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Transcript

Cold Open And Spring Kickoff

SPEAKER_04 0:00

If we could create an automatic pooper scooper. You pick a niche like that if you like your golden. I'd love to see some content around it though.

SPEAKER_02 0:07

Guess the dog by the shit pile. Yeah. Kind of a thing. It's a family pro. We'll talk about this shit afterwards.

SPEAKER_04 0:16

Alright, so spring is here, which means every dude and their mother are itching to get outside and work on their yard or their garden or literally anything that they can. They're itching to spend money, buy new stuff that they've been getting pummeled with advertisements with. So today we're diving into it. I know myself personally being on crutches and then watching my grass grow, I am just dying to get outside and do some yard work. And I know the boys here both thoroughly enjoy it as well. But before we get into ranking anything or what we'd buy or whatnot, Sam, do you have anything prepared for the boys today?

Dean's Diner Chocolate Pie Test

SPEAKER_03 0:51

I do. I was uh actually in Blairsville, Pennsylvania yesterday to pick up my dog from uh from my my my in-laws. I was gonna say that's quite a hike for just No, they met us Yeah, they met us halfway at the world famous Dean's Diner, which I've spoken very highly about. So I actually made Dean's Diner? Oh yeah, it was whenever we it was when we had that schmorgish board of breakfast items. I think we were talking about diners, but I managed to procure a slice of their chocolate pie. I actually got three slices of their chocolate pie, but two of them took a tumble this morning. They're in the fridge. I thought we could each take a bite and pass it down. It's been through a lot. It's a solid day old. The meringue has separated from the chocolate. The crust is saturated with moisture, and it seems as if the chocolate itself is splitting like the roads in Pennsylvania. So it's it's not in its best state, but I will say I tried a bite and it's still the flavor is still peak. It's still there. I'll start us off here. I'll get it.

SPEAKER_06 1:50

It looks so bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

No, no, Joe. Don't don't eat with your eyes. Close them. Just eat blindly with your mouth. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

It looks so bad.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

The meringue's deteriorating as we speak. Come on. Flavor's still there. I'm gonna take a bite pass it to Joe. I can see he's excited.

SPEAKER_04 2:10

Is the texture baby food?

SPEAKER_01 2:12

It's it's a a little bit above baby food. I'm you're lucky I like pie, because I'm not a I'm not a cake guy at all. The meringue. Make sure you get a little chocolate in there.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 2:22

It's like cutting through air. Yeah. So this is this what they're it's like.

SPEAKER_03 2:27

They had like literally like 25 different pies. The woman read them all off was too fast. You should there's nothing special about that. Yo, whoa, whoa! Absolutely nothing.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

That's a Dean Diner pie. Put a little respect on that. For being a day old, it's solid. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:46

I'm not a fan of chocolate pie. Yeah, I know. There's like absolutely no reason that pie should exist to me. I mean, I love chocolate. What's your favorite pie? Oh, I mean pumpkin all day. 100% hands down. Uh something that's not a holiday theme pie. Well, I don't eat pie consistently, but like I'm taking uh coconut cream over that. Okay, uh, I do like coconut cream. I'm taking it. I'm taking just like a lemon tart, which you could consider a pie because it's kind of pie shell.

Coconut Opinions And Millennial Drinking

SPEAKER_03 3:11

I was considering getting the coconut cream, but I didn't know if either of you would be opposed to coconut. I feel like you either love or hate coconut. I feel like as adults, like you just coconut becomes part of life. I had I had this exact conversation with Kristen. I was like, that was the day I knew I became an adult was when I started enjoying coconut.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Actually, I don't like coconut. Not there yet. I I I'll I'll eat it. It's not like I like I get I don't hate it to where I'll I'll avoid it.

SPEAKER_04 3:37

I just like have you had like coconut chips? Like I've never had just like flakes of coconut. No. So first off, phenomenal macros and health benefits to them. So it'd be worth on your end, worth a try for that. Because like you you get it. It's a great fat source, you get great energy boosts, it's really clean.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

I think there's a lot of other things that are probably in that ballpark where I can enjoy it more than the Well, I'm well that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 4:01

It's just it's worth a try because you might enjoy it. Like when I was younger, I was like not about it at all. And then I don't know what it was. It was something like converted me over at some point. Like toasted coconut, I think might be it. Like toasted coconut is the gateway drug to coconut joy.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

I like coconut on like an ase ebo or something.

SPEAKER_04 4:18

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

I just like like coconut candy. I'm not a big see almond joys are what almond joys are almond joys. I hate almond joystick.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

So I I despised them when I was younger, and my old man would always take them out of like our dad. Yeah. And now that I'm an adult, I'd eat my kids.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

Almond joys. It's that's so funny. It was the exact same experience. I used to go trick-or-treating with a buddy of mine, and his dad would be like, You guys can go through your candy, give me all the almond joys. I was like, what a sicko. He's like for punishment. Like now he realized he was playing us.

SPEAKER_04 4:52

Yeah, he was getting like the best flavored. I don't know. So I think toasted coconut is the gateway to like enjoying coconut. I'm just I'm just I'm not judging you for it, because I will say coconut is divisive. I just unlike it's not like saying that like something that is actually good sucks.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

I know people willingly buy coconut water and drink that. Like, I I don't like is it really that good for you?

SPEAKER_03 5:12

Because it is rough.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

Maybe it's good for you, but just the straight coconut water, I just can't enjoy a can of it or whatever they are. Well, the containers, they're containers.

SPEAKER_04 5:21

Remember, I come from that millennial generation where like we just don't care what things taste like. Like most of us were just like, I don't know. I feel like that's not true. I feel like I feel like millennials care more than what kids millennials are way, way, way more sophisticated in their taste because we were all 20-something just trying to get as up as possible. And we were like, whatever booze was available, we drank it. Didn't care what it tasted like.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

I think there are two different spectrums.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

No, no, you just dulled your ability to care because you cared more about getting effed up. And then because of that, now you appreciate the taste. So we've just consumed so much stuff. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

You guys created the avocado toast trend. You guys created the millennial burger. Oh, I mean, they're awful. But that's because of eating dogs.

SPEAKER_05 6:06

It's just a stupid like give me put some eggs on it, it tastes great. But now it's a breakfast sandwich. It's not toast.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

Well, it's a piece of toast, thin layer of avocado, and then some eggs, some scrambled guys on there.

SPEAKER_04 6:17

Yeah, and then you take the other piece of toast, put on a tool, put some talkies on it for some crunch or something. I'm I'm not knocking it. I like avocado on toast.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

We took the millennial shitty inventions and made them better, Pola.

SPEAKER_04 6:29

Your generation hasn't done a fing. That's done except crying. That's right. You're the only two people in your age group that work in America. How quickly.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

I will say how quickly the millennials have switched up because they said the same thing about you guys when we were in high school.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

Boomers said that about us.

SPEAKER_03 6:45

They're like, that's the me, me, me generation. That's and I'm not sticking up for all millennials.

SPEAKER_04 6:50

I mean, there's a there's millennials that have like are just trying their hardest to ruin the world. But I will say that those that aren't in that boat are are just like just got way too drunk on way too many things. Now your taste buds are sophisticated, and things like coconut make sense because if someone showed up to a party with a bottle of Malibu rum, which uh have either one of you ever indulged? I have. Yeah, coconut rum. Yeah, it's gross. But you don't care because you're trying to get fucked up. So you're drinking that shit.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

You know what's funny? Malibu rum, maybe people knew what they were doing. It was the first alcohol I had underage, and it made me not drink alcohol until I was 21. I had like a sip of it. Like, you want to try this? Yeah, I took a sip. It wasn't good. And like I didn't drink, I I hated alcohol because of that. I thought all alcohol tasted that poorly. But then I found out it's just it's the coconut rum that just wasn't good. No, it's not. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_04 7:39

But if someone showed up and you're trying to get you're trying to tie one on, and that's all you got, you're drinking. That's how millennials work. I just chose to not drink. You guys are drinking. Goldschwager, like all kinds of garbage. That's me and my my crew, my boys, everyone I know, most people from Pittsburgh that are my age.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

You know what? You guys are weird with alcohol because I have a cousin that's your age, right? And he doesn't drink alcohol anymore, but he enjoys drinking, and so he'll have non-alcoholic Guinnesses. And I remember mentioning that to you guys, and you guys were like, that's normal. Like, what's wrong with that? And I'm like, that's the weirdest thing ever.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

I don't know if I I might have been on the guinness. The Guinness is the only one that's normal with because the flavor is so much.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

But non-alcoholic?

SPEAKER_03 8:19

I don't see the point.

SPEAKER_04 8:20

What are you drinking it for? I'm with Joe here. I don't see the point in drinking non-alcoholics.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

All those calories, you're not even normally if you pound a Guinness, maybe you're getting buzzed and hammered, but like there's no alcohol to me that tastes good enough to drink it without the alcohol.

SPEAKER_03 8:32

I will say though, whenever I did like at Sober October, I went to a wedding and I had like non-alcoholic Budweisers. I feel like if you're at like a social event.

SPEAKER_04 8:39

I'm just drinking iced tea. Why? Because why drink the calories of the I mean you're getting a lot of sugar from the tasty. No, no, no. Unsweetened all day. Just give me the caffeine and the ice.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Unsweetened iced tea is amazing.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

Yeah, but I feel like I don't know. I feel like with the thing is too, if you're drinking non-alcoholic beer, you could literally like I probably was just nursing one for like an hour. It's not like you're like one after another. It's not that many calories.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

I guess I drink all of my beers, one after another, so I never just like sip one. So I would not I would do the same thing with non-alcoholics so I just would rather not drink.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Are you still not drinking? Are you still having to be dabbling?

