Hey folks, it's Josh, Sterny Ridge Farmer. Welcome to the Farm Vlog today. Today is going to be a pretty fun day. We're going to install metal edging around our flower beds here at the house. So I'm finally getting caught up on some of the big projects like over here where we planted grass seed and stuff. And if you haven't seen those vlogs, I'll post links to them at the end of the video. I've got things around the house that need to be caught up. So we're going to get busy on that. We're going to show you how to install this metal edging for your flower beds. And it's pretty cool. They're making it in brown. They make it in green. So come along today. We'll have some fun and make this place pretty. All right. Woo! Stoney Ridge Farmer. Okay, we're in. So guys, before we get started with today's vlog, I want to show you something I'm really proud of. I don't know if you guys follow every vlog, but I bought some seat covers for this Dodge Ram pickup and the seat covers were in horrible shape. We paid $3,000 for this big old 2500 Dodge Ram truck. And we're slowly but surely working on it and getting it to the way I want it. Check out the inside. Man, this thing looks great. Check that out. This is a 99 Dodge Ram truck. And we put the dash cover on here. And you can see there's some cardboard on here. I was fixing up the windshield wipers, but man, the carpet came out nice. This is the new seat cover that we put on. Still got a tear right here in the in the driver's side seat, but man, what a great truck. Now, something that's really funny about this truck. I hadn't cleaned it since we bought it. We've probably had it about, I don't know, two or three months. And guess what? I found a bonus in the truck underneath the seat. Goonies, Grimmlands and Grimmlands too. Rad. So folks, I don't know if you're like me, but I've walked by this stuff. I don't know 200 times. And this is what it is. It's just like a four or five inch metal heavy duty landscape barrier that you could weed eat up against. You could bump with your lawn mower. It's not going to hurt it. And it's basically held in place by little stakes that go in through here. And each piece comes with two stakes on each end. So it comes with four stakes. And what you need to do is break the stakes off with the pair pliers, just the big old pair of pliers. Basically, they just pop off. Hopefully they pop off. There we go. So they just pop off. And then we hammer those in to the little slots. Now you got to be careful. They say wear gloves and the wear eye protection while you're doing this. But basically, these little pieces just lock together. And then these little stakes go into the slots. Pretty cool, pretty simple. Now we'll take you over here and we'll show you the flower bed. All right. Coward. So folks, you can see this flower bed's just kind of all over the place right now. I've got lots of weeds. I've got some lilies coming up. And I've got some pretty azaleas coming up too. But everything's kind of just not looking so good. So this is going to be the start of making it pretty. And basically, we're going to take it back. Now I know a lot of you people may have just bought a house or something like that. And you want to dress up your flower beds and make them look nice. And I really think this stuff looks nice. So to start our end, we're actually going to leave these are the two little stakes here. We're actually going to leave those stakes in. And we're going to start our end right down here. And we'll put this side to the inside. Okay. So the side where the stake goes is going to go toward the flower bed. And the smooth side, which you can see here. See, there's a smooth side. And then there's a raised side. So this side right here will go outward for the lawn mower and the weed eater. So we can weed eat up next to it. Pretty cool. Let's get started. So sometimes the most intimidating part of a good project is just getting started. So I've been meaning to do this for at least two years. When we first put our home here on the farm, I wanted to do this. The tools you're going to need are nice big pair of pliers. I'm using a rubber mallet. And maybe we can use a rubber mallet. We may have to get a metal mallet. I'm not sure. And you can use, I have a saw saw, a Dewalt saw saw or reciprocating saw. But you can just use a hacksaw. You need eye protection and protection for your hands. You need some gloves. I'm probably not going to wear gloves for most of this. But I may use gloves if I see fit. I'll let set our tools over here out of the dirt. And we'll get a start. We'll get our first piece here. And basically I want to line this up with my flower bed edge. Okay. It would probably help to have Mrs. Stoney rage here to help me. But it's okay. We'll get it done. I want to match it up with my sidewalk right here. And I know that I'm going to be extending my flower bed out this way a little bit. Which leaves me a little bit more room for plant and flowers and stuff like that. Alright. So we've got our first little section lined up right here. I'll bring the camera in closer so you can see. So here's our first little section. And we're basically just going to line it up with the sidewalk. And we're going to knock this little stake in. Pretty