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I live down South on a slight hill growing Bermuda and am going to have to do much of what I saw you just do. My lawn not only is on a slight hill (erosion north/south) but also was never leveled east / west so I am in for a time!! I do not have access to that machine that spreads out dirt. (gonna use a potting mix from a local compost/mulch farmer) since I live on red clay and dont want to use sand. Bottom line is I have 30 years on you and am already feeling my "wheelbarrow back" Thanks to you Pest and Lawn Ginja I will at least know exactly how to proceed. Thank you for taking time to share your skills with us. I most enjoy how you and your beautiful family enjoy your time together. (including the largest headed dog I think I have ever seen!) Keep these videos coming as you have taught me so very much about caring for my lawn.

I'm just finding this. Def Subscribing. Never been more entertained watching someone work on their yard. Great work.

LOL Your little man you have helpin you is a trip. My son is 6 and does the same stuff. Yells "WATCH THIS!" And then does something crazy lol. Thanks for the video. I just moved into our first house and have never taken care of my own lawn. This helped tons, thanks dude.

Somehow I found this video and was compelled to watch the whole thing...A biker lawn care expert. This video was not only informative but your add libs are hilarious...Keep up the great work I'll be tuning in.

I hope that your wife appreciates all that work you do. I was married 28 years we end up getting divorced and she kept the house ,but now the house looks like is abandoned. High grass all the time, weeds everywhere, bold spots,ant hills, its actually kind of sad to see all my hard work going down the drain. My point is that women don't seem to understand the amount of hard work that goes into keeping the house beautiful until they have to do it. Just because we make it look easy doesn't mean that it is. Great video! Thanks for sharing.

I could probably search but I'm curious as to how the side/back areas are looking 1 1/2 years later? Once again, great video! Appreciate you breaking it down for us!

Some people have it but most people don’t. YOU have it. Personally I enjoy, and take pride in my lawn. Turf building. No one can argue with your results. Your lawn looks amazing! Good for you and hope the neighbors appreciate it.

Thanks for the informative and extremely entertaining video. You put in as much work making it as you did fixing your lawn!

I admire your commitement to your lawn. Iwish I had your energy to do mine. Thank you for posting this video. Great job.

Funny funny funny, I learned a lot I live on a hill so that is what I’m going to do, sand top soil🙋🏽‍♀️ I’m a girly girl not afraid of work outside.🤗

Excellent excellent video. I have very similar problems in one are where neighbors water drains onto my lawn. This video gives me hope for a fix. Thanks for the possible remedy and I hope your project yields some positive results.

love your attitude. Wish I would of done this a couple of years ago. Found out this is the year I am not able to lift those 40lb bags, and keep working the whole day outside. I may use the grandkids. lol Thanks for the video

Dude your channel is incredible. Love the detail and the passion!

Great job, it is alot of hard work to maintain the yard to its awesome look, thanks

Your little man is just THE coolest!

Thanks for this! I am constantly saying how lawn care sucks as I am doing it, glad to know I am not alone!

Love this channel, wish I had a lawn this side to perfect. I aerated today on 20k sq. ft. Pretty sure i'm dead, never again.

I would have just raised the mower to 3" or 4" for a nice plush lawn. That's a lot of work. lol

love this episode ... googled lawn level help and you arrived, but also got some comedy too .. WIN/WIN ... BIG UP Ginja ... From N17, london :)

A true perfectionist. Love it awesome job , the kids will remember working along with dad forever

"pushes a bunch of turds out of the lawn" HAHAHAHA🤣🤣🤣

This is my first time watching you. This was awesome. Bell is on, instant sub and fan. Awesome!

Don’t know how I missed this but wow! Too much work but I’m sure you’ll get great results. Bet you were glad when the pile of dirt and sand was gone. BenGay time my friend, you’re the best.

i just wanna cry at how much work needs to be done to level a yard! ugh! I've got my work cut out for me for our yard. but thanks so much for all the info!! learned so much from you. keep up the great work - i enjoy your videos!! you got a new subscriber here!