Beer While Mowing And Yard Nostalgia

SPEAKER_04 9:14

Uh I'm just not as often. I had a couple drinks two or three weeks ago. Just like a you know, high noon. I was making pizza just sitting there by myself, and it was like 40 degrees out. So I just watched a fire and had a couple. But anyway, it's gonna warm up. That this is a great segue because I feel like one of the big things about spring and summer, especially with lawn care, is a lot of people, yourself included, like to crack a beer, hop on the tractor, and mow the lawn. Personally, it's always been work for me, so I never done that ever. It's always been like job, job, job, job, job, job. It's the only way I made money as a kid. I still have yet to have a real job. Um which today's day and age, I feel like in some of these like products, like like tractors specifically, they like lean super hard into that like leisure activity of like, you know, they give you like an iPad stand somewhere to put your put your drinks in like a tray table, right? You're like out there having yourself a little party while you're cutting the grass. You should enjoy yourself. But it uh it reminded me of when we did the gas versus electric last year. And like you had that super bare bones gas version of a tractor. It was basically just like a steering column and a deck. It was great, it was great. The Coke cadet. We still have the electric, and it's legitimately like it's like a spaceship. Like you turn it on, it's like a and it's got all these bells and whistles. So in that, it's been like what a year, year and a half? Yeah, almost a year. I feel like we walk in the store now and there's just so many more electric outdoors things, and I'm a huge fan of the electric yard and garden stuff.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

I think gas is still it's pretty prevalent just where you go.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

I will say that you do see significantly less gas than you did. And this man obviously was wrong because it's been over two years now, but I remember being in a Home Depot two years ago. He said, You better get these while you can. He's like, Briggs and Stratton is done. He's like, they're gonna get rid of all the gas mowers. I'm like, all of them?

SPEAKER_04 11:17

He's like, Oh yeah, they're all gone. This is why you don't listen to random people spewing things in Home Depot.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

Did you?

SPEAKER_03 11:25

No, I have believe it or not, surprisingly, I use an electric lawnmower at my house, but it's only because I have like a tiny yard. Yeah, I've got the smallest yard in the world, and it's super light, so I've got hills and it's just great because I can one-hand it up the hill like this.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

When I lived in the city, having a gas-powered lawnmower was the worst. Because you're not cutting your yard, it's not extensive, it's like a 20-30-minute cut. But then you're storing gas, you're storing oil, you don't have a shed, it's in the house, the house stinks, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:56

And you have a car, you're transporting gas in a car.

SPEAKER_04 11:59

Correct. And so, like the electric when I was living in us in the city was was phenomenal. And I I still carry that over today. Because it it and I'm unless you're like a landscaper or you have like a large yard, I think that at a minimum, the weed whacker, the the leaf blower, the the hedge trimmer, the pole saw, like that kind of shit, I think it's phenomenal what they're doing in the in the electric category.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

I I agree, especially for a lot. I feel like there's a lot of people that have like small yards that are more like do-it-yourselfers that like would own gas mowers, not maintain them properly, and they're going through mowers every couple years, like it's not starting, it's not starting. We just let gas sit in it, the car probably just needs clean, but they don't know, and that's like I'm gonna pitch it. At least the battery ones for people that do have these like small lawns, it's like stick the battery in, it goes. There's no maintenance, there's no like troubleshooting. Fact. Even that mower I have, it runs off an 18-volt Ryobi battery. I bought it used off Facebook Marketplace. Used. It was like 40 bucks, and it was I bought it three years ago. It still runs perfectly. I put a new blade on it this year. I'm like, it just won't die. So that's great.

SPEAKER_04 13:06

And you don't have to do I I'm I'm I'm huge with you on that. Like no engine maintenance between cutting season and off season, especially for us that like you only cut you know seven months of the year.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Yeah, especially in our climate.

SPEAKER_04 13:20

And I I I'm just like, I don't think I'll ever go back. I one thing I love that I think it's under underestimated is like if you have the need for help or support by like, let's say, your spouse or in-laws, cousin, brother, literally anybody, the ease of them grabbing the tool and trying to do the thing is so much more approachable with electric. Oh yeah. Right? If you're like getting your ass kicked and you're, you know, mowing the lawn or something, and your wife's like trying to get some exercise and wants to help, giving her an electric push mower is so much easier than her trying to fire up the big ass, you know, gas-powered one for at least in my experience. So like I don't I don't even I don't cut my own grass anymore. I'm lazy bum. Um but like my wife would like to do it solely for the exercise. She's like, oh I'll get outside, get some fresh air, get some stuff. She's like, I'll push the yard, or you know, I mean, I'll I'll try. I feel like the gas-powered one, I'm like concerned she's gonna like you know, do something to herself or the engine. So the electric just gets it done, and you don't have to like coach someone up. And I feel like every single gas-powered lawnmower out there, like I grew up, my my old man he ran a little side hustle cutting grass, right? He had like 30 yards that Jeffrey and I would help him with. And he had a uh steel deck lawn boy. That thing is bulletproof. He had a lawn boy. I was about to go in a whole rant about that. That's a phenomenal mower. The most incredible push mower to ever exist. Lawn boy takes the cake. I mean, I would honestly, if I could get a lawn boy hat, I would wear it every day because my my soul, my soul bleeding is lawn boy. Oh, they're incredible. So, but it was heavy as hell. But they were so like they weren't finicky, they started up like all 99% of the time. Two-stroke. But you had to like sweet talk her, you had to be gentle with her, yeah. Right? And if I did anything to F that thing up, my dad would just cuss me out because that was his like baby guard. We ran that thing for like 20 years. I I think I used that from when I was seven years old until I was like 27, right? He still has it.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

When I used uh, because when I was in college, I used to do like small engine repair on the side, and you don't know how many people had their OG lawn boys from like the 70s that were still running, and like that's why they're finicky to start, they're two-stroke, so it's like a weed whacker engine where there's no oil or anything. So like open it. Yeah, and but it's great though, because you can mow sideways on a hill, whatever, and you don't have to worry about anything spinning. But those mowers they ran forever, they're so good. It's a shame they're owned by like Troy built or something now, and they're they're just dog shit now, they're just four-stroke like regular lawn mowers.

SPEAKER_04 15:54

But that's the thing, it's like I grew up with that elite two-stroke, and now it's a four-stroke, so now I'm just confused. Yeah. Like I don't know where I'm at, right? And then on top of it, uh the nostalgia for me, like they came out with a magnesium deck when I was young. Yes, right? So it was super light. I thought it was aluminum, but I was told it was a magnesium or something. Anyway, it was a lighter deck. My dad was the only one allowed to use that. Yeah. Jeffrey and I had to push the steel deck, right? And uh, and it was awesome. Then we got another one at some point, and that had it had a um a like walk behind, right? That broke, and so that's where like they started to go downhill. It it was just like, oh man, I don't understand it. And then I think I guess everyone eliminated two-stroke, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:35

Not that. Yeah, I don't think I don't think any, I don't think there's any like push mowers that are two strokes anymore. Uh yeah, I think lawn boy, they were the first they were the first ones to do a lot of stuff. I think they were the first ones to do a rear bagging system and something.

SPEAKER_04 16:47

Oh, it was such a good mower. Oh, yeah. And then then that leads me to one of the favorite things that ever existed in my in my life on the side of the road was the lawnmower graveyard driveway where you'd have some random guy doing small engine repair with just a driveway full of lawnmowers, right? Yeah, you'd come in and he'd you need like a spark plug or a nut. It was only available on another mower. You couldn't order a part, right? So this guy just had mowers laying. There was all over the place where I grew up. I mean, there was one like in every neighborhood, there was a guy with with a driveway full of lawnmowers.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:22

Those are those days are gone.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

We had a guy in our neighborhood, his name was Lloyd. He was like the Lloyd, he was the lawnmower repair man. He's also the man I learned the term super duper from. What are you doing this weekend? I'm gonna go get a super duper. Like, all right, hey, relax. Can we get a flashback on a super duper?

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SPEAKER_03 19:11

I I feel like for like I said, for oh, you said we're leaving like the tractors out, just push mowers? Yeah, I don't tractors. I I think that the the as long as if you I don't think gas is dead, assuming you're not someone that lives in like uh like a well-maintained, like small little neighborhood. Because I will say, like, even the nicer battery mowers, like there's nothing better than like a gas mower with the power, the unlimited run time. So I give you a lot of things.

SPEAKER_04 19:37

If you don't get the degradation of the power over the time of the battery getting lower, you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

Oh yeah, and you know, especially with like chainsaws, weed whackers, things like that. That's where I do feel like it's like like a weed whacker, like even the nicer battery weed whackers, I still prefer a gas one if you're hogging through a lot. If if you're just doing basic stuff, then the battery. What are you hogging through? You cutting out fields of plastic. You should see the back of my uh the back of my house. It's gorgeous. There's so many, like, there's so many plants and flowers and stuff, but like if you don't maintain it, it'll turn into like a jungle. And I've tried to use my battery weed whacker. Is it the Ryobi? It's the Ryobi. Maybe the bigger ones might do a better job, but I will say I borrowed my dad's still or steel, however you say it. That thing was just like they're just it's so nice.

