Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside so we have a very fun delivery happening right
now so I thought it would be really fun to do a nice little video showing you uh the newest
addition to the Creekside of family and yes we just got back from the beach about an hour
ago hence I am still in my beach attire and Beach hair no makeup had a glorious time at
the beach and but we had to come back we were already planning on coming back but we hurried
on down the road so that we could be here when the delivery arrived and it is back here over
my corner of my shoulder so let me show you exactly what is happening as you know we are
Creekside Nursery in Dallas North Carolina we are a grower retailer meaning that we grow our
plants we sell them here at our retail location in Dallas and we also do landscaping services
so not only will we do landscaping for customers we can do complete installs and rip outs and the
whole the whole thing of course we have tons of projects here at the house and the nursery as well
Jerry and Jackson have been eyeballing a new piece of equipment for quite some time now and
it has arrived today so you might be able to tell that here on the trailer is a new Bobcat excavator
as Andrew just said this is Jackson's best day of his whole life because he has been wanting
Jerry to get an excavator for a very long time and so here it is so this is the Bobcat this is
the e35 and it is a nice narrow Bobcat so that it can fit into lots of tight spaces
Jackson could give you all of the details on this and I probably will get him to give give a rundown
here in it in just a little bit but the great thing about this is that it is a small footprint
so I do know enough to know that right here so the cab of the Bobcat does not extend past the
tracks so as long as the tracks can go in to that space then the cab will fit and be just fine then
also I do not know the technical terms we're going to get Jackson to help me here in a little bit and
explain all the technical terms is that when you spin the rear end is not going to take something
out it shouldn't take things out all right so do you want to give us the rundown Jackson
please please just tell me just talk to me and tell me about the machine because you
know all the specs so just tell me okay give me all the specs like what attachments did we
get well we got a 12 inch bucket a thumb 24 inch bucket and then it has Heating and Air
it's got the blade on front it's 25 horsepower 25 horsepower and it's about
70 inches wide for sure 190 inches is that with like with it curled up uh you don't
know okay all right perfect so is this the one where the tracks can go in and out yeah
the E10 can go through a door can go through a door okay right so uh Jerry was very particular
about this as far as because you can get the e35 without the cab and the doors but if you are a
southerner or if you are a landscaper and you landscape in late summer you know how important
it is is to be protected when you are out ripping out that landscape so the Landscaping um portion
of this because we do have as Jerry says this is the time of year where all the critters are out to
kill you so whether it is yellow jackets that we deal with a lot which are a type of of wasp that
they have their nest in the ground so you a lot of times you're not going to see them you're not
going to see a visible nest because it's they're in the ground so you're ripping out plants and
next thing you know you're in the middle of a Yellow Jacket's nest and yellow jackets
are very very mean and aggressive they just they will literally chase you so if that happens when
you're in the machine it's no big deal they can be swarming all around you and you're nice and
protected so for the protection of like the yellow jackets and wasps and hornets and and anything
else that you might be exposed to if you were not in a cab very important and then of course the uh
the Comfort level because it does have Heating and Air in there so if you're going to be in a
cab you're going to have to have air conditioning this time of year in the South and so that way
you can literally work all day long and be very comfortable and get lots of work done
as Jackson was telling us we have two different size buckets on it you have the thumb and so the
thumb I'm trying to stay out of the way here the thumb is the piece that goes up and so you call
it a thumb because it'll go up and down and so against the bucket and so it can pinch things
and then wear our Bobcat friend is standing there is also a a blade a plow whatever you
want to call it it is there as well so we're gonna get this baby off and unloaded and yeah
notice that the um all of my fellas are very interested in this so all the guys
are here hanging out all the girls are like yeah okay whatever Alyssa was like
I'm out of here I'm going home see y'all in the morning all right let's just watch
all right so Jackson is in the machine and he is going to give us a little bit of a rundown
on how everything goes and operates and all some of the fun pieces of this machine now he
does not have a microphone on so we're going to do our best to have him talk into the camera and
um yeah we'll we'll do our absolute best here so all right my man so talk nice and loud since you
don't have it on the microphone and tell us about it all right so these are your track controls so
it's pretty basic you know pull back go backwards forward you go forward that way turn that way I'd
love to turn that way so this one controls that track this month when control that track so when
you start up the machine which passcode especially when you have crank it then you put this down this
