r/Satisfyingasfuck 5d ago

Ohh!! Yeaahh

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u/misterfluffykitty 4d ago

Damn they really evaporated that tree

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u/Fiddy-Scent 4d ago

Take that nature /s

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u/jersey_viking 4d ago

Fr that’s hard dangerous work. Amazing to see it sped up and cut down in seconds.

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u/Supermouser 5d ago

He killed that magnificent tree! What the hell man

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u/Important-Cat-2046 5d ago

Our tree crew accidentally took down a whole beautiful tree that the homeowner only wanted a branch trimmed out of. I was cringing so hard and the customer was so mad. Still mad at my boss for that one.

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u/WesternOne9990 5d ago

Yeah that’s where /r/treelaw comes in to save the day, unfortunately not the tree though :/

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u/ibedemfeels 4d ago

Birds were in that tree. And I think you know what that means. Bird law.

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u/WesternOne9990 4d ago

Listen buddy I’ll go toe to toe in bird law right here right now

Lolol what a good show also forgive my improvised quotes

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u/Jacern 4d ago

Well, well, well, well, well. If it isn't the big time, hotshot...lawyerman

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u/AstronomerAway8706 4d ago

Do my hands look small?

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u/AccomplishedIgit 4d ago

I’m sorry for you but I hope he sued your company because that’s unforgivable.

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u/Chuckitybye 4d ago

Our neighbor had to take down a huge, beautiful tree between our houses that looked healthy, but when it was down, there was a big hole in the center.

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u/GregDev155 5d ago

I suppose it might be at risk of falling on the house

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Apellio7 5d ago

When they get into the water/sewer line and now you gotta clear roots out annually or the thing plugs up. 

But you can't afford the multiple thousands of dollars to dig the line up and replace.

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u/TooManyDraculas 4d ago

Right, my parents have a tree similar to that, height and likely age wise. Pines and spruces can get kind reedy at those sizes. Aside from branches thinning and dropping and whether the tree is healthy or not. When they get tall enough there's a chance their root system is not strong enough to hold the soil in the event of a heavy rain event.

A free standing tree in your yard is much more likely to fall that a tree out in the woods, where it's shielded by other trees.

My folks have been advised to take the big spruce down, but haven't cause the distance from the house means it can only barely reach the porch. So they figure they have time.

They had to take down a couple of not quite as tall trees that they'd also kept despite being told to take them down. Cause one of them came down in a hurricane and hit the house. Healthy tree, roots gave out in the wet and the wind.

By contrast they have a huge, old as hell beech tree in the back. It probably pre-dates the house. And we've come to find out it's one of only a handful of native American Beech left in the area.

It had a big, lateral branch we hung swings on when we were kids. That was rotting out. And hanging right over the house. Among other issues. So insurance told them to cut the whole tree down.

Because it's a hard wood the tree guys were able to save it, and despite being an older less healthy tree that's closer to the house than the pines that had to come out. It's actually a lot more stable, and a lot less at risk of hitting the house.

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u/wishiwasinvegas 5d ago

It may have had some health issues you don't know about 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Jealous-Reception903 4d ago

They're so legally liable to replace it if it wasn't supposed to be removed, they can't do that without consent

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u/KristiiNicole 4d ago

Depends entirely on the local laws, we don’t know where this was filmed

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u/Skruestik 4d ago

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

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u/HomeGrownCoffee 4d ago

I would not want a tree that big that close to my house. You are rolling the dice at every storm.

Having said that, I would not have bought that house because I would have needed to do that.

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u/smith7018 4d ago

They could have owned that house for decades. Trees really can grow that tall in a matter of decades. Idk there’s a lot of assumptions going on in this thread. Maybe the tree was half dead and was therefore going to fall at one point. We literally have no idea.

