Folks, how are we doing? Thanks for stopping by today. We are going to talk about a common question that I'm asked enough to make this video. So we're looking at a small area. However, you can replicate this times as big of an area as you have to do. The question of the day is how do you level out a bumpy lawn, a bumpy field, a bumpy pasture? How do you level these areas out? Well, the biggest challenge with these areas that you're going to deal with is the side. Alright, maybe it's weeds and sod or it's all that organic matter that's on the surface that's rooted in there. Alright, and most customers, when they reach out to me, they're looking for a tool or tools to accomplish this renovation. The first thing that they mention is using a box blade or a lamplane. And if you have side, those are not going to be the right tools to use. They are very challenging because of the root systems. And if you have the scare fires or the shanks that are on those tools, you may think I can rip through that surface, rip it all up, and then just use the box blade or the plan just to kind of pull it all to the side. But what you're going to find is just creating a huge mess. Those shanks are going to rip through the ground every six, eight, ten inches apart. You're going to have to drive back and forth over and over and over again to get all of the different root clumps worked up. And then you're going to have to drive all over it again over and over and over and over again to repeatedly collect all of the material. You're going to wind up with a gigantic pile of it or multiple piles of it scattered all about that you have to then clean up with a bucket. It's just going to be a long, arduous, tedious process that's not going to give you great results. On top of that, you're stripping away a lot of good organic material that should be there to help reseed your pasture, your lawn, whatever it is. Basically, those nutrients that you would want to have in the soil to begin with to help give it a good start. What I have found, and we've done this actually in many different scenarios, we've used tillers. We've used a tiller right here. And if you follow the channel, this area was actually littered with stumps just like this one. There's one that's just off to the side, a little bit, an area that we haven't renovated. But stumps just like this one, this whole area was full of them. We used our stump record, we dug all those out and made a big Ole mess. There were holes here and piles of dirt around, and then the stumps of course that we got out of there. Then we just kind of used our bucket and pushed the dirt back in those holes with a stump so we were just going to get it kind of a rough level. Then we came back through with a tiller and we tilled this whole area. We didn't till just the areas that had the bumps, we just tilled everything so that it worked the entire surface up consistently. We did that two or three times, just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And so what that's going to do is it's going to break up consistently all of the sideclumps here. It doesn't mean it's going to get rid of every single last one and break it down into super fine matter. But it's doing it repeatedly across the whole area so it's smooth and consistent and you can work with it. And the great part is it leaves all that organic matter right there. It's right there where it needs to be where it's going to do its best work helping to regrow the grass or the orchard grasses or whatever it is that you're planning in that area that you want to succeed. And so we did most of this work last spring. We dug out the stumps, I tilled everything up and then I used a dethatcher rake. You could also use a landscape rake if you had that on hand or depending on what your long term application is. You want a tool that's versatile, a landscape rake or dethatcher either one is super versatile and this is just one application for it. But I took the dethatcher and raked everything to one side. So there were still some little sideclumps and there were some sticks and some other little bits of debris in here. Raked those all to one side, it was a lot less material and the rakes and the dethatchers, they're going to let the dirt kind of fall out for the most part. You're just stuck with the debris that you don't want there. So it's still leaving a lot of the nutrients there as well. Got what you see here. And then of course what happened? Well we had no rain. I kept waiting for it to be rain in the forecast to seed this area. We had a super dry spring and most of the summer as well. And so I didn't do anything. I didn't put any seed down at that point because it wasn't going to be successful. And there were some weeds that were grown up here and there. And so what I did is I came back in the fall when I was planting food plots, I repeated that process. I tilted up one more time, which was really easy to do because I previously tilted. Then I came back through using the tatcher rake one more time just to get a nice final level because that rake, whether it's the tatcher or the landscape rake is one long plane. It's at the same level. And so you can get a five