is like your safety if I have this up I can't do anything oh nothing moves as soon as I push it
down everything moves so this is uh I don't know which one's which I'm pretty sure this one is Boom
controls the main part that pulls it up and your bucket curl so you can throw that away your arms
your arm so you push forward yarn goes that way back keep it that way and then that way the whole
cab will shift um I would hope shift this is your thumb control it's that little mini grapple on
there push it over there it will start to squeeze push it out it opens up this which is really nice
for landscaping is the whole arm oh boom and everything a little turn by itself but your cab
won't move so you'll just be looking at like that while you're scooping and then your right here
this little stick is your blades or single bag the blade comes up push forward play goes down and
then this is your window shield thing so you can pull it back do you get a lot back no huh and then
down now it's not going anywhere but you have to be careful with that so it doesn't snag
yeah Perfect all right so here in a minute we're going to get you uh get it cranked up
get things moving around here so I'll let you and your daddy duke it out as to who gets to uh
who gets to operate it first oh there goes the finger
and out he comes so of course uh Jerry gets first dibs you know he's he's Daddy and he's the one
that's paying for it so he gets to go first but Jackson is the one giving the instructions so he's
giving his telling his daddy on how things operate and how to work it Jackson has used
next video before right and he's really good at using all the different controls
uh he is super super excited about this as you can probably tell and uh
Jerry is learning because the controls are all new to him so we'll just watch
all right my friends so Jerry's currently giving Jackson the speech of you do not operate this
without my permission because oh my gosh this boy would live in this excavator if we let him
I was asking um I said does this thing have lights because oh my gosh if it has lights
like I I'll never see him like he'll be in it from Sun up till you know he's absolutely dead
exhausted but thankfully it doesn't have like big operating lights so sun goes down he's got
to come in the house Andrew is in there taking it for a spin right now because of course using it
primary purpose you know is for landscaping and then of course Landscaping projects here at the
house and the nursery um we will um all of them need to know how to use it because Andrew is in
he's our Landscaping manager so he is the fella that does all of the landscaping and in charge
of that so there's gonna be a little bit of just kind of quote playing with it here at the
nursery so that they can get used to it be very proficient in and become great operators with it
but this is just one of those you know as a business you have to get the necessary
tools to make those jobs easier faster more efficient and more productive and this is one
that definitely is going to fit that bill in fact Andrew was working on a a really
great big huge project currently right now on a very very mature garden where the homeowner
wants to basically start from scratch so he is in there pulling out all sorts of
plants that have just they just they just have to come out in order for the New Garden to go in it
is a very very tight space this machine will be perfect for that because it's a footprint it's
quite small compared to you know an excavator land and it is you can stay in one spot and work so you
know in a 360 degree all the way around you so everybody is going to be working on this getting
their hands on it and lots of projects are going to get done here at the nursery we're not going to
walk all the way down there but I wanted to show you one thing for example because people sometimes
when you come to Creekside you're like you know well where is the creek we have a beautiful Sleepy
Little Creek that cuts our property just right down the center so right here we are and you can
probably see the water reflecting right there that is our Creek like I said right now it's a
beautiful Sleepy Little Creek but when we get those big rains it does Roar throughout on the
signature Garden side we will have a lot of the same trees that are here and without my goal is
that of course being the signature Garden this is a great spot to have shade areas but we've got to
get what I call the junk trees out of there the excavator will be wonderful in doing that because
you can easily you know be parked and then with the bucket and the thumb pull out these junk trees
now if we've got beautiful tulip poplars like this one this is a what I would call like a you know a
teenager obviously that's going to stay we've got gorgeous Maples and Oaks and tons of tulip
poplars on our property and especially along the creek we want those to shine and grow and flourish
but anything that is the scraggly junk trees weeds this kind of stuff that all needs to come out so
that we can plant of course beautiful other trees other shrubs perennials all those great things to
really highlight the creek bank so that is what initially one of the big projects for this Bobcat
excavator is going to be of course you'll see it in lots of videos coming up but that is the fun
for today yeah my boys are very very excited all the boys here at Creekside Nursery very excited
Christmas came early to them all right my friends as always we so appreciate you thank you for all
your love and support uh thanks for gardening with Creekside we'll see in the next video bye friends
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