Mike Andes hosts the first episode of 'Landscapers Digest', reacting to multiple viral lawncare and landscaping clips. He comments on large custom multi-deck mowers (noting cost, efficiency, and fuel concerns), homemade towing/rigging solutions (praising ingenuity but warning of liability), self-operating mowers and corner/safety risks (pet danger), high-frame-rate footage that explains mower blade aerodynamics and trimmer physics, a mechanized boxwood-spherical shaper (noted as niche/ nursery use), and a humorous clip where a dad mows video games. The video blends practical professional insight (efficiency, sharp blades, airflow) with comedic asides and ends with social media call-to-action.
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Hey, everyone, it's Mike Andes. And today we're gonna be having the first episode of the Landscapers Digest, where we're going to react to some of the top videos floating around on the Internet. The things you've been watching, things that might be helpful. Crazy or just downright insane? Let's jump into it. First one up is the biggest redneck lawnmower. 246 inch. Here we go. Time to mow the yard again with our new 246 inch dec.
This is efficiency at its best. This guy is obviously working on P4P.
So if you break the numbers on that, there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 lawn mowers, if you strap with those are probably $400 mowers. So we're looking at a $5,000 machine, which, hey, we're getting 246 inches for the price of, like, a 48 inch mower. So this guy's like, you know what? 5xing 6xing his productivity. I love it. See how this thing actually drives?
Now, the fuel efficiency is not that great, I have to say. There's not gonna be a great. The tree huggers are not gonna love this one.
See, I think the time it would take to just rig up this machine, you might as well just go buy, like, a bigger mower and get, like, a ven track or something like that. But I love it. I love the efficiency. I love the mindset around performance here. We can mow this entire property in, like, two minutes. All right, next one's a huge lawnmower. Mows grass like a mad machine. Here we go. Okay.
I just don't see the.
I feel like there'd be some liability when it comes to these tires. It's like, oops, I hit something, and you're yawn. No longer is it dented. It's like we completely mutilated your dog. I feel like this is, like, more of a flex to every other landscaper than it is actually useful for your landscaping jobs. But it definitely turns some heads.
Walking and steering. That's all you have to do is walking and steering. It's all mowing is crazy llama. Okay, so I've seen this one. Nothing like going viral for the ingenuity that a homeowner can bring to this industry. So let's play. Play this one. Yeah. See, like, you don't even need audio for this one. It's just. It's just a work of art. It's Absolute genius. I think I question the fact that we could use in the field as a landscaper. There's a lot of liability issues. Like, for example, what happens if the, if the rope breaks, okay, broken, like right here, Boom, Rope breaks, mower into the car, we got a problem. Like liability issues. But you know what, guys got to get style points. He. He's got to get creativity points. And on P4P, like, I'm telling you, he's saving a lot of time comparing to mowing. You're breaking your ankles if you're trying to trim that with a weed whacker. All right, next one up is self mowing lawnmower. Let's dive into it.
Okay, so this is genius. He's pulling weeds while the lawn's getting mowed. That's fantastic. The problem is the corners, right? If he was really smart, he would make sure that the lawn was perfectly round. If people have perfectly round lawns, you start to wonder whether or not they have other issues going on. See what happens when little pooch back there is in the backyard and you let the lawnmower go for a little spinny spinnaroo. And all of a sudden, little poochy gets a little stuck in the lawnmower. I'm telling you, a little problem. This is the pooch killer, the silent killer. If you need to put your dog down, just let the lawnmower go in the backyard. Just turn it on. Alright, next one. How do lawn mower blades cut grass at 50,000 frames per second? Oh, I feel like I'm gonna learn something. Okay, let's go here. All right, so this is already beyond me.
So lawnmowers are dangerous, obviously. Don't modify your lawnmower. I've got a buddy, Trent here. What's up, Trent? Trent is an engineering student. He also helps me with mowing.
See, this is the problem with our society and our industry is that engineers get involved in lawn care. We got a big problem here. It's not gonna end well, I can already tell you that.
It's terrifying.
So you go, you go to school for four years to be an engineer. And what do you do? You take a camera and you film. You film mower blades going around in circles. Okay, this is kind of cool.
