I'm Aaron Graber with Ventrac and in this video we're doing a spring work day.
It's typical that a large rural property like this will need a bunch of different things done coming
out of winter heading into the spring months. This video is a good example of what it looks like to
use a Ventrac to tackle all of these spring jobs and why our equipment is superior for those tasks.
As everybody knows mulching can be a huge hassle. It's just a lot of work, typically it means a lot
of shovels and hand work. Wheelbarrows. A lot of bodies to help get that work done.
The Ventrac allows you to move a lot of mulch quickly but also not do damage to the terrain
underneath the tractor. So that grass is nice, we're coming out of spring. The ground is still
a little bit wet, but everything looks really good. If you tried to drive a large tractor or a skid
loader or something like that across that yard you would absolutely destroy it and cause more
work for yourself after the fact cleaning that up. We're also able to get in and out of tight spaces,
over landscaping features, and around areas that other bigger equipment couldn't get into.
With the bucket out front of the tractor, it also provides the ability of the operator
to place the mulch carefully in very fine locations. This minimizes hand work
and creates a lower time overall for the job to get done. The Ventrac provides the perfect balance
between capability and maneuverability. It can lift a lot of material and move it around effectively
and it can get in and around things easily like a small piece of equipment can.
Here at Ventrac we hear from contractors all the time in our industry how mulch jobs are
just painful they take forever, they're annoying to do. It's just one of those things that people
don't enjoy doing very much as a contractor. But then we also hear from people who use a
Ventrac and a bucket to do them that they actually start to enjoy it. It's faster, it's easier to do,
it creates a better product for the customer, and it's something they can
provide a lot better service for once they get a Ventrac in and power bucket.
And just like every other Ventrac video after the first job it's not the end of the video. You
can take that same piece of equipment and move on to another part of the property. So here's
an example of where you're taking that tractor that does an incredible job protecting the turf
and doing really intricate work with the mulch. And after that doing something very difficult for even
heavy equipment to do. This homeowner had a lot of gravel dropped off to add gravel to the driveway
this year, and the tractor is able to pick it up with a bucket, spread it around, and then after that,
use landscape rake to easily and quickly level that area out and get it all ready to drive on.
Here at Ventrac we're pretty famous for reconditioning gravel driveways with a power rake,
but on this property, it wasn't necessary. There weren't any potholes in the driveway,
and the homeowner didn't want to disrupt the base that was already there.
Even on a gravel driveway if you're using equipment like a compact tractor or a skid loader
it's very easy to do damage to the job as you're working on it.
You'll leave small ruts from turning or skidding around, and that's something that just takes time
to fix. As you're done, the Ventrac doesn't have that same problem because it articulates to
turn. We don't have any issues causing damage while we're working which speeds everyone up
immensely. Most importantly if you were using one of those bigger heavier machines for this job,
it wouldn't be the machine you could have used for the mulch prior. That would require you to have
multiple machines on the trailer. Maybe multiple trucks on the job, and more bodies on hand to help.
The second attachment that we used to help relocate that gravel after we moved it around
with the bucket was our landscape rake. And the landscape rake is awesome for this. Typically
you'd have that behind a machine. You'd have to be looking behind you in order to use it.
It just makes it much harder to maneuver. Much harder to work with.
Our landscape rake is on the front of the tractor. It gives perfect visibility to the operator
and it helps the job get done in the most efficient way possible.
The fourth and final attachment that we used on this job was the finish deck.
And that's pretty much unheard of to take a machine to do those first two jobs and then
use that exact same machine to then mow the yard. It was the last thing we did on that day,
and we did it to make sure we did the final cleanup passes really make the
property look nice, and do that final mowing to add some stripes to the yard.
Make the property look awesome before we left. It's just not something that's going to be possible
with a skid loader or a tractor or anything else that has the ability to do those first two jobs.
It really ties in the magic of using the Ventrac for a whole property solution.
You have everything that you need to be able to go out and do all of the hard tough jobs.
And everything that you need to do all the jobs that make the property look truly beautiful as
well. A pro tip from this video - if you're mowing your yard and you're trying to accentuate the
stripes, if you do a second pass in the same direction and double cut it, looks even better.
If we really wanted to load the trailer down, we could have brought a tiller to do the garden,
an aerator for the yard, maybe an edger for the driveway. There's an endless list of tasks that
Ventrac can do on a property, and again, same machine. Same operator. All on the same trailer.
That does it for this video. Hopefully you enjoy the footage of the Ventrac working.
And as always, if you have any questions about using a Ventrac on a property like this,
leave them in the comments below. We'll be sure to get back to you. Also, if you
want to check out our equipment hit the website at Ventrac.com.
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