Tim and Christie, great to see this tool demonstrated! I owned a mulch supply yard and a hobby farm prior to retirement. My largest customer (landscape contractor) owned a Mulch Mule and often spoke of the increased productivity the Mule facilitated. The last time I mulched my farm I was fortunate enough to borrow the Mule from my customer. My wife and I were able to spread 40 yards of mulch in a day! This machine truly is a game changer for the landscape contractor! God Bless!
And the cool boy toys just keep coming😂 And what an awesome group of guys enjoying the blessing of working together for the Lord. And wonderful job recording the video Christie!
Fantastic crew...gettin' the mulch out, brotherly gouging, doing the Lord's work, working with a not-so-stubborn Mule...AND EATING! Oh, and the video too...
I used a mulch mule mounted on a truck when I used to work at a mulch yard. It definitely speeds up the process. I’ve since upgraded and been fortunate enough in the past few years to have a Finn material blower and it truly is a life saver!. Good video and nice truck! Also I believe there is a reverse button on the rear of the unit that will move the main belt in the hopper back allowing the pile to fall down and spread out. At least it was one on our unit.
That's a slick piece of equipment. Never seen a conveyor belt one. I've seen the truck mounted mulch blower with a hose for putting it in place. More or less the reverse of a vacuum truck.
I have spread mulch many times with the front end loader on my Kubota. A HUGE advantage the Mulch Mule has over the compact tractor is that you're not driving over the lawn again and again. Looked like a nice system, for sure.
Really cool trailer Tim! When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a "Bark Blower" variant. Which is also a great mulch machine for large volumes but it takes a few men to just handle the hose lol
Looks like a fun job. I didn’t see this machine at Equip Expo, but there was one that fit into a dump truck. Now you need the Toro zero turn with the bucket on front. Great fellowship was the best part.
Pretty trick rig, hopefully the guy that came up with that design makes a fortune. I like the way it's multi functional, I could see many applications that trailer would probably work fantastic for!
1:45 the automatic rake is called STIHL BR800C, dump the barrow blow to spread, that's how i do it for 400cubic yards for big home owner associations and corporations. this allows you to blow it under bushes and ornamentals also. rakes are too hard of effort for what you need for a controlled spreading tool, the stall clean out pitch forks with 10 tines are the best, no drip droppings and an easy to scoop up load and twist shake the handle side to side to dribble-spread fine controlled placement, and you can also hold up yew and pine limbs and such to get material under them with out dumping mulch on their needle branches which will kill those affected needles and branches. now with that forage wagon....an idea i just had and one thing i would like to try is while the conveyor is turning out mulch, is me getting under the dumping edge of the conveyor and using the Stihl 800 to blow the mulch out into the more open areas sort of an idea to try and see if it will spread the mulch as it comes off the conveyor belt. will probably be messy as all heck until a technique is figured out how to work it, say like blowing at 45º forward, from the back side of the dumping edge, and probably 15º slightly downward or upward, some where in that range or just straight out from underneath the conveyor. i don't know i've have to see what all happens and at what throttle settings and probably just in wide open areas with out having to worry about covering large clusters of plants. i'm guessing the stall/grain scoop shovels manned by some one using them to shield cover the plants from the direction of the blown mulch will be needed, or 5 -25 gallon buckets to cover up the plants you don't want mulch getting into and hanging on top of them, again, the dye will kill what every parts of the plants it touches except deciduous trees, but definitely any conifer/evergreen
I suppose it depends on your background. There are dozens if not hundreds in our county but great machines for a multitude of jobs. Would be better to have conveyor on other side so truck driver can see what's going on.
10:00 ask those guys how difficult was it to hold those scoop shovels under the end of the conveyor to get material to spread out, was it really strenuous or was it pretty easy going cuz that looks like a great method, two guys on the back side one at the wall and one by the grass side and one guy on the front side with each guy responsible for covering a section, the front guy probably doing the middles since he has to walk backwards...idk?
Nice tool. Just my thoughts from watching it - would it help if they had a wired control similar to a dump trailer? That way you don’t have to have a person standing in between the truck and trailer as your driving forward.
I've seen something similar to this on another channel which can be hooked on to the back end of either a trailer or dump truck. Neat product since it has one of those Billy Goat debris loaders already mounted on the front. I do think hardscape contractors may very well want these for spreading rock prior to pouring concrete or laying paver stones.
Non episode??? That mulch mule is super cool!! This episode is light hearted, fun, and overall quite enjoyable to watch. …and the view duration metrics we have behind the scenes prove it!
OK, but that's not available to 1% of your audience; and I wager that 99% of your audience does not have issues with spreading mulch, especially if they had that much help.
Fascinating. So, the only videos you like are items you might purchase. Hmm. I’m assuming you never watch Dirt Perfect, letsdig18, Millennial Farmer, etc. why am I held to a different standard?