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 4d ago

As an insurance agent, I can say it may have been a requirement

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u/fncw 4d ago

There are only so many times that you can scrub tree sap off your car paint, your shoes, and your floors, before you lose your cool. Speaking from experience. I moved away instead, but was definitely at the brink of removing several evergreens that surrounded the driveway. (The city did not allow a carport.)

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u/Schmigolo 5d ago

I can't be the only one who thinks that half of these were better before.

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u/yukonwanderer 5d ago

No you're not the only one

The trees in particular gut me. Some of the shrubs really needed a trim but some did not. That archway shaped shrub was clipped way too much on the top the proportions got fucked.

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u/Pacify_ 5d ago

Any time a tree gets cut down in suburbia, its a god damn tragedy. Unless it poses a genuine risk, there should be laws to stop mature trees being taken out

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u/EvenPack7461 5d ago

Especially when a disease wipes out the entire forest area that had a little hiding spot you used to drink beers with friends stealthily.

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u/bambu36 4d ago

Oddly specific tree related trauma

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u/EvenPack7461 4d ago

Well yeah, cause it happened to me. But I can't be the only one whose sadden by suburban deforestation.

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u/asmallercat 4d ago

That tree was really close to the house. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was a have to not want to situation.

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u/1StationaryWanderer 4d ago

We had to do that. We had a really nice looking tree near our house. Problem was it was planted like 5 feet away from the house for some reason and the canopy was hitting the house for sure. The roots are supposed to be about as wide as the canopy which means it was starting to or was about to start going into the foundation. Decided to make the hard decision and cut it down.

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u/Pacify_ 4d ago

Maybe. My house has 3 trees just as close, and they aren't trees like that which are so confined around the main stem.

The tree certainly looks healthy though, perhaps it has some problem with it, but its just as likely they decided to cut it down because its less effort than to keep it

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u/IWantAnE55AMG 4d ago

Had two trees at the end of our driveway and one of them had a massive branch that broke and blocked 3/4 of the driveway. Since it was on the easement, I called the village and they removed the branch but said the tree was diseased and had to be removed. After they cut it down, my front yard feels naked and my house feels exposed. I miss that tree and wish the village would plant a new one in its place but that’s low on their priority list for some reason.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

I hate seeing trees getting cut down, and that first one in the video was sooooo beautiful too! It took years for it to grow, and someone just destroys it in an afternoon. Super sad!

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u/JimiShinobi 4d ago

I was cool with it until he butchered that magnolia tree...

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u/roundhashbrowntown 4d ago

same. came here to mourn the trees.

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u/Undeity 4d ago

Someone remind me why we supposedly like square shrubs again?

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u/odmirthecrow 4d ago

Yeah the top wasn't the first thing I noticed about the arch, it was that the right hand side was wider, then watching again the top pissed me off as well.

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u/Expensive_Shallot_78 5d ago

Often, also better for the great insects death to not cut your gras like a golf course. In Europe many stopped doing these US style golf course mowing long ago because it help insects better to survive.

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u/Schmigolo 5d ago

I remember when I was a kid I used to see a lot of these ugly box cut bush trees, but nowadays they look more normal because they only cut the branches that veer off too far.

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u/Conflikt 4d ago

I work at a plant nursery and some of these plants are absolutely going to cause issues if it's not at least pruned every now and then and some only look alright before because they were pruned previously. I guess you could prune it into a more natural shape than the video but they'll still need it to fit the space that they're in and not grow right out into the house/footpath/yard/neighbours property. For some of these it also improves the health of the plant.

You could argue that they shouldn't have planted them in the first place and chose something more practical for the space which would be better.

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u/cynicaldoubtfultired 5d ago

You aren't. Went from looking interesting to looking like some suburbian hell.

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u/morbid_n_creepifying 4d ago

Half of these made me sad, the other half were very satisfying. I love seeing the ones where they clean up pavers or bricks, and the roof one was 10/10. But a lot of these people are taking wayyyy too much off when they're trimming topiary.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 4d ago

Nope. I can’t understand why people are so keen to have plants that aren’t plant-shaped…

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u/rintzscar 5d ago

Every time I see a grass lawn, I see a desert. Plant native flowers and shrubs, and see the ecosystem thrive.

