Great videos! You're diligent with your lawn which motivates me too. Thank u for sharing ur process. I get to admire ur work by watching. Its nice, simple & great music. Good luck with the grass!

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Okami 🙏🏼

I just wanted to say thank you so much not only for this fantastic video, but your replies in these comments. Building the leveler and getting my lawn right has helped me immensely during this quarantine. Thank again!

i've been spreading lawns for many years and i love those hand spreaders so much more when i can use them.

Like your DIY-levelling tool!

I would sell my soul for a lawn which looks as good as this one before the treatment xD

One of the best videos on any subject on You Tube. To the point, great music, good information. Thank you for not wasting our time. Just the right length too.

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏼

Good idea on the DIY levelling jig, those lawn leveling rakes are eyewateringly expensive.

Amazing lawn! You're an inspiration 🙂

This 4 part lawn repair video is the best on KZread by far.

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏼

Your yard is super nice very neat Excellent Tips

Great videos! You're diligent with your lawn which motivates me too.

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks and you’re pretty good at what you do as well 👍🏼

@justinfielding

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCutLawn glitch in the matrix?

Thumb up for DIY tool! Great video

That water pressure! 😯

Just got done watching all 4 segments. Very well done! Just finishing up stage 1, sunjoe also. Stage 2 of your video helped me decide on my lawn leveling strategy! I'm also switching to KBG. Going for the lower cut lawn look now. Plus, KBG has great repair qualities that TTTF doesn't!! Tenacity is something I use as a post/pre emergent anyway. A very good product. Again, great job and good tips!

@ShortCutLawn

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eddy! KBG is a heck of a grass especially at lower height of cut, best of luck with your project 👍🏼

Great video neat and clean process,

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍🏼

Thanks for good job. Your grass it look nice

I really like your drag idea! I was gonna have a cinder block or my dumbells on a 2×4 on a cardboard!

Watching you mix that sand and dirt. I had to use 45 yards of compost/sand/soil mixture to level my yard. I was lucky the supplier could mix that up at their yard before delivery. I paid some guys a “day” rate for their services. Took a few days but they got it all out there and pretty level. I mainly did mine to provide better nutrient base for my zoysia grass. Lawn topping is under rated for a great looking yard.

1 MILLION VIEWS!!! 👌👌👌👌🥇🥇🥇🥇 that's mad lol congratulations my friend 👍

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob! This is my one-hit wonder video 🥇 😁

@devon_rjh_photography9349

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCutLawn well wish I could get a 1 hit wonder lol

You have a nice yard , good job 👍

Good work ethic on your yard man keep it going

Wow Amazing Hard work

If you live near DENTON, Texas the municipality here sells pre mixed compost. This makes for easy application. Good video.

Awesome bro haha 👍

wow dude awesome!!!

Здорово придумал!!!!!!!!! Спасибо за идею!!!!!!!!!

Mine next? Lol. Thanks for posting this vid. Ive been needing to do the same.👍

Great video

GREAT VIDEO!~

This is good stuff. Great tip. Done something similar but not to this extreme. You got it dude!

This is going to look even better this year! Loving it 💚

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

I hope so 🙏🏼🙂

Great video. I'm going to do exactly what you did. Thank you

Clever Tools applied

Good Stuff 🙏👌

Your KGB Turf looks Amazing!

Blackbelt Work Brother, Thank You So Much, 👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸

@ShortCutLawn

3 жыл бұрын

👊🏼😎

I dig the drag

A push broom would have been great for getting the soil & sand into the bottom layers of the lawn and exposing more grass blades. Nice work though. A nice lawn is definitely a labor of love. I recently seeded a Zenith Zoysia lawn and used a drag mat to level my lawn before seeding, but I still have some top dressing to do next year in a few spots.

great lawn before, I'd like to see a photo now 9 months on. But I think a mechanical dirt spreader would have made a more even job.

4.12 I think the technical name for the mini-drag is a "Lute" go down your local hire centre and ask for the weekend rate on a Lute for your lawn and watch bewilderment. I asked for a "Tariff" once and the guy said "What does it do?" I responded with "It tells you fee for each tool hire per day etc."

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

👍🏼

Dad Level: Expert Achievement✅

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

👍🏼

Nice editing

What a project!!

Use a chain link fence 6' x 6' works great.

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

I just looked it up, i think i like it 👌🏼

Sweet I think I need to do this to level newly seeded lawn

Nicely done! 👌

Nice!!!

Thanks man. Good shut.

Just FYI, most material yards will mix materials for you with their loader if you ask. Save your back. Nice video 👍🏻

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

That’s good info Mark 👌🏼 thanks.

