An eyesore for the past year, the owner of this vacant lot finally cleared work to be done on it, and I was subcontracted to clean it up for a local lawn care/landscaping company. Running zero turn mowers on this property would have probably required a double cut at several heights, and may have also risked damage to the machines with the hidden sticks/branches in the tall grass.

The job started by clearing the curb/gutter of debris, and with a year's worth of dirt collected, there was plenty of space for grass to grow. A simple flat shovel provided the best way to clean this up, and a pile was formed at the street for free local city pickup.

After clearing the curb of tall grass and dirt, I began edging the sidewalk with a TORO 60 volt power base and straight shaft edger attachment. An edger is a machine that spins a rectangular blade to cut vertically through grass and dirt where it meets concrete to create a defined line or edge. It is safer to edge with an edger rather than a string trimmer as debris management is worlds better with an edger, which always has a robust guard, where edging with a string trimmer usually means you remove the guard and potentially throw debris very far.

After edging, raking and blowing the final debris meant a clean curb and read to mow. I used the Ventrac 4520P compact tractor with the Tough Cut HQ682 attachment out front. This is a brush cutter that uses three large blades to cut debris up to 1" (that is the manual says, but it will physically cut much more than that). While tall grass is not the main use for this attachment cutter deck, it does a very fine job and knocking the growth down. If you wanted a manicured finish you should follow up with a finish mower deck (but this will add time and expense to the project most folks don't want, especially folks who let it go wild for a year at a time. They just want it knocked down).

String trimming with the same TORO 60 volt power base (just with the string trimmer attachment swapped for the edger) around the trees, fence line, and curb add the finishing touches to the property, and a final blow off which wasn't filmed gets all the debris off the street.

Loading the tractor onto the Stryker deckover heavy equipment trailer was the last thing to do before some after shots of the job and then editing the video came next!

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