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Mulch Acquisition and Trailer Safety

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Installing a Pond Start to Finish in 1 day

What happens here

While the rest of the team continues with rock placement, the presenter takes a white Ford F-250 pickup truck with a black dump trailer to Gertens, a landscaping supply center, to pick up three yards of cypress mulch. He discusses the specific type of mulch and the process of ordering and loading it. He also highlights a critical safety tip for dump trailers: always ensure the chains are secured when driving, as accidentally activating the dump mechanism can lead to severe accidents, especially when encountering overhead structures like bridges.

Goal: Obtain cypress mulch for landscaping and demonstrate dump trailer safety procedures.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Trailer — Transporting and easily unloading bulk mulch
  • Ford F-250 Pickup Truck Ford — Transporting the dump trailer and mulch
  • Skid Steer — Loading mulch into the dump trailer
  • Cypress Mulch Gertens — Finishing the landscape around the pond

What they say

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and while the guys are playing with their stones i'm gonna take the dump trailer and run and pick up some mulch all right so while the guys are back there getting the pond install done we're going to run we're at guertin's right now and pick up three yards we're going to use what's called cypress mulch howdy hello do you guys have slippers mulch uh yes we do i'm gonna take care of this then i'll get right back to you guys cypress it cyprus or cyprus three yards of that stuff right there take your best guess yes i did screw up why am i so happy i'm not happy but at least i get to show you guys that chain has to stay in effect and there's a reason why because when we look underneath here the control for the dump trailer sits right down in here and as you're driving it could rattle and bump a thing and then it could go up and you could be driving down the road and not realize the back of your trailer is going sky high until you meet a bridge that's never fun and there's the one yard bucket if you're gonna guess 279 dollars you would have guessed right with three yards so you see he's digging in the middle of the pile that's nice hear that sound that is the modern day backup alarm this was not quite as annoying as it used to be all right i'm gonna grab this and i'm gonna head back to tim's so let's cut to that next

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