Cleaning Up The Most Disgusting Yard Of My Career
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Garbage, clothes, an old bed, even some long gun ammunition. I find it all in possibly the grossest lawn care clean up in my 6 years of running a lawn care business.
I was contacted by the owner of this property and asked to do a clean up after a tenant moved out. I found the yard in terrible shape, with brush, trash, garbage, old furniture, and more here. Lots of trash hauled away on this one and it made for a very satisfying before and after in my biased opinion.
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Copper Creek Cuts is a lawn care and landscaping business in Florida with a goal to entertain and educate.
Contact me: coppercreekcuts@gmail.com - Zábava
Just came back to this video. I appreciate the whole "don't judge people by the way they live" part. As someone who suffers from depression and can have a hard time maintaining my property, I found that a very respectful and mature way to address the situation. Thank you!
I drilled two holes in the bottom of my trash carts so any water that got in it would drain out. That WAS one nasty mess. Thank you so much for cleaning it up. I take it the "metal guy" didn't want the metal?
I keep mine in the garage
As long as you own them. Don't do it if you don't own them.
I wanted to do that, it made so much sense to do something like that. But my trash company said we could get in trouble for damages.....I wonder if they see how those cans are treated when they're being dumped.
didn't want the metal But took the ladder!
Very clever trick, and you are right, he passed on the metal (aside from the ladder)
Ammo in a burn pile…I’m still shaking my head on that one!!! This was one very messy property but now that it’s been 'Bradified' it’s looking like a whole new place! Great job!
Doesn't seem like it was thought through at all!
Amazing transformation! When I saw you cutting up those cages after finding the ammo, my thoughts immediately turned to dog fighting ring or something! What pigs those people were! When I got my house, my first year of trying to get the yard somewhat cleaned up, I was finding all kinds of garbage there. Some idiot tried to burn glass, cans, computer parts, etc. When I found the computer parts, I had the sheriff come by and determine if it was something they needed to know about or what. I wasn't about to toss it, if it was something important they might need to know about. They gave me the all clear to toss it. I didn't want the responsibility of that decision! For years I'd find socks just popping up in the yard. As I cleaned up my planting bed around my deck, I found a door knob, screwdriver, golf balls, other broken things, a serving fork buried way deep, and, the oddest thing: a pair of eyeglasses! That one had me a bit freaked out! I took the glasses to my eye doctor because they take them to fix up for some charity. So, while your cleanup was MUCH worse than mine, it certainly brought back some memories of my long-winded clean up! If I were that owner, I'd be plenty ticked off at the shape of that fence!! And, boy, this would be a great place to do some pressure washing, too!
Good thinking getting the all clear from the cops!
@@CopperCreekCuts Thanks! It was so stupid and, frankly, suspicious where I found these burned parts in the yard. I wrestled with "wasting" their time on it, but I just wasn't comfortable tossing this stuff in case it might be tied to a crime of some sort. I mean, who tries to burn a computer??
Burning a computer, gun ammunition & other things smells really fishy to me. What were they trying to hide that they didn't want others to find out about???
We had a very similar experience with a house/acreage we bought once in Oregon. We found a H U G E dump in the woods that was invisible until we got the tractor in and pulled out all the overgrowth. You've heard of everything and the kitchen sink? Yep. And every single pile of brush on the 5 acres had garbage under it, plus a pile of cat litter literally 2 feet up the side of one tree. And after being there about a year, an entire shirt surfaced in the back yard after a few heavy rains.
@@OHlookSHINYthing Wow! I feel a bit better about my yard after seeing that! My property is only a little larger than a quarter acre. I'm really glad I didn't have the kitty litter issue! It's been a while since I found any socks. They might all be found now. I've been here 10 years and I was finding socks for at least 6 of those years. The shirt would have really thrown me for a loop! I still still come across a stray golf ball or small toy or something. I'm not sure if they're just appearing from the Earth, or if the squirrels and raccoons are dragging them in!
Looks like loads of fun. I can only imagine what the inside looks like.
I was thinking the exact same thing...🤮
I almost thought of offering interior cleaning services to the client JUST to see and document, but then I didn't think it was worth it :D
A terrible mess. So sorry please be careful and be safe. God bless.
Thank you!
Absolutely incredible how some people live!! Fantastic cleanup, I bet you couldn’t wait to get home and shower 🤣🤣. Thanks for sharing
LOL VERY HOT WATER!
Be very wary of needles among debris like that, or anywhere a house has been vacant.
Very good tip! I will be more careful next time!
Hey Brad, I used to work with a trash company in North Carolina, I delivered and picked up the roll out trash carts, I always carried a cordless drill with a 1/4 inch drill bit find a good place for the water to drain and start putting holes in the cart, works very well, just a bit smelly lol
LOL That would have saved me from getting a face full of trash juice! :D
That was my thought - one or two well placed holes and let it drain.