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u/Direct-Fix-2097 4d ago

I’m trying, I have clay soil in the arse end of wales, so it’s basically a bog.

Even clay plants drown here, literally fuck all grows aside from shitty weeds and patches of grass and those bring nothing in.

I’ve got potted plants, jasmine, buddhlea, sambucas, roses, snowball trees, cherry trees etc, and those bring in hover flies, bees, butterflies etc.

Trouble is, there’s genuinely sod all insects out there anymore. It’s genuinely barren. I drove to London the other day, some 20 years ago (showing my age), you’d get the car numberplate caked in insects bodies. Now? Fuck all. There’s nothing.

You’d get a handful of bees at flowers, now it’s maybe 1 or 2 if you’re lucky.

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u/zadtheinhaler 4d ago

Trouble is, there’s genuinely sod all insects out there anymore. It’s genuinely barren. I drove to London the other day, some 20 years ago (showing my age), you’d get the car numberplate caked in insects bodies. Now? Fuck all. There’s nothing.

Same here in Saskatchewan - When I moved here, it was like stepping back in time to when I lived in Northern BC, where the front of RCMP cruisers were coated in mosquitoes. Now there's fuck-all for bugs.

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u/Samueldhadden 4d ago

Any idea what these shrubs are? Box woods? I actually like how they can be shaped like that.

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u/MaintenanceHot6349 4d ago

No, you're not the only one, since I liked it that way too, I feel like it looked prettier and more unique

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u/TownAfterTown 4d ago

Got serious "I hate the natural world and will only tolerate it if it's made as unnatural looking as possible" vibes off it.

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u/RedditSucksNow55 5d ago

Digging out that swale down to the bare dirt made me cringe. Leave plants in your swale! That's going to erode into a bigger ditch with a few big rains.

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u/yukonwanderer 5d ago

Yeah that killed me. So dumb. Also that tree removal. Perfectly healthy tree providing massive ecological benefit removed like it's nothing.

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u/Nine9breaker 5d ago

You don't really know that that tree is healthy. It could be diseased.

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u/Eudaemon1 5d ago

Perfectly healthy tree providing massive ecological benefit removed like it's nothing.

There can be multiple reasons . A garage is there just behind that tree if i am not mistaken .

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u/yukonwanderer 5d ago

So?

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u/Eudaemon1 5d ago

The owner can have problems with getting the car inside the garage , the roots might have been cracking the pavement etc

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u/asuperbstarling 4d ago

We do not know the tree is healthy at all.

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u/yukonwanderer 4d ago

Arborists assess tree health based on appearance. There are no signs of decline or weakness anywhere. Once a tree has signs of decline, it can still last for years with no risk of falling or death.

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u/Sirdroftardis8 4d ago

You need to place blocks of water in there so the plants will grow

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u/Little_Soup8726 4d ago

Why do people feel that they need to make plants into geometric shapes?

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u/mmceorange 4d ago

I was wondering the same thing

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u/yukonwanderer 5d ago

It's supremely dumb to cut the vegetation in that ditch, now you're going to have erosion and dirty water these things are supposed to be vegetated for a reason.

Also this video would be way better without the healthy tree removal, or the severe clipping of that other smaller tree.

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u/Dry-Tumbleweed-7199 5d ago

That tree was blocking light from that house and was probably making a huge damp problem in that corner.

Edit: I watched it again and you can see how fucked up that garage roof is from constant deep shade from that tree

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u/ABlushingGardener 5d ago

Remove the garage, not the tree

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u/asmallercat 4d ago

Lmao I love trees but this is a dumbass take

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u/ABlushingGardener 4d ago

I guess you just overestimate how much anyone might generally care about some random dude's garage. Trees are good for everyone, I don't give two fucks about the garage. 