Every time you said “this sucks” I felt your pain and had me lmao 😂

Quarantine brought me here but I learned something new tho, most of us will be spending a lot of time on our lawn this time around. Thank you for the info stay safe 👍😷

I have just done my lawn renovation actually used sixty ton of topsoil sieved it first than applied level with lawn drag then brush just reseeding to do than final very light topdress and because this is done annually my lawn is now like a glass table top , it makes Connor wards lawn look like a bomb site , congrats on yours within six weeks you will be very pleased you made the effort .

Young fella with the black hands! Hahahaha awesome! Cheers mate great vid. Ummm maybe some drainage pipe down the fenceline? Natural drainage can be a bugga especially when it pours down.

I couldn’t care less about my lawn, but this was really interesting and I can see the allure. Great work :)

Mucho work amigo Many neighbors here in north Texas have used top dressings of lava rock for aeration and their results have been long and impressive. Your leveling is sure a challenge. Great vid and thank you for sharing 👍🏻

Can't believe you did it! It will definately be worth it once the grass grows back in.

Put this much energy into a garden and you could feed your neighborhood.

"Mommy, that bearded man is laying and rubbing on his grass again!"

You just help a fellow Canadian bud , thanks for the hard work and the lesson , i m about to start my next week , let s do it !!! Cheers

I feel you about being grounded by the wife. I had 4 yards of compost in our driveway for a few days. She was not happy.

13:22 - "6 inches of space between me and the neighbor, so it's kinda a big deal"... I totally agree, there is never enough space between me and my neighbors.

My lawn is perfectly level now that two inches of snow fell on it; and more to come.

Instead of the levelawn, I'd use a long landscapers rake (the other side) or a pressure treated 4"x4" board cut to the length you need for the job. With the board, you'll need to screw in at least two eyelets big enough to thread a piece of rope through. Then you'll drag the board by hand or tractor over poured 50% topsoil/sand mixture. It's much cheaper and you'll get the same or better results. That's what I use to level my lawn.

Was in charge of a golf course for years. This was my favorite thing to do each spring by far.

If I leveled my lawn with sand I'd never need to go on a vacation.

That's a great looking shirt!

I'm thinking about doing this to my lawn. Thanks for showing me how bad it's going to suck.

I’m on my third level. Not for the faint of heart. The level lawn is expensive for what it is, but totally worth it. Can’t imagine doing the process without it.

In case anyone missed it, the keyword here is "SUCKS" :D

"Bet ya really gotta watch were you step in a game called hero's duty!"

Man.......that brings back resent memories. Next fall I have serious leveling to do in the front. Thanks for video. This will help me plan my mode of action. Once again, great video.

Love all the information you give out on your video. Thanks for continuing bring new video and addressing older video commenta

i could have leveled my whole streets lawns by the time this video was over..

Lol, i mow my lawn at 4.5”

That was pretty cool. I really wish I had that much passion for my lawn. It's just this thing that stays covered in snow 7 months a year, and I have to pay someone to mow May-Sep.

Great video! Way to get the kids involved. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

Heya, Ginja! Thanks for this vid. You've convinced me to keep my lawn at about 3" and ready for Extreme Croquet. My brother-in-law says it sucks that I shorten his name to "Dick". Probably because his name is Trevor.

omg, I have an acre of lawn I want to level. I think I've changed my mind.

Ned.. the compaction King. Love it!! thanks for the video

You certainly are dedicated to your grass. You work your ass off!

Laughed at the 'this sucks' comment with every other shovel load. Fun to watch, not so much to do I'm sure.

Big Ned has the same reaction as my wife!

Wow You are a perfectionist!! back braking work!!! Great job!! Like your personality and presentation!!