SPEAKER_04 20:21

I feel like steel's on its own, like tier. I feel like I'm like like so like Joe's family owns a lot of property, right? Like, not ideal for battery at all.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Around the house, like they have the Milwaukee one. Milwaukee makes a really nice uh Wee Whacker. Yeah, their Wee Whacker's nice. You just like it's the batteries. You have to have good batteries. You know, you're spending the same it arguably is. I mean, maybe it will last longer, but you have to buy fuel over and over again. But they still like he had to buy two of those uh four of the forge batteries they just released. Yeah. It's the eight amp hour forges. And it, you know, you get the whole house done with both of them, but you know, two batteries for a whole house for edging, that's like holy shit. You know, eight hundred dollars later and you're yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 21:05

I guess in the lifetime of it, the trade-off is like you don't ever have to go by gas.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

I think like edgers, you need a a gas edger. I've never found a good electric edger. Yeah. I mean, you I've always used a shovel, but then I found out they have like ones you could just put it on. Yeah, we were using the like you know, the half moon. Yeah, and you're I hate that thing. And then you find out like as you get to an adult that you could have just purchased this.

Electric Tools Attachments And Oddballs

SPEAKER_04 21:25

Oh, there's some incredible. So I love industry-specific tools in lawn and garden. They are so freaking cool.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

We're testing one. Um we're filming this before we do a uh Ryobi Lawn and Garden video.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

I bought online, they didn't sell it in store. They have an electric hoe.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Joe, this is a family program. We'll talk about this shit afterwards. Relax. Why the easy six?

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Could you imagine like me? What do you think this entails, an electric hoe? Because I watched a how to video because I read that listing, just like what is this? Why is this?

SPEAKER_04 21:57

I don't understand how you can. I can't even picture my what would. Electric, does it like go down and pull back?

SPEAKER_00 22:02

So here it's the laziest shit you'll ever see in your life. It has like a head on it. You put the battery in it and you set it down and press a button, and on the head it goes it's a scoop. Kind of, but like it pulls back a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 22:16

Did you see this? No, yeah. Yeah. Since we haven't got You're not wrong calling it the laziest shit you've ever seen.

SPEAKER_05 22:23

How could you need this?

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Hold on.

SPEAKER_04 22:25

What? You gotta be kidding me, right?

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah, it I watched this video and I bought it out of spite because I'm like, it'll be good for content, but it pissed me off wasting hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_04 22:37

Not sponsored. Oh my gosh. What? It's like uh it's it's like what a rotor rototiller's like like dumb cousin would be. This is so stupid.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

I feel like this would make it more difficult.

SPEAKER_04 22:54

I don't like that in slow motion like that. No, that's so weird. That's so stupid. Ryobi! This is this is all this honestly, this is what makes Ryobi great and the worst at the same time. I could do all of that with a weed whacker. A weed whacker, uh, maybe uh, I don't know, a rake? A shovel? A manual hoe.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Just a manual hoe. You get done in the half the time. Right?

SPEAKER_04 23:14

You don't need a battery or that like here's We're gonna have to test it. Oh, for sure. Here's the thing with me though, that's what makes Ryobi, I think, one of my in the last five years I've completely converted. Like one of my favorite brands. Because they're like, they don't give a shit. They're gonna push the limit with a tool like that. And you'll never you'll never see that on on like DeWalt or on Milwaukee or from like because they know that that is dumb as hell.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

I feel like these outdoor tools are becoming more friendly to to people, as you said earlier, that just drink alcohol and do their lawns.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

Yeah, it's just like have a good time in your backyard.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

Growing up on more property, I never like whenever we labor. Well, yeah, it was I never even thought to drink because there's also the other reality of some of these are like high-powered machines. Yeah. You shoot a rock the wrong way. I'm in full, like, you know, pants, uh, hoodie, gloves, boots in like 90 degree weather, weed whacking or on a mower and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Now you can't be drinking while you're weed whacking, but you have the pro oh my god, you you're that property.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

Hop on your zero turn. Anytime you get over an acre of of land, I'm a firm believer you need gas and you can't drink because you kick up so much grass, the wind blows. The wind blows, you get grass in a drink. There's a cup holder, but like drinking fast.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

You can't just leave it sitting there.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

There's bumps and it's a it's not like it's just a smooth sailing of a ride. You're bumping the whole team.

SPEAKER_04 24:40

It's always been work for me. From the day I was allowed to cut grass, it was labor. I'm there with you. And you want to there's no joy.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

When I when I live down south, I remember there was this guy he told me uh his dad used to work on a farm and they would take siestas midday. He's like, he's like, we would like I don't know what kind of farm they worked on, but he's like around like noon, you go have like four or five drinks and you get back out, work another eight hours. It's like your siesta while you're mowing. You could that's what that's what they would I think that's like a European thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

This is the exact mower we have without the cap for our fields. How do you now how do you how do you have a drink with this?

SPEAKER_03 25:17

That's not a truck, that's a heavy machine, that's heavy equipment. I will give you that. Now, if you're driving that, it's literally this without the roof. Yeah, maybe you just have a few while you're driving.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

And even a groundhog hole in this, you think the world's gonna end. Everything's gonna break. Dude, the whole thing flows.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

But if you're just riding a zero turn, then you're a picking.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

You have two hands. If if I if we had a ride on mower that was just one wheel, I think I'd be inclined to drink more. But also, you know, cutting grass for me as a child took eight hours of a day on a Saturday. Imagine like an app I would be hammered.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

Like, let's say you're just pounding them the whole time.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Well, what you know There's go or don't go to the code. I'm gonna drink, I'm gonna enjoy it. I can't just half ass the drinking because then I'll half ass the lawn. I gotta I'm just saying I'm I'm like I'm not against it. I just don't I didn't grow up in the way to think that it was acceptable. We may have to include this in the test.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

We could. We could go go drink for drink while mowing? We need a volunteer lot if anyone's got it.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Can you imagine if those uh they started putting the electric ones? You know how in cars nowadays they have like the lane assist? Yeah. They started putting it in mowers. Yeah, yeah.

Where To Spend Or Save Big

SPEAKER_04 26:31

You're veering off and just ridiculous, and I love it. I think uh I think for the most part though, we can all kind of agree where you want to be spending your money and saving and where you want to be saving it. So like straight up, uh we got a couple things that we wanted to go through here. Joe, run us through them categorically.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Um first up, your mower. Should you spend or save? Spend all day. What do you mean by spend or save?

SPEAKER_00 26:59

Like if you're gonna cheap out on on Facebook, if you're if you just bought a house or you want to get into buying stuff, like where should you put your money?

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Yeah, 100% spend, 100% spend.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

Yeah, your mower can do you I've seen some crazy shit with mowers. People you know cut whole garden beds down with them, and you can cut some of the stuff.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

No, dude, I mean you can do 90% with mowers now, so like that they're still pretty standard, but you have the round side for edging and then the blower side, but you get some of them that have double round edges, right? And then they're also like my buddy's got like a 27-inch deck toro walk behind, like mower that's not commercial. You can make a pretty big decks, and that thing actually rips, it's got two blades underneath, and it doesn't have the blower side, so he can it like it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Well, you can get grass collection if you have a good ride-on mower, or even a good push mower, and then on top of that, you have um tow hitches on a lot of them nowadays. Plow hitches if you have a driveway, you can easily you know fit, and it's like if you're gonna get something decent, might as well invest in the street. Yeah, that's the other issue, is the storing all day. So the yeah, the mower's gonna get you mower's a great investment. Um would you say push like a push mower? Does it have to be self-propelled? I I think it depends 100%.

SPEAKER_03 28:13

I don't like with I guess it depends on your circumstance, because like where I live, like with all the hills and stuff, it'd be more of a hindrance. Like mine, because it's not self-propelled, it's so light, like you could just push it anywhere you want. But if you if you got a flat area self-propelled all the way.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

What about a zero turn versus a regular ride-on? I think it depends on yard size.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

Yeah, I feel like you only I feel like a lot of people think they need a zero turn, but I feel like unless you've got like some true fields, like some property, you're probably fine with just the regular ride-on.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

The the zero turns are nice if you have like a bunch of shit in the yard. Like so my old house had all those trees. Yeah. Zero term is great for like ripping around the trees. Going around them. Because and then you they also go really fast. Like you can get the larger deck, you got, but I'm pretty sure you can get like a 52-inch deck on a on a ride-on nowadays, which is which is pretty damn big. Um, but yeah, the the the other thing too is like the commercial guys, a lot of them are on these ride, the stand behinds. And that's where you can get because because your center of gravity changes on the ride behind. I never on the hillside.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

I never understood those. Honestly.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

That's the thing. If you have hills, because your center of gravity changes on the ride behind, you think about it, it moves as it moves behind and down, so it elongates the center of gravity. You can get on more steep inclines when the zero turn, your center of gravity is really high. So, like, you know, my old house, Jeff, Jeff and I like couldn't cut the one hill that was on the downside of the house with the zero turn. We had to push the whole thing because it was you'd flip, you'd flip it. And same thing with a ride-on. So, like, that's then it's obviously pretty brilliant. You watch those guys are ripping too.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

You could also get a regular ride-on mower for you know, it's they're expensive, but a couple grand or even less if you want something smaller.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Have a ton of utility.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

If you want a good quality zero turn, you're at like seven. Yeah, minimum. Nowadays, like you some of the bigger ones they make for if you have a huge piece of property, you're looking at like 20 grand.

SPEAKER_05 30:08

Oh, yeah, they're like that's insane. They're like cars. They are cars. You can get them with cabins.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

You can finance them. Like, yeah, you can. You got I mean, you should finance anything nowadays.

SPEAKER_04 30:16

You got an MM up here and beaver, you know, they get you set up zero, you know, not sponsored.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

Okay, what about a weed whacker or a string trimmer? Uh spend or save.