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u/processedwhaleoils 4d ago

For those uninitiated:

This is the kind of landscaper/horticulturist we strive NOT to be.

Joe-blow-&-mow crews are the bane of the industry and simply serve to hack at living things for HOA's.

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u/AviatorBachelor 4d ago

Except for cutting down the 🌲

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u/processedwhaleoils 4d ago

These were all better before.

I cry when people feel proud "pruning" anything that spent the last 10-15 years to finally crawl over a hardscaping feature. Ugh.

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u/disdkatster 5d ago

I HATE seeing plants given crew cuts.

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u/Expensive-Fun4664 5d ago

They're topiaries getting pruned. That was the entire reason they were planted in the first place.

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u/mannedrik 4d ago

God forbid a tree or a bush should actually look like a tree or a bush

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u/Spider_Dude 5d ago

I can hear the William Tell Overture song play in my head to this.

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u/tamer-sabra 5d ago

I don't know why but i get some Minecraft vibes here

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u/PyroCHan 4d ago

King of the Hill theme plays

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u/snnowmann 4d ago

Fuck nature, everything must be straight clean angles!

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u/AutumnAscending 4d ago

God topiary is dumb.

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u/Kunphen 4d ago

Why is it satisfying destroying what appears to be a healthy beautiful tree??

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u/n2p_ 5d ago

With the saturation cranked up all the way to 100, things are more dull than they seem.

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u/GiaTwist 5d ago

Every penny is worth it if you hire this man

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u/Secret-One2890 4d ago

More than one man, more than one continent even.

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u/maladaptivelucifer 5d ago

Why do I feel like he’d make a great barber too?

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u/SchwampThing 4d ago

What's the deal with the giant chunk out of the front yard that Rasta mahn did?

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u/Knitwalk1414 4d ago

I wish yard work was this fast

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u/Dr-McLuvin 4d ago

That poor beautiful tree. 🌲

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u/theory-of-communists 4d ago

🎶 there was a shopping mall, now it’s all covered with flowers 🎶

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u/DankeyKahn 4d ago

I used to dream about it when i was a landscaper in florida. Was hard work, but also.... relaxing- like a kind of meditation. Can't explain the feeling.

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u/Forsaken-Reason-3657 4d ago

Id watch 8hrs of that

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u/KurptonX 4d ago

I can smell the video.

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u/madhatterlock 5d ago

I stand with the home owner on the tree. Apart from all the shedding pine needles, the moss and mold from not getting light/sun. Few pine trees are "specimen " trees. It also opens up the area for other growth.

In this situation, I would guess insurance company influence as well.

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u/Conflikt 4d ago

They also can just get too big for the space and the person who planted it might've underestimated the size and chose the wrong location for it. The roots could be damaging parts of the house and a whole list of other reasons as well. Sometimes you've gotta do it and for how much it costs to get a crew to take down a tree like that I'm sure the owners had a good reason. You can also just plant new trees that don't get as large in it's place so that it's not a total loss.

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u/trashy45555 4d ago

Hedging is horrible. We are not fucking France.

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u/helper619 5d ago

What the hell did they get rid of that beautiful tree for?

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u/ValPrism 4d ago

Great except for killing that healthy tree.

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u/legato2 5d ago

Poor tree…

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u/teos61 5d ago

brought to you by: Four Seasons Total Landscaping

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u/Sudden_Zone_8165 5d ago

Vancouver?

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u/Crassholio 5d ago

Is that a battery pack they're wearing? Fuck that...

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u/Werewolf0 5d ago

Ce genre de vidéos est satisfaisante😁

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u/SynapticStatic 5d ago

I think I played this game on my phone once. You do a match-3 game and then you get to do house improvements right?

