I got a message from a lady saying her mom really needed some help with her yard. Her mom lives about an hour away from me, so I hopped in the truck and drove out there to see what was going on. When I got there, she came out to meet me and told me her husband passed away seven years ago. He was the one that took care of everything outside, and she's been living on social security ever since, so keeping up with the yard has been really hard for her. She did have someone mowing for her last year, but they let her know they wouldn't be doing it anymore. Luckily, a neighbor has been keeping the front yard cut for her, but the weed trees had grown all the way up and around her front patio to the point where they were completely blocking the front door. On top of that, the city had already sent her a letter about it and threatened a $400 fine. So I told her I'd love to knock it all out that day completely free of charge, and she was super happy. I started with the front sidewalk, which was almost completely buried in spots, and trimmed back the tree overhangs so she'd have a clear path to walk again. Then I started working my way around the front of the house and the porch, and that's when I found out the hard way that there was a wasp nest tucked up under the handrail. They got me pretty good on the arm, so I backed off, made a run to the hardware store, and came back to take care of them before finishing up around the porch. With a thunderstorm rolling in, I cleared out the side of the house, mowed the big back section, and hauled all the brush to a city brush pile just up the road. By the time I was done, she said it didn't even look like her house anymore, and when I asked her to rate it on a scale of one to ten, she said twenty. She also told me she can finally take that letter back to the city and let them know it's all been taken care of.
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Spencer from SB Mowing provides free yard cleanup for a widow who struggled to maintain her property after her husband's passing. He clears overgrown brush, removes wasp nests, and mows the backyard, saving the homeowner from city fines and restoring her access to her front door.
Hello, how are you?
Pretty good.
I'm Spencer.
Nice to meet you.
So you need some help with your yard a little bit?
Uh, yeah.
Last year I had a person that did the mowing, but she said she wasn't going to do it this
year.
Now I'm living on Social Security.
My husband died seven years ago, and it's hard to keep up with.
Yeah.
I mean, he did all the outside work, I did the inside work.
It's hard.
Yeah.
Yeah, I go and help people out for free.
So I'd love to do as much as I can today and get as much cleaned up for free for you.
That will work.
I just got annihilated by wasps.
Hey, everyone.
Spencer here with SB Mowing, and I got a message from this lady saying that her mom needed
a lot of help.
Her mom lives about an hour away, so I hopped in my truck and drove there to see what was
going on.
It turns out this lady is a widow, and her husband passed away a while ago, and he was
the one that used to take care of the yard, so it's really been hard for her to manage
it.
The neighbors have been helping her keep the front yard cut, but she's had weed trees grow
all the way up and around her front patio, completely blocking the front door, and the
city has been onto her about it.
So I told her I'd love to help out, and I spent the entire day making this one look
amazing again.
I first started with the front sidewalk, which was almost completely buried in spots, but
I wanted to make sure to clean it up and clean up some of the tree overhangs so that she
had a nice place to walk.
After that, I got cleaning up around the front of her house and her porch and around the
side of her house so that it's all opened back up and she can start using her front
door again.
Plus, I totally forgot that she told me there were wasps up there, and I didn't realize
until I got attacked by them.
So you won't want to miss me running like a baby.
Be sure to watch until that moment.
Also, she was really happy with how it turned out, so be sure to stay until the end of the
video to see her reaction and the before and after pictures.
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I'll see you next Friday.
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Alright, we're taking a quick break from this yard, but before we get back to working,
I want to talk about the tires that are sitting under this truck.
This truck pulls a trailer with all of my equipment pretty much every single day of
the week.
And I'm not only doing it on nice roads.
A lot of it is on the highway, early in the morning, getting to the job.
But then I'm on gravel, and then I'm trying to back into somebody's dirt driveway that's
crazy overgrown, and water's still sitting there from last week's rainstorm.
Afterwards, I usually find myself pulling into the dump where there's a ton of debris
and a ton of mud everywhere.
So tires really matter a lot to me, because if I get stuck, I'm not able to work, and
if I'm not able to work, the yards aren't getting done.
But luckily, I don't have to worry about that that much, because these are the Nitto
TerraGrappler G3s.
They're Nitto's newest and most advanced all-terrain tire, and compared to the G2 that came before
it, they redesigned the entire tread pattern, and they went to a new rubber compound.
And those two things together are why it grips better in the dry, in the rain, and in the
snow.
They're also three-peak mountain snow rated, which is an actual standard.
It's not just a marketing thing.
It means they actually pass snow performance criteria, and if you've ever been in Kansas
in January, you know why that matters.
The TerraGrappler G3 is a little bit less aggressive than something like the Ridge Grappler.
And that's on purpose, because it's built for somebody that spends most of the time
on the road, but when their truck gets there, they need it to do something.
So it's a much quieter ride than what you'd expect from an all-terrain tire, and it wears
even across the whole tread.
