Introduction to Ventrac and Attachments

[Music] hey there folks this is Josh Tony rich farmer welcome back to the farm it's another beautiful sunny day here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and we don't get many days like this it's nice so we got a new guy here on the farm you recognize him this is the second time Rob has been out here rob is a factory rep from ventrac so ventrac tractors has taken notice to our videos and we have the factory rep out here and ventrac volunteered to give us a tool to help out some neighbors it's called the power rake and to demo something that's not even on the market yet so come along today here on the farm blog as we check out a new monster mowing deck that ventrac has to offer and we'll show you the power rake that we're going to use to help out some of our neighbors who are on a fixed income who have gravel driveways that need repair so Rob you're the factory rep for the southeastern United States is that right right basically Virginia's in Carolinas okay so the Virginia's in Carolinas that's why is here in North Carolina we're smack dab in the middle of your service area so Rob is driving through our area all the time on his way to somewhere different now Rob's job at ventrac is basically the factory rep for this area you help out the dealers you help out end users you help out everybody with ventrac tractors and you demo new stuff new stuff and show it to the dealers right yeah cool we are blessed to have Rob here they wanted to test out this new mowing deck here on the Stoney Ridge farm because it's like this so this is an eight-foot mowing deck we're going to get you up here and show you a little bit more about it in just a second tell me about this power rake back here that we're gonna use oh this power rake is something else it's just absolutely amazing what you can do with this unit that's only 54 inches wide gosh it's like a bulldozer in miniature gotcha and the power rake has like diamond tip tines or about a carbide tip yeah it spins constantly and has a hydraulic filter on it we're gonna take you over here and show it to you and let Robb kind of describe exactly what it does because he knows everything about ventrac he lives sleeps and breathes ventrac if you'll notice this VIN track is a 4500 Z ours is a 4500 Y now what's the difference in a Z and a wife the Z is a Kubota three cylinder gas engine the Y is a three cylinder diesel so the three cylinder diesel only runs on diesel fuel the Z will run on propane or gas and it's 32…