Oh, it's actually really good. Let's go.
See, this is why your blades need to be sharp. I'm telling you, this is educational right here. Hey, if you can cut grass, you can cut hair. Tonight it's the same thing, just less square footage.
You mow grass, you go Back and forth. Really simple. Now we're talking about barbers and airflow.
And like, is that the tab on the top of the lawnmower? That's to create airflow to suck the grass up. All right, here's the deal. I'm 36 years old and I've studied aerodynamics, and I've spent the better part of my life on a lawnmower. But my barber just taught me that that tab on the back of the lawnmower blade is for lift. And the purpose of that is I.
Did not study aerodynamics for four years in college. And I knew that.
And this all makes sense. And I'm ashamed that I just now learned this.
Can you imagine being these guys, neighbors? You see these guys, like, going around in their lawn mower and they got these cameras and they're going really slow.
This is the. This should be called like the grass guillotine. This is pretty graphic.
Okay, so next video here. I have no idea what this is. It looks like it came out of a lab of some sort. Let's go ahead and play this one.
Oh, that's genius. Boxwoods. Let's go.
There's a massive demand. There's an outlandish demand for spherically shaped bushes and shrubs. Let's go.
Okay, I see the use for a nursery, but I don't know about. For landscapers. Like, whoa.
I don't know. I feel like I could still beat that with a hand trimmer. I'm just saying in terms of efficiency. Yeah. I feel like you're only going to use this if you literally have 500 boxwoods at your house. And if you have 500 boxwoods at your house, we have bigger problems to talk about. Like a psychiatrist might be better use of your money. All right, next video. How weed eaters work at 62,000. Oh, we're really pulling out all stops now. 62,000 frames per second. I think these guys have too much time on their hands.
And I'm going to get that weed eater head positioned over this in the Weed eater.
Okay.
And we're going to use this with.
A GoPro on it. 511.
We'll record it at about, I'd say 12, 000 frames per second.
And then just watching these videos kind of makes me feel like my IQ dips and at least double digit points.
The question is, does the line ever truly get straight? Because in my head, I'm operating with a disc with straight lines out of it.
Okay, so we're talking about this trimmer.
Line should show us exactly how that straightens out. All right, so as we speed faster and faster, you can see that the line is lagging behind, probably due to that drag that we talked about. But there's also still a little curve. Oh, wow.
We just. We use the word physics and quantitative in a weed whacker video. Okay, so they're filming this up against a chain link fence. This is cool. I've seen this before. The way how the weed whacker breaks the line.
It's awesome.
That will get style points.
Oh, yeah. Let's go.
Yes. Now this is cool. You actually start bending the wires to some extent here. But this is kind of. You can see why weed whacker line gets chewed up and you run out of weed whacker line when you're up against the fence. It's actually cutting the piece of thought. It's pretty cool.
Look at that wrap and. Okay, see now let's go.
Maximum noodling.
Okay. Wow, that's quite a way to First F bombs. The first Second. The very first half. Second.
Where are all my games? No. Dead Rising, Crackdown, Halo. Halo.
This is great.
This is great.
Okay, all his video games are gone. What does it say here? Get a job. Get a life. No more games, dad.
Oh, boy. Oh, if there's a lawnmower about to chew up his games, I would be so happy. Let's go.
Win a game. Let's go.
Oh, you win a game, but you got to get a job while you do it too. You're insane. Why are you doing? You going to mow them over? Yeah, I'm going to mow them over. That way you get out of your room.
This be a great hustler commercial.
3 months gaming is going to be my job. I do it. I'm really good at it. You got student loans, you got car payment. You got insured. I'm really good at it. Hey, yeah. Well, you got to make money while you're not destroying my game. Oh, pick up. Why you dead.
Pick up while you.
This cost me like hundred of dollars to sit.
What is it? Out of your room for one.
What is this? Achieve this expensive hobby, going to do my game.
So maybe you'll quit playing for a while, pay some of your bills. I'm never going to quit playing.
Let's.
This is great.
Hate my family.
It'd be great if the rest of the story was the fact that this guy started a lawn mowing business.
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