foot or a six foot or an eight foot, whatever size rake you want to get. One grade. Okay. So it makes it much more consistent back and forth to be a level surface. At that point I seeded. I used our Bethco cedar. Baroque has seeded this area. And then I used my rake one more time to kind of help cover all that seed up and give it the best possible chance for germination. It was either late August or early September. Actually that's not true. It was late September. I got to it a little bit late. And so this is what you see going on. And so the grass, the seedlings all got a good start for now. Had about maybe a month or so of decent growing conditions in the fall. And this will be great next spring. And in fact, we actually had sprinklers put it in down in this area here. So we'll be able to irrigate this water this on a regular basis and maintain it just like part of our yard. But the same concept, the same process can be applied to whether it's a little, just a little patch here. That's what? 40 by 80 feet or if you're doing a two or three acre renovation, you don't have to do the whole thing at one time. You can still break it down into chunks. Maybe a quarter here and the quarter there. Maybe get your process down. Right? Do a smaller area the first time. See if you're doing everything in the right order, the right sequence that you want to do. And then just repeat that on the rest of it. And it can make it seem like it's not an insurmountable task either. But I'm telling you, the first thing you can do, a lot of folks don't like to spray. But if you can spray, if you're okay with that and kill all the grass in the weeds, that's going to weaken the root system and make the rest of the job a lot easier. If you don't want to spray, then I would at least scalp your field or your lawn or whatever it is. Skew it. So if the sun's hitting it, it's burning the grass and basically killing it at that point. And maybe scalp it again if there's still anything existing. The idea being you want to weaken those root systems as much as possible because it's going to make your life a lot easier for the rest of this project. So after you accomplish that step, that's when you come through with the tiller. Tillin's fun. It's a great job. I mean, it's amazing the results. The before and after results that you can get with the tiller, there's no tool like it. It's just incredible. And you think they're just for putting in food plots and gardens. But there's so much more. We actually use it for our driveway. Our gravel driveway installations. You want to peel out top soil when you're putting in a driveway. And again, to make that top soil easily reusable, not full of side clumps. A great way to do that is to till it up first. Right? Because it just makes everything consistent and breaks down as you have it sitting there in your side pile, then you can scoop out some bucketful and use it in different areas of your property and different projects that you have coming up. Instead of having big piles of dirt that you're then picking out a whole hunk of side and have to throw it to the side, that stuff's already chopped up with the tiller. So they're great tools to have, very handy to have around. And you get creative. You can find more ways to use it. So again, after getting done tilling, that's when you come through with your rake. Do all that final grating. Take it as far as you want. Right? I mean, if it's depending if it's just a rough pasture, if it's going to be a yard, you spend more or less time on there depending on the application at hand. At that point is when you're going to seed, use that rake again to lightly cover up the seed. So it has good seed soil germination. Placin water and fertilizer and away you go. We're proud to be sponsored by Rimguard Solutions, a liquid balust way. It goes right inside your tires completely hidden. Not only is it going to help with safety, keeping those rear tires planted on the ground, it helps us loader efficiency and traction too. The benefits of Rimguard include being the heaviest, all natural liquid balust way down the market. It's not going to corrode your rims like the old Calisthen chloride. It's not going to freeze. And it's available at over 1000 dealers nationwide. Find the dealer near you at RimguardSolutions.com. So folks, there you have it. That is a video that's in response and hopefully for you future viewers that are out there. Well, if you have the same question that you email me, I will be sending you a link to this video and hoping that it helps you. Now, if you're looking for any of these tools, if you need sprayers, if you need tellers, if you need rakes, if you need seeders, well, you can go to goodworkstractors.com. We sell and ship those tools around the country every day of the week. And if you want to make sure you get set up with the right tool to fit your needs, just shoot us an email, give us the specifics of your project, give us your tractor, make in your model. We'll get you set up so that you have everything the right way the first time around. I want to thank you for taking time out of your data style by and until next time, stay safe. We'll see you soon. Thank you.