SPEAKER_03 30:26

I feel save unless you've got a lot of brush. But if you're just weed whacking around your house, little stuff like that, just get a cheap one.

SPEAKER_04 30:33

Yeah, I would also say save. Like you can get into a super cheap weed whacker, it's gonna be pretty damn close to what a really high-end one is. Unless you're looking for like utility and versatility and you want to get into some like big old motor and you want to swap heads and do all kinds of shit. Like, that's where I feel like you're closer to like the commercial side. Like, if you're just an everyday guy or girl and you want to just weed whack around your flower beds in your house. See, I would say go with the cheapest one they got at Walmart.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

I would say spend. Only because if you have a good weed whacker, you could probably do a lot of the other work. And they make so many attachments for like a nice electric one.

SPEAKER_04 31:04

I mean, yeah, I have one.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

You can get a pole saw in the same uh weed whacker. Right, but you spend a little bit, you get the nicer Milwaukee weed whacking. I mean, it's sweet, but ego has all those attachments.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

Yeah, yeah. I think it's not you know, I don't think it's worth it. The only reason, too, I would say to go with the cheaper one is that like my Ryobi one, even though it's weak as shit for like basic weed whacking, it's also it's so light. It's the lightest thing ever.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

The lightness is where I'm at too. That the mil I have to do. The lightness does make a difference. You have to throw the strap on the thing so damn big.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

Yeah, it makes you a man though. No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

It makes you tired.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

It calluses your hands and your brain.

SPEAKER_04 31:39

I think it calluses other ways. That thing's your brain.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

I I'll have to bring it in. My uh my dad, it's this ancient pulling. You'd actually love this thing. It's like a push miller, but it's a weed whacker. It's a it's a pushmiller. It's got fields. And it has like three levels of string and it takes this thick ass beaded string. You should see the damage that thing does. It is honestly terrifying to run. It only has two wheels, so you have to hold it upright. Uh oh. If you dip dip into the ground. It is essentially. I don't know. I can't find a photo of it, but I'll have to bring it in.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

Yeah, it I've seen what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

It's got like the pointy, yep, like they'll it's like this, but imagine this, but just from the nineties.

SPEAKER_04 32:24

I'm ancient.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

Yeah, that's not something pleasant to look at.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

No, that thing also has been sitting in a shed longer than it's ever ran, I think. That thing needs something every time you go to use it.

SPEAKER_03 32:36

I love that thing.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Yeah, I've tried. I've tried. That's the story. Why would you get rid of that, you know? What if we needed? Yeah, like what if we needed is the the saying of my life. Yeah. What about leaf blowers?

SPEAKER_04 32:48

I cannot advise enough for an electric leaf blower. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

Yeah. I was about to say that's probably one of the best things to happen with like the conversion to electric stuff. Because like before that, like we we bought that awful gas leaf blower, the cheap one, the cheapest one you can get from Walmart. And it like barely worked. Even my little Bosch one, like the handheld one. Incredible. Oh, I could use it for most of my lawn care stuff.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

You find other things to use. I feel like if you have a gas one, you don't ever want to touch it. It's the last thing you grab on a job to blow off your driveway and the walkway. But if you have an electric one, like I'm doing snow off my vehicles. I'm doing snow all winter if it's light enough, right? But like I'll go blow off the kids' um like trampoline real quick or like the deck or something if I need to, because it's so easy to just grab and use it. I mean, I've like I'll use it all year round all the time because it's electric and there's no smell, there's no startup, there's no stale gas, there's no worry about spark plugs or carburetors or nothing. I'm can't be a fan off. Unless you're doing big ass shit commercial wise, you need to put it with the backpack. Yeah. That's it. That's the only I feel like it's should be get rid of all handheld gas unless and I mean, unless you're in the field and like charging batteries a pain in the ass for you. Yeah. But then then backpacks. But we did see a backpack, Milwaukee on my Mother's Day shopping spree. A backpack? Milwaukee. So it's coming out Monday. It's coming out two days after this comes out, our shopping spree. I almost bought that as my big ticket item for the Mother's Day. But Milwaukee makes a backpack blower now. It's a thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

That's insane. You just feel like you're about to take off, which would be rad. You should see the battery slots in the back. They go on the back, so it's like you look like a Power Ranger. Yeah. They're pretty nuts.

SPEAKER_04 34:30

What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 34:31

I have a Craftsman. I have a little Craftsman. One of the I think like they work. You don't use leaf blowers as much as you think, I feel like, especially on bigger properties. You would think you use it more. You care less about where your grass is. Yeah. Just on the driveway. You don't care. Like it's you're used to it. Yeah, it's like you're you're not really caring. Now that's great for the winter time. Uh like the little Craftsman one, batteries are so cheap. Just got three batteries and a little Craftsman leaf blower, and it works perfectly fine. Yeah, that's the ticket.

SPEAKER_04 34:57

So we are all team electric leaf blowers. Yeah, very much so. Save on those.

SPEAKER_00 35:01

Just save in the electric category. Invest in the electric, but don't get gas. They're that's a pain in the ass. What about chainsaws? You would know more than us, I feel like.

SPEAKER_04 35:10

This is a tough one. I want electric chainsaws to be good, and I have yet to use one that I'm like, this is gonna be my go-to all the time.

SPEAKER_00 35:17

You ever use an ego one before?

SPEAKER_04 35:19

Ego's they're fine. Ego does have the best outdoor battery platform like across the world.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Yeah, I've never used our tools really.

SPEAKER_04 35:25

But they're just not a that's uh I've used a couple, and that's like our our tractor. I got my blower. I did a test demo on like a Lowe's thing I did like seven years ago. Anyway, the chainsaw though, I feel like you're missing the elements of what makes gas great, which is like the ability to increase throttle.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:45

With a chainsaw, you have you know your throttle capabilities. Yeah. Um you don't have that with electric. It's go. It's all it is, it's just go. You said it beforehand. Like, there's no you can't like feather an electric much things. You know, you can do it with a drill, but it's like real finicky. They don't have that in chainsaws. And I've just haven't run into like any of them that I really enjoyed the usage over everything, anything except startup. If you get the chainsaw started, I was gonna say 100% of the time go gas.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Yeah, you guys always are like your biggest time constraint is the startup.

SPEAKER_04 36:16

So that's where I would also say like if you want to own a chainsaw, I've had way more success owning better quality, like like a steel or a Husky, even though I don't like Huskies as much. Um go invest in the more pricier chainsaw instead of getting like the cheap Walmart version or the cheaper other version now. I do have a member of the Creator Playbook, um, and her name is Chainsaw Jenna. She'd be a much better resource than me. But like, yeah, that that I bought that little steel 316, I think we have, uh, because we needed to just cut some stuff up. That thing is like bulletproof. We can like gas sit in it for a year, yeah, and then pump it three times, fires right up, right? The the husky, you have to like make sweet love to it, take the carb out, kiss it, blow it out, you know, put it back in, drug call your mom real quick to tell her you love her, and then maybe start. Like, I don't love that. But uh the electric, I feel like you get out there, you smoke it, and then the chain dulls real quick because it's losing battery degradation. I don't know. I'm I'm I'm team gas on the chainsaw.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

It's like we all have horror stories between chainsaws and weed whackers, gas-wise, like not starting.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

My chainsaw is my dad used to have this chainsaw when I was younger, was it was lime green. It was called it was a pullin', it was a pull-in wild thing. And I've I remember every time he'd bust that out. I'm like, oh god, here we go. And you'd just watch him just like one after another piece of shit every and just like get worse and worse. He eventually got a husk barn and it was it was everything was fine after that. But that's where I'm at with chainsaws.

SPEAKER_04 37:47

Yeah, I feel like chainsaws, I don't know, for me, they're just finicky, man. They're awesome. I think.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

I feel like the regular homeowner probably doesn't need a good chainsaw as much as they like a regular homeowner doesn't need a chainsaw, period. Maybe a pull saw.

SPEAKER_04 38:02

I use mine all the time. Now the little handheld like trimming saw, like I'm not throwing that in the chainsaw, I'm throwing that in like a handheld category. Yeah, but I'm talking like I don't even think my dad owned a chainsaw. And if he did, I had no, it was probably like in the shed or in a corner. We never had a chainsaw out. Yeah. Now when we go to like camp or anything, like that's where the chainsaw is. Yeah, different. Yeah. Because you got trees falling on the property and stuff like that, like obviously. But yeah, I mean, like regular home maintenance, I feel like chainsaw is like way down the list of needs.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Yeah, I feel like never owned, they always just called someone that knows how to use one better.

SPEAKER_04 38:31

Yeah, or someone you got a buddy that has one that has a bigger piece of prop. I feel like you gotta have like at least a half an acre to like, or up to think about it.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

With trees, with trees.

SPEAKER_04 38:40

Yeah, you need to think about it.

Hand Tools Blades And Lawn Nerds

SPEAKER_00 38:41

Yeah, and the tree has to get struck by lightning and fall over before you make that purchase. Correct. That is what happened for me as a child. We never owned a chainsaw until and you have like 50 acres. Yeah. What about uh this is a good one? Hand tools, shovels, rakes, pruners, uh, loopers.

