I'm Aaron Graber with Ventrac and in this video Ventrac is going to Florida. Unfortunately I
can't be everywhere at all times and so i did not accompany the tractor to this shoot.
But that's why we rely on other professionals to show off the capabilities of this machine in their
local regions. So this shoot does not feature me at all. It features Brad with Copper Creek Cuts.
One of the nice things about Ventrac is that it's suitable for geographic conditions all over the
country and all over the world and so it's nice to show them in different working environments.
For this video we're combining one of Brad's specialties which is overgrown properties
with one of our important specialties which is wet terrain management. And those two come
together to show the capabilities of ventrac in florida when there's a very challenging property
to take care of. So hopefully you enjoy the footage and I will leave it with brad from here.
Hi this is Brad with Copper Creek Cuts. A lawn care company in northeast Florida. Today's job
we are cleaning up an investment property. So we have an abandoned trailer a real estate
investor has purchased this property and they're looking to clean it up for future development.
So what we have is a lot of thicket. It's not going to be anything too challenging for the
ventrac but what we do have is very wet conditions so it'll be nice to see how that handles. We also
have a septic mound. So if you don't know if you are not on city services city water city sewer
you will have a septic mound in your yard. That's a raised mound of dirt that has a tank inside of it
and all your sewer waste will go into there. We're gonna mow that as well. You should never let
anything grow on a septic system because the roots getting down in there it's just bad for everything.
One of the good things about having a lighter machine like the ventrac is if you took a
full-size tractor on that septic mound you could risk compressing it. You could risk
damaging the system underneath. So it's always nice when you can do that with something lighter
rather than something heavier. The brush we have is mainly woody growth. It's not a lot of tall grass.
It's like brambles and things. I don't think the Ventrac is going to have any problem with
it but I'm anxious to see how it handles it. I think my estimate is 30 minutes or less.
But we also can't get any further than five feet in to see what all is in there and the
property does go back away so that'll be 30 minutes with a little asterisk at the end.
You're getting it dirty. I know
Well, I don't want to put it that back that way that's where I'm mowing.
Yeah so this is a whole this is a whole tree that made that little grinding noise.
That might be the biggest part of it.
All right so obviously you can't expect the Ventrac you can't ask it to mow over trees so
we're going to help it out and we've just got some recovery gear that we're going to attach to this
shackle bolt and then we're going to go ahead and pull these out of the way
so the homeowner will deal with those laters but at least this way
we can clean up all the brush like we intended and we won't leave the job looking half finished.
So this is the kind of hand labor that a Ventrac bucket would have prevented.
I couldn't fit it on my carry-on bags.
So that went better than I expected. We did find quite a few I don't know if that was
just over time these trees fell or somebody cut them a long time ago and never took them away.
That was really the only challenge because you saw I had to break out the straps and
and that wouldn't have been a problem except these pieces of log are so
dead that they would just snap in half. So I would say that was the only part that was a challenge.
Because I had to get off of the Ventrac and actually do some work.
But aside from that everything went really well. These ground conditions I've been in similar on
the Ventrac so i knew it could handle it. But it's still really neat to see because before
this Ventrac which I'm new to I've got five years of experience on zero turns. And I know for a fact
my zero turn would not have handled this the way that the ventrac did. And it's really neat
to see when you're just floating over all this stuff that you knew if you just had two zero
turn drive wheels and two casters you'd have been stuck in 30 seconds so I think that's really neat.
Thanks for watching this video. If you want to see more footage of the Ventrac in action in Florida
make sure you check out brad's channel at Copper Creek Cuts on YouTube. And if you want to check
out the rest of the Ventrac videos make sure you keep on our channel on YouTube as well. And check
out our website for any more product information. If you have any questions feel free to visit your
local dealer or ask us a question directly online. We'd be happy to answer it thanks for watching.