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so I'm in my front yard laying out where
I want to put my asphalt and the
concrete ribbon kind of spraying some
paint kind of laying it out and I felt
this knob under my foot right here and
I've got one of these roots to pull out
so I know you guys love watching me tear
the grass up with these roots so I'm
just gonna start digging this thing out
so this is pretty hard right here this
is one of those root nodes or nodules or
whatever you want to call it it's pretty
pretty hard so it's pretty big it's
probably about two inches in diameter
and that's a big root there's a big root
under there so I just like to slowly dig
at this until I can get a good handle on
it so that roots probably like this big
around is a deep one there's a big one
so I've just been about ten minutes
trying to dig this root up I think I
broke it
so now I can start pulling on it so
watch this
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I hate these roots hate these trees
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so when I come out and I feel that hard
root that looks like this and it's
sitting on the surface of the grass just
pisses me off
guess all that humic acid fertilizer I
know where that's going how that's
getting used up these roots so see how
big this this brood is around it's
probably an inch in diameter
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Oh Oh so can I even lift it anymore it's
in it's so big of a root just want to
give me trouble so that root broke off
pretty good right there I think that's
about where I'm gonna stop you can see
all this damage that I've done I'll try
to piece this back together as best I
can
then whatever I cannot get piece back
together right let's put some sand in
there and hopefully it'll fill in but
you can see all these roots that I've
just pulled out just in this small
section that was a pretty big one these
roots are incredibly annoying so so if
you suddenly get a hankering to plant a
cottonwood tree just remember this video
remember what I got going on here and
the thing is crazy is these things will
just there's no end to these tree roots
spreading through here if I let this go
this would have turned into a big tree
within you know by next spring it'd be
ten foot tall it easy right here if I
were to let it go so I caught another
one check this out
oh look at that that one came up pretty
easy cuz that's where I dug that tree
that's where I put this tree in it must
have caught the root right there Oh Hans
in there freaking died so there you go
you can see kind of what I've done so
I've made a big old mess and I've got
all of these roots here out so these
roots kind of grow along just right
under the surface of the soil stealing
my water from my turf and then they
spring up send up these shoots and if I
left this alone it will grow into a tree
by like April or May it'd be ten foot
tall easily kind of always doing this
that is one of the main reasons I want
to get rid of these cottonwood trees and
then I've got all the cotton that comes
off the trees and stuff so I really want
these gone now I've got to try to put
all this back together and it's just
really really frustrating but it's the
story of my life and I've been dealing
with these for all the years that lived
here which it hasn't been many maybe
four years I just want these trees out
of my life I hate these cottonwood trees
they're the worst
but I tell you what it's crappy as this
is to see this all torn up it's very
very satisfying when I grab one and pull
it and I get a nice long one like this
that is extremely satisfying to me I
don't know why but just knowing that
those stupid things are out of my life
and they're not there I just like it so
I'm just gonna kind of try to put this
back together the best I can and
hopefully it will be somewhat of a
success I'm not really that worried
about it'll grow back just fine this is
Kentucky bluegrass it spreads awesome it
creeps and it'll fill in all the holes
and I'll put fertilizer on here and
it'll be just fine so anyways so there
we go I got it all cleaned up it doesn't
look too bad
it'll be fine there will be some low
spots that we'll have to put a little
bit of sand in there to kind of level it
out a little bit but I've done this many
times before I showed that on camera
I did it over here and it's still kind
of repairing itself over there I hate
doing that but I just I find
satisfaction in getting those roots up
and out of there I really like that a
lot so so if you guys like my content
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