My lawn has a sleeper edge the whole way around the outside of it, which is really
good. It means that we can run the lawnmower wheel right up to it, and there's less edging.
However the edges are a little bit untidy, just from they're grown over, so we're going to, I'm
going to show you different methods to tidy this up, plus we've got some
sleeper edges that have been in for too long and they're now starting to desintegrate. So in
today's Video we're going to be replacing those too. Before we start doing any edging,
I'm going to take the lawnmower and cut around the outside so we've a good clean edge to work
from . You can see that this edge here has totally the disintegrated so that's is what
we're going to be replacing. So you can see that effect from whenever you take
the lawnmower over the edge, that's why we want to replace the sleeper.
so as we don't have that. But before we get into that let's get the rest of the garden edged.
You can see with the sleeper dug in most peoples' lawns to have the lawn sitting
above then, they might use clippers, for us a halfmoon edging iron works really wewll.
If you don't fancy any hard work you can just use a strimmer,
however a strimmer is not that clean for doing it.
Another thing is the Milwaukee edger is a really good job. Nice and easy so let's have a go with it.
We've put in a wonky line intentionally - just to show you what not to do! For areas
like this you're going to want to put a line out and mark it out with an edging
Iron cuz you don't want to be left with a mess like this here but it's okay the
reason it did it here is cuz this is the bit we're going to replace with
the sleepers. Milwaukee have a new tool out for the multi-tool system . The reciprocating head.
The reciprocating head. Say for example there was a lot of stones along your
edge, and if you were wanting to strim it the stones would be flying everywhere, with
this tool here it stops those that debris from flying everywhere. Now I'm going to show
you exactly what I mean by the stones, so we'll take some of the stones from our edge and we'll
put them on the thing there and we'll have it go, cut that and we'll see if any fly about the
place. You can see with the reciprocating head we're working right beside those stones, and
they didn't really fly in any direction. So that's what that tool's really for.
So these are B grade sleepers. We could have got A grade sleepers, however they're 70 kilos in weight
and I felt that these ones here will do. These will be in the ground for
as long as I need them. Time to dig that old one out and put this one in.
There you go this one's out .... see, well rotten, not much left of that at all. I think I'm
going to have to pull this one out as well. Just before we get on with doing the rest
of the sleepers, going to tell you quickly about something the last couple of months Jason and
I have been recording another YouTube Channel. Roots to Revenue, and this is the first time
in ages we've done any proper work and this has really taken it out of us! But
if you want to check out Roots to Revenue - I'm going to leave the links down in the Video Description.
So just as Jason finishes off there, let's go and have a look at some of the other
edges around the garden. Right the ones down here I think I've had too many birthdays too, these ones
here look very tired. The problem is the roots from this big tree here make these a complete disaster to do, the same where these ones over here, these ones are actually laid flat cuz the tree roots
were too much to handle. So we're going to have to replace another one here at some point.
I'm a little bit annoyed with myself. Now whenever I bought these sleepers, we happened
to be passing somewhere that sells them. They're really really hard to get here in Northern Ireland,
decent sleepers, so I'm going to leave a Link down below where we picked them up. However we have a
problem, they're just slightly shorter than the three that came out that went back in again so
we're going to be using this fake sleeper, we're going to put this, we're going to put this fake
sleeper in cuz we couldn't source one of the the proper sleepers, so I'm going to put this in up
the top here where it's not really noticeable and this one's in a bad way anyway, it's leaning
off to the side and it's sitting, and it's raised up so we're going to rip this one out, put this
one in and then put them all down there. Have our line down there, just to see how far we are out, and it
looks pretty straight, but we're going to dig this one out now. We've got Bella again helping us out today.
That's oh that's going to take a bit of going over - go ahead .
Going to say this is above my pay grade so I've brought my dad out. So we've dug around that root
and it's pretty big. Jason you want to put the tape measure into it just to show the
viewer? And we have this tree here and we think that if we take the tree if we take
this root out, then we might lose, we might lose the tree in the not so distant future so ......
I know some of you are going to be saying, "Robbie, why are you using sand?." The lawn's actually built
out of 70 30, which is 70 sand and 30 soil so that's what we're going to use. Plus I have a shed full of it!
All right. So what we were thinking of doing, was cutting, cutting here, and here, and cutting
a section out for it to slot over, but after a think, we're now going to cut
it at an angle so it fits in to this edge and this edge, and then just put uh a blank
over the top of it. The reason we're putting the blank on and cutting this up is because
that root is going to move over time, and then it will probably eventually rot this if it was touching.
I'm just cutting this edge here off to fill in this at that height.