Tolik odpadu jsem dlouho neviděla. Obdivuji vás, že jste se úklidu a následně posekani tohoto pozemku ujal. Patří vám velký dík. Víc takových lidí a hned bude svět hezčí místo k pobyvani. Děkuji moc za taková videa. 👍👍👍👏🌿🍁
To me, it is not so much the trash in and of itself. It is more the thought that there are people in this world that live this way.
That is pretty wild.
You were a lot calmer on that job than I would have been. I would have been cussing the whole time. Take care. Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃
Thank goodness I can edit things out :D
Hate to see what the inside of the house looks like. You know you are in a good hood when the AC is locked up so it wont be stolen. Good job. 👏
Yeah, that always makes you wonder...should I have taken this job? :D
thanks so much for all the clean you you do and share, these are the kind I like To look at. I don't like it when I am watching one where they just mowed around everything and leave.. I love seeing a yard fully Cleaned up nice and fresh.. Awesome job
Thank you kindly!
Happy you were able to help how you do what you do is always amazing 👍🙏be blessed always.
Great video Brad , love your comments and am really pleased you took this job on .
Thank you!
My thought about the cages is dogfighting, especially given the presence of the ammo. Also, great content!
I just came here to say that. Given everything he found...yeah, dogfighting.
It looked more like cock fighting. There were some cages designed for birds. Makes me think they had roosters fighting. Finding ammo at the site leads me to think this was a place where animals were treated poorly for game. Brad did an amazing job cleaning it up. Stay safe Brad!
those cages weren't thick enough for dogs, especially fighting dogs.It looked like chicken wire to me,which probably means rabbits or they could be chicken cages
Good comments by all, I never thought about the cage thickness. Does seem flimsy for dogs in hindsight.
@@CopperCreekCuts you all are probably right, more likely to be rabbit cages, or chicken cages. Who would have 5hought your casual question would elicit somany comments, Brad.
Brad, what a job you’ve taken on. But you always do a great job. The landlord is probably absentee, because he should have had this property checked from time to time. It’s their investment. Thanks for the video. 👍👍😊😎❤️
Thank you for the kind words and for watching!
I was thinking about the inside as well. Thank you for helping the owner as no one never knows how people live they can only trust and if they loose their trust you make them pay, simple as that.
Very well said!
Really appreciate you uploading this. You never shy from a challenge. 💯
Thank you for the motivating comments!
Good job👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏆🥇 police might have liked to look through that burn pile and ammunition 😮
Haha, I could have gotten them to help!
Great job it is nice to see people go that extra mile. Job well done!!!
Thank you!
I love the sound effects you had while snipping the cages. Great job, Brad. Happy Thanksgiving.
It was asmr :D
The BOBCAT QUICKCAT Makes an Appearance!!!!
Haha! It is still plugging along, I might try to replace it soon.
this is one of the main reasons why I got rid if both of my rental properties. people move in and trash the place, don't pay the rent, then you have to kick them out and you are left with alot of clean up and fix up after they are gone. they just hop from one place to the next untell they are kicked out of that place then on to the next. hate to say it but some people are just plain trashy and lazy and don't care about the way they live. I know I could not live the way some people do. alot of the time the inside is just as bad if not worse than the outside.
It is sad that is the way it goes!
If the yard is that awful can you even imagine the state of the house inside.
Stellar work as always, Brad. Thanks for taking this one on.
Thank you for watching!
Some how we have to find a way to carry trash in paper. Plastic is killing us.
Thanks for having a great day in spite of the mess.
Thanks for the comment!
💜 fantastic job!
I can only imagine the shape of the inside of the home. Personally I feel it was their choice to toss trash in the lawn as opposed to using the trash can. Obviously the tenant had no respect for the property.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
The tenants should be ashamed of themselves and should be somehow held accountable for the condition in which they left this property. Maybe the landlord kept their security deposit if there was one. You worked hard on this job while transforming this property back to being civilized!
I hope the landlord got something from them!
Thanks Mr Copper Creek nice Job to crappy yard, Navy John in Maine
I've seen overgrown yards due to elderly, disability, illness and injury. There is absolutely no excuse for garbage, especially like that. That was disgusting. Anyone who has anything negative to say about your work needs to get their own selves in check. You did an excellent job of cleaning out that mess. I can't believe you did it in only 4 hours! You've earned a serious treat after that one...right after a serious shower.
It's always easy to be judgemental. Everyone's fighting a battle you don't have any idea of. Maybe the last tenants were just careless or maybe they had problems bigger than you can even imagine. But I guess it's easier to sit on a high horse and point fingers.
But yes, Brad did a great job and earned his money.
