DIY Dethatching & Overseed the Lawn | Sun Joe Dethatcher & Scarifier | Spring Lawn Care
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As a part of my spring lawn care I power raked (detached), scarified and then overseeded my lawn. In this video I share my process and my thoughts about the Sun Joe dethatcher and scarifier. I was nervous at first that a “cheaper” plastic lawn tool bought online was not going to work but I was very surprised. Overall I was very pleased with the results and will share the longer term progress that is made in my front yard. If you want to see what the longer term results stick around an update or two is coming.
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Links to Tools and Products I Used: (Some are affiliate links to help the channel)
Sun Joe: amzn.to/33kgmuD
Greenworks: amzn.to/2PXjuJN
Music:
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THAT'S IT, this video has convinced me.
I'm selling my house and moving into an apartment.
LMAO
So much maintenance is needed
@@tijaboyd6048 It only depends of what you want. It is not that bad. Also you don't need to go full blown autistic on the lawn.
Some people care way to much about something that doesn't add any actual value to a home. It can help marketability, but it doesn't add value.
Thanks for the laugh!
Helpful hint: when using electrical lawn tools, always start from the house where the plug is so that you are always walking away from it. That eliminates most of the cord shifting.
i was looking for this comment hahaha
That’s great advice, thank you 👍
Until you change direction...
Needs an arm that holds the cord out to the side that you flip from side to side when you change direction. That's how most electric mowers are built.
At least they were Back In The Day!! Lol
I also have outlets at both ends of my property so no worries about the cord
Bought this last year and pulled 40 bags of dead grass out, which was a lot. This year our lawn looks 180 degrees different. It's full, no weeds, and looks amazing. Highly recommend this tool.
Awesome to hear so far I believe the same is happening here
I love when homeowners take pride in their homes and lawns. I have to pay for someone else to take care of my lawn now due to a stroke. I love teaching the young kids in my neiborhood how to care for their lawn. A few of them ask if they can borrow lawn tools so they can make their lawns look as good as mine. One young man wanted to do it as a gift to his hard working mother. God bless kids like this one and his mother. She taght him well. Thanks for taking the time to show people how to care for a lawn and the product you use.
I wish i had cool neighbours like you
Awww, that’s amazing.
I love when people appreciate lawns, sorry to hear about your stroke I hope you're doing much better!!
There’s a difference in lawn care. And neglecting time with your family. Lmfao.
I generally don’t like lawns, and find them to be useless wastes of resources.
Lawns for most people are useless money dumps.
The great American workers that built the US didn’t have them. Back then lawns were generally a display of wealth, a display mimicking British royalty. They had yards and gardens, but none of this groomed sissy lawn bullshit.
I watch my idiot neighbor bag his yard every time he cuts it, just for him to turn around and dump hundreds of dollars worth of petrol product on it, to replace what he just bagged up.
Can you imagine being his neighbor and seeing this guy seemingly mowing his lawn for six hours in one afternoon LOL
I would've told him stop n go eat.😂😂😂
Who cares what they think
Dude, I did it yesterday and I’m still tired today!
I'd be close to calling a gardener/landscaper haha
😆 lol. "Look Margret he's still mowing!"
On this episode of videos we watch at 3 am in the morning: man gets rid off dead grass off his lawn
Bro if this ain’t accurate idk what is 😂
Great stuff! Going to have to try one
Or 6pm. Whatever
Ah dude it's literally 3am and I just finished watching it 🤣
Omg me too. Im only commenting to say AM is in the morning
Important tip: if you have sprinklers, don't use the heavier attachment (scarifier). The thinner ones are spring loaded to avoid anything that isn't grass. The scarifier will destroy the tops of sprinklers. If you know exactly where they are or mark them then you'd be fine.
Good tip no sprinklers here
Should be easy to locate them ..... turn'em on and then walk around the yard and insert flags at each sprinkler head. Hopefully, you can do it on an exceptionally hot day.
Oh my gosh, Angelo. I didn’t even think about this. I’ll be sure to post flags over my sprinkler heads, which I just had installed in 2021. Thanks!
Guys, Here is The Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified/Pierced for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Egyptian Semitic:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moshe (Moses) wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Egyptian Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
I use flags to mark the sprinkler heads in order to avoid them.
