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Installing Drainage and Landscape Edging

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What happens here

Mark the path for a new drainage trench using orange spray paint. Operate a walk-behind trencher, also known as a bed edger, to cut a precise trench along the base of the retaining wall. This tool makes quick work of creating a clean, deep trench, even in heavy clay soil. Subsequently, install black plastic landscape edging along this trench to define the new landscape bed and provide containment.

Goal: Establish a drainage system and define landscape beds with edging.

Tools and materials

  • Bed edger RED EDGER — Cutting trenches for drainage and landscape edging
  • Black plastic landscape edging — Defining landscape beds and containing materials
  • Hearing protection — Protecting ears from loud machinery
  • Orange spray paint — Marking out the path of the trench
  • Rakes — Smoothing and preparing the soil surface
  • Safety glasses — Eye protection when operating machinery
  • Shovels — Assisting with trenching and clearing soil
  • Tape measure — Measuring and marking distances
  • Work boots — Foot protection

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leading out this way just trying to grade this area out it's been wet for days this is as dry as it's going to get because we've got uh supposedly another inch of rain coming tonight into tomorrow so this is this is the best we can do um hey guys do me a favor will you just say hey tim you're doing a good job with the filming if you like tim's filming tim filmed this whole thing i haven't i didn't have a chance to get out to this job site so this is 100 him and this is his um i think first full attempt at filming all right so here he's using the hydra bucket by cmp which i would think it's too muddy to do but sometimes you got to do what you got to do what is he marking out oh i bet it's a bad edger yeah okay i wonder if they're gonna use blackjack edging or or natural edging oh add your machine these things are amazing they just boom this edger saves a lot of time never really used one of those before this is heavy clay out here and i couldn't imagine how much longer it would take to chop all this by hand so yes couple hours couple hours of work saved i think it's worth it yeah those bad edges are amazing i mean amazing i love these things i think i need to buy one you could just have a business just better kind of looks too wet to put edging in but wait look how deep that trench is on that edger [Music] yeah you see that that's a pretty clean deep trench for mud holy cow of course minnesota we got clay man we got clay yeah black jack edging i'm okay with blackjack edging something like this i

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