I feel your pain! Lawn leveling ## SUCKS ## I moved into this house about a year ago and this summer I killed my lawn, rented a sod cutter and removed about 2 inches of soil from my ~5,000 sq. ft. front lawn (about 80% of it anyway) to lower my lawn some (bonus - removed a TON of weed seeds with the top soil). Then after removing the soil I was going to use a drag mat to level what I could, but no, Mother Nature didn't want to cooperate and I had 3 weeks of rain and a muddy mess. I tried to level using a bow rake for a week until it was dry enough my lawn tractor wouldn't sink, then used the drag mat. I wish I'd had one with the nails or spikes but I probably spent 5+ hours with the drag mat. It's not level, but the grade changes are gradual enough that when I did my first mowing with Zoysia grass at 1.5 inches, there wasn't a great deal of scalping. Glad I saw this video with the Eco-Lawn Top Dresser - I'll be looking for one of those to rent for leveling out my lawn a couple times a year over the next couple of years to where I can get down to a 1.5 inch cut without scalping, and maybe down to a 1 inch cut. If you don't see me posting, you will know my wife murdered me in my sleep over this LOL. That top dressing tool is the bomb! I'm too old to be doing all of this by 100% manual labor.

“Then will you let me be on the top of the cake with you guys?”

The one thing no ones lawn needs. Sand. Yeah, I'm out. Thanks. :)

Man, I really liked the lawn before the project. So green and thick. I love KBG.

Thanks for you insight about, "Levelling the lawn". If I ever say the word "SUCKS", that will shorten my time doing my lawn. LOL😅 I preferred to say, "I love doing this", I have to be honest to myself. LOL 🤣🤣🤣 I have to love what I do as a professional landscaper.😊

So is it Screened DG Sand and Topsoil? Could I use a double mix if I wanted to introduce nutrients?

"I'm not smiling. I'm gassy."

Awesome job. Well worth it. A string line will show you the true irregularities.

Don't know how you do it. You put all that work into making this wonderful video for us. Then somebody comes along in the comment section and snarls at you and you handle it with aplomb (Don't ax me what that means). Well done and thank you.

I’m wore out watching this

I'm guessing you're going to have better results than the Area 51 invasion. Dude, I love following your channel. You and some of the other You Tubes mowing community are such an inspiration. Thanks for getting it done and giving the rest of us the courage to try new things because you show us how. You're Awesome!!! 95% pleased with my own renovation this year. 2500 sqft. and going strong. But my front yard is a dead zone. Tried everything but recovery won't take.

Everytime I work on the lawn, I think it sucks too. Great video

I am headed into this project this spring and I really think I am in for a challenge. It's gonna suck. But I cannot wait for the end result. Thanks sooo much. You have a beautiful family. Thanks again brotha.

I went through 4 yards last year and will probably do 2 yards here shortly, i had no help and did it in a weekend and as stated numerous time, "SUCKS". When completed and looks better you know you did good and the wife still goes "whatever", it's all worth it.

Wow Brett@ that's a job. We have lot of issues going on in our lawn but your tips are so helpful thanks a lot budd

You can tell that dog is living the dream man. Hey good job with the lawn!

Howdy from Sacramento! Thanks for sharing, looks like it will pay off. One thing I would offer to save your shoulders is to lay the shovel across the quad of your front leg and use your leg power to drive the shovel into the material rather than using your arms. The laborers on one of my pipeline jobs showed me how to run a shovel and it has saved me many a pain. Happy shoveling!

Great to see another video! Isn't it crazy how much work we put in for the love of our lawn?!

That looks insane. Be thankful you can still do that, even if I wasn't paralyzed now I'd never do that, and thank goodness all three years I done commercial and residential lawn maintenance in the 90s I never had to do that. It would have sucked balls.

Wow, huge job. That’s one of those jobs that half way through you think to yourself maybe I should have just left it as it was! I’m sure it will be better than it was and you can always bring in more sand and focus on the areas where the mower scalps if you need to.

Wow, you are not playing this go round!👍🎖

Great video man. You're a funny guy too 😊👍🏻

My lawn is so bumpy I'm going to have to start wearing a "Sports Bra" when I use my rider. I think I'll have to remove about 3 or 4 inches of sod/soil and start from scratch to build a halfway decent lawn. My sidewalks look sunken ! 😱😃👍✌🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Good info here. I just did this without the sand as my summer strategy always includes intentional dormancy. Fill us in if you can if you do a dormant season seeding - I have never done that personally. And please tell the little man he did an AWESOME jump!