I'm getting old, I feel like Hank hill watching videos about mowing lawns
Wait til you get hooked on lawn striping😁
😂😂
*cracks beer* … yep
Yes this and pressure washing lol😅
Yes this and pressure washing kids lol 😆 7:29
0:45 “I want a nice lawn.”
You already have a nice lawn XD
😂
My lawn looks nothing like that. He spends tons of time on his lawn.
I remember when I used to look up JLo videos..... and here I am today... very very intrigued
@A M only before bed
Pro tip from someone who almost exclusively uses corded machines: Throw the extension cord over your shoulder when operating the machine. That helps keep it out of the way.
Pro tip form Simone who uses all gas machines….. throw the machine over your shoulder and into the garbage…
@@automotiveaffiliation1207😂😂😂😂
I use my clippings in the vegetable garden. I spread them out about 4" thick then rototill them deep into the soil. They break down quickly in the soil. Pretty sandy soil in my neighborhood but not where I've had my garden. I move the location every so many years and the grass grows so much nicer where I've had the garden in the past. It holds the moisture better after I've built it up.
The grass clippings from cutting the lawn get spread out in the garden to keep weeds from growing throughout the season.
Yard looks great - couldn't believe the amount of thatch that came out of there!
Thanks and I know right!
If one of your neighbors has a compost pile you've got a new friend coming.
Yeah lol
I would tend to avoid putting it on the compost. There's a lot there and it has the tendency to go slimy if you throw it all in at once, at least for the smaller home compost piles.
@@bunnywarren layer it with fresh green grass cuttings and plants you just pulled, should work good as a hot compost.
@@bunnywarren Thanks! I know fresh grass can pack down and get rotten; I would have guessed that dead grass wouldn't be quite so bad.
That’s the first thing that came to mind
Start of video "I want a nice lawn"
Grass looks fine...
Much better than my lawn that's for sure ...
Yep
standards are much different when your top notch lawn care. the best for the average is average for the best
I have owned one for 3 years ... and its one SWEET machine ! It does a much better job then the $50 dollar for 4 hour rentals and it quickly pays for its self ... no gas or tune ups needed ! I have loaned it out quite a few times and everyone LOVES it and comment how there lawn has never looked better !
As someone who's never thought about my lawn a day in my life, I watched this whole freaking video lol
Lmao for real! now I want to go take care of my lawn 😂
Same loooooool it was so satisfying
The Cool Guy part sold me on finishing. You can hear the unspoken words by looking at his face. Lol
200 gallons of grass would be a great song title.
LoL same here, but I cut close to 5 acres of lawn, this was like a horror movie in my head 😁
I love my SunJoe Dethatcher, I've used it for two years and let my neighbors borrow it as well, and have no issues with it. Used it at least 10 times.
I've got the green works one and I used it on 90 percent of my customer's houses this year and did some reseeding, worked great
Hope your neighbours buy you beer 🍻
I got this machine last year and it was out of financial convenience. I was desperate to figure out what was wrong. My local rental place was going to charge me a total of $200 for a weekend. I wasn’t going to get it done. Saw this on Amazon by the end of the season, and tried it. It was a game changer. It took up to 6-7 huge garbage bags. I only did half of my front lawn. Figured out it was excessive thatch. I have 3 different types of grass and the one type dies out in the heat. I’m working on the other half by Fall. I did use it in my back yard this Summer when we had a cold snap. It is coming back quickly, a month.
I did my front yard with this little guy. Overall it works, mine tends to over heat the little motor so faults off and needs about 10 minutes of cool down time before it will restart. During this cool off time I grabbed the lawn tractor and sucked up the removed debris. Too do a modest size front yard took about 6-y hours but it had not been done in years so there was a lot of junk to pull up. I ended up with nine 39 gallon plastic bags 1/2 full to take to the yard waste recycling.
Over all for the price it does a decent job and is easier then renting a big power unit and all that entails. I would buy one again.
I was amazed how much thatch that you were able to get with all of the passes
I have the same unit and I only did one pass with the rake in a small section of my yard. It’s insane how much stuff this thing pulls up. This video has inspired me to go back out with the rake and use the scarifier too!
@Jazz 16 This is why you should collect the grass cuttings when you mow. If you mulch them this is what it turns into. Grass doesn't really break down unless it is in a much warmer environment like a compost bin.