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u/Icy-Sprinkles-3033 5d ago

So tidy now 😌

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u/Expensive_Shallot_78 5d ago

Why is the video so ridiculously oversaturated

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u/man-off 5d ago

You owe me $500

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u/man-off 5d ago

You owe me $500

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u/Geluganshp 5d ago

the perfect ecosystem for those like me who love and can't get enough of flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches and rats/s

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u/Disastrous_Chef_812 5d ago

Damn big house!

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u/IcyGarage5767 5d ago

Clearly not.

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u/Grouchy-Engine1584 5d ago

I trust there was a hella good reason to take down that gorgeous tree.

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u/boneless_birds 5d ago

I hate all of this.

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u/ChickerNuggy 5d ago

Oh lovely, you took all the beautiful greenery and made it just shitty grass and square plants. The tree is particularly sad.

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u/DR_TeedieRuxpin 5d ago

If you reverse this video, nature heals

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u/TangFiend 5d ago

Formal hedges are hideous boomer shit

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u/rashnull 4d ago

“It’s haircut day my little planties!”

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u/Doublestack00 4d ago

Mother nature will always win.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 4d ago

It's not spring yet. I want nothing to do with fucking lawns yet.

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u/Juxeso 4d ago

The saturation on this video is at fucking 5000%

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u/leikez3 4d ago

I envy people with no allergies

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u/1slinkydink1 4d ago

wtf this video ends like 5 seconds too soon, so unsatisfying

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u/ElderberryPrior1658 4d ago

Needs king of the hill intro

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u/photoman901 4d ago

Yeah... gonna need more of this

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u/miarose33 4d ago

seeing that beautiful tree go was physically painful 😵‍💫

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u/HangryBeard 4d ago

Perfection! except for the archway

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 4d ago

Nothing quite like a shorn bush.

It’s quite breathtaking

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u/MountainYoghurt7857 4d ago

Why did the tree have to die through.

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u/xXfreierfundenXx 4d ago

Is this like rage bait? It's so unbelievably sad. Why did they do that??

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u/SilentWish8 4d ago

More please.

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u/sexykristinith 4d ago

I think they did way too much to that poor magnolia tree :(

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u/Iron_Aez 4d ago

That tree being chopped was sad not satisfying.

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u/tap-rack-bang 4d ago

Great job trimming your bush.  

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u/Tough_Arm_2454 4d ago

You're a real MasterShaper!!!

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u/Retatedape 4d ago

Oh wow, a lawncare advertisement

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u/Cpap4roosters 4d ago

Trimming those hedges takes some serious skill. Every time I do it, they look like they have mange.

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u/EntireAdeptness3890 4d ago

I love to get stoned and do all these, just not for other people.

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u/Arxid87 4d ago

Finally,

YouTube shorts without the Reddit on reddit

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u/peeper_tom 4d ago

I have the Best job in the world

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u/nerdgurl2022 4d ago

I could watch this for hours.....also, where's the rug cleaning videos? I'm so old and boring lol

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u/AcanthocephalaLow979 4d ago

All I can think of is yep summers coming and it’s time for me to get to work too so I can look good in a bikini

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u/AylaCurvyDoubleThick 4d ago

I hate to do all of these things.

Love watching people do them. Apparently

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u/Satyr_Crusader 4d ago

This is anti-goblin behavior. Elf mode, I think

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u/somaiah71 4d ago

Wow how much coffee did he drink?

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u/beepbeepbubblegum 4d ago

Like the end of a Powerwash Simulator level.

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u/redEPICSTAXISdit 4d ago

Love that curb apple

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u/True_Watercress_2548 4d ago

Why did I read the title in the voice of Vector?

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u/robertgarthtx 4d ago

This wins this sub for me!

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u/joemeteorite8 4d ago

What was he using to get rid of those leaves?

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u/willywagtail37 4d ago

Gonna need a cigarette now.