SPEAKER_04 38:56

I feel like I feel the same way about these as I feel about like your just general tools altogether. Like the same thing I say with your power tools is go buy whatever cheap variety of shit that you can get into for the most tools that you can get if you want to start out with like you know, Hercules or Ryobi or whatever, and and or even just go to like heart or even some of them shittier ones. You want to find the tools that you're using the most, and then those are the ones I would take from the basic and go invest in, right? Because the difference is incredible between like a piece of shit, like$5 shovel to like your super nice shovel, right? When it comes to like the feel, the wood, the the head, like what the steel is made of and the head and stuff breakability. Right, but you don't need to get into having a full onslaught of lawn and garden equipment and not use three quarters of them and spend all that money.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

I'd say shovel, shovel and rake are probably the two you might want to consider. A good rake goes a long way.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

A great, a great rake, yeah, it'll last you for life. Yeah. But you like you need to learn what a shitty rake is to know what kind of great rake that needs, right? You know what I mean? Like, because there's a time and place, those big old, like, heavy-duty plastic rakes work incredible, right? Yeah. Then you get into like, you know, uh having just like your kind of your your run-of-the-mill garden rake, like the hard rake. Yeah, right? But you need one that you can flip over that, you know, however the head's gusseted on there or whatever, you know, like that stuff matters. Because you that's the shit you're breaking all the time.

SPEAKER_03 40:21

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I've I I with the hand tools, I've like done the same thing, especially like like newly like owning a home where it's like, I'm just gonna get the cheap one. Like you're in the aisle and there's a dramatic price jump between like the like the store brand and the fiskers or the whatever. It's like, I'll get the cheap one, and it's the same thing. It like works for a fugos, and like this is a piece of shit. Like, and you have to upgrade, but just do it, do it slowly.

SPEAKER_04 40:45

When you get to like loppers and you're getting into like shears and stuff, I feel like getting the cheap ones, you're gonna see which one, which size you use, which head, which like stuff you like the most. That's where you go buy the nicer one that stays sharper longer and all that shit.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

You know what's weird? I I prefer uh a corded shear for like hedge trimming. You ever see like the corded hedge trimmers?

SPEAKER_04 41:05

No, absolutely not. I have that stupid little butthole plug on them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

I just from cutting, like so many. I just I get tired of the batteries dying. It's how much are you cutting? You ever like like you got some I don't know what they're called, uh just regular. No, like what I'm using it for. He's trimming like full-size, you know, like like these, whatever this is. What is this? Boxwoods. Wintergreen boxwood. Yeah, boxwood, thank you. I feel like the electric ones die so quick. At least the brands I've used. Maybe I just haven't used a good one. I got a DeWalt one, and it's been good for me for like a year. Maybe that's it. I I've had craftsmen. Yeah, that's probably a problem.

SPEAKER_03 41:44

I feel like even Yeah, that honestly would do it. I feel like even with the small part, uh small, small bit of property I have, it'd be a miserable to drag a cord like that. Oh, it's terrible.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

But I will say though, those things like they'll cut through anything. Yeah, honestly. Probably would be better instead of the hundred-foot extension cord. Right. Um What about the accessories that come with all this stuff? You have good blades, skaters, gloves, like the gear you have for gardening. Maybe you get like a knee pad. That's one thing you bought. I did it again.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

Yeah, blades are super underrated. That was something uh I like learned very early on. Like you get a fresh set of blades or sharpen your blades, balance them, makes a world of difference in the cut. Because like whenever I would cut my grass with like an old doll blade, you'd see it, like the top of the blade of grass be like frayed and it would get brown. But you have a nice clean sharp blade, it looks like just like a laser cut it. So and they're so inexpensive, too, even just to buy new blades.

SPEAKER_04 42:41

This takes me to the corner of the internet that I'm absolutely loving right now. Is like these guys that have very normal sized lawns that are treating them like golf courses. Oh my god. And they're just going absolutely balls deep ape shit on$10,000 little push mowers. Yeah, with the blade, they're out there every morning. They're they're they're they're flattening and seeding their yard like six times a year and like doing all this. Like their entire existence has become their life.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

They sand their yards.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

I love it. That is nuts to me. I want them to come do, I don't want to do that work, but I want them to come do it for me. Because like I look at it and I'm like, I would love to walk out into the perfect flat manicured yard, but it's so much work. Um, and that, but it brings me to like your point here with the accessories. I feel like, I feel like don't invest in accessories until you actually know what you're doing and what you're using. Because it's like to Sam's point, you he cuts that yard for two years using what he's got, and then he realizes, like, oh, if I just upgrade this one part, this little accessory, my lawn looks completely different, right? Like if you want to get stripes in your yard, right? There's like different techniques and stuff you can use. It's uh the whatever however you're cutting it, you can have your roller cut or your brush behind it, like those types of accessories. Yeah, but know what you're working with before you invest. That way you get the most, I would say the maximal like output from the thing. Because I feel like if you start out and you're just buying like cool accessories, you're probably not even gonna utilize. Half of them. What do you do to your yard? You aerate it? Oh, yeah, bought an aerator this year. I thought he got the shoes.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

That's what forced me. Last year I tried, I tried to print my own shoes. I tried to make my own shoes. Nothing. The printed ones didn't do awful. They print them out of ABS. But I I finally just uh bought an actual aerator from Home Depot. Oh my god, it was so nice. It was like a few months or a month ago. I aerated my whole lawn. I seeded it, and I could see like the grass is getting so full now and all the holes I poke, they're like closing up, and I'm like, this is great. Aerate your lawn, it's underrated.

SPEAKER_04 44:35

I feel like we I feel like we should go down to Sam's house and just try to remake one of those dudes that make a golf course style lawn on his lawn. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Do you do you like do you wear gloves when you're outside?

SPEAKER_03 44:48

Nah. Really?

SPEAKER_00 44:50

With all the weeds you have and stuff, you're always gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

Oh, if I'm weeding or something, yeah, but if I'm just mowing the grass.

SPEAKER_00 44:55

I think a good pair of gloves are underrated.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

I can't I can't speak enough for this company. Uh sent me gloves like probably five years ago, Vermont glove. They make like a custom uh goat skin. You guys probably have seen them, they only fit me here. And they're custom goat skin, like more or less just like a utility glove, and you can beat the piss out of them. You could use them when you're doing yard work, you can use them when you're doing like uh stu you know, stuff with blocks and bricks and chainsaws and and woods and like whatever. They're just so good. So like that is one thing. If you know you're gonna use them, spend a couple probably probably like a hundred, hundred fifty bucks. They send you, they send you a template, you trace your hand, they cut it perfect. Oh, that's it. It only fits your hands. You just gotta make sure you don't lose them. I actually don't know where mine are right now. But I'm with I the gloves, yes, 100%.

Home Depot Versus Ace And Marketplace

SPEAKER_00 45:42

Um 100%. What's the best box store or dealer for any lawn and garden accessories?

SPEAKER_04 45:49

I dude, this is gonna be a curveball here for you. I got mine. Should we say them on three? You got yours? This is where we would prefer to buy. Best store for outdoor equipment.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

Oh, hold on. Let me think about that. I could go, there's so but what are you going for? That's a tough one.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

There's one there's one that rains supremely. I know what he's gonna say, I think. I've got mine.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

I think I I think I know what he's gonna say. I think I have mine, but I'm not sure. Well, let's go. All right. Three, two, one, Home Depot. I knew you were gonna get live.

SPEAKER_05 46:21

What?

SPEAKER_00 46:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:22

So try the reason I chose Home Depot is strictly.

SPEAKER_04 46:26

They're brand they're brand, they don't have three-quarters of brands.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

Well, yeah, but it they have Ryobi though, and I will say Ryobi is so versatile for everything that you could get. And like you could outfit your whole garage with lawn care supplies for a fraction of the cost you would. I do agree. I knew you were gonna say ace. You're gonna get so much better customer service, you're gonna get the real nice brand.

SPEAKER_04 46:49

Steel, you can get into Milwaukee, actually, you can get into everything handheld. You're not a rock like you.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

I'm gonna change my answer to Ace. Ace is elite.

SPEAKER_05 46:58

Ace for outdoors, I feel like just it's the best thing they do. You can get some grilling stuff for yourself too while you're there.

SPEAKER_03 47:04

Everything they have is gonna be very high quality, but the prices are gonna be so high. The average homeowner could get every single thing they need to maintain their lawn at the Home Depot. They get it at Walmart with that at that rate.

SPEAKER_00 47:16

Heart sells everything that all these other companies do, cheaper than Ryobi. Heart's a TTI problem.

SPEAKER_03 47:21

Home Depot has, don't they have either steel or echo? They have one of them, don't they? No. I think they have uh steel. They might have Echo.

SPEAKER_04 47:26

They do have Home Depot? They don't have steel. Maybe some tractor supplies do. They do. Some tractors. Tractor supply. Now you're getting into some big boy shit though, tractor supply. Yeah. Now you can go there and buy that tractor your old man has. Yeah, no, you can't. You can't do the button. It's uh it's not her, but like a you know what I mean? Like they sell some real shit. I well, I don't think any of us are.

SPEAKER_00 47:47

I think you really want like the bigger shit, if you ever need it, you have to find a dealer that that sells them. You get better prices, you can finance it.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

If you just want to have a good, good like Saturday afternoon. Yeah. Like feel like you're just have huge ass nuts. Go to a dealer that sells like those kind of trackers. Like there's one up in there's one up in Newcastle, and then there's one, I think, in Beaver or Butler, one of them. Anyway, uh, I think it's Butler because it's really yeah. It's called MM here, right? And they sell, they sell zero turns, they sell hot uh, excuse me, they sell um oh what's that orange brand? I'm I'm blanking on the name. Um Kubota? Yeah, they sell Kubota's full line of stuff. And like you can go in and just like hang out with the guys, feel just like a man test drive some shit. Yeah, they got Xmark Cub Cadet, um, Ferris. My my my father-in-law has a has a Ferris uh side by side. Excuse me, he has a he has a Polaris? Ferris, he has a Ferris Zero turn. Oh this thing was like$18,000. Yeah, he financed it because he has 13 acres and he has to cut, like you guys have been up there, he has to cut three of them. He can get that lawn done in an hour because that thing goes like 35 miles an hour. It's nuts. But it's just like such a it's like going to buy a car, right? And but you're buying a tractor. So they're like, they're they're sweet talking to you, treating you all nice and stuff on like Home Depot. You walk in there, some guy has no idea what he's talking about, right? And you're trying to buy a tractor and he's like yard or yard of blah blah. Um I just I've been there a couple times with my my father in law and I've had an excellent experience. It makes me want to have more property.

