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- Welcome to another Premier Lawns video.
I have a bit of a cold today
so my voice is probably a bit funny.
This was a three day job.
Didn't take us three whole days to do it.
We came in an afternoon
and we did the front lawn.
The weather was amazing the day we came,
the first day we came
and the grass was really dry,
hadn't rained for a couple of weeks.
You see there's just loads comes out in a single pass.
I've been doing this lawn for many years for this customer.
We just come once a year,
and we do the scarifying and aerating.
And then a weed and a feed then,
they just like the lawn looking well
for over the summer period.
This year, we just did the one pass.
As I say, I was more than happy with what came out.
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As I've talked about in other videos
that the Husqvarna, the 580,
it's the biggest Husqvarna blower,
absolute beast of a machine.
Quite heavy but whenever it comes to scarifying,
it's definitely up there with the best blowers.
It just moves so much material.
So, so quick.
The front section of this lawn's
about four or 500 square meters.
We managed to get it aerated, scarified
and lifted in a couple of hours,
just 'cause the lawn was so dry
and the stuff just so nice to work with
whenever it's like this.
Me with a rake in my hand for once.
The big hessian bags are perfect for this operation.
Whenever you're gathering up stuff,
two man team's so much quicker.
We just put our foot on either corner of the bag
and then kick it in.
Off this front lawn we took eight or nine full bags
of thatch and moss off this lawn.
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So unfortunately on day two,
the night before was very heavy, there was a lot of rain.
The ground was still pretty firm,
but the grass itself was a lot wetter,
a bit more water in the sword
and you can really see the change
in the color of the grass coming out.
It's a lot darker and wetter.
This makes it a lot harder to deal with
when the core's on the lawn as well.
It just takes longer to clear it up.
We also had young Daniel for the last two days of the job.
Aye, this is Daniel's last week with us.
He's hopefully enjoyed his time with Premier Lawns.
I've enjoyed teaching him and showing him new stuff.
The back lawn's getting double scarified,
just to try and get as much thatch out of it as possible.
With the machine in mind, the Eliet 501,
if you went over a lawn any more,
there'd be very little of it left,
so it's about trying to match up the client's expectations
to what the machine then could do.
After we're finished this lawn,
we put the iron down
or I sprayed it with the iron to tackle the moss.
I'm gonna do another video, a separate video,
on when to do the moss
and why you should do it at different times.
Be quite a bit of controversy to when you should do it
and why you should do it
so I thought it would make a good video.
We're now onto day three of the job,
we're just here to do the weed and feed.
Young Daniel, this is his last day with me.
He's put out the fertilizer
and I'm coming behind him spraying for weeds.
As you can see the lawn's pretty dark
from all the iron that was sprayed.
In a couple of weeks time
it's gonna be a lovely rich green color.
Well that's us coming to the end of the video.
Thanks for watching.
If you just stick around at the end,
there's a picture of how the lawn usually looks
whenever all the work's done.
So we finished up work early today,
and took young Daniel out for a beer
and some lunch to thank him for all his hard work.
And I wish him all the best in his career in horticulture.
I'm sure he'll do very well.