What border edging do you use / have? Looks neat and sturdy good bends on it. Great vid dude and your mini drag is bang on. 👍🏼

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matthew, it’s called Bend-a-board got it from HomeDepot www.homedepot.com/p/1-in-x-4-in-x-20-ft-Teak-Brown-Bend-A-Board-100059386/203875472

Excellent! I'm excited tio do the same 😃

dang you make it look so easy. I just put down sand over 2500 and Im beat.

Awesome someone with as much maybe more energy then me 👍🏻.and also a perfectionist. I wish I had that flat bed to bring the compost mixture 🤔😆

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Alright 😁👍🏼

Coming up to 950,000 views, hats off to you shortcut 👍👍🥂🥂🥂

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Just hit 951K, that’s crazy 😳 thanks Rob 🙂👍🏼

@devon_rjh_photography9349

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCutLawn something tells me someones shared this video on some gardening site somewhere in the world as it's certainly gone viral!! 👍👍 all credit to you my friend

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve never thought about that but that’s a possibility, started with one share and it snowballed from there. This video single handedly brings traffic to my channel.

@devon_rjh_photography9349

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCutLawn is funny how one video can totally change a channel 👍👍 anyways Merry Christmas to you and your family, hope you have a great and safe Holiday period 🎄🎄

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and your family as well 🎄

I would be worried that I would suffocate the seeds top dressing over w soil. I will be leveling then applying seed. Making good soil contact with you great idea of the board.

Great technique. Awesome job.. would you tell me what kind of sprinklers you using for watering?

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Arturo 👍🏼 I’m using Rain Bird 4” pop up sprinkler heads.

Enjoy watching other people who care about their lawn as much as I do.

@bmc5180

5 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way. My wife thinks I'm crazy, but I could watch yard work videos all morning, then go out and do yard work all afternoon.

Thanks for the video. Very precise and detailed. What does the plaster sand do? Is it a must for good results?

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks,...sand is for leveling only, it has no effect on the overall health of the grass.

Great job👍

I like seeing the drag in action I was wondering if something like that would work but I wasn't sure

Looks good, here's where i go different. Instead of shoveling dirt onto the lawn try throwing it at a good angle, it spreads itself evenly believe it or not.. Might sound like a lot of work but its actually quicker and you get near perfect coverage. You avoid raking afterward which you dont want to do if you just spread an even amount of grass seed. With the hand throwing method just stand with the wheel barrel beside you and dont move till your done the whole area 360 degrees around you, then move the wheel barrel ahead 10 or 15 feet and do it again. finish, turn on sprinklers and your done. You dont want to rake afterwards cause you just move way to much seed around and you dont have to use you drag behind thing cause ...well...its spread perfect. Master the throw and you'll change your ways i promise. Ill make a video one day. Nice lawn btw

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

You sound passionate and knows what you’re doing, but i have a feeling you didn’t quite get what i was doing. I can’t blame you, that’s the down side of not narrating verbally, time lapse didn’t help either. One example was the raking, I wasn’t raking it to spread the material, it was to break up the wet crust that was forming on top of the turf. The drags main purpose was to level and spread the material. KBG seeds are so tiny that it’s almost microscopic 🙂 so when you put it down on a turf it goes straight down and gets locked in between the grass plant. Believe me, dragging the material which happens on top doesn’t disturb the tiny grass seeds that are in bottom. If it’s newly seeded bare dirt and you drag, that’s when you have a problem. You seem knowledgeable and thats cool, my video format mislead you a little bit.

Awesome!

Nice! I'm trying to make a decision on what bluegrass I'm going to pick for a little reno this fall.

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Ryan,.. yeah you may wanna check out this Bluebank from seedsuperstore, it’s 4 stars across the board with the exception of shade tolerance. It’s considered “Super Elite” so I don’t think we can go wrong with that 🙂⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Correction: Bluebank is actually 4stars in shade tolerance but 1 on spring green up and 3 in leaf texture. I got mixed up with Regenerate Tall Fescue which I might use on our small front lawn.

That’s a lot of work but then again this is the way to do it.

Great job👌

I need me a wheelbarrow like that one.

any reason, you didn't use a large push broom and push the piles in esp there wasnt much grass? so how many times do you have to do that to build up the organic matter in the foundation of the turf, and what seasons? thanks!

Wow! Awesome video!😎👊☕️

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks George!....This one finally made it to your recommended videos? 😁👍🏼

@Lawnvolution

4 жыл бұрын

ShortCut Lawn yup! I watched it last month and watched again after it was recommended!😎👊

@Lawnvolution

4 жыл бұрын

ShortCut Lawn last year. I meant to write. 😎👊

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm,..so people are getting “re-runs” I guess it’s time to make some new ones! 😂

@Lawnvolution

4 жыл бұрын

ShortCut Lawn hahahaha! Always good to have recommendations. 😎👊 You out out some good content. Keep it going man!🍺

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this, nice work! I'm doing something similar this fall just debating if I should top dress or not (might try peat moss I dont know yet).

