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Fine Grading and Leveling

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How the PRO'S Grow a lawn From Scratch. Plus MISTAKES! Finish!

What happens here

Continue using the Bobcat S185 Skid Steer Loader with the power rake to perform fine grading and leveling of the soil. The unique design of the power rake (Stanley + Dirt Monkey Force SR3 Command Series) allows you to drive over the area and then use the tines to 'scarify' (loosen) any soil that might have been compacted by the machine's weight, ensuring the seedbed remains loose. Apply a meticulous approach, referred to as 'finesse,' as you adjust the rake's depth and angle to create a uniformly smooth and level surface, ready for seeding.

Goal: Create a smooth, level, and uncompacted seedbed

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat S185 Skid Steer Loader Bobcat — Operating the power rake for fine grading and leveling

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has been for nothing okay but wait if you look right there i'm driving over the dirt so how do you grade it and fluff it well with this attachment you can drive over it all you want because you can scarify it to whatever depth you want at the end of the run [Music] in the old days we would use a bucket and slough the dirt out and then hand rake and get everything brought together so this saves a lot of time [Music] we've got to be careful now back to the black dirt and spreading that we've got to be really really careful that not only do we get it incorporated into the upper layer but we don't get it compacted into the upper layer we don't want it compacted but with this thing we don't have to worry about that all we really got to do right now is get it where it's got to go and then if we feel anything has been compacted i just hit the tines [Music] and i'm not running at a high idle for one i want to hear you guys but for two i just don't feel a need to this is not a high horsepower situation this is a finesse that's finesse there all right i got to get some over that way so lifted it carried it now let's push it once i get it all positioned i'm just gonna then right now i'll i'll do a little light great backwards but what i'm doing is i'm looking for the tires on my skid loader i don't see them right so now i can start to lift up lift up and i won't have as well i kind of did that wrong because i was looking at this bucket right beside me as i was backing up not paying attention you know i live here i could move a lot of the obstacles but you can't move obstacles on a job site so you just get used to working them around them and then when you're doing stuff like this i don't mind leaving them because it's a way to keep my skills sharp because if you don't use it you lose it right and my job no longer is to be out on the site with the boys is to me the boys then wonder are they good enough do they need me there do i feel that they need me there none of that is true a lot of times i just want to go out in the job and have fun and keep my skills sharp but i also want to make sure that the guys know that i'm not there because they're they need help or they're doing anything wrong i'm just there because i want to have fun i also like having fun right at my own house see i could just go in and get a spin drift bet you didn't think this how to see the lawn from scratch like a pro video would be so much machine work right well this is how we do it actually do it…

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