One Mulch machine Vs four guys- Can it move Material as fast as they Claim?

It'll run the wetest, nastiest, muddiest. We can run dirt. We can run. [Music] Can it handle rock? Yes, small rock. Under 3 in. My hands are 9 in long. Uh, well, that's not very small. Those two augers. augers took seven to eight compacted yards and made it nine loose yards. Correct. So, you're going to need about 35% more coverage out of your material. Skeptical. That's all I can say. When I first heard about Mulch Mate, I thought, how can they improve mulch delivery and I didn't really think much of it until I actually seen it firsthand in action and then I was pretty much just blown away by this company. I like it when a company that I don't think much of comes out of nowhere and surprises me. And that's what I think you guys are going to find today. But you guys tell me after you're done watching this video, you let me know what you think about this thing in the comments down below. So, without wasting any more time, let me show you what I discovered when I was out there with them. Nick, if we didn't want the mulch made on the truck and wanted to use it for some other application. Yeah. How difficult is it to remove it? One single pin on the other side here. So, you would just pull this pin out, knock this one shaft out of here. The the hinge, the machine all comes off as one piece. You have two ways of lifting it. You have a way you can hook it in here, put a strap over the top, lift it up if you don't have forks, or the entire bottom of the machine is completely flat. So you can lift it up with forks. If there was no bottleneck with guys running the just the machine putting the product out with your productivity, we can put down 10 yards of mulch in about 12 minutes running about 60 ft. [Music] One of the ideas I had, guys, is looking at how fast that this machine releases the mulch. What if instead of using wheelbarls, which is the bottleneck in this application, what if you put down like slat tracks or whatever a temporary road, and you drove the truck right to where the mulch needed to go and you actually have a chute to do that? Yeah. This chute here attaches to the bottom of the machine. There are no tools required. All spring action, so you can take it on and off without any tools. Just snaps in place. You can reangle it any direction you'd like to go. How long does it take to snap that in place? Seconds. We're going to do it. It's a little tougher because I had to hand drill the holes on this. This is the prototype machine. Oh, okay. So, so this one is the prototype, but on your production machines, it's set up to use that. The slots already in place, ready to go. Awesome. If you notice on the bottom machine, every single thing is below these feet here, so you'll never damage anything that's underneath the machine. Can you show me what you're talking about when you're going down the road, how you keep the excess material from spilling out? Absolutely. So, real simple. Nice aluminum tray with a nice steel lip here. You have your warning decals telling the your guys what to do in English and Spanish. Simple bungee done. And now you and now your load is protected going down the road. You got an integrated one of the largest, longest tool boxes on the market. It can holders, uh, brakes, uh, pretty much anything you want to put in there. Typically, all these tools will be in the bed of your truck. You have to put them on the ground, load them back up after you load up. They fall everywhere. This is all lockable. PTO operated, all electric, all electric, self- sustained. Only thing that uh runs from the truck is a simple wire that recharges it from the alternator. It's all automatic. Won't your guys don't have to do anything. Okay. So, it reminds me of a lot of how I hooked up my pole plows. Just a wire. Sure. Fuse. That's it. And switch. Nothing in the cab. You also have a plug on this end. The machine comes with a It's not a tender. It's a battery saver. So, you'll get crystals in your batteries if you don't properly charge it and discharge it. A lot of us understand batteries are kind of finicky. So, it's just like a Tesla. You would plug it in. You just simply put it through the hole here. Your guys plug it in at night. Never have to run the truck. You can run this machine all day long without ever charging it without running the truck. It can stay in one spot. It'll run all day. So, you don't need the your truck idling wearing down. The machine does the work. The machine is zero idle, virtually silent, emissions friendly. It only adds about 5 to 600 lb to your truck depending on what the weight of the doors are. So when those doors come off, you're only adding about 5 to 600 lb to your truck. That's it. The entire machine outside of the hinge is all aluminum. It's aircraft quality. It's 6061 side panels at 5052. So it does a good job with light fluffy mulch. It'll run the wetest, nastiest, muddiest. We can run dirt. We can run Can it handle rock? Yes. Small rock under 3 in. Uh well, that's not very small. And it's a pain in the butt to run if you're trying to shovel it, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, but this this can handle it. Tell me about this cocoon system real quick. The cocoon system. So, how the tarp actually works. So, this tarp mechanism just unrolls. You have a nice remote switch here. You just turn it on. You have a safety handle here. There's four of them along the bottom side of the tarping system. You would just hook it, pull it back, lay your whatever material you're trying to run through the machine. You put it on top of the tarp. The tarp then cocoons all the way around top of the machine. My understanding is is this cocoon wraps around it, but then as it's unloading the truck, it literally pulls the entire load forward. Meaning, if you have a side door on the front of your truck like we have right here, you can then open the side door and you can load material in here as you're unloading material back there. So, if you guys are on a job site and you're going to be mulching and you got something that you got to pick up and haul off the job site, every time you wheelbarrow over a load of mulch, you pick up whatever material you're offloading, bring it over, and put it in the front of the truck. We're going to run 1 to 3 in river jack. Uh, it'll run right through there like water. So tell me about the fluffers real quick. So the augers were originally designed just for the mulch, right? What what happens when you drive down the road, the entire load will get compacted, compacted, compacted, maybe over 6 in. What happens is you try to run that through and it just comes out in these huge chunks. So these augers actually work in reverse. They flip the material upward, fluffing the mold, introducing air to it. How does it handle rods like this though? It'll pass right underneath