And then the cherry on top is that they've got one of the best-in-class warranties.
70,000 miles on hard metric sizes, and 50,000 miles on LT and flotation sizes.
So if your vehicle actually works for a living, you need to check out the Nitto TerraGrappler
G3s over at NittoTire.com.
That link is also down in the description and pinned in the first comment, so be sure
to check that out.
But anyways, thank you to Nitto for supporting my work and sponsoring this video.
Now let's go get back to this clean up.
Alright y'all, so this is what I really love about the Mariama multi-cutter system.
I've got my edger right here.
I only carry two pieces of Mariama equipment, or three I guess.
I carry my blower, my trimmer, and my edger.
But the edger here is a multi-cutter, so you can take off the power head and whatever attachment
you've got on.
Usually I keep this on most of the time.
But I've got to do some hedge trimming, so I've got a hedge trimmer attachment.
It just snaps in like that, and you tighten it down, and it only takes two seconds.
Let's do it!
I don't know if y'all can see those buzzing around, but I just got annihilated by wasps.
Yeah, see it?
There's a wasp nest right under the handrail ledge.
Gosh dang, they just annihilated my arm.
Okay, I think I'm just going to work with this from back here and try to get that bush
cut out, because that bush is basically gone.
It's just taken over by vines.
So we'll get that bush cut out, and then we'll continue this way, and maybe come back over
there later and try to get that off the porch there.
We'll see.
Alright, the wasp nest is gone.
I just hit it with the weed eaters, but they're flying around.
They're angry right now.
So I think I'm going to bring a load of brush to the dump over here, and let them calm down
a little bit before I clean that area up.
Alright, we stopped by the hardware store to pick up the big guns, and see if this stuff
works.
Alright, I definitely got direct contact on a few.
We're just going to let that soak, keep going around the house a little bit, and then finish
this up later.
Alright, we're going to try it again.
I haven't seen any wasps, but wish me luck.
Alright, so I'm just getting finished up.
We've got like a huge thunderstorm coming.
It's going to be here in about an hour.
It's already been sprinkling, so I need to get out of here before that comes.
There's this big back section that needs to be mowed.
The neighbor actually has been, I guess, mowing the front for her.
So that's really nice.
We don't have to do that.
We just need to mow this back section with the Kubota.
So we're going to do that.
We're going to go dump, and then, yeah, we're going to get out of here.
We're going to get a reaction and get some after photos.
Let's do it.
Does it look a little bit different?
Yep.
Do you like it?
Yep.
I got rid of those wasps too.
Did you?
Yep.
I got stung once, or a couple times on my arm, but I got rid of them.
Yeah, and I also got this front sidewalk all cleared off too.
Yeah, I noticed that.
On a scale from one to ten, how do you think it looks?
Ten.
Twenty.
Good.
Yeah.
Well, I'm happy I could do it for you and get it looking good.
Nine.
Ten.
Yep.
They were going to fine me $100 for every...
Lots?
Yeah.
So how much were they going to fine you total?
$400.
Wow.
Well, now you can go tell them that you got it all taken care of.
Thank you so very, very much.
You're welcome.
Well, I'm going to get out of here.
It's nice meeting you.
Yeah.
If I see anybody else, I'll get it away.
Thank you.
I'll let you know.
All right.
I'm going to get my equipment loaded up and get out of here.
Yep.
All right.
Thanks for bringing it.
Thank you.
Enjoy it.
All right, everybody.
We just got finished up.
This looks pretty good.
She said this didn't even look like her house anymore, so I'm really glad I could get this
looking good for her.
I did make one mistake on this yard.
Actually a couple.
I shouldn't have gotten into those wasps, but another mistake that I made was not bringing
my Kubota mini skid.
There was a reason that I didn't, and that reason was this place is about an hour away
from where I live, and I didn't know if I'd be able to dump the debris and the brush anywhere,
and so I would have had to drive back to Wichita, dump, come all the way back, pick up my mini
skid, and then drive it back to Wichita, so I had a three-hour trip if I were to bring
my mini skid.
I'm like, I'll just go ahead and not bring it and hand load it on this one, which sucks
because there is a city brush pile that she told me about and a couple of the neighbors
told me about, and it's just a mile up the road, and so I was able to dump there.
I definitely could have brought my mini skid and saved quite a bit of energy, but that's
okay.
We got everything loaded up.
We got everything looking good.
We got everything dumped off, and we're going to get out of here, but I just want to thank
you all for watching until the very end of this video.
I really, really appreciate all of your support, but if you didn't want to support me just
a tad further, be sure to head over to sbmowing.com slash shop and grab an SB Mowing t-shirt,
an SB Mowing hat, or any of my awesome merchandise over there, but anyways, thank you all for
watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day, a great rest of your week.
Let's get out of here before this thunderstorm comes in.
SB Mowing, out!