ABANDONED Neighborhood - FIRST Mow In 5 YEARS (TALL Grass: Ventrac 4520)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This abandoned real estate development was ENTIRELY cleared for over a hundred houses back in the mid/late 2000's. Now, 15 years later, it has been abandoned back to nature except for the three homes that were built before the developer closed up shop and the front area that the city maintains.
We help them out by clearing a section of tall grass that desperately needs mowing they have ignored for five years, according to one of the neighbors we talked to. This was mowing tall, thick, dry grass with the Ventrac 4520 and HQ682 Tough Cut deck.
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Contact me: coppercreekcuts@gmail.com
Good job, Brother! The drone shots were really cool! That Ventrac is almost unstoppable. It's a real workhorse! Thanks for sharing another great video. Have an awesome weekend!
Question: isn’t the total mass/volume of combustible material the same as it was? I can see it might be incrementally safer cut than standing. I think pulling it away from the developed properties would be advisable. Hauling it away would obviously be too pricey. A burn pile safely away from the houses could work.
Less oxygen available to sustain the burn and when laying down it is able to prevent new growth and begin decomposing. I agree though, it needs to be hauled away to prevent the rats/mice/creatures thing he mentioned at the beginning
@@tylerfielder5582 thanks! Makes sense!
@@tylerfielder5582 the grass clippings should be removed, thee are online fertilizer so the grass will come back faster.
I have seen the fire department doing controlled burn training on stuff like that.
As always, great job, Brad! The city should really consider contracting you to do this work. Sometimes developments do fall through and leave issues like this behind, and they really DO need to be regularly serviced. Keep up the fantastic work! Cheers from Texas.
Quiet running, does a very nice job! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
i'm not sure why they'd pay him, considering he's doing it for free.
Don't get me wrong, the righ thing would be to pay him (or somebody)
Only 3 families live out there in the entire town? That's freakin' paradise if you moved there from a big city. Total peace and quiet. I hope I find something like that when I retire.
Man that's a hell of a machine that you are working with on the grass and keep up the great work that you do for your community.
Loved the video, would be awesome to see an update on if and when they do something with the plot :) just sorta interesting now
That Ventrac takes no prisoners! Nice job, Brad :)
Your outfit does not have to match the machine
Don't lie
I really do appreciate those who go out and help where there needs of help... 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Our country would look much better if more would get on board...
My allergies would be going crazy 30 seconds after I started mowing!
I would have left the Little Tree.
Your mower looks like it could compete in the Indianapolis 500!
It's so quiet! Amazing!
Hey, I liked that little fir tree!
Should have left that one pine
I think that is one thing I don't like is that it leaves too much trash behind. I would be more impressed if everything was ground up afterwards. All of that laying their is still a big fire hazard. The other thing I don't like is it should be as wide as the outer duals because the outer tires run over what wasn't cut and mat it down. Plus it makes it harder to mow right up against stuff like fences and other things. I would've put the finish mower on afterwards to cut up all of the trash better. Other than that, it is a really good machine.
Nice! The thumbnail makes it almost look like you're taking a mini combine harvester through a wheat field!
Brad may have a promising future in agriculture.
My thoughts exactly! (Grew up in wheat and pea country...lots of combines and trips to canneries.)
Have you ever thought about getting the flail mower attachment? I think it would give you a way better cut
That was the flail mower.
You mentioned combustible material. Isn't it still a hazard just lying there even though it's been cut down? I wouldn't hold my breath about the city doing anything. Especially since you did it for them.
Poor little baby trees. I would've gone around them even if they were soft enough to bed over.
it wasn't such a bad little tree. #savethetrees
"Hmm, it looks like the Ventrac is just laying everything down instead of cutting it"
Brad literally 2 seconds later: You can see it's not just laying everything down, it's cutting it. Here let me show you.
Freaking mind-reader!
I appreciate you going back and showing that the grass was actually being cut. My dumb anxiety makes me worry over the dumbest of things lol.
@@Press1for uh.. If you're implying I would worry about that, I wouldn't. I'd mind my own business. The most I'd do is give them a friendly wave hello.