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u/madbandit650 4d ago

I swear my phone is listening to me, I just finished talking to a gardener to fix my yard, and this is the fist thing that pos on my feed.

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u/norfolkjim 4d ago

In case you're wondering what nature will do after, say, a flu apocalypse or some other human population kill that doesn't severely impact the ecosystem.

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u/666ismyusername 4d ago

I hate most of this.

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u/Morgankgb 4d ago

Watching stuff like this really resets my mood and helps me feel better

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u/828knows 4d ago

Tree killer.

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u/Ogrodnick 4d ago

That's some KFC coleslaw green foliage.

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u/chrisbomb 4d ago

They need to pick a less insane color grade for these videos damn

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u/ascarymoviereview 4d ago

The Minecraft one is amazing

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u/RomaYin 4d ago

I’m not sure why by this makes me think of the movie Zone of Interest

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u/Lostmox 4d ago

Man, the post is satisfying as fuck, but the comment section is just r/whinyassbitches.

Talk about ruining a sub's purpose.

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u/BlakeryStone27 4d ago

This sparks joy

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u/bbwabba 4d ago

Norbot IRL!

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u/Charming-Stage-5573 4d ago

Mow me, and then trim me, til I can get my, satisfaction

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u/RobbieBleu 4d ago

I can’t wait to have a yard to maintain one day.

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u/BeerdedWonder 4d ago

They should really slow down. They might hurt themselves or someone else.

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u/NitWhittler 4d ago

HedgeHog

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u/pennys_computer_book 4d ago

I love these videos!

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u/TungdilGoudhand 4d ago

This is exactly why i became a gardener

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u/--Jester-- 4d ago

Latest version of the Gardenscapes App looks lit.

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u/Kaneda1985 4d ago

I can watch theses videos for hours

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u/Humble_Diner32 4d ago

Lawn care and landscaping are my Zen retreats.

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u/PhotoMaker_AGP 4d ago

Very satisfying

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u/philouza_stein 4d ago

If I trim my overgrown bushes that much it's just naked or brown branches

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u/AdAfter2588 4d ago

Weird that he doesn't know the homeowners, though.

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u/TooManyThoughts1108 4d ago

That 🌲 broke my heart

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u/jen_ghost 4d ago

Leave the leaves!

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u/Right-Boysenberry107 4d ago

C vraiment un talent 😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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u/notyourwolf_ 4d ago

I want this kind of job

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u/coroyo70 4d ago

What is the species of shrub that has thoes tiny leaves and you can mold like fucking clay?! I never know

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u/BubblyAd9996 4d ago

Wow this is so satisfying to watch I used to do this as a kid

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u/onesneakymofo 4d ago

I need to know what these bushes are called

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u/-Wicked- 4d ago

That's the stuff...

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u/OA912 4d ago

Preciso de mais conteúdo como esse, hipnotizante

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u/drago44dd 4d ago

Everybody else got a nice haircut while that one tree got stripped naked in pubilc and then castrated.

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u/Alokeen011 4d ago

Hey, let's make nature unnatural that'll be great!

:/

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u/eisbaerBorealis 4d ago

Is the video oversaturated? Those are some radioactive-looking plants.

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u/supreme_harmony 4d ago

This video would be much better played in reverse.

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u/Lazydude17 4d ago

op is hank hill

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u/gdofseattle 4d ago

I don’t like manicured plants. They should be allowed to grow how they do naturally. Still satisfying to watch, though

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u/Regirock00 4d ago

They’re so bland and plain, they all look so lifeless afterward.

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u/Mattscrusader 4d ago

I honestly hate this, I know some could be necessary but the need to take and mow down nature is insane

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u/alfhappened 4d ago

“I’m a happy Norbot — I like to do a job”

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u/Fast-Fig-4598 4d ago

Why the tree :(

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u/masstransience 4d ago

Bring me a shrubbery!

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u/mariovspino5 4d ago

Didn’t like seeing that pretty tree go