Mowing Thick, tall grass on the impossible Site - This Is oddly satisfying.Steep slope with washouts

right. We don't know how well this is going to work. This is a complete Sounds to me. I was talking to the homeowner. He's been trying to tackle this hill for 3 years and can't get can't get anywhere with it. Okay. Keeps working on it. She's like, "You think you're going to get it done in a day?" I go, "Would that be depressing if we got it all done in a day for you?" No. [Music] [Applause] You can actually see the bottom part is totaled out. That thing is done. This was about as impossible as a job could get. A 2:1 slope that you could barely stand on. Brush that was seven maybe 8 ft tall. But it wasn't just brush. It had stumps and logs buried and littered throughout. And then plus on top of that, wash outs that you could not see at all. So the first step is to get the ventric ready to clear the slope so that then we can bring in a skid loader and scrape the slope down to turn this brush heap into a yard. Let's see how this goes. That a property hasn't been mowed in 3 years, but it's not flat level ground. It's on a super steep hill with a swamp at the bottom, stumps and logs buried throughout with a septic system in the middle which keeps us from using really big equipment. So the first thing we do is get the ventra ready to go. I'm going to raise it up to 7 in. Talking with Steve from Ventra says try if you hit stumps it's going to have you're going to have a bad day. Yeah. So So you think the stumps are lower than 7 in? No. But at least it's given us a little bit of a And he says it's not really good for uh trees either. So we'll have to cut them down, too. But he says uh I've cut them down with it. At least if we put it up to 7 in, we might clear some rocks or something that we don't see. Rocks. Yeah, rocks are really killer. And yeah. All right. So, let's raise it up. How do you do it? Um just move these back pins to SE or to F. And now once we get the machine hooked up, we got to just take the wheels and uh move them down. So I just got to unbolt them. I got tools here. So not that big of a deal. So you got to unbolt the wheels to move them down. Yeah. What's it What's it set at right now? Set at 4 in. Four. Okay. Well, we'll see. We don't know. I We don't know how well this is going to work. This is a complete Sounds to me. I was talking to the homeowner. He's been trying to tackle this hill for three years and can't get can't get anywhere with it. Okay. Keeps working on it. Grows back. So, let's see what this thing can do for him. And and uh the tiller attachment. How far down does he get it when he's trying to tackle it? I think he clears it out. He had some bigger trees taken down last time I was here. He says he's been he's been working on it for a while now. So, he's like, "You think you're going to get it done in a day?" I go, "Would that be depressing if we got it all done in a day for you?" No, but it's taking him a long time. So, see up here. right, guys. The hardest part about working in the dirt and liking animals, I mean, I don't kill any animals unless I'm going to eat them, including little teeny tiny frogs, is stopping what you're doing. Walking over to where you can let them go safely, and putting them where they're they're going to be okay. I do this for toads, snakes, I everything. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. What do you think? Well, I think while you're getting work done, I'm saving frogs. What's that? I said I think while you're getting work done, I'm trying to save frogs. A lot of frogs down there, huh? Frogs, too. How many? I I had three in my hand at one time. I like those little tree frogs. I do, too. You don't see them that often. So, what do you think? I don't know what to base it off, judge it off of, you know, if I'd be faster with the skid steer and an attachment in there, probably. Or would I get up and down? You definitely need tracks. Yeah. So many hidden stumps and stuff down there. So, you don't know what you're going over. No. And I think uh clear it once is good and then go over it a second time just to get it knocked down and then you can aravate it and see if that actually does anything. Yeah. I was thinking of going over next time, you know, get this top half and then take the skid steer with the bucket, move some of the bigger stuff out of the way. Oh yeah, there's a cliff down on the other side. So I just don't want to go. Do we have to do below that cliff? We can push all the brush right over the side of the cliff. Yeah, we go we go down and around there. How long have I been at this? Half hour, something like that. Yeah, first time running it. You're not familiar with it? No. Then you're being careful. You don't feel like ticking and dying. I don't feel like breaking something. Hitting the hitting the blades on a big stump, you know. Yeah. You feel good? Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] All right. The field fix didn't last too long. Belt drive. Yeah, belt drive. When it's had enough, it's had enough. All right, let's go see if we got another one. Looked like one portion of that belt was skinnier. Yeah, that Yeah, it was. It was fried. It's fried. It's not. You can actually see the bottom part is totaled out. That thing is done. All right. Well, we're just going to borrow another belt from the aravator. Which one's wore out? I don't know. I can't tell. Oh, it's going to be tough. You guys tell me in the comments down below. I hope we don't put the wrong one back on. Golly, this will be sheer luck for us. That's it, eh? Let's put them actually put them. Are they the exact same dimension? Cuz one came off from an aravator and Well, wait. We got Yeah, it could be a different belt all together, huh? Yep. Could be different attachment. Could be a different belt. What's the numbers say? Um, the war out one says not much. You're looking at the wrong side of it anyway. There you go. Nothing. Nothing, man. Nothing. Well, my dad used to say, "All a steer can do is try." And that's what we're going to do is try. We'll throw it on and see if it matches up. That looks like it's not going to match up, doesn't it? Got to put it on this one first, huh? That's how it goes, right? Yeah. I bet that's not going to quite match up. Oh, I think it'll be I think it's too big, huh? I think it's I think it is. We'll find out that works. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, we just lost the belt on our vent track. How about that? Napa. So, how's that work? Get it tight. A little deflection. And then right there, it'll line up what it should be. Bring it closer. I can't see it. or L460. So then you just find a universal one and That's right. We're good to go. Yep. As fast as that, right? That's slick. Thanks for coming down. How much more hill you going to mow? All of it. Well, yeah. Like all into the woods, all the way around the pond. I mean, just just just down woods to woods. All the way down to the pond. Well, after we got the new belt, the mowing went pretty fast. We got the entire hill done in probably 4 hours total time, but that just left more time for Tim to go play in his favorite piece of equipment, which is an excavator. And this is a skid loader. So, he got to play in his second favorite piece of equipment, which is a skid loader. And this was a really steep site, but uh we pulled out the skid motor with tracks, didn't have much problem, and got the rest of the hill scraped down to nothing and prepared for new seed and new well, yeah, grass. So, here's something I always like to try to include in my videos to help you guys out. The total for this project was around 5,000 bucks. That included clearing all of the slope of vegetation, then scraping the slope down, setting the debris to the side, regrading the slope, removing all of the stumps, and setting it for prepping it for a new yard. There was no materials hauled out or in, except for one load of black dirt, which was provided by the customer.