When I moved into my place in Delta BC back in 78 I was near the end of a gravel hill a couple hundred feet up from the Fraser River. I was on the west side of the street where the water from uphill south and uphill east would run down north and west towards River Road. All the neighbors uphill let their rain water go and it pooled in my back yard. Nice. So I built a rain fence at the point where it was running into my backyard. Good thing this hill was made if mostly gravel. Anyway I dug an 18-inch deep trench about 20 feet long and 4 inches wide right underneath the neighbor's fence and lined it with heavy plastic. I filled it with gravel and clay to a height of several inches above ground level and faced it with a couple of 2x10's. Stopped the water cold. I eventually took the water fence down when we had to replace the main fence, but by that time the water had figured another way underground and a lot of vegetation in the neighbors' yards upstream had slowed the flow in a big rainstorm, much like trees do in the forests.

Tell me that sucks, I got 13 yards of top soil(came clay and unscreened, what a fun, screening all that clay and dumping. Next year I’m getting a bobcat!!!! Thanks for the video

I'm surprised you haven't got one of those 12-foot leveling rakes. When my dad leveled new lawns and gardens he built, he had a 12-foot piece of railway steel with a couple of rope lugs welded on to one edge about 10 feet apart. My brother and I would balance on the bar while my dad pulled it over the area being leveled. Then we would stomp all over it, rake it slightly, add more soil and do it all again until it was level and at the proper height. Of course that was back in the 50's.

Try this for SUCK. When i decided to renovate my front lawn, I used a sod cutter and just removed the entire top 1 to 1.5 inches. Then I tilled the soil like crazy, far deeper than I should have. Then it rained and rained and we had little snippets of time to level the lawn with a rake, just moving mud. My wife helped. She glared at me when she thought I wasn't looking, but she got out and embraced the suck with me. My neighbor loaned me a drag mat, but it was too wet to use it for a week. In the end my soil was very level...not golf course level, but the changes in elevation were minor enough I could mow at or under 1 inch, except for the fact I'm required to have a drainage ditch and that makes it impossible to mow that low. All that work, and then we had rain for about 3 weeks and I didn't realize it washed away about 4-6 inches deep of soil, and about 6 feet wide, so I have to raise this a bit, bit by bit. I'd just throw soil on top, but I'm getting too old to do that after factoring in the work versus reward. On the plus side, by removing that top layer of soil, I removed 99.9% of the weed seeds. That renovation was the fall of 2019, and this past fall (2022), I got busy and didn't get a chance to put down a pre-emergent, and now it's almost February, 2023 and I have in total from my 5,000 sq. ft. front lawn, about 7 sq. ft. of clover mixed in, about about 3 sq. ft. of some type of wild onion, and no weeds besides that to mention. I'm back because I'm about to put down my Prodiamine in a few weeks and I was looking up your reviews on the FlowZone sprayers. Pump sprayers suck too, just not this bad LOL.

lmao. my roommate chewed me out for days on my leveling. i had to sneak sand on to the lawn when he was at work. just finished my fall overseed of perennial rye. it sucked

How cool is that man I will look it with more time man cool, will grasp your tips.

Great video mate. All the best from this Aussie fan.😉

The sons grab the knee jumping trick earned the like and the comment... Lol... Great lawn...

Dedication to filming while doing the hard stuff. This is going to put your lawn at a whole nother level.😉

For the sprinkler I. Back you can try changing the nozzles to a lower GPM so it puts less water out over the same duration. Also the sand will help with drainage. What an under taking (I tilled up half my 5200 sq ft front lawn two months ago and boy is that a lot of work) I commend you kind sir

Thanks for teaching me about lawn rollers!

That lawn is glorious

Great energy and info!

just yesterday i was filling divots on our tee boxes with topdressing sand and using the levelawn to smooth... perfect tool

The Ginja is color coordinated on this segment. After watching this segment I've decided to just concrete my lawn!

Love the long grass

I wish people in my neighborhood cared 1/4 what you do! I just gift a house where I'm trying to transform the yard & I feel like I'm doing all the work I'm doing for nothing because they have so many weeds & things that I'm going to forever be fighting them!