simple. And we're going to go ahead and we're going to knock the second stake in. And we want to make sure that it's nice and straight and level up and down. So we kind of give her a little twist and make sure she's good. And then we'll move on down this way. Folks, this stuff couldn't be more simple. Okay. So we're just going to drive our stakes in. And basically we want to make sure that we're in a good spot here. Okay. A good level spot. We don't want it to go up and down, up and down, up and down like that. So you may want to take a little shovel with you in order to straighten out your flower bed too. That'll kind of help. Or you can just take your hands and break back a little bit. And that'll be fine too. Okay. We'll take our stake, drop it in, and tap our stake down. Pretty simple stuff. Pretty cool. At this point, we're going to go ahead and we're going to get all of our pieces and we're going to lay them out throughout the yard here and get started. Rock and roll with this thing. Get moving. Now ladies, you might be watching this thinking, hmm, that stuff seems too heavy. It's really not all that heavy. I'd say each piece probably weighs somewhere in your neighborhood of, I don't know, 8 to 10 pounds. So it's really not all that heavy for folks who can't live really heavy stuff. You can handle it. Don't worry. So we're to our next section right here. And basically we're going to take and break loose our little stakes that come with this package and just bend them back. That's pretty simple. This is the only thing that requires a little bit of strength. You have to have a little strength in your hands. You break them off and then we'll lay them up here where they go. This little piece goes underneath. It kind of locks into place here. Let's get you close up. So this is the first piece we laid down and here is the second piece. And basically they just ride right on top of each other and then you take your stake and you put this little ridge to the inside, drive them in there, right there, and we lock them in place just like so. Make sure this piece right here fits nice and flush and even and then we'll take our mallet and we'll tap it down. Make sure we're in the place that we want to be. Take our mallet and tap it down. Tap it into place. Just tap it in. Very light tap. Rubber mallet works just fine. Now from this point forward we'll basically just continue on around the flower bed, continue knocking stakes in, supporting them. And basically we'll support them at each joint and then we'll go back in and we bought some extra stakes. We bought I think 40 extra stakes to stake the center areas and make sure everything looks straight. Looks nice. Pretty simple. I'm gonna get busy. Just in the nick of time my neighbor Tony shows up. So he's gonna help me out and we're gonna help him out here in just a little bit too. We're gonna put some new lights on this golf cart. So that'll probably be the next vlog. Pretty nice. We're gonna go ahead and run this thing. We're gonna get busy with it. All right guys so we're matching it up right here. Sometimes you got dig a little bit in the flower bed. Match it up. You just basically drop one of these stakes in and be sure the rib on the stake is facing the flower bed. Drop it in and get the next one and drop it in. Thank you rubber mallet. Tap it into place. Now we're gonna be working around a turn right here. This stuff is really, really flexible so it makes it really easy to make beautiful round flower beds. I feel like we're gonna be using a lot more of this stuff throughout the farm. It just makes things simple, easier to mow up to, easier to weed eat and easier to weed the garden or weed the flower bed. So if you get a spot that's not quite level, you can just tap. Take your rubber mallet and just tap it right down into the ground. I'm learning as I go just like you. There's a dog turd down here. I've got to be really careful not to get in that dog turd. Okay. Guys, I don't know about you but I just love to work outside. I just love to build things and look back at what I did and be proud of it or be ashamed of it and fix it later. Really fun. Weather is beautiful today. It's nice to do something and take a little pride. Pretty awesome. So folks, we're getting it done here. It looks nice. We've got a few more to put up and we're gonna go ahead and get busy. I just thought I'd show you how this stuff goes up, how it installs and what it looks like. So we'll take and fill in our flower beds right here with some good garden soil and put some more flowers in. It'll be beautiful. Thanks a lot, guys. We'll see you next time on Stony Ridge Farmer. Please subscribe to the channel. Click that like button. Take the time right now. Pound that like button. If any of you guys have any experience with this stuff or have any advice, please post me a comment down below. All right. Thanks a lot. We'll see you next time. We'll come on down to Stony Ridge and bring you wine and bring your kids we live in live. Here in Sweden that's the way it's close to me. Stony Ridge. Woo! Hey, Tony. Smile. Okay. Can I please have the sun back any chance I could get the sun back? Sometimes the biggest part is having your camera aimed properly. Okay, I'll ranch, baby. Woo!