SPEAKER_03 49:19

If we didn't have to pick a store, I would say one of my favorite places to get lawn care supplies is Facebook Marketplace, though. I don't think I've ever in my adult life, I've never bought a new piece of. Well, you've never had a tractor.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

No, but huge on like I get a lot of pushback on this. I'm huge on buying new specifically for warranty. And like I know I'm the one who broke it.

SPEAKER_03 49:42

Yeah, but I don't know. Growing up, we always got them used. And I will say we got some phenomena, you get some phenomenal deals though. The deal like for ride-ons? Oh, for ride-ons, it's crazy because you go to like you can work on them. Like we're not we're not gonna work on them.

SPEAKER_04 49:56

Never bought one, though.

SPEAKER_03 49:57

I will say, uh uh, at least unless they've they haven't changed that much. A sing like a small engine, it's so rude to rudimentary and basic. Anything that ever goes wrong with it, you could troubleshoot it on YouTube. Like there's so much information out there. It's not wrong. And to be honest, as long as you just keep the gas fresh, change the oil, change the spark plug from time to time, there's really not that much that can go wrong. What else we gotta do?

SPEAKER_00 50:21

You can just pay an ungodly amount of money for something new and never have to worry about doing that stuff. You just use it when you use it.

SPEAKER_03 50:28

But see, that's this is what scares me about buying something new. Even if you got like a new, like what's a new John Deere go for? Like three, four thousand dollars a riding mower. Like you make the same exact mistakes you do with that used one. Like, I would feel way less bad if I toasted like a four hundred dollar ride-on mower than like, oh, I you know, I didn't realize there was no or the oil was low and I'm gonna get I'm gonna fight you there.

SPEAKER_04 50:50

Really? Because I feel like when it's new and it's nice, you take better care of it. Like what you're saying is like if I buy a ride-on mower for 400 bucks, I'm gonna beat the piss out of that thing. I'm gonna run her into the ground. I'm not gonna care at all because I'm just gonna flip and buy another one. You buy a$4,000 ride-on mower, you're you're washing that thing, you're waxing it, you're giving it a name.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

It's getting a bay in your garage. You're not wrong, but I feel like there's only so many tools and pieces of machinery I want to put that level of like care into.

SPEAKER_04 51:19

Zero for Joe, you gotta come on. I need this.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

You could go out and see my golf right now. It is immaculate.

SPEAKER_04 51:25

Put zero effort into that. Okay, I haven't seen the golf yet. Sam got a new car here.

SPEAKER_03 51:30

But here's a good example, though. The ranger, I love the ranger, but the ranger is kind of like a lawnmower. It is a it's a tool. I'm not I don't drive the ranger for status or to go out and show off and do this or that. It is a tool. It's like a circular saw. When have we ever taken one of the circular saws and wiped it down with a cloth?

Inside The World Of Pro Mowers

SPEAKER_00 51:47

But you're also like Ryan's actually doing that right now. All the mowers I'm guessing, were they all gas? Yes. Okay, there it is. Uh we I've only ever driven diesel mowers. Diesel mowers? Off-road, yeah. You use off-road diesel in a lot of them. Take down. We have a uh grasshopper, that's what I was pulling up. This it's a zero turn.

SPEAKER_05 52:04

That is not a mower.

SPEAKER_00 52:05

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_05 52:06

That's a house with a deck. You could take down an army with that deck. Dude, that thing is last equivalent of his Volvo or his Dodge. That thing has lasted forever. Yeah, those things are sick.

SPEAKER_00 52:18

Insane. The maintenance is just cleaning it, oiling it, oiling the deck, and that's it. It automatically lifts up for you, has like a little hydraulic on it.

SPEAKER_04 52:25

They're amazing. So that's a mower you buy knowing you're gonna maintain it, you're gonna learn about it, but it's also about like this guy, like$94,000.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

$94,000 for a Talmark Laser Z DL0 turns.

SPEAKER_04 52:38

Dude, all right, so you guys want to get your rocks off on some mower shit. When I was playing football, um, so I'm trying to let me try to explain this. Most of the facilities, you they have a glass, just imagine the back of the building's glass, right? And then the football fields are out behind it. And you usually have like a minimum four, right? Maybe five or six, depending on what team it was. So we'll just use the Steelers here. And so the Steelers have four fields and they go long ways across and uh coming out from the building. The Steelers get the first two, and Pitt has the second two. And three of them are grass. So the the Steelers were big on grass. Tampa Bay was big on grass. They have uh turf indoor and then anyway. If you're working out early, you get the maintenance crews showing up, and you want to talk about$20,000 mowers. That's the crews that have those, right? Because these things are getting within sixteenths of an inch as far as deck drop goes. They're cutting them every day. That's insane, right? And but they're out there, they have multiple mowers because some mowers are for cutting, some mowers are for thatching, some mowers are for like like uh rolling the fields to be in certain directions. Yeah, nuts. It was like it, but you're watching, it's like an orchestra, right? Million dollars of machinery, tons of it. And it was but so for football, it's not even or like sports like that, it's it's important, right? But then you get into golf. Right. And you get it like that, you see guys riding those out there on golf courses, and you're like, maintenance is a you know massive investment for golf course, and and it's just impressive as shit. So, but you you're just like an awful. It looks so cool.

SPEAKER_00 54:11

I'm assuming a mower like that pole is probably for like a golf course. Yeah, I hope so. I mean, I don't know who's spending$94,000 for a lot of it.

SPEAKER_04 54:17

Or you have like like your parents have all that property, but they only keep like what an acre knocked down?

SPEAKER_00 54:22

Yeah, uh about four acres they cleanly cut. The rest of it is just fields. So, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:27

If you wanted to get into like, you know, yeah, 10 acres, you say you guys have 10, 4 or 50.

SPEAKER_05 54:32

144-inch deck is like you need a bigger deck. Oh, yeah, 12 inch, 12-foot deck.

SPEAKER_04 54:37

You've got to be like farm cut.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

I'm sure they're definitely useful. I think the reason I get like such sticker shock from that is because like you need the motor in it? Well, yeah, there's a motor in it. So I'm in my mind, whatever I hear$94,000, I'm like all the things you could get with a motor in it for that amount of money, and you're getting a lawnmower.

SPEAKER_00 54:53

Like, I guess, but I used to think if it's your way of life, if you're a farmer or you want to go, it's like it's the invention, like my parents have that nice mower because it's lasted years, but also like Oh no, a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_03 55:06

It's it's useful. I'm not saying it's an impractical person. No, no, right.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

That's so much money, though. Dude, this is it. All right, so we need your help. All right, as a community watching the slightly above average show. We need you guys to support us in finding someone locally that would allow us to test like the million-dollar lawnmower. Oh, yeah. Because I I I just want to like that's something for me I've never seen. I've never like touched or felt. I think that would be so fun. Like, I know I know the guy that runs the crew that does all my lawn care at my house and stuff. I've known him for 15 years. He used to help us down in Braddock and stuff. They've got a ton of equipment. I don't know if they got anything that expensive, but you got to be on like like frickin' Augusta National. Like, have that that if you guys know anyone and you can tag us, send like someone. Read the T email, whatever. I think that would be so fun. And we'll do a full unscrewed video on it. They, I mean,$1 versus million dollar long.

SPEAKER_00 56:04

I've seen some videos of those super expensive mowers, like that$94,000. Like they massage your ass. You get in your full AC, got like an iPad in there, you can map what you've cut so you can see. Dude, it's nuts. This big far, they're like the big tractors, like they put so much tech in them nowadays.

SPEAKER_04 56:20

So let me let me throw a question out there before we get into our last segment where we rank everything is what are your guys' thoughts on these like robot mowers?

SPEAKER_05 56:29

Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 56:30

Joe's Joe's torn. So here's my thoughts. I I think they're cool as shit. But for me, mowing has nostalgia, I feel like, unlike any other. Like if you got into mowing lawns and cutting grass as a kid, you kind of hold and cherish it, right? It's like a thing that's like important to you. The smell, the feel, the time, right? As an adult, it starts to become anxiety. But like, I feel like giving it to the robot, you're kind of just like giving up on a part of life.

SPEAKER_00 56:58

I think it depends on the brand. Like, we've had brands that have reached out and we've debated it, like uh Yarbo. Yeah, they make some cool products. I mean, I think it's cooler for the snow blowing. I think like the remote shits for the yard. If you're older, I think it's a great investment, but if you're younger, it's just kind of like go get a fucking money.

SPEAKER_04 57:15

It depends on the size of the yard, size of the yard too. Yeah, I feel like like Brad has one that does Brad's got like two acres at his Tennessee property. Yeah. He's got one. It thing runs every day. He's like, it's great because it saves him probably like three, four hours a week. Which is it, like that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 57:30

Yeah, right. I mean, but they're expensive machines. Like, what's a Yarbo go for? I want to say like more. I want to say like five or six thousand.

