What in the!?

Shot this on a customer's property, the entire neighborhood is mulched exactly the same, unlimited future takedown work. What you see in the video is the heaviest root structure left, the mulch mound was a super dense root mound with a thin layer of mulch on top.


Nothing you don't already know but I'm finding it very useful to show customers.
-AJ
 
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I was driving around such a neighborhood today while one of the big landscape companies in town was mounding it up. I though I should get signs that say "stop volcano mulching!!!" to put in my customer's yards in the neighborhood. I doubt anybody would notice/care. I've told clients over and over to tell their contractors to stop it. Then I drive past and see it done again year after year - even after they've paid me to fix it. I've talked to some of the landscapers...one used to call me to diagnose trees for him. About 80-90% of those diagnostics were deep planting and/or volcano mulching. He quit calling and hasn't changed habits.

It shouldn't be a service requiring a high level of skill, but apparently it is.

I'm guessing if I really wanted to do mulching I could offer competitive prices because we'd use about 1/3 of the mulch that everybody else is using.
 
Been a while but I do remember a lot of homeowners liked seeing a nice thick layer but I just never even had anybody ask me to do that... Poor tree
 
moss said:
Shot this on a customer's property, the entire neighborhood is mulched exactly the same, unlimited future takedown work. What you see in the video is the heaviest root structure left, the mulch mound was a super dense root mound with a thin layer of mulch on top.


Nothing you don't already know but I'm finding it very useful to show customers.
-AJ
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Any chance of posting this on youtube or some other resource where it can be shared to educate customers? Been looking for a good video or picture series, where I can email a link to illustrate the damages done by the practice.
 
New2trees said:
Any chance of posting this on youtube or some other resource where it can be shared to educate customers? Been looking for a good video or picture series, where I can email a link to illustrate the damages done by the practice.
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I post my stuff on Vimeo which is basically YouTube without the ads. Here’s a link/url you can use, you can download the video, link it from your web site or do whatever you want with it. I made it for exactly the reason you mentioned.

Here’s the URL:
Code: 
https://vimeo.com/332710519

Or just click on the embedded video in my original post, you should see some share options
-AJ
 
moss said:
I post my stuff on Vimeo which is basically YouTube without the ads. Here’s a link/url you can use, you can download the video, link it from your web site or do whatever you want with it. I made it for exactly the reason you mentioned.

Here’s the URL:
Code: 
https://vimeo.com/332710519

Or just click on the embedded video in my original post, you should see some share options
-AJ
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Thanks much appreciated.
 
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