of it. If you notice, the lower one is back a little bit. It's actually up inside the machine. The rock will just tumble right underneath of it. Anything it does hit, smack it right out of the way. That's it. My hands are 9 in long. That's how big that rock is. 7 in. 8 in maybe. Oh yeah. That's a big rock. I would that to me if I had to shovel that rock. I'd be like, "Oh my god, my shovel's going to be wrecked." Oh yeah, this job's going to suck. Your wrists are going to be feel a little sore. Oh, dude. You throw a shovel into this, you just tank. Yeah, it's horrible. You don't get anywhere. There's nothing. There's zero maintenance on Zero. The There's only one item that's a wear item, and that's a tarp. It goes in the machine with a piece of Velcro, and it's maybe a 30-se secondond job to change it out. That's it. How often do you think you have to change those? About two to three times a year, depending on the volume you're doing. If you're a standard company, maybe twice a year. If you're a huge company, maybe three times a year. So when you say a standard, I mean, we're talking about a company that does a lot of mulch. Mhm. Uh take for instance, uh take 8,000 yard number. That's a good size company. You're probably going to go through three to four tarps with 8,000 yards. Okay. We've run this particular tarp in this machine for the last year. And you can see the condition it's in. It's in pretty darn good condition. And that's running some pretty high stuff. Oh yeah. We run everything in every bin you see here. We've run we've run sand, we've run top soil, we've run clay, and we've had a ton of rain here in the last few weeks. So, everything we've been running has been 80% saturated. So, it's been it's been some pretty nasty stuff. So, it's been mud mulch. Oh, it's been awful. Yeah. I mean, you can see look at the water. There's your there's your mud mulch. So, last time they put uh seven yards in and when it got fluffed inside the machine, they got nine yards out of the truck even though there was only seven in it. So, that fluffer, those two augers. Augers. Yep. Took 7 to eight compacted yards and made it nine loose yards. Correct. So, you're going to get about 35% more coverage out of your material. You can drive this thing into a parking space. You're eliminating hundreds of feet if you had to walk. I mean, you just take this thing right around a community, right around a home. Come around to the side of the machine. Pull your safety pin. Wow. Auto lock open. There you go. Right. Open. Swing right closed. Push it. Look. No hands. Done. auto lock so your guys can't screw that up. You have a safety pin you put in here as well as you can put another lock here. So in case you're overnight, you want anybody messing with the machine, you put a lock right there to run the mulch. So this is your control panel. So this this is your tarping mechanism. This is dis or this is engaged. So as long as you're engaged, you're good to go. You would then stick your key in this panel. Thank you, sir. Okay. Somebody's going to do it. All right. So it's this simple. You have you engage your tarping mechanism. It's in English and Spanish. You would come over to your control panel. It's a standard mower key for any normal mower. You turn on, you get one green light. That means you're on. Second engage, two greens means you're ready to go. All your uh instructions are right here on the panel in English and Spanish. You would then just run the material in and then load your wheelbarrow. That fast run is all systems, right? So that's load material. That's running every single thing in the machine. If you want to preload or prime your machine, you would push it to the left. If you want to run just a conveyor, 12:00, as you can see, it's virtually silent. And then when you're paying the tarp out to to pull the tarp into the truck, you can either do it manually here and it runs the machine backwards or you have the remote and you can do it from within. So, it's a oneman job. Okay. What do we What do we got? So, we have a reverse camera here. So, that is that camera will protect the machine. There's a reverse camera in the back, Ed. Really? Yeah. So, yeah, we were actually talking about that on the way over here. Regulations. Yeah. There it is. Yeah. And it's built directly into the harness. It's not some aftermarket. It's right in the harness plugs. Right in the hood. Okay. So, the reason why I brought Ed over because Ed, what is the new regulation out there? I could, you know, it's it's it has to do with newer trucks over I think it's 14,000 lb. They've got to have a camera if you're going to put permanent equipment on the back of it. And there's still some debate about what is permanent. If you put a salt insert, is that permanent or not? Right. But something that's going to live on the back of the truck like this on an 18 truck came with it. It has to have it in there. Yeah. Well, there it is. It's night vision. I can't remember. I think it's like 170° camera. Um, al also the other great thing. So, when you lift this up, I'm 6'3, so I can I can reach up here pretty easily. Guys that aren't that tall, there's a locking ladder that you just pull out, drop in. I'm 335 lbs. Step right up, no problem. I'm going to tell you guys straight up from seeing it in person, the attention to detail, the level that you guys have put into it, even Ed noticed it right away, didn't you, Ed? The details are really well put together. Yeah. So, what were you saying? You said that a company like this will go way beyond because they're lean and mean and this is their baby. They're going to put a lot more attention to detail into something like this. They they know spreading mulch. Like, you've done it, right? 16 years. You understand the operations. You're passionate about the equipment. And one of the great things about America is this entrepreneurial spirit. You can create a company from scratch and do this. Yep. And it's it's amazing. And and this when when that's going on, you're going to have the best products in their class. Larger companies where they hiring in a team of engineers to do this, they're just not passionate about at that level. They don't end up with results like this. Thank you. Yeah. Feel the same. So you are a redneck engineer. That's correct. And that's Pops. We got the team Sam, right? Family friends forever. Nice to meet all of you guys. Pleasure. It was awesome. This is a good machine. Fun little fact. I'm surprised you didn't ask what the what the model number came from. If you Our company name is Dawson manufacturer. D is for Dawson. S is for stick. Those are my last two dogs. That's how much they meant to me. Your last two what? Dogs. Your dog. My dogs. Is that like a dog? A dog. Dog. Dog. Dog. I'm in Maryland. What do you expect? They're going to give these guys some crap and add thanks for everything,