SPEAKER_04 57:37

I think Yarbo does the a bunch of shit though. Husk of Varna makes one that I think I think Husqvarna makes like the top of the market. Okay, no, two thousand, five thousand bucks. You get the pro. Huskvarna, I think, makes the top of the more uh the top rated just mower. Um use like satellite imagery and some some cool shit there. Oh, dude, Sam, it's awesome. Now, granted, what's that cost? 3,000. Okay, I mean for that price, that's a little bit more attractive. I'd get into that, you know? But like I I feel like you eliminate so here's the I don't know. I'm this is why this is why I wanted to break it up because I'm so torn. It's like my house, like I want stripes, I want it to look nice. I want like all the things that come with like having a professional crew show up because I'm I'm I mean, I'm bougie, I got to pinky up a little bit. But like if it's far of like a time trade-off, I feel like those are a phenomenal investment.

SPEAKER_03 58:25

I I feel like the the problem is like we just were praising how great like a lot of these battery-powered mowers are for the sake of like, oh, you don't have the maintenance or the trouble that you would with a gas mower. And I feel like we're going right back to it with this, like the robotic lawn mower. I'm sure it works awesome. And I'm sure if you have like a flat lawn in the first few times, it's great. But the second something starts to go wrong with it, it's like, oh great. Now I have to call like an electrical engineer to figure out how to like I can't take his Lloyd down the road. Lloyd, can you change the spark plug? No, we have to change out the motherboard.

SPEAKER_04 58:58

I feel like those I feel like those small motor guys are the ones keeping the sigs inside movement going, right? They're like your local bar and your cigarette industry is built on the back of a local small motor.

SPEAKER_00 59:08

Nowadays you need ChatGPT to fix your mower.

SPEAKER_04 59:11

Yeah, because it runs on ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_00 59:14

Hey, mower, cut, yes.

SPEAKER_04 59:17

So I'm seeing videos now getting served to me as these are becoming more popular. It's like you actually have to pour like a like a like a five by five pad or build like a flat five by five pad, yeah, and then create a docking area and station for like the solar panel. Are you serious? Or or however you yeah, and then you have to tie your electrical because that thing charges itself. So it goes out, cuts, comes back, it gauges weather, right? And it's it's wild.

SPEAKER_03 59:40

Alright, well, I got some time back. I just had to spend about eight grand to install this uh solar panel. And then two years later, the software is outdated.

Automating Dog Poop Pickup

SPEAKER_04 59:50

Honestly, you know what? We should just shut the whole channel and stop doing all this bullshit with media. If we could create an automatic pooper scooper, something that could scan your lawn every morning and pick up dog shit, that would be great. I would I would give the rest of my life to that because I hate it. Every time my kids want to go outside and play, I gotta worry about the dog poop. And we even have a guy come pick up dog. Do you guys know that that exists? Oh, that's a huge thing. We pay about 20 bucks a week, he comes and picks up our dog shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:17

Yeah, no, I I think there's a King of the Hill episode about a guy that does that and he's got like a mansion and stuff. Like I feel like, yeah, if you you pick a niche like that, I feel like you're you're going. I mean, like, what a good business.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:29

I'd love to see some content around it though, right? Like, that's like guess the dog by the shit pile kind of a thing. Could be funny. But dude, yeah, if I could if we could find something, Joe, if we could build a robot that picks up dog shit. I'd be all down for automating that automation. Now that you're a dog owner, Joe's gonna have a dog the second you guys get a house. I mean we know that for a free.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:48

Like you're not I've tried. My wife doesn't, she's unsure about a dog right away. Right away? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:53

You're 100% coming home with one.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

You know you are. I want a dog so bad. I want an English Bulldog soon.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:58

My grandparents have an English Bulldog and they're they're getting really old. This dog's a hundred-pound meat meatball. Oh man. Right? I love English Bulldogs with a passion. Yeah, they're I was like, Joe, Joe's gonna have one. After my parents have one, clean up their shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:11

Yeah, but the smaller dogs, I never was a big fan of smaller dogs. Always had large. Yeah, and then because you have big dogs, like our one dog, Snoopy, man. He had Mount Everest out there of shit. And we stopped, we used to just mow over that shit. I mean, then your mower smells like shit. I'm telling you. You have to hose off the mower, and it's like, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:28

That's something I miss being because I grew up in a more rural environment. We had like dogs, but like we had so much property, it's like I wouldn't even know where they shit. Now it's like, oh yeah, every single time you go out, it's like I have to take care of this because you got a small.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:40

My parents' dog, man, he's an asshole. He'll go out in the nearest patch of grass and just shit. You know, and so like a bulldog. Yeah. He's a prick. Yeah. So he won't go on the deck. He started, as he gotten older, he starts to go out far, but like he used to just right in front. Basically, he used to go in the cement sometimes because he didn't want to get his paws wet when it would rain.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:56

Like an asshole. Like, so Winston will do, and I used to hate it, but now I I'm actually kind of cool with it because I'm like, this is great because I can just scoop it right off, hose this down, and it's good. But whenever he used to go in the lawn, he would kill the grass in different spots, and I'm like constantly chasing it down, trying to like, okay, I gotta see this first. He found it.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:14

He's not inspired by cars, trucks, money, notoriety, publicity. It's his lawn.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:20

If the thing is, dude, if you would see my lawn, you'd be like, this just looks like a normal lawn.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:24

See, Chris, but it probably looks so terrible before you put it on. Oh, it looked way worse. Well, whoever owned you got it to that point, that's your point of pride.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:31

Whoever owned my house before, well, I know the actually, I don't know her, she passed on, but this lady Eileen. Oh my god, she the the the amount of flowers and things she planted, like you could tell this place it used to be like primo, and then it spent like a decade just not being maintained. So I'm trying to get it back to that state, but like we keep getting these flowers and stuff that pop up that are like gorgeous. I'm like, she probably planted these things like decades ago.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:57

Like they like only grow once every 15 years, right? She like it's like a long-lost seed you don't even know about.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:03

The worst part is it probably has thorns, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

Or it's like poisonous, like you can only look at it, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:11

As berries, you can't eat them, but your dog wants to.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:13

I found out I'm immune to poison ivy, and Kristen is highly allergic. I have to go through every year and just like get all of it out. Because I mean, like the littlest bit, and she's like a month. Really?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:26

That's how my dad is, man. Poison ivy murders his skin.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:29

Yeah, it doesn't bother me at all. But there's a last thing I'll say on an old wives tale that actually is true, is um there's a there's a soap called Fell's Napta. Oh yeah. My father-in-law is obsessed with it because they got all that property, he's constantly outside, and he gets poison ivy pretty bad. Um, but if you just come in from when you're done, if you're doing anything outside, real quick shower, use that on a wash rag, it's like it like dries, it's it's like it's weird, but it works. Oh, it has so many uses, fells can rap. It works, it's incredible. So, all right. We're going on a we're getting way off track here.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:01

So we're gonna go through all these uh lawn and garden tools, and we're gonna rank them on a from uh S on a.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:07

We're just ranking them on what we think necessity or like good tool, or what are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:12

Like I'd go from S tier being a necessity, D tier being you don't need it. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:17

Rapid fire.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:18

Uh chainsaw.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:20

B C. Like you go with C.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:23

I'll say C. I think C is a good, happy medium. Handsaw.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:26

Wait, what? Why is that? I don't know, man. AI. A I D. Uh an edger. C. C. Luxury. Really? You don't need it. I don't know how you you you have this like.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:38

I've used it one time. I've used one one time, man. I'm like, how could I can't go back?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:42

Gen Z loves edging.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:47

I just did it by hand forever. I feel like it's a luxury.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:50

Backpack, gas, leaf blower.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:53

C again, luxury. Like not a necessity at all.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:56

A good rake.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:57

A. It's arguably S. I wouldn't say S just because it's just not that great. It's just it sucks to use. An auger. D. Yeah, D. Rent an auger if you need one.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:11

A shovel.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:12

A. A. A plastic yard rake. I'm gonna I'm gonna chuck that out there with S. I feel like it's got way more uses than you give yourself credit. You can use it you can use it in your mulching. You can use it for getting grass, you can use it for leaves like it's actually intended.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:26

Where are you at, Pola?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:28

I mean if it's a good one. The only plastic rake I've used, it like buckled under the sun and it was off. Like I'm a metal rake guy all day. You get like a real nice big one, I'll be plastic.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:41

I'll give it S. Uh a what is this? A hedge trimmer.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:46

Look at B. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:47

Hedge trimmer B. B.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:48

That's one of those tools. I feel like B is like it's awesome. You borrow it though. Yeah. If you need it.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:52

Okay. This is actually a good one we didn't touch on earlier. Sprinklers.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:57

That's depends where you live, I guess. So If you like sprinklers are the difference in having a really, really nice lawn and just a nice lawn. It's like my uh my dad would always be growing grass, right? And like that's my buddies that are obsessed with their lawns they've all got like sprinklers. One of them put a sprinkler system in. My new house has a sprinkler system. We haven't got to use it yet, so my my opinions might change. Um, but I will say we live in an area where we get a good amount of rain, so like sprinklers aren't crazy necessity. Yeah, maybe a B tier. I'd probably say B. Yeah, it's I'd say B. I know some areas like you gotta have them or you're not getting grass. Like you're down in Texas, Tennessee, you get like really dried, you get two months of no rain.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:38

Yeah. A robotic lawnmower.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:40

Oh, C. Oh, give it yeah, C. Total luxury.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:45

Um a good a good weed sprayer.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:51

