I'm Aaron Graber with Ventrac, and today we're mowing overpass next to a highway. The side of the
hill is very steep. It's also a little bit overgrown, it hasn't been taken care of in
a while and we're next to a highway with weird access, so getting here with this machine is
much easier than a larger machine. If there's one machine that's designed to do basically
this exact job, it's a Ventrac. Sometimes we take it for granted because we run these machines
every day, but if you didn't have any idea that this machine existed or you weren't familiar
with them and you showed up and looked at this property, it would actually be a pretty
daunting task. You'd see a lot of challenges that you wouldn't necessarily know how to
accomplish with a traditional piece of equipment.
But just another day in the office for Ventrac.
You'll also notice that today I have a tractor equipped with dual tire chains on every corner of the tractor
and a mid-mount weight kit. This is going to give me the most
possible traction because this is a pretty steep area, and it does have some longer grasses
that when I cut them off we'll be laying in the area that I'm going to be driving over
top of. We also have the Flail Mower because flails are very popular for roadside use in
the side of Highways and it should leave a much nicer finish on this area than if we're
using something like our tough cut or a rough cut mower on another tractor. This is a pretty
simple video. This is a Ventrac in its classic operation on a perfect scenario for it. So
we're going to get it to work. Show you exactly what this machine is all about and all the
advantages of using a ventrac on a property or an area just like this.
When you get a hill this steep, it's always fun.
There's no way around it
so I had fun. And also it didn't take me
nearly as long as I thought it would we thought. Maybe 20 minutes for this section. We probably
got that done in 10 minutes, so I just did the next 30 yards too just because we had
some time so that worked out. The tractor handled beautifully. There's a section over
by the end at the very top that is probably the steepest part of the hill, and
you also have the best vantage point of the highway so that's really a an interesting
spot because you feel like you're at the steepest place but you can also see directly down. So
that was really fun to do. But tractor handled it like a champ, no problems, the chains are
awesome in conditions like this. If you get into like really muddy conditions I'm not
sure that they help cut through that if it's really clay based, but when you have general
mowing conditions like this where it's it's pretty dry, there's a little bit of moisture
in the ground, nothing too crazy. The chains are like Velcro on the hill which makes it
really fun to drive and very stable as well. There's not a whole lot else to say about
this. The flail mower did an incredible job of dicing the material up like I predicted
before. It looks pretty good, and by the time we leave this stuff will all start to disintegrate
and get back into the into the ground in no time at all. This will probably be the only
time I ever tell you to unsubscribe from our channel. If you're this type of person. This
is my least favorite part about mowing next to the road. This used to be a hydration drink,
sports drink bottle. I saw it too late so I turned it into about a thousand plastic
pieces. I'll take this with me as much as I can get I couldn't find any more but if this
is you, if you drive down the road and you just you know I got some garbage just pitch
it out no problem, go ahead and unsubscribe right now. I don't need you. If you do not
like litter subscribe to the channel. That's what we're about, we'll pick up some trash,
we'll mow some stuff down. More videos in the future. Thanks for watching.