Brad, you handled that Ventrac like you were out for a Sunday drive! Love the logo on the front of the beast. Great job, great video as usual!
Not to nit pick but at the start of the video you pointed out that the ones before just cut it and let it sit there, You did the same thing. Its been knocked down but its the same fire hazard you pointed out.
I should have been more clear. My point was because they discharged their clippings up against the tall grass rather than out in the field, they just piled up rather than got spread out.
Fun to watch, great job. But all the dust flaringup, maybe you should have worn a mask or gaitor to protect your lungs??
Wow, that was a quick snack for the beast!
Brad my man why didn't you use a respiratory mask for all that dust?
It would have been cool if the front of that mower could have lift up a little off the ground so that you can go over the thicker brush at an angle
AWESOME JOB BRAD, looks Great, don't listen to those people about what you are wearing while you drive that COOL machine, actually the BRIGHT GREEN, is better visibility for SAFETY 🦺🦺 so whatever you feel comfortable with, and I like GREEN TOO, 😆😆😆😆, but anywho, don't worry about that comment, what are they a color cordinator 😂🤣😂🤣, CYA soon on your next video and BE SAFE 😎🚜😷✌️😎
The man, the myth, the legend!
So does Ventrac make a accessory to rake up the rest of the clippings?
Man that looks like it would have been a perfect job for a ventrac frail mower attachment
That was an urban farming project. That wheat was destined to feed a starving village in India and you ruined it.
I didn’t see it in the comments but that looks like cogon grass. It is a bad invasive grass that will take over if not sprayed and taken care of.
Would be great to haul away the clippings. I’m sure some farmer could use it
That mower is a beast! I’d like to see what it would take to even slow it down.
I work for a county road dept and one of our jobs is to mow the shoulders and ditches in our right of way and easements. Let me tell you, it is difficult to keep up with everything and a lot gets ignored unfortunately. I don't know about where you work but we are a small shop with only 10 guys and we are are responsible for just under 200 miles of roads. We have 4 boom mowers and 1 shoulder mower and somehow we manage to mow all the roads while still doing other projects, though it can take us all year to mow the roads just once.
Should of found a farmer with heavy equipment to cut rake an bale it for feed now you got a real fire hazard
If unused real estate is returned to its natural state the local environment is improved through ground-level cooling, water retention, wildlife habitat plus there's no machinery wear & tear and no fuel is burned to create an unnatural biosphere.
Wow amazing answer thanks for your 2c
😂
The best thing for it now is burn it the grass will come back even better
This isn't copper creek, it should be cocky creep....
great job Brad. satisfying to watch. love your work ethic. awesome machines are half the battle. you seem to have made the right investment. keep up the fantastic content. take care.
Probably the city will only cut 2 x a year if they are nagged
That is THE coolest badass mower I’ve ever seen!
I'm imagining a Secret of NIMH scenario in there where little Timmy is too sick to be moved before the tractor comes.
Oh man, I would loved to have used my Flail mower on that one. Time to go scouting for something like this. Good job.
How did he know that place waz there to even talk o a neighbor
the Ventrac really is just the BFG9000 of lawn care equipment
using that expensive mower as a brush hog, you wouldn't work for me..
That might be a good thing because apparently you can't tell a mower from a brush hog :D I am running the Ventrac HQ682 deck in this video which is their brush hog/bush hog/tough cut mower deck.
Damn, looks like part of a farm! You have major confidence to push through with that beauty. Love the video 💪
I just wanted to acknowledge your endless generousity and hard work that you put out there in your area. It is appreciated by so many. Thank you and God bless you and yours.
why’d you take out the pine tree?😫😫😫
Why did you cut down the evergreen tree!?
It was said that thick layer of past clippings was a hazard. Both for fire and rodents. It looks like the clippings were left after you mowed. I see where you did mow in the opposite direction to try to "chop" the clipping up finer, but how did that make it any safer? Are the clippings now just going to magically be blown away or float away in a good rain storm? Love the watching you cut the big overgrown fields and such. Just trying to understand how it was made better by the method you used.