YOu totally miss the point. Most of your audience would just drive to the mulch store, have them scoop it in, bring it home, "using shovels and rakes and implements of destruction" (arlo guthrie) push the mulch into a wheelbarrow, and spread it around. The coolness factor is fine, but you didn't help anyone because few will have the option of having it brought to them with a fancy sled. The real point is that the PTO generator episode will probably HELP people more than showing something that is cool and easy. Actually, on my touchpad I check your site *first* each night for new episodes, before I go on to my standard "traps", *so I value what you do*. Things like the GPS boxblade thing, that's COOL and 99% of your audience is never going to do it that way, just as 99% of your audience won't be getting mulch delivered in a cool trailer like that. And in my case, I won't be getting any help spreading the mulch. I'm just trying to guide you into content that helps the regular Joe. I think LetsDig18 is great as he explains what he is doing and why as he goes along. But I'm kinda tired of pond-dams and tree pushing. I sure wish I had one of his big machines for a couple days though. My little excavator is too small for what he does.
I hear you. I just don’t see why I’m held to different standard than the others. Folks watch them for entertainment purposes, knowing they will never buy a given product. Yet for me, you get irate (even rude) if we show a very entertaining episode with something ‘different’ than you want. BTW, when we show the PTO generator, lots of folks with say “I’ll never be able to afford that expensive generator, show me a box blade!!!!” Well, like you say about let’s dig, how many ‘box blade videos’ can keep folks interested? We have 960+ episodes out there. We cover a wider range of topics in more depth than about any channel I know. Yet, you are still irate. It is clear we’ll never please.
If it can do up to 2 inch river rock I would assume it could work well to gravel driveways and fill for concrete pours if the rock doesnt get too packed. That would be incredible.
Looks like just the ticket for large property maintenance. Now if the leaf vac can handle removal of the old mulch that would make it a complete solution!
I have been looking online for over an hour and I can not find a price for this. I hate to waste a salesman's time if it is out of my price range to start. Could I have an estimate within $5000 of what one cost? I will not hold anyone to that price.
that a great tool it isnt a good idea to stand beteen trailer and truck while it’s moving i know someone that lost use of her legs becase of standing between truck and trailer while the vehicles moving
7:00 as a professional yes, definitely replaces 2 people, and more importantly, never gets tired or sore muscles like your back would if you ever loaded wheel barrows the hard way. most of the time we use a dump truck and ski loaders and line up 3-4 wheel barrows in a row and dump from the skid steer into them. this machine has been an idea of mine to make on a much smaller scale one that can be loaded by a skid steer with 1-2 buckets and used on lawns with out rutting things up. i immediately notices the billy goat debris loader on this thing too.... you could even suck up the old rotten mulch as well as leaf/debris piles, fairgrounds trash or sporting evens trash such as baseball tournaments and marathons, just use an 8hp little wonder wheeled blower to wind row piles of trash/leaves right to the suction hoses reach. ~ midwest landscapes dot com otsego minnesota if you need to search
Tim and Christie, great to see this tool demonstrated! I owned a mulch supply yard and a hobby farm prior to retirement. My largest customer (landscape contractor) owned a Mulch Mule and often spoke of the increased productivity the Mule facilitated. The last time I mulched my farm I was fortunate enough to borrow the Mule from my customer. My wife and I were able to spread 40 yards of mulch in a day! This machine truly is a game changer for the landscape contractor! God Bless!
Helping hands, friendly banter, worthy cause and a nifty machine…the makings of good gathering. Blessings to all.
😊 great opportunity for the bunny 🐰 song ! Amazing invention 🎉
And the cool boy toys just keep coming😂 And what an awesome group of guys enjoying the blessing of working together for the Lord. And wonderful job recording the video Christie!
Fantastic crew...gettin' the mulch out, brotherly gouging, doing the Lord's work, working with a not-so-stubborn Mule...AND EATING! Oh, and the video too...
A terrific machine. The only suggestion would be a conveyor that can contract and extend.
Thanks
Bob
I used a mulch mule mounted on a truck when I used to work at a mulch yard. It definitely speeds up the process. I’ve since upgraded and been fortunate enough in the past few years to have a Finn material blower and it truly is a life saver!. Good video and nice truck!
Also I believe there is a reverse button on the rear of the unit that will move the main belt in the hopper back allowing the pile to fall down and spread out. At least it was one on our unit.
I like that tool. Being a old guy always looking for things like that 😃 it’s not like work when you have a bunch of friends to do the job. ❤
That’s quite the unit. Looks well built & works great. I could see a professional crew adding a small platform for the control guy when moving.👍
It's got a leaf sucker too?! That definitely would be great for commercial landscapers. Multi seasonal makes for a good tool to have!
