After I opened up the box and
put the Sunjoe
dethatcher machine together
first thing I did
was
I mowed the lawn
as short as I could get it
with the lawn mower
once I completed mowing the lawn
then it was time to dethatch
the lawn
I am using the Sunjoe
on level
five
for the first pass
with the metal rake
installed
now on this first pass I did use the bagger
but I quickly found that the bagger
is really too small
to do more than one and a half passes with this machine
so
I decided to
remove the bagger and just use the machine without the bagger
so being a newbie
at doing this
I went ahead and just raked the sidewalk
by hand
this is one pass
and you can see how much dead grass has come out of there
I am very impressed with that machine
although I just started using it
I am going to give it
one more pass
on negative five
and call it
good for the power rake
or what some people call the dethatcher
second pass is complete
you see how much dead grass is in there
their is some
green grass
but there is a ton of dead grass
I been living here about
14 years
and never
dethatched the lawn
and as you can see it is not looking that great
but
I think its going to be a big improvement
just this little section of sidewalk
its about
five feet wide
and about
30 feet deep
I got this pile right here
of dead
grass
and its about 2 feet by 3 feet
and about 2 feet high
I can't believe I had that much dead grass in there
I will be dethatching
the front lawn
in the same
way that I did the side walk
so the first pass
is on height adjustment level 5
after I did this first pass
I started thinking
maybe I can use the lawn mower
to pick this up
and I got to say
it did a pretty good job picking up most of the dead grass
and it was easier
than hand raking
here is the second pass
with the Sunjoe set at height level
negative 5
after I am done with the second pass
again
I used the mower to pick up all the dead grass
so the front yard
is done
with the power rake
I got that from the sidewalk
recycling barrel
is half full
just from the front yard
now that I am done with the power rake
I am going ahead and remove those two screws
on the right side of the rake
once those screws are removed
the rake will slide right out
now you take the scarifier
put it in the same way you took out the rake
or dethatcher
and then you just put those two bolts back in
being careful not to over tighten those
remember
this whole machine is plastic
last thing you want to do
is strip out one of those bolts
now that the scarifier
is installed
on the Sunjoe
I am going to give it one more pass
on height level negative 5
once the final pass is complete, again
I take the mower
and I use it to pick up any dead grass that's on the lawn
and then
I do a final rake by hand
to get everything that's left behind by the mower
so now that the dethatching is done
I am going to go ahead
and drop some seed
now this seed
is a three in one
from Scotts
it has the seed, fertilizer and soil improvement
I will be using setting number 9 on the spreader
that's according to the directions
and I am going to spread some seed on this and hopefully
in a months time
(laughing) it will look a lot better than it does right now
from now on I'll be watering this twice a day
because it is fall
and the weather is nice and cool now
so I figure twice a day I should be good to go
just do a little walk through here
get a good look at the grass, It looks worst than what it was
but
that was all dead grass that was in there
and it was pretty much choking out
the grass I do have
I'm kinda wondering if I didn't destroy the lawn but I think in
a months time this is going to look fantastic
I really do believe that
I've had this lawn since I've owned the house, 14 years
and its never been
dethatched
ya its looking pretty bad man
I got this thing down, down to bare dirt
hopefully that Scotts seed, that three in one seed
will do a good job in filling in and
man I don't know we'll see in a month
(laughing) alright
well here is the sidewalk, its been a month and a week
looks really good
this one looks even better
compared to what it was
look how nice that looks
now the front yard is coming in nicely
I still have some spots here and there
that I have to reseed
I did lay the seed down
and it appears that the birds got quite a bit of it
every time I came outside their was a ton of (laughing)
birds eating the seed that I laid down
so what I'll do is I'll put down another application of grass seed
and see if it takes
and here is the back yard
and this looks fantastic
compared to what it looked like before
check it out
their are some areas here
that are shady areas
these have always been problem areas for me
I got to say overall
the Sunjoe
dethatcher machine
is a great buy
fantastic what that little machine did for my lawn
I am very happy with it
you all take care
God bless
and I'll see you on the next one
bye, bye