The clippings will biodegrade over time, but the main reason it is safer is because the height of the combustible material is drastically lowered. If a fire did occur, the flames would likely only be a few inches high, odds are certainly less than a foot. Before the work was done the flames would likely have been four or five feet high and the grass itself was 2 or 3 feet high.
Remember I said "safer" not "100% safe with 0% chance of hazard" 😃
@@CopperCreekCuts One of my strata clients has a few large hills that need to be weed whacked a few times a year. I can handle one of the hills with my Walker, but the rest of them are too steep to mow, even with the Ventrac (that cutting deck makes me jealous, btw). With the heat waves the past few summers, they've recently taken to getting me to remove the clippings during the summer, which involves blowing the clippings down the hill with backpack blowers, and raking it up at the bottom. Not a fun job, but it keeps the fire marshal happy.
Nice job! I bet the neighbors are very happy for your help. Definitely was a big fire hazard and like you mentioned, cuts way back on the ground critters!!!!
Would have made more sense to cut and bale and remove the debris, still have the fire hazard.
You definitely had plenty of power to push through that mess.
Great video and great job.
That would be very easy to maintain with a 60” zero turn now that you have it manageable.
Hopefully the city sees that
I think the flail mower would do a better job at this. but that rough cut surprised me what it can do.
What would some of these people do without you Brad? I know that field was just an invitation to some problems for the neighbor. Great job!! Loving the color coordination of the machine to the shirt. Always a must. 🤣🤣
How long it take u to do that hole thing
The combustible material is still there.
You think it's less combustible because it's chopped into smaller pieces? 🤔
Lol
I do, but it isn't a matter of opinion. If you research fire management, having combustible material that is 3 inches tall versus 3 feet tall makes a WORLD of difference.
@@CopperCreekCuts Every one's an expert and everyone's a critic. Ignore them.
Looks like a miniature wheat field
So why did you cut down the pine 🌳
Thank you for doing your part in making Florida a better place for us all!
It looked like a field of wheat.
Great job! It's amazing how that thing takes small trees down. Loved the video!
You need a baler now.
Nice video Brad. Your videos look professional. The dried vegetation you are cutting looks like cogon grass which invasive. Wondering if you identified it as cogon grass or not. If you did, how did you clean the Ven-trac so as to not transfer seeds to other sites. This is something I worry about encountering.
That looks like Cogon grass, a top 10 invasive species world wide. It should be reported to the local county extension or state. moving or selling the hay Is illegal. Yourmowershould have been cleaned before going to another side to avoid spreading in. Awareness is key this is one grass you dont want.
Love how you can mow and operate the overhead camera at the same time. You are as amazing as the Ventrac!
teamwork makes the dream work
Like I would in farming simulator, I would pick up the grass weed stuff with a forage wagon.
You probably don't do enough locations like this but I was wondering if it would be worth having a mini-hay baler for jobs like this if the hay bales would be worth either selling or providing to a local small farm.
Nice job . Now all that needs to happen is the land to be ploughed ,cut into plots and offered to the locals to grow food in .
Very nice 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good Morning Brad ! Down from Maine in Florida Brother Navy John I’m in your Great State of Florida Brother in Coco Beach area love it! Still Enjoying your Channel God Bless Navy John
What’s the best method you’ve found to remove/ eliminate the excess mulch residue? Cab the Ventrac pull a fair sized vacuum at the same time?? Your thoughts please….😊
Cool video. I am the loan groundskeeper of a large apartment complex. I really like that machine.
I just wish they would get me a decent mower lol. ✨✌🏼
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Amigo Brad! I'm a huge fan of the Ventrac; now let's get serious you need a spreader attachment ASAP. I'm certain there are area specific weed suppressants formulated for taming a given service area like yours. As for wardrobe advice: You need a sponsor for fashion forward boonie hats ( that sun is relentlss )
You do find excellent things to work on. Double thumbs up. I have been wondering, after your test runs, if a Ventrac would help the people in Ohio with the excessively wet mowing conditions.... Nice you have overhead shading.