I'm going C. You don't really need it. You can get away with a lot of the round comp that's Monsanto shit, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:58

What do you say? You don't need to be spraying that shit anyways.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:01

Come on, you gotta get some Monsanto chemicals on your lawn, man. Okay, this is a good one. A wheelbarrel.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:06

Now we didn't touch on these at all. B I'm going border, I'm going A. I'd go A. Wheelbarrow goes a long way. Here's what I will say. We didn't touch on it earlier and we should have. A wheelbarrow is definitely something I would say. Invest in. If you're ever gonna buy one, buy a good one first. You'll never need another one. Jackson wheelbarrow. If you want to go with a single wheel, two-wheel, whatever you want to get to. We really like I like this gorilla cart that I love my gorilla cart. I have one of those. But like I remember as a kid, so when I was I was a large kid, I was free labor for everyone in my family constantly calling me to do shit. Is that your ad large kid free labor? Yes, large kid free labor, right? That's what's if you're live, grew up in an Italian-American family and you're large and capable, you were doing everything. Jeffrey was a little as a kid, so I had to do all the labor. Um But you get into a shitty wheelbarrow, and my oh the Italians love concrete. Love it. I hauled so much concrete in wheelbarrows from the road up to the freaking thing, like everywhere. The shitty wheelbarrows were always the ones they were buckling. What ended up happening though is you would twist the handles would end up loosening and twisting and dumping. So Jackson wheelbarrow, invest in it early.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:12

What about a push lawn mower?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:15

S. S. Gotta have it. I'm probably gonna get fought on this one later.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:19

Uh hand shears.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:22

C. Good to have. I don't find myself using them a ton.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:26

Weed whacker.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:27

A hoe. B. Probably B.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:32

Probably S tier, you know. How often are you using a hoe? A good hoe. You can use a lot.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:37

I feel like I've I feel like I'm using it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:39

It's probably a C tier.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:41

I'm using a shovel and a metal rake way more often than I am.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:43

Yeah, I never use a hoe. It was just joking. You're married, Joe. Um what do you say, D tier?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:52

I wouldn't say I'd say C because it's like good to have. It's a luxury though. Like I feel like you can get the job done with other tools.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:57

I don't know. This is a tiller. A tiller. Tiller.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:00

Rent that bitch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:02

D D. I'd say D. Yeah, rent it. A pressure washer.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:05

Ooh, that's A. A. All the dude. A good pressure washer? You use on so many things. All right, so but hold on a second.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:11

Real. When we say good pressure washer, we are not on team highest, most insane PSI pressure washer on the planet, right? Yeah. A good pressure washer has the versatility to be at a lower and a higher pressure. Because you want to use that thing as often as possible, and you don't want to be blowing, you know, finish off of your car or like off the side of your house, the paint or something. You want to clean, you know, some some mold or something up on like a you know header or something. You don't want to be at like 5,000 PSI just shearing the paint off that thing. So good actually means, in my opinion, you got you could you could you could that PSI can be adjusted.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:51

Yeah. Yeah. Uh a push buggy, kind of like a cart to transport stuff. B.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Yeah. That's what the Jackson or that gorilla cart's for.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:00

This one I have to describe it also. You ever see those? It's like a sprinkler system, except you put your hose on it and you put it in the middle of your yard and it waters your yard.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:08

That's what we're talking about before. Or you were talking about like a dedicated sprinkler system. Oh shit, get that off a B tier. Put that on D. That's a completely you gotta be bougie as hell. I I have one.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:19

We could say this was a dedicated.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:21

No, I'm saying B for the one that you're talking about. Like that's a good thing to have. You want to grow some grass? Yeah. Get it off your plate. Get a timer. Timer's big on the on the spring line.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:31

Uh a leaf blower.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:33

Hey, yeah. Electric, dude. I I use mine so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:37

A good hose.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:38

S. So really sell me. So my whole life. From the time I was a child, we always had cheap hoses and they were terrible. You try to roll them up, they'd be kinking. Like it was just a nightmare. And whenever I bought my house, I remembered being in the hose aisle and I was like, today's the day you start as a homeowner with a proper hose. I got the expensive one. It's lasted me like three years, no leaks. The one winter, I didn't realize we it was like I didn't realize it was still outside. The whole thing froze. I was like, oh god, it's probably ruined. I like unscrewed it, brought it in, it thought it's still working. It's I feel like if you have like a nice hose, just get having the ease of use of not having to deal with like kinks, leaks, just anything like putting it away, and you buy it once, you're good for like five, ten years. And you get a real nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:27

What are your thoughts on these expandable or these? I bought one. They're the worst thing in the world.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:32

I bought the the bullet hose or whatever it is, because I was like, oh, I got a small area, this might be nice. First time I used it, it's like leaking out of the side, it won't hold pressure that well. I brought it back to Home Depot, and the per I was like, I want to return this, and they just no questions asked. Like, okay. I was like, they're like, did you have issues with this? I was like, yeah, they're right. Yeah, everybody does. We get this thing returned constantly.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:54

See, I'm a fan. I have two of them. You like the bullets? I just like that they don't take up a lot of space. I I I'm I'm for me, the trade-off is space saving. Yeah. And I'm not using a hose all the time. And those like expandable ones, I yeah, I've I've had good success with them though. I'm I'm a fan. Now I'm not like the the S-tier quality hose, I'm for sure. If you want to get into like a good rubber hose, you know, don't go cheap because we have those here and they're terrible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:19

What about a manual push mower? Like the old style. I had one in my old house in the city, but like the maintenance on the blades and stuff is uh just uh garden scissors.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:31

Uh pruning shears, probably big. Like I'm not, yeah, I'm not using those a ton.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:36

Uh a good nozzle for your hose.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:39

See, I feel like they're overrated.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:41

Yeah, I agree. I was about to say, I almost feel like you want that sweet middle ground where you don't want the cheapest one, but you also don't want that high-tier one that's promising things that cannot deliver, where it's like it's basically a pressure washer now. This will turn your hose into a pressure washer. It's like, no, it won't.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:55

I feel like you just need it to have like the jet setting and then the sprinkle setting. Yeah. That that there's that there's a rubber one.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:02

Would you guys put it at big one?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:04

I'd say a nice one, I would say D. Like a generally solid one, I'd say like A. I agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:10

I think it has to be B. That's in the middle, it's fair. A solid ho it doesn't have to be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:15

Solid one, yeah, but I'm not like you said nice. Yeah, like nice. So you didn't just go get it. Well, they make some that they like like Sam was saying, they're they're selling you on shit that's impossible.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:23

Yeah, all right. And lastly, a zero turn mower.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:27

Depends on your problem.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:29

See. Yeah. You didn't have Rhydon on there, though. Yeah. Because Rhydon i is is is different. Like zero turn, I was dreamed of it. We'll cut this. And then we got one. We we got one, we got a zero turn, and when I realized it couldn't do everything, it was just faster, I was kind of pissed. Yeah. Because I would have rather had the versatility of the Rhydon with a little smaller deck to like tow a cart or put a plow on.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:57

Okay, and actually our last one, the Rhydon mower.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:02

Assuming you have the property, I would say it'd be an A tier. I'm saying A as well. I was I was thinking you and Joe were gonna push her ass.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:10

I think it's fine for A. If you have a I mean, as long as you have a mower, if you have a yard, yeah, yeah. Anything's better than that.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:17

Yeah, I grew up I I learned how to drive on a lawnmower. My dad is up, we we he has like five cub cadet mowers. Big Cub Cadet guy here. Um big fan, but you gotta have the property to do it. Like it's you got to.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:27

Your dad did have like the top tier top tier riding mower, cub cadet, top tier push mower, lawn boy.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:34

I will say this, it's one thing he he's always bought for long term, right? He's like he owned a tundra for 22 years. He owned a motor. He has a he has a Honda Shadow that he's driven for 20 some years.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:47

Show me that thing. Yeah, he said, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle. He goes, I'll give you a good deal.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:52

You should buy it. No, uh and then like yeah, same thing with his tractors and his push, like that's one thing, and then he'll cheap out another stuff. But boats, trucks, anything with a motor, he's like always invest because it's gonna he's got a nice tacoma. You're gonna yeah, now he's got the tacoma that'll die in. Um but he'll you'll uh it did it just last you longer, so he's always been a big fan of that. He he also knows how to take care of them, too. So I feel like that's a part that we don't take into consideration. It's like maintenance. If you're gonna invest into something, you should know how to take care of it, you know?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:24

Yeah.

Final Takeaways And Community Challenge

SPEAKER_04 1:15:24

Um, and that's how he was he's always been a big proponent of that. So with all of that being said, I actually had a lot of fun on this episode. Yeah, we don't usually do this. Yeah, it makes me I wish I had my legs available to me because it makes me want to go outside, you know, do a little lawn care, maybe do some hardscaping.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:39

Well, I think the best part of this episode being today is that we get to actually go purchase every lawn and garden tool right after it.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:44

Correct, yeah. We did uh we did we hit it took a year, but a hundred thousand likes on the Ryobi Tools video. So now we're gonna go buy every lawn and garden and serendipiously just hoping it's to be in May. Yeah. When we do you know, all that shit's literally sitting in the store right now. It's gonna cost us an arm and a leg. But that video is coming. Um, so this because this will uh be out beforehand, you know, you got any suggestions for what you think we effed up on this episode, leave them down below and check out the boater bunker for an extended cut with uh all the hoop line garbage that didn't make it in this episode. Appreciate you guys, our sponsors, and whatever else is going on. We'll see you on the next episode.

unknown 1:16:22

Peace.