I used a very similar machine on my lawn against the advice of a "Lawn Care Guru" on TH-cam. My machine is an earlier version (2 yrs old) and did not come with a scarifying blade. Also, more importantly, I used my machine on "St Augustine" grass which grows via stallons and can become quite thick and spongy. With that in mind, I can not go at my lawn as hard or thorough as you're able to. I probably could go deeper/harder with a modified scarifying blade.
2 years ago my St. Augustine lawn was very thick with thatch and caused browning and disease areas. As I mentioned, I contacted a "professional" via his TH-cam channel asking if he has ever dethatched a St. Augustine lawn. His channel had a lot of St. Augustine care content so I figured he would know. His response to my question was, "Absolutely NOT ever" in a very condescending way. His opinion contradicted the Univerisity of Texas study and recommendations. This left me with a few choices; 1.) Leave the lawn alone. 2.) Hire a professional 3.) Have the lawn replaced 4.) Rent a machine and give it a try. Choice 1 was an option but it was driving me nuts because it looked bad. Choice 2 wasn't really a strong thought. I didn't know a good gardener experienced enough to trust and it would be more than I was willing to pay. Choice 3 was viable but expensive to rip out and replace a lawn. Choice 4 was my choice.....sort of. I was going to rent a machine but I discovered I couldn't adjust the blade width for St. Augustine lawns (the blades need to be set wider). As part of my lengthy searching, I found a machine similar to your machine. Slightly over $100, adjustable, and it would be mine. Also, in a worst-case scenario, it would only cost me a little over $100 to find out if it worked and how well. If it couldn't handle my lawn I could just return it or sell it to recover cash.
So here's what happened. The machine arrived in a couple days. I removed every other rake-tine. This has to be done for St. Augustine as to not be too aggressive. I mowed my lawn as short as I could go without ruining the lawn. Then I ran the thatcher over it fairly slow and carefully. I was shocked at how much dead material came out. Like your lawn, bags, and bags. Afterward, I did another mow over it and used the leaf-blower to really get the dead material out. Lastly, the real magic happened when I fertilized with "Milorganite". I let the lawn rest 2 weeks with no mowing. It turned into a brand new lawn and was the best in the neighborhood by a wide margin. It stayed solid green for 2 years and very healthy. I just did the same process about a week ago. I already know the results will be awesome.
Thats awesome to hear and I hope I can achieve similar results.
I am new to at Augustine grass myself. You are saying it is ok to use a dethatcher on this type of lawn but you need a special adjustable blade? I’m not sure I understand that. Did you use the scarifyer blade or the dethatching blade?
This is great to hear I have been debating on whether I should do this to my St Augustine grass. I was worried it would ruin the grass. You said your did not come with a scarifying blade.
@@ThatTechTeacher427 in general your results will be great. Removing the dead grass allows the good grass to thrive. If you want to go nuclear, rent an aerator and then fertilize with Milorganite. The Milorganite will shock your mind as to how good it works.
@@ohboy2592 & @Alex Evans my machine only came with the wire combs. The 'blade' version was not available a couple years ago. As I pointed out, a 'lawn guru' on youtube told me to never use a dethatcher or scarifier on St Augustine. He said I would destroy my lawn. Well he was dead wrong and I unsubbed his channel. Texas A&M has done research on St. Aug and published a care guide which I will link below. They say you can de-thatch St. Augustine but it should be done carefully. In my case, my only option was to remove the lawn (very thick) or try dethatching. AS you can imagine new sod is expensive and buying a $100 machine on AMZN was worth the try. When the machine arrived I removed every other tyne (comb) so it wouldn't be too aggressive on my lawn. Here were my steps you can duplicate;
1. Mow the lawn low.
2. Use the thatcher (remove every other tyne). Which is fine because now you will have replacement combs. They do break.
3. Mow or rake all the thatched out dead grass.
4. Use a strong leaf blower to blow out the remaining loose material.
5. Fertilize with Milorganite.
6. Water heavy once per week. This is another thing most people (including me) don't understand about St. Aug. You shouldn't be watering St.Aug frequently (ie multiple times a week) Water once per week heavily for deep water penetration. St. Aug needs to root deeply and deep watering helps it achieve this.