That is a very nice outfit! Definitely a time saver for the professional landscapers.
Nice trailer. Useful tool.
As usual great video . Let’s get started
That's a slick piece of equipment. Never seen a conveyor belt one.
I've seen the truck mounted mulch blower with a hose for putting it in place. More or less the reverse of a vacuum truck.
That is an incredible machine! I can see crews making themselves much more productive with it.
Hey Tony!
I have spread mulch many times with the front end loader on my Kubota. A HUGE advantage the Mulch Mule has over the compact tractor is that you're not driving over the lawn again and again. Looked like a nice system, for sure.
Yea, we had Johnny and a brand new large mulch bucket on site…turned out it was not necessary at all.
@@TractorTimewithTim is there also a fancy way to spread pine straw?
I dunno. We don’t have that around here
@@TractorTimewithTim thanks tim
What a handy setup! For the contractors with lots of beds or municipalities, would be well worth it
Really cool trailer Tim! When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a "Bark Blower" variant. Which is also a great mulch machine for large volumes but it takes a few men to just handle the hose lol
Now if the trailer had a shoot like a concrete mixer truck you'd be in business!
Good job guys!
All of you all got big hearts.. god bless.from gary
Well I love to eat and tractors so we can be friends Tim lol That’s some rig that mulch mule I can see where a pro would get a lot of use out of it
Looks like a fun job. I didn’t see this machine at Equip Expo, but there was one that fit into a dump truck. Now you need the Toro zero turn with the bucket on front. Great fellowship was the best part.
Great video! Love to see the team work!
Great video!
Pretty trick rig, hopefully the guy that came up with that design makes a fortune. I like the way it's multi functional, I could see many applications that trailer would probably work fantastic for!
1:45 the automatic rake is called STIHL BR800C, dump the barrow blow to spread, that's how i do it for 400cubic yards for big home owner associations and corporations.
this allows you to blow it under bushes and ornamentals also. rakes are too hard of effort for what you need for a controlled spreading tool, the stall clean out pitch forks with 10 tines are the best, no drip droppings and an easy to scoop up load and twist shake the handle side to side to dribble-spread fine controlled placement, and you can also hold up yew and pine limbs and such to get material under them with out dumping mulch on their needle branches which will kill those affected needles and branches.
now with that forage wagon....an idea i just had and one thing i would like to try is while the conveyor is turning out mulch, is me getting under the dumping edge of the conveyor and using the Stihl 800 to blow the mulch out into the more open areas sort of an idea to try and see if it will spread the mulch as it comes off the conveyor belt. will probably be messy as all heck until a technique is figured out how to work it, say like blowing at 45º forward, from the back side of the dumping edge, and probably 15º slightly downward or upward, some where in that range or just straight out from underneath the conveyor. i don't know i've have to see what all happens and at what throttle settings and probably just in wide open areas with out having to worry about covering large clusters of plants. i'm guessing the stall/grain scoop shovels manned by some one using them to shield cover the plants from the direction of the blown mulch will be needed, or 5 -25 gallon buckets to cover up the plants you don't want mulch getting into and hanging on top of them, again, the dye will kill what every parts of the plants it touches except deciduous trees, but definitely any conifer/evergreen
Brown Equipment would be more than happy to bring one out for you to demo
That's a cool trailer
Nicely done!
Interesting machine Tim. Definitely a very specialized piece of equipment.
I suppose it depends on your background. There are dozens if not hundreds in our county but great machines for a multitude of jobs. Would be better to have conveyor on other side so truck driver can see what's going on.
Nice job everybody!😁👨🚒
So it could spread other materials? Dirt, gravel, etc.?
Yeah, it can do mulch, topsoil, compost and basically up to a 2" river rock.
@@scottbrown2226 is there also a fancy way to spread pine straw?
10:00 ask those guys how difficult was it to hold those scoop shovels under the end of the conveyor to get material to spread out, was it really strenuous or was it pretty easy going cuz that looks like a great method, two guys on the back side one at the wall and one by the grass side and one guy on the front side with each guy responsible for covering a section, the front guy probably doing the middles since he has to walk backwards...idk?
It was easy enough. Mulch not that heavy
Very cool.
Nice tool. Just my thoughts from watching it - would it help if they had a wired control similar to a dump trailer? That way you don’t have to have a person standing in between the truck and trailer as your driving forward.
Wireless remote would be even better!
I've seen something similar to this on another channel which can be hooked on to the back end of either a trailer or dump truck. Neat product since it has one of those Billy Goat debris loaders already mounted on the front. I do think hardscape contractors may very well want these for spreading rock prior to pouring concrete or laying paver stones.
Is that a blower on the front to blow the mulch in around plants with a hose? And can you reverse that floor to dump out the back into a pile?