Try Permaculture! Great cover crop. Get some sheep or a couple of cows followed by chickens and you won't have to worry about paying someone to mow it down. Someone will be paying you for eggs and meat or you can DoYourOwn supplies.
Hi from Puerto Rico island...my question is..the Ventrac is easy to handle?...and Keep doing nice video..👍
I am going to make a video asking but since I just found this vid of you mowing tall grass . . . Yesterday I was in my top pasture, taller than this, and I kept having to back up just a tad at the end of each pass. Reason being is the Ventrac was acting like a dozer and colllecting BIG clumps of grass under it. Large enough that if you back up too far the Tough Cut would stall if it hit the clump after you bounced over it. Upon looking closer it appeared the grass was collecting around the axels, just a guess as I was trying to get mowing done so was a quick look.
Poor pine tree 🌲 😢
Leaving that which you cut on the patch makes what you have claimed that you made safe a lie. All that
dried cut grass is still very much a fire hazard! To remove the cut grass is to reduce the fire hazard. You have only changed the form of the fire hazard! Now do the right thing and pick up and remove the grass
THEN you will have improved safety.
Wow the camera angels and editing as well as your equipment has definitely upgraded!
Quick tip for better videos and a better viewing experience for your subs. You don't need 20 cameras and a jump cut every second and a half, just have one camera and mow!
WHy did you mow all around that healthy pine tree,, then just go over it for NO REASON. NOT COOL
watching from novascotia,Canada good job bless you
I just wondered if you talked to any one of the three homes that lived out there and what they thought about the deal.... Besides that great job I love that tractor! 😁😁👍
that's alot of dry grass dust your creating. should wear a dust mask, i'm sneezing just watching you. yep, dry grass not good. we have a fire in flagstaff, az because of dry grass and it took off. people got evacuated from their homes, some got burned down and closed the main highway from flagstaff to the north to Utah. and there is another fire further south in Prescott, AZ. we are in a drought and we got winds causing problems. also.
Brad, you amaze me. I’m trying to figure out HOW IN THE WORLD you cut that without wearing a mask! 😷.
I thought you looked good on the Ventrac before, but now that you have the new shirt color. LOOK OUT FLORIDA!!! There’s a new sherif in town. 🤠
Great work as always man! 💯
Thats not tall grass. When its above shoulder height, then its tall grass DAMHIKT!! Why did you flatten the tree???
When I built my house in Utah, I rented a big mower to the job. I sent up a drone to check the lot for large pieces of debris, and maybe any bodies. Nice job btw. 😅😮
Nice video Brad, I can see that big mower is coming in handy. 👍👍👍👍👍😉🇺🇸
If mower was mine ,,I would build a brush guard on the front of mower to keep branches and whatever off the hood and front of mower to keep it from getting all scrached up. Looks like you keep your stuff nice,, food for thought!!
Kind of surprised ventrac doesn't have a pull behind rake that will collect all the clippings. Ah heck, just invent a mini baler so home owners can sell the grass bale's to rabbit farms/sanctuaries
OK. Second video of yours I've watched. Now I want one of those !! That look like a great machine !!
Cut it with the rough cut, go get lunch. Come back switch out toe finish mower with a bagger. Go over it again to clean up stragglers and pick up the previous cut at the same time. Ground will look scalped for a while because of the reed grass just growing like it does. But it'll be green in no time again.
Good job, but why don't you collect the cut grass? A) it would look tidier, B) it would cut the fire risk down! 👍🇬🇧
That was so great to watch but I bet was even better to actually do!! Again very impressed with how easily you can get to things on that Ventrac!
This was nice of you but seemed a bit unnecessary. It was maintained far enough away from the houses and if no one is building there any time soon why can't the land for the time being just renature a bit? You saw that tree growing which is always nice. And having your house sit just in a giant plot of mowed grass also looks a little odd.
Nice video! Thank you for doing that. Where is that located. I like the drone shots. Especially at the end. It’s very flat. They all say that.