7. Do not mow for 2 weeks. Let the grass grow and recover.
8. Also, don't mow St. Aug low all the time. It really needs 2-3" long leafs to thrive. In my case, I was always mowing low. When I raised my blades and let the grass blades take in sunlight the green got deeper.
publications.tamu.edu/TURF_LANDSCAPE/PUB_turf_Maintaining%20St.%20Augustine%20Grass%20Lawns.pdf
OMG!!!! I did this dethatching with the SUNJOE! I did it 3 times, 2 parallel and 1 diagonal and it COMPLETELY RUINED MY YARD! My grass WAS lush, long and thick, but I did it WAY TOO LATE in the season and so my lawn didn't have enough time to come back before Fall and Winter hit and in the spring, crabgrass and creeping Charlie weeds took over before my grass could grow back. It has now been 2 full seasons of using Pre-emergents and fertilizers to try to get my lawn back to the way it was before.
Long story short: DON'T Dethatch TOO AGRESSIVELY and DON'T DO IT TOO LATE in the season! Good luck out there!
I love mine I've used it 2 years in a row.. and definitely see a difference with my lawn. I've even used in my plants beds to clean it out and break up the old planting.
Before this video I was just a guy with a rake and a dream. Dethatching the old fashioned way, I used to absolutely dread it. Probably will buy a Sun Joe today!
Lol I felt that when Mr. Cool Guy drove by...... same at our house
Great video! I have the Greenworks dethatcher and used it on a small area of my lawn last year. Put new seed down and fresh bagged dirt with a manure mixture and my lawn looked really good after a 12-20 day period. Also watered the lawn after applying the dirt and seed every day for 5-10 minutes. Plan to do my whole lawn this spring. Thanks for posting.
April 22 2024: 5.6M views?!? There must be a helluva lot of thatch out there! Including me. I just came in from doing the same thing. Front yard, two passes with dethatching rake, one pass with scarifier, overseed and lightly water with rain coming tomorrow. Took a LONG time, generated a MOUNTAIN of dead grass. My situation a little different. Had large barren spots because last year I finally conquered the creeping charlie with TZone. That stuff works! The machine I bought through Amazon is MZK which also worked great. I think it's a new product. Similar price, about $110. The important thing is to get a machine with BOTH dethatching rake and scarifier attachments.
I live in AZ and have Rock in both my front and back. Why am I watching this. Good content my man
Right? I rent a townhouse and don't have to do my own landscaping. It was just such a well-made video.
Lmao me too! I had a neighbor ask me why someone else's lawn was always so green here and I had to break it to him that it was turf! That's the only grass we can really grow out here
I would like this guy for my neighbor!! Can’t go wrong with a neighbor that has pride for his house!!!!
I've been using this exact piece of law equipment for years now and attest that it works great!
When you scarify a second time you should go diagonal with your first direction, you'll overlap with the old lines less and essentially get more coverage with the grass.
I worked at a golf course and a sports complex and when we do heavy dethatching we just use the scarifier over and over going in different directions at a time, the most we've ever done at once is 8 times, You can keep going and going over you look back and see that your grass is very thin and almost dirt and that's when it's time to stop.
I agree.. the rake attachment was a waste of time for me. Scarify only..
I consciously (and immediately) noticed how well made, detailed, and thorough this video was. Then I checked your subscriber count, assuming it'd be millions. WHY IS IT NOT 😂
Because the almighty youtube algorithm rewards quantity of videos over quality.
Just bought the sun joe. What level are you using? It’s preset at midlevel
It's like a German shepherd molting: no matter how much you brush, nor how much floof comes out, there is always more.
ah, another German Shedder owner....
Birds molt. Not dogs.
Bring back old memories. I had 2 in the 70's and early 80's. When they shed, it would fill up large paper grocery bags.
@@salemdesigns65 you should google before making statements like that.
@@ferraridan4883 sparrows would hang around when brushing ours so they could steal the loose tufts of fluff for their nests.
Looks like it does a great job! If I thatched and mowed my yard that many times with that equipment in one day I'd be dead.
I have the same machine and LOVE it! I only dethatch, not scarify, but it quickly paid for itself. It’s extremely satisfying to have so much material come out, and even better a couple of weeks later when your lawn starts recovering. My neighbors still had yellow dormant lawns, while mine was looking green and lush. Four wild rabbits even hopped over from several houses away to check it out! 😂
I was wondering about the quality. The ones the gardeners use is damn near $5000 and this is $122. HUGE difference. However, you are the second person that I know has one and seems to work ok without dying.
