Prepare for Pond Edge Weed Whacking

hey folks is Josh Tony rich farmer welcome to the farm blog today we've got to go around today and get some honeydew's or Stoney do is done we've got to get some things done here around the farm I want to take you around and show you what's really going on so we're down here at our pond and basically two or three times a year I go all the way around the pond with the weed whacker and weed whack because it can't get too close with the tractor for the risk of it tipping over in here so we're going to go around our pond dress it up a little bit clean that up and then we're going to take this guy right here around and we'll do some limb trimming so come along today we'll tell you about what's going on and we'll show you all the fun stuff for doing all right one pull still baby alright guys so let's give you a little bit of a foreign after there's your before and there's after looks a lot better now you guys might be thinking now Josh why are you weed eating around your pond when you have all this equipment to mow well when you get next to a pond with a tractor it's dangerous territory mania tractor many as your returned many alone mower has ended up in a pond because you get up close to the edge and it gives way and rolls over in the pond so what we're doing is cutting this back for safety sake okay so in the really steep spots like what we just did I'll cut probably 15 feet off the pond and in places like this I probably cut about eight feet off the pond that way we don't run such a risk of rolling over in the pond with the tractor now that's an expensive mistake and you don't want to make it will go all the way around the entire pond here and