Vacuum …for sucking leaves into the trailer.
Yes, you can reverse the floor if you want to discharge the entire load onto the ground. Takes about 45 seconds.
Does that mulch come with free termites ?
That works great 👍🏻.
You ever going to do the episode that you teased some time back about the pto generator? Spreading mulch is a non-episode. Thanks.
Non episode??? That mulch mule is super cool!!
This episode is light hearted, fun, and overall quite enjoyable to watch. …and the view duration metrics we have behind the scenes prove it!
OK, but that's not available to 1% of your audience; and I wager that 99% of your audience does not have issues with spreading mulch, especially if they had that much help.
Fascinating. So, the only videos you like are items you might purchase.
Hmm. I’m assuming you never watch Dirt Perfect, letsdig18, Millennial Farmer, etc. why am I held to a different standard?
YOu totally miss the point. Most of your audience would just drive to the mulch store, have them scoop it in, bring it home, "using shovels and rakes and implements of destruction" (arlo guthrie) push the mulch into a wheelbarrow, and spread it around. The coolness factor is fine, but you didn't help anyone because few will have the option of having it brought to them with a fancy sled. The real point is that the PTO generator episode will probably HELP people more than showing something that is cool and easy.
Actually, on my touchpad I check your site *first* each night for new episodes, before I go on to my standard "traps", *so I value what you do*. Things like the GPS boxblade thing, that's COOL and 99% of your audience is never going to do it that way, just as 99% of your audience won't be getting mulch delivered in a cool trailer like that. And in my case, I won't be getting any help spreading the mulch. I'm just trying to guide you into content that helps the regular Joe. I think LetsDig18 is great as he explains what he is doing and why as he goes along. But I'm kinda tired of pond-dams and tree pushing. I sure wish I had one of his big machines for a couple days though. My little excavator is too small for what he does.
I hear you. I just don’t see why I’m held to different standard than the others. Folks watch them for entertainment purposes, knowing they will never buy a given product. Yet for me, you get irate (even rude) if we show a very entertaining episode with something ‘different’ than you want.
BTW, when we show the PTO generator, lots of folks with say “I’ll never be able to afford that expensive generator, show me a box blade!!!!”
Well, like you say about let’s dig, how many ‘box blade videos’ can keep folks interested?
We have 960+ episodes out there. We cover a wider range of topics in more depth than about any channel I know.
Yet, you are still irate. It is clear we’ll never please.
If it can do up to 2 inch river rock I would assume it could work well to gravel driveways and fill for concrete pours if the rock doesnt get too packed. That would be incredible.
Looks like just the ticket for large property maintenance. Now if the leaf vac can handle removal of the old mulch that would make it a complete solution!
Yes, it could.
Part of the reason to use mulch is that it breaks down and becomes a soil amendment. Best to just leave it there and let it enhance the soil.
Should be able to slow down the floor if it's anything like a silage wagon.
It was fun video
Kool.
Are you concerned about mulch up against the brick. Termites and other insects will have easier access to structure.
I l would like to have a home owners model that you could put on a B size Kubota!!
Needs a remote
Yep. One is ‘on the way’
IT NEEDS A FOLDING STYLE CONCRET SHOOT AND EXTRA TRAY TO ADD A FEW EXTRA FEET TO REACH OUT FURTHER
Good unit to have... Saves on the back... 😅
I have been looking online for over an hour and I can not find a price for this. I hate to waste a salesman's time if it is out of my price range to start. Could I have an estimate within $5000 of what one cost? I will not hold anyone to that price.
$80,000 I think.
Made in Canton, Ohio? Interesting! Not far from me.
Guess more work means bigger cheeseburger. I’d say don’t skimp on the fixings also
Tim the bunny song that's on VeggieTales
A yard of mulch weighs between 500-600 pounds so 15 yards would weigh between 7500 and 9000 pounds.
that a great tool it isnt a good idea to stand beteen trailer and truck while it’s moving i know someone that lost use of her legs becase of standing between truck and trailer while the vehicles moving
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7:00 as a professional yes, definitely replaces 2 people, and more importantly, never gets tired or sore muscles like your back would if you ever loaded wheel barrows the hard way.
most of the time we use a dump truck and ski loaders and line up 3-4 wheel barrows in a row and dump from the skid steer into them.
this machine has been an idea of mine to make on a much smaller scale one that can be loaded by a skid steer with 1-2 buckets and used on lawns with out rutting things up.
i immediately notices the billy goat debris loader on this thing too.... you could even suck up the old rotten mulch as well as leaf/debris piles, fairgrounds trash or sporting evens trash such as baseball tournaments and marathons, just use an 8hp little wonder wheeled blower to wind row piles of trash/leaves right to the suction hoses reach.
~ midwest landscapes dot com otsego minnesota if you need to search