@@grazz7865 I think the key is to not be too aggressive with it. Better to do a couple of passes if you need to.
where did you bought this machine
Thanks for the video. I got one last year and love it and showed this to my dad so he could see how much it pulls out. I learned three tricks to share with everyone.
1) propping the back chute/panel open just a bit helps to let the machine clear the debris out better.
2) Always work away from your power and it's easier to avoid the cord.
3) You need more overlap on this than a lawn mower. I found 4-5 inches was good.
Sweet Jesus .... that’s going to come out BEAUTIFUL! Can’t wait for the follow up! Great video as well!
I brought the SunJoe last year and used it in the fall before overseeding and my lawn looks pretty good right now. Got some spots to do next fall. The lawn had never been aerated, so I too had a sh*t load of thatch come up. I'm glad I brought it.
I don’t know if you will get this info being you did this a yr ago. I have an acre of property and have a sun joe. Pretty 16:15 amazing little machine. One thing I would like to share is that thatch will get inside of the casing and there is a circuit board that will short out if the thatch gets wet. The symptoms are you will start up and in a few seconds it will stop. If you take the top cover off you will have access to the inner workings including the motor and circuit board. I use my compressor to blow out all the debris. One heads up when taking off the cover. There is one last screw under the decal. Could drive you nuts if you don’t know it’s there. Lawn looks great. You did a thorough job. Good luck going forward.
before and after pictures are always appreciated, can't wait to see the after.
The first time I used mine two years ago, it pulled out nine lawn bags of cruft from my 5,000 sq ft lawn. It does wonders for letting water and nutrients get down into the soil. It’s an excellent bang for the buck purchase. SunJoe just put out a new version that’s 15” wide for folks with larger yards. I’d be happier if Ryobi started selling their cordless version again here in the US.
Crap! I did not know that. I ended up getting the shorter version. That would have been awesome.
Awesome to hear. The larger version was back ordered I really wanted it but couldnt wait.
Anyone that’s ever done this by hand knows this is moving at light speed. 😂❤I might have to buy one of these. Thanks for the video. ❤❤
After finishing the video I’m buying one this summer. That was outstanding results.
I purchased one last year and was pleasantly surprised at the results. Definitely worth the price!
I had no idea that dethatching was a thing! Yard of the month here I come! Lol
I'm thinking about getting one! Lol
@@sportsmen004 ...I'm never raking again! 😎
I leave it all in there. That’s organic material that eventually feeds the plants. If you take it out you are going to need to rely on chemical fertilizers. I moved to the desert years ago and am so happy not to have to cut grass. What a colossal waste of resources.
Cheers
Depends on their situation, I bought a new home full of thatch. Model home 2 years and they used True Green and a the cheapest mowing company.
This is very cool didn't realize how many different things there are for having Grass I live in a state that dosen't have much grass
I bought one and had no idea what I was in for. I took out so much that I was stuck with a mountain of thatch. Great vid and the Sun Joe worked flawlessly!
I bought this last year and was amazed!!!
I agree with your review on every point 100%.
Well worth the $$$.
I bought one of these earlier this spring and I was amazed. I didn't expect something so cheap to do such an awesome job. I highly recommend getting one of these to anyone who wants their lawn to look better.
Great video and well presented. I have a greenworks dethatcher that i bought 4 years ago. Its amazing what one good day of using it has done for my yard. I do mine twice a year and have had zero issues but a beautiful yard to show off.
I just bought one of the Sun Joe products and the owners manual did not have a whole lot of what I needed to do to use this product for best results. I appreciate your video and mostly followed what you did on my lawn with great results. In 1 month I am able to see new growth filling in bare spots as well as having a lawn that is very comfortable and soft when walking on it bare footed. Thank you so much for the video and how much this helped me.
I have a Greenworks one I think. My wonderful wife got it for me after watching me trying to rake out the thatch in my lawn.. she's so amazing! Thank you for this video!
Watching that grass come up is so satifying.
I know! It sounds weird but this was awesome!
I bought a Greenworks dethatcher last year and I love it. It resurrected my lawn so much that neighbors were giving me tons of compliments. I recently dethatched my backyard and it already looks healthier. I highly recommend this to everyone.
Thanks for the comment. Question for you. Would I be okay if I just used the scarifier on the yard?
