Dethatching Made Easy! Dethatch Yourself and Save $$$!

all right we're not laying down on the job we're just getting a close look up at the grass we're getting ready to dethatch stay tuned i'll show you d-fashion is very important if you've got a really thick yard and and all the great dead grass lays on the bottom because when you go to plant new grass seed the seed will actually lay on top of the grass it won't germinate so really you're wasting your time planting new seed if you don't get that thatcher and get down where the grass seek and actually get to the dirt and that's what we're going to do today is try to get that undergrowth out and get it so we can actually get the seed to germinate and come nice green grass in this and then spring next spring will be beautiful all right let's get going here we go i've got a nice green healthy lawn almost too healthy it is so thick when you walk on it it's like walking on carpet it's so thick down here you just kind of just kind of cushion yourself and sink into it right here but the reason why is because it's got uh a lot of undergrowth on it too you stop anywhere open it up like this and you can see the underneath here is just kind of like a lot of dead growth underneath and i'm afraid when i paint the grass this is the fall and normally in the fall i plant grass and fertilize it but is the grass eagle reach to reach down to the ground i don't think it will with all that in it right there so what i want to do is kind of de-thatch that get all this old growth out and then get it ready for new seed all right this is what we're gonna be using i hope anyway it works i have never done it before but what this is is a dethatcher it's got little springs in here what they do is they dig into the ground right here now grab this undergrowth right here pick it up like that see all this on here that's what you want to get out right there all that underground here where it's uh where the grassy can actually get to the ground clear it up a little bit uh i got a couple cinder blocks laying out for some weight we might just go back to one i don't know we'll see how it works out um but then what we're gonna do is try to pull it up with this and then just kind of rake it up and pick it up maybe the lawnmower will get a lot more to suck it up all right let's give it a try real quick see how it does [Music] all right looks like it's doing a great job just picking all this old grass out of here and you see right now i have to rake all that up but look at that it's coming up good i like it uh it looks like it's gonna take multiple passes in it but that's what i want to get out of that stuff right there off the bottom so that grass seed can actually get down to the dirt when i throw it down here i see it coming up pretty good though all right let's make some more passes through here see if we can't go ahead and get some more of it pulled out i might have to take uh could take a couple passes in both directions i think usually have a problem look at this we got so much stuff in here starting to make it right up higher all the things this thing is catching the heck out of it look at this i got a whole bag full right there i actually went back across the lawn and actually picked it back up might be a way to pick it up some but look at this actually went back and forth two different directions it's got a piles of stuff everywhere so i'm gonna go ahead and get this up and then we're going to do it again and again if we have to get all that dead grass from underneath so when we plant this grass seed it's gonna go right to the ground and get rooted fast all right let's let's break all this up and get going look at that that thing i can't believe how much you packed up in there all right we break up six good piles of dead grass that came out underneath this grass and we got a long way to go yet we'll go ahead and pick these up run the thatcher again but then we're gonna do a little trick we're actually gonna use the lawn mower just to suck it up and just keep going over and over and over i bet y'all have ten bags of undergrowth out of this yard full stone before we put the grass seed down all right well let's go ahead and get this grass up and uh run the thatcher again and then we'll get the uh blade going and the bagger so we can bag it up all right all right i think pass two actually pulled up more dead grass in the first pass unbelievable look at this right here it is just packed oh my god look at this this pack in here so thick i think the lawnmower's riding up i got a bag a bag of grass right here in my lawnmower look at this oh my god i can't believe how much it's picking up it is yanking that stuff right out look at that that is amazing this whole thatcher is working good i'm i was kind of surprised i wasn't sure how it would work but uh it's doing good it's actually um that came off the back of it right there just bags and bags of digress underneath this grass like i said it's always felt really really actually almost feels a little better already just walking on it because before it's real spongy real real thick thick i'm thinking i'm getting that dead grass out from so when i paint the seed it'll come up nice and clean look at all the pops all right we're gonna rake this up one last time and then we're gonna take a long do my secret method just sucking it up with the lawnmower and that thing will be boy he'll be ready all right hold tight we're gonna finish up a little bit all right that's six more piles of undergrowth out can you believe it and that's only the beginning wait till we get this lawnmower out and start sucking it up with the bag you're gonna be surprised i'm telling you it's at least a couple more bags full we got two of those full bags that there's a little small front yard but we'll have over i bet you 10 to 15 before we're done because the great the lawn mower will actually suck it right up uh the stuff that's sorry loose you look at it and see how much it's actually loosen the ground now it'll suck all that up all right all right for this final step in our dethatching process we use a secret method well that's not too secret but anyway we're going to use a lawnmower and we're going to suck it up with the bagger you are not going to believe how much it's going to come up now that we've got it broke loose in the ground if you don't do this you're still a lot of her laying there still in there this is going to suck up all that just got loosen it it didn't pick it up but it got loose wait to see how much comes out you are going to be surprised all right let's get going i've only gone two rows around the entire yard look at this it is packed in there already this stuff is so loose in the ground it is sucking it up left and right i will gonna pack that down and uh get up some more i hope all right we got 12 bags full of undergrowth and counting we're getting ready to start another run here but as you can see it's looking good that grass is gonna be looking good this spring um right now we're gonna go keep going over you still see a lot of little tiny pieces still on the ground it's gonna still pick a lot of that up and i'll probably fill at least two to four more bags up just to loose stuff and it's still sucking up the loose stuff underneath that dethatch and has gotten loose on there so all right we're going to keep getting up and see how many more bags we can get i want to get as much as i can out from underneath this growth so when the seed gets on hand with water it goes down to the dirt and seeds okay here we go all right this is the last two bags of dead undergrowth out of the yard we'll have 14 bags of undergrowth out of this yard right just small yards not very big and that's amazing that's going to make that seed get right down to the dirt and i've got this mission make sure when you're picking up the stuff with the lawnmower go slow go real slow and it sucks up a lot better don't go too fast all right i think that's going to do it for this video now we got to go up to lowe's and get us some fescue 31 grass seed and some fertilizer and then go to town on that so anyway that's the next step all right appreciate everybody coming along please click like comment below share and subscribe to the geek master all [Music] [Applause] right

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Length: 8min 26sec (506 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 23 2018