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

yeah you can’t go wrong with either one, but for me I mainly use peat moss for new seeding. Thanks for checkin’ out the video 👍🏼

If I've never top dressed and leveled my (bumpy and patchy) yard before does it make more sense to do the overseeding as the last step after top dressing rather than first like you did? Just walking over my yard barefoot I can't imagine I would be able to keep the layer of top dress under .5 inch like you advised and still fill in the low areas.

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

With your situation you have the right idea, go ahead and level it and overseed afterwards it’s perfectly fine. Just make sure you have good seed-to-soil contact, seeds needs to covered and moist for it to germinate.

VERY GOOD VID, liked it. concise and clear. how much for the 5lb of super store seed? thanks cheaper than getting seed at lowes i guess?

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks J 👍🏼 price is a bit more than Lowes and HD, but you’re getting top notch quality.

WOW! How much water pressure do you have at your house? I enjoy your videos.

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. about 75-80psi

Why not use a rotory spreader for the top dressing? Would it not give a more even later?

Excellent idea on the flattening tool. Built one for free and it did an I me iste job. Thanks.

Great video! I have only one question. It's a bag of compost for seven bags of sand, right?

Greetings from England. You've done a super job and a great video of it. What timber is the mini drag made from please? Is it 4 by 2.

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yes it is 4x2

@ukfreedivingbuddies

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCutLawn thank you

very nice work, I admire your videos, by the way the music was very nice; if you don't minde tell me the title song...and sorry for my bad english.

I’m in need of lawn rejuvenating. Great vid. My question for you is why did you not mix the seed with your compost/sand mixture? And I saw briefly you thatched the lawn. What other prep or fertilizing did you do if any? Thanks for sharing!

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

Control and consistency. If you spread the seeds separately you get to put it where you want it, in my case I spread it evenly on the entire lawn. If you mix the seeds with your top dressing you most likely to end up with clumps. In my opinion Mixing only works well when you’re fixing small patches. On this project I didn’t add or use any additional fertilization, just water. - Thanks for checking out my video 👍🏼

@cheek1m0nkey

4 жыл бұрын

ShortCut Lawn thanks for the answer, was also wondering why.

Awesome video. Thank you. What was the cost of this project?

Nice backyard space! Do you have a video on how you made that drag?

@ShortCutLawn

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian! No, I literally built that the same day in under 15mns :) I will be making another next week and hopefully make a video about it. Btw,.. Sub#153 on your channel 😎👍🏼

@BermudaBrian

3 жыл бұрын

Good deal! Thanks for the Sub!!

Graet vedio! Keep up the work👍👏

nice vid and surprised to listen to Bertysolo : )

Where did you go to get the sand and compost? And how much did that cost?

Great video .... just made my own lawn level from your design. Cheers.

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Are you gonna upload a video using it? 😁

Vườn nhà anh đẹp tuyệt vời

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

cảm ơn

@tranthiduyen615

5 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCutLawn ❤️

Hi, great video, what kind of block work retaining wall is in the garden??

@ShortCutLawn

3 жыл бұрын

Its a 16” retaining wall block

What all did you use to build your leveler

your lawn was already pretty much leveled.

Wet sand compost mix? What's that. In Connecticut we just use top soil compost mix or even just top soil if we are just top dressing

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Eric, it was just literally a wet material that I was working with, if I had waited a day or two for the mix to dry off before spreading it would’ve been a lot easier to drag and spread. My initial plan was to add a light layer of sand for leveling, but I went ahead and add compost for added nutrients, we know that plain sand doesn’t hold any nutritional values. I hope that clears it a little bit.

Yes I bought turf.

Bravo magnifique

Very cool! Can't wait to see the results!

I like your patio...

To be honest, if my lawn looked as good as the "before" I'd be happy.

Appreciate 😂

Nice, but was your 8 ton in material not to much for your 1500 sm size?

@ShortCutLawn

4 жыл бұрын

it’s .8 ton, you missed the dot 👍🏼

How long did it take to do that it looks like a lot of work?

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Part 1&2 were shot in one day, may seem a lot of work but it’s a small yard so it was ok. 👍🏼

That’s what we call in Georgia top dressing right

Which spray nozzle you used?

What is the purpose of mixing with compost? Thanks for taking time to share the video. Still learning to work the lawn.

@ShortCutLawn

5 жыл бұрын

Plain sand offers zero nutritional value, and compost is full of good stuff that your grass needs.