This is still a great go to for Det hatching and scarifying.
Thank you.
Do it again with lessons learned
My brother in law bought a house in a really highend neighborhood 20 years ago. The previous owner had a dethatcher style lawnmower that my BIL insisted be part of the sale. Dave, like this guy, spent a weekend dethatching the lawn, it's close to a third of an acre.
Then he gets some bull manure for fertilizer and seeds it all down, sets the sprinklers to watering. Dave's an exfarmer from Iowa so he thought bull manure was a great idea. It must have been full of weed seeds. So many weeds he nuked the yard with 2-4D, could have hardly in cared less.
Man was he ticked off. ;)
Take note Ryobi. We need this in cordless with the 40volt, just like our lawnmowers.
Or a bottom attachment
Yes, we need one from Ryobi
Why cordless? Are you taking it to the space? Cordless us a waste of money.
If you would start close to you else electric plug you would not have to fold you cord all the time. Also, if you guide cord with your hand away of your pass, you will not need to touch it again.
@@Brian-R batteries for devices that could easily use cord is a waste of batteries. Plus you can get 110v, 25A from your plug, for as long as you pay electric bill.
I bought the same dethatcher last year and it worked great so far in my lawn. I had a lot of Poa Annua last year and it helped remove most of that while dethatching the lawn. I got several wheelbarrows full of thatch last year and was amazed at how easy it worked. I've already used it twice this year, and my lawn is starting to look great. Prior to last year, I had never done anything like this, and had no idea how it helps your lawn. I'm going to use your idea of going in different directions as I only went in ONE. Also, I have not used the scarifier, so I plan to borrow your idea on that too. Your videos are tons better than mine, so good job with that. Thanks.
I’ve owned one of these for 3 years. Invaluable
I like your "think out loud" approach. Tons of great thoughts and pointers. Excellent job and review.
Wow thats crazy! never would've thought there was going to be that much thatch 😳 definitely considering buying that for my yard
Yea no kidding. I just did mine now I want to redo it again after this episode
Just used my Sunjoe for the first time, I loved it. Pulled up so much and made raking it up so much easier. I couldn't believe how much it pulled up. Now I am on to overseeding and bought the Landzie spreader. I think these two items are a must for a nice lawn. Great video, thank you for your comments.
Glad to hear and thanks!
After killind my arms and shoulders with a manual dethatcher on my 6300 sq ft yard, I bought the Sun Joe from Amazon and when it arrived, it was missing one bolt. Called Sun Joe and they told me that I have to send it back to Amazon after fully assembling it. Terrible customer support. I went with the Swipesmith. They are practically all the same. I went over my lawn with just the dethatcher attachment and ended up with 19 bags of dead grass. Perfect for my winter ryegrass overseed on my never touched Bermuda lawn. These are a must for anyone serious about taking care of their yard.
in my opinion there is nothing nicer than a fresh detached lawn!
That is absolutely mind blowing how much thatch there was! You will never have to worry about your grass again!
There was a ton!
Great video and nice job. We have had the Irish equivalent version of home depot called Screwfix here and last year I got a detacher and scarifier that looks exactly like yours but a different brand.
I got sick of hiring a petrol (gas) detacher scarifier each time for €70 ($84) so invested in an electric one for €70. Best purchase ever.
I'll be honest with you there's no need to use the small rake cartridge I always use the scarifier cartridge with the longer metal bars.
I find the scarifier cartridge takes a hell of a lot more out of the lawn and also creates divots and lines that nutrients and water can get into for the grass to grow strong.
The only time I would use the rake cartridge is for if I had a lot of leaves during the fall to take out from between the blades of grass after rating the lawn. (We have a hell of a lot of trees here so gets bad) 😁
The only other step I would suggest is that in about 2 or 3 weeks to add fertilizer to your lawn to really get it boosted and green.
Great job and greetings from us here in Ireland.
Ps on a side note I'd love to know how your French drains are doing and if you had to do any maintenance since you installed them.
Awesome to hear and I was thinking almost the same thing. I will try to give update on the drains as well when I do the lawn results. Thanks!
During the pandemic I watched lots of car maintenance and repair videos. Now I want to to make my yard look beautiful
I bought a SunJoe a couple of years ago. Then I had my lawn aerated, then over seeded. It made a huge difference! I've aerated many times with over seeding before, but after using the dethatcher, everything changes for the better.
