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Soil Preparation and Raking

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What happens here

The discussion moves to soil preparation techniques. A worker is shown hand-raking the black dirt. The speaker asks if they are using a power rake attachment for the skid steer, to which the worker replies he planned to but needs to retrieve the trailer and attachment. This brief interaction highlights the labor-intensive nature of manual soil preparation versus the efficiency of specialized equipment like a power rake for achieving a smooth, even surface.

Goal: Discuss methods for preparing soil before sod installation.

Tools and materials

  • Hand Rake N/A — Manually leveling and preparing the soil
  • Power Rake Attachment N/A — Mechanized soil preparation and leveling (planned but not used in this segment)
  • Skid Steer — To operate the power rake attachment
  • Trailer N/A — Transporting heavy equipment like a power rake attachment

What they say

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else we need to know about this site, Tim? Are you hand raking everything? Going to Yeah. I was going to get that vent track attachment, but I got to go get the skid or the trailer and go get it. Yeah. And sod was on its way already. Still on it. The vent. So, there's a vent a track attachment for the vent track and it's called a power rake. I think that that is just the bomb. Yeah, it would be for this. Yeah. Oh, and we also need the multi-tool, don't we? We need the Echo multi-tool to clean. Yeah. I didn't know you're back. I can go get it, but I was going to get I was going to get a blower and a and the multi-tool. What do you want to put for blow? Blower doesn't do anything. You think it's going to blow anything off? Yeah, it'll blow the sawdust off, but it won't blow. Bill brought them up. The customer brought them up, went out and picked them up and had them delivered. He wants one set and a couple He wants one set somewhere around. So then the question is, are we setting them in the ground? Or we just setting them on top of the on top of the sod. Right on top of the sod. Well, we can cut sod around it or I just don't like that look. I'd rather if I was going to do it, if I was going to have my choice, I'd always try to do a boulder setting, pock them in like, oh, look at what mother nature has exposed because literally that's the best way for it to look, not just here's two monumental stones sticking in the front of a person's yard. Hey, Stan, how do you feel about that? How do you feel about rocks sitting in your grass? I think I I painted that picture enough. All right. Uh, steel edging. We've got

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