take a trimmer head it'll take a tiller head you know we use it we haven't we have two different kinds of edgers that we use on it this echo pas 280 multi-tool is literally one of our favorite [Music] now we don't actually use this for clearing snow very often we do use it every single job site for fearing mud off from streets so you can imagine that the snow you're looking at was actually taped on mud you can see how effective this would be [Music] [Applause] now to be fair we've been compacting the snow for four or five days it's not a lot of snow but we've still been compacting it because some of you guys wanted to see how I would handle the back the trick with these power grows is to let the machine do the work if you try to control the machine it's gonna tire you out pretty fast but if you let the weight of the machine do the work and you just hold on to the trigger and steer now look closely at this surface you can see just how clean this paddle broom attachment gets it a snowblower we'd never get this surfaces clean if this was mud in a street and we'll bring it right back in its original condition now this thing has a wide-open spinning wheel which kind of makes you wonder how safe are these things and I'm going to test that out next so when you guys go to operate your own power broom make sure you wear the proper safety gear all right maybe not this this thing is so dirty I can't see anything out of it I'm actually putting my hand in it you guys watch don't do this at home well actually I'm at home don't do this at my home a lot of guys get their hands to be caught in the storm only reason I'm doing that to show you how safe these things are they as effective as a snow blower no but for doing landscaping work for cleaning up streets for doing snow removal you're not gonna get anybody getting their hands or feet caught in these things getting injured from them they do a great job on unless your snow falls the guys bring these things out on every single one of our projects they love this for cleaning up the streets when we get them full of dirt and rocks and stuff like that so if a video like this has helped you guys out let me know in the comments down below or hit the like button and tell me what other kind of videos you guys like to see all right you guys probably want to know how you can get your hands on your very own one of these for free well only one of you is gonna do it and this is how you do it down below this video comment on what your favorite landscaping tools are and then to enter to win one you go over to echos Facebook page and comment when you see this video down below when they see your comment over there they're going to enter and pick one of you guys to win one of these now if you don't win it and you want to buy one make sure you click on the link below because I am gonna find the absolute best place online that you guys can order one that way it saves you guys a lot of time and trouble so make sure you please subscribe god bless and tell me your favorite landscape tools alright guys I had to add this last part in because these things are actually pretty easy to start when you know what you're doing totally cold out make sure it's primed in choke position this time put it in to run see if I can do it one two I knew I could do it [Music]