Did the exact same thing to my lawn. Just top dressed the grass seed with some peat moss. Worked great 👍
My neighbor had one and used it on his lawn. When I seen how well it worked I had to buy one myself. I love how the lawn stays green after use
My front yard is about equal in size to yours.
I picked up one of these because that thatch rake was a pain!
I parked my John Deere 1025R compact tractor in the driveway and used the bagger.
When the unit started to leave a trail, I shut it down, backed up about 6 feet, and emptied the bag into the tractors bucket.
When the tractor bucket got full, I emptied it into my compost pile with some dry leaves.
The amount I got, without the scarifiers was about equal to what you collected.
I grew up in Dayton. NCR's golf corse was always cut back in the 60s with a reel mower and lawns always had clover in them, read about the benefits of clover in your yard, you use less chemicals on your lawn and have fewer weeds like dandelions or other grasses that are weeds. Plus the clover has white flowers bees like but there are sevral types of clover. You add clover to your yard it help loosen the soil and add nitgron to the soil.
I got to say, Sun Joe seems to make a decent product. I have one of their electric tillers. I've been impressed with its performance the last couple of years. Wet, dry, hard pack don't matter. Put in pavers for a patio area and used it to loosen the dirt, thigh thick roots everywhere buried deep, worked right through and just bounced off any roots it couldn't cut.
Considering what my front lawn looks like, guess I know what my next Sun Joe toy is gonna be.
I thank you for taking the time to inform and help the rest of us lawn lovers
I am so glad to see someone demonstrate how to remove thatch. After over seeding, it makes such a difference in the way the lawn looks.
It really did help
Thanks for sharing your experience, great job 👏! It looks amazing
I love my sunjoe! Definitely helped transform my awful (previously a rental before we bought it) lawn.
Awesome good to hear
I’ve been finishing my video review of sunjoe and green works.... that I returned. I also just over seeded, and am excited to see what it looks like in a month.
I need one of these machines because I used to use a dethatching blade on my lawn mower which worked great back when mower blade height was able to be set low enough to allow the dethatching blade's tines to touch the ground. Nowadays mower manufactures seem to make their mowers with lowest blade height seeting too high to allow a dethatching blade to do any good. When I did dethatch with my mower, I cleared the thatch with a gas blower and collected it and saved it to use a mulch top dressing applied after overseeding to retain surface moisture. Nothing like being practical with nothing going to waste and it eliminates disposal of usable material. Thanks.
I watched this video then purchased the unit from Home Depot. It did exactly what your video showed and it made a huge difference. I had to kill off the moss in the lawn first as always but this time I didn’t need to spend hours taking. The machine is worth every penny.
How did you kill the moss? I can't seem to get rid of it in the shady areas of my lawn
Amazing how much thatch you pulled out of your lawn, looking forward to see how the lawn takes the new seed and how healthy it becomes.
As someone who’s yard still doesn’t look good no matter what I do I need this! This might be the game changer! I wanna see the updates on how his yard looks over the next few weeks!
Easiest thing to do is core aerate. 2 maybe even 3 times a year. Also seed when you do it. Also make sure you are buying good seed when you do it! High end golf course aerate 3+ times a year, but they don't detach ever.
As a Amazon driver I have delivered so many dethatchers recently. I had no idea what they where until this video
I have used this machine too. Amazing tool with amazing results. Cheap and very handy!
I have one for a few years and works great. With a permanent marker I made marks on the body of unit to better tell where the blade ends are positioned for more accurate positioning.The unit pulls itself along. Lawn can look kind of raw afterwords but after some seed and growth its well worth the temporary raw look. Another thing the scarifier does is it helps to break up hard uneven spots on lawn smoothing and flattening the lawn. I bought the Sun Joe because the motor, based on amperage, seemed more powerful (durable) than other units I compared it to. I wouldn't be to concerned about doing it again in the fall if the lawn looks thick n healthy and in the spring perhaps only dethatch,scarifiying is very aggressive and is more for rehabing and not maintaining.
I was looking for something, not expensive like this,thanks!!
Buy a dethacher blade for your lawnmower, only 15 bucks, does the same thing.
@@Mike588 i look at it!
Good to hear, for the price this thing works great
Thank you for making this video!! I know it takes a lot of time. Especially, when you already have a lot of work on your lawn.
