Laying Sod with Precision and Trimming Edges

okay so sod comes with a certain amount of its own black dirt but but in reality that's not enough to depend on solely for it to grow and have the best results so you agree or disagree Blaine wait they put sod on class-five they all I was just saying earlier in the video contractors cheat I told him to I'm like I want a little black dirt this is sand class-five god that would piss - I'm still watering a lot right trying to get that built up over soil over the top every year so you put soil so now that the sod is down I was just saying that hill here - so after the side was down to compensate you know it's not the end of the world you sprinkle and it's not something that you can do once you've got it every couple times spring in fall couple times a year and you're gonna have years ago yeah years and years of doing it goes right through oh yeah yeah oh okay so now that we're putting these in I want to show these guys the joint spacing because we don't line them up like soldiers right so we do a full roll half roll full roll half roll so you can see how they lay these out that's part of the critical success of doing a job like this is getting your joint spacing right another thing another bad thing that guys do is they will lay sod over existing turf and that will kill the sod so what we do is we actually this is how I do it so when I know I know exactly where that goes we can cut that in right there and and you can see all the clean lines so you can see how he's what did you use to make this clean line you guys you use the ASV where they didn't use the skid loader they also use the flat nosed shovel to carve out that and then look at the elevation as well so I always like to leave my side a Titch higher when we try to blend in and a Titch is not a real measurement but use your common sense the reason we say that is because this is actually going to settle in what are you laughing at now Todd just a Titch so another thing that also helps out when we're doing sod is when we got multiple guys running we like to get one guy cutting in while the other guys lay the field because the cut in takes just about as long as the rest of the process and some on some sites what are you shaking your head for Todd what do you use when you cut in yeah but is there a certain knife I mean because we've used flat nose shovels to cut in but your your standard typical cardboard cutter will work great okay all right so we got a piece right here so you cut from the backside cut from…