My buddy just sent me this video…. I told him I just met you and my friend Ryan’s wedding and my wife started following you! Small world!
Great video! Definitely looking at this dethatcher now!
After 3 years of TH-cam videos, why is it recommending me this NOE?
This is genius!
Combing out all that shit in the lawn.... fantastic.
Lightweight is good and what did I use it for it’s a lawnmower th-cam.com/users/postUgkxTPN04aT-Qdjr_KS3ql7ng8wnU3wwsCqk also recommend Yes it is lightweight so hence not as robust as our old one. But if you take care it does the job really well.
my head exploded when i saw the thumbnail; i wondered if there was something out there for dethatching! and $120 is not bad @ all! thanks for posting this vid, you mayve helped my lawn and my sanity.😁
What I found crazy is once you go over it with the rake cylinder and think "Wow there's loads" Put the scarifier cylinder on. You'll get almost double. It's an eye-opener just how thick it can build up to.
First thing I did was look for a follow up vid, there was none so will have to subscribe... Really liked how you did this!
So satisfying to watch the grass being popped out from the machine. Great video, full of to-the-point info. Thank you and look forward to seeing how it turns out
Thanks, I appreciate it!
I need to do this. Moved into this house last fall. Previous owner did just enough to keep it looking decent. I've done what I can so far, but I do believe the thatch buildup is crowding out some of my good grass. I've finally got it weed and clover free, fertilize regularly, water as needed, mow high during the summer...still getting yellow patches. So we'll see if dethatching helps!
This thing rocks I was not able to get to the yard soon enough in the spring, so I don’t have my results yet, but the amount of debris that came out of the yard was overwhelming and filled up two trash cans. The front yard I just did yesterday finally, and it filled up our trashcan as well.
I learned on the front yard that doing it in one direction, and then going back and scarifying it the other way really got almost everything up off of the dirt.
I have some bare spots which I believe are due to reflection off of the walls of our building and windows, along with water saturation, but also the ground being so compacted and needing a refresh with topsoil, but using this tool has made it quick to get all of the junk out from between the grass and I look forward to using the metal auger to aerate the soil mix in some seed with some topsoil cover with a tarp and who knows maybe in a month I’ll be able to patch up some of these bears, but but by next year the lawn should be looking really great .
The previous homeowners just didn’t even give a damn and on top of that we have voles that have made tunnels everywhere so I finally driven them out of the yard but I’ve got to go back and fill everything in level everything off and doing that with two boys and dogs is kind of a chore.
A lot of people say that the bag is too small it is but if you bring your receptacle to where you’re working after making two passes you pull it off you empty it you put it back on and you just get used to it at first I was mad that I would have to take the thing off so often, but then I realized this thing is saving me from raking my entire yard by hand, and it would take me many more hours to do that so I gladly got on board and started using the small turf catcher and I was done before I even knew it. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be.
Last thing I wanted to put in was, I took a piece of strapping and had it over the back, and I had drilled a hole and put a rivet into the main body of the machine, but I did not pull the rivet all the way out because that would go through the holes that were in this plastic strap and then I put another rivet on the other side of the flap that lifts up so when I’m not using the bag I can take the strap lift it up and slide the rivet stem into the hole of the strap so it holds up the shoot now of course I don’t have it opened up all the way but I have it opened up just enough so that it will come back and exit the machine and also not go flying into my shins but this helped me work through the yard to loosen everything up before putting on the basket to catch everything to dump it into the container.
Amazing customer service also. Mine broke when scarifier hit a hidden tree root and they sent me a new unit.
My unit overheated and stop running. Called customer service and they sent a new one. Afterwards I realized only the thermal cutout needed to be reset and it started immediately, but new unit had already arrived. Felt bad sending back a running unit.
I really would like to see how it turns out in a few weeks. I'm sure it's going to be amazing! Great vid, I like your honest review and your matter of fact way of telling the story.
Core Aerating 2 times a year will give you way more results
@@TehMunch1 not for Bermuda grass. Aerating kills the grass and changes the grow pattern.
Wow! I'm impressed how much dead grass was in! I'll look for the update! Great job!
I have one of these SunJoe’s and it’s the best! Could not believe how well it worked. Thought the electric motor would fail but it held up great. Going on four years with it now. Use a 12 gauge cord.