Thank you for the comments, very good thoughts and points.
I shudder to think what the inside looks like. But you’ve certainly made the outside look a whole lot better.
Probably very creepy/dirty/depressing inside.
They had fighting chickens. Those round wire things were for one rooster and they keep them that small a cage. Sometimes 100s. Metal for a roof perhaps. Probably did some pitbulls for dog fights too.
Nice job Brad. Pretty sad how tenants leaves their rental places trashed, hopefully the owner got to keep the deposit to make up for the cleaning and possibly repairs to be done. 👍👍👍👍👍😉🇺🇸
I agree, kind of disappointing. Oh well, I guess it is job security!
0:24 there’s something very funny about a lawn care CZcamsr dismissively calling trash pickup repetitive. 😂😂
LOL Keep your comments to yourself Mr. Lalanne
I need to shower after watching that. Woof. 🤣
LOL You and me both!
Now that wad a big YUK yard! You went above and beyond with that one!
Agreed, felt gross the whole time!
It looks so much better!
Thank you!
Great job! You made it look so much better 😊
Thank you! 😊
Awesome job! Love the yard clean up videos. ❤ Oh and what 😮 those bullets 😮 crazy..
Thank you for watching!
Great work Brad. At least the owner has a start.
Thank you!
I've seen worse than that before.... Not my yard lol
Haha, thanks for watching!
We can tell you are not used to all that trash. I wonder what the house looks like inside?
Yeah, I am not very good at gathering it! :D
Good clean up! Thanks for the video! 👍
Thanks for watching!
Great video I would love to see the inside job well done 👍👍👍
Thank you so much!
Great job Brad. Well done.
Thank you!
If this seems disgusting, most must have never seen an episode of Horders!
Haha, everything is relative I guess.
Wow, brilliant cleanup!
Thank you!
So wait a second. Did the guy take any/all the scrap metal? Only 8 minutes in.
Nah, just the ladder. He said the rest wasn't worth anything.
Wonder if they swept contents of house into the yard? Hate to see inside...yard certainly alot better but I feel the next tenants wont be any better somehow! 😭😭
Hope you were well rewarded for that clean up. You deserved every cent!
Thank you for the kind words!
That's what happened to my dad's friend he burned trash pile didn't know bullets where in there and one went off. We use to junk cars and we found a box of ammo.
Sure that was a rental property, looked more like a storage dump . Great job on the clean up. That definitely would make you worry what else is on the property after finding all those bullets.
And inside the house? I wouldn't be brave enough to check.
I love your videos so much Brad you are awesome keep making your videos they’re freaking epic keep it up👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for the kind words!
I wouldn't have kept the table either.
Plus the center glass was missing.
brother u not lazzy person u r great neture lover boy so ilove ur work
Not sure how people can trash their yard like that.
Me neither!
Good morning, Brad. I used to work for a friend's maintenance company. We did clean-ups, lawn care, landscaping and his other business was refinishing hardwood floors. I worked in all aspects of his businesses. I can't understand for the life of me, how people let their properties get like this not only on the outside, but the inside also! HOW and WHY would you want to live like that!? It's not an income thing because A LOT of the customers were wealthy business owners! I just don't get it. Well, enough blabbing. Have a great weekend!
By the way, the yard looks awesome! ANOTHER fine job by Brad at Copper Creek Cuts!
I wonder if it is just one of those things you get used to little by little? I don't know either!
Sorry Brad. I just don’t have the stomach for watching - or taking part in - trash clean up any more. Catch you in the next video! 🙂
Haha, no worries!
Roasting ammo over an open fire 🔥 🔥🔥
Delicious! :D
What a great job you did.
Thank you so much!
I love this kind of video you are doing some great work
Thank you!
Great work Brad. I sure hope the landlord gets good tenants. 👍
I hope so too!
Looks like the metal guy didn’t take much
DRILL SOME HOLE IN BOTTOM SIDES OF TRASH BINS TO LET WATER OUT.
Good tip!
I have a older ransome Textron bobcat walk behind 48!mower from the early 1990
Excellent.
Many thanks!
Did I miss that part or why didn’t the scrap guy take all the cages & CV shaft & other metal scrap ? Just wondering, great video ! 👍👍👍👍👍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I didn't find the CV shaft until after I think, and he said the cages wouldn't be worth anything. Wrong type of metal or too rusted maybe? I didn't press him on why.
@@CopperCreekCuts ✌️Thx Brad
Holy smokes WOW 😲
Thanks for watching!
Have been thinking about some of your comments. I think anyone tackling an overwhelmed place at this point earns honor. It is far from the groomed or overgrown places you normally do but in these years, a yard could have these problems from a hurricane, a tornado, a flood, and even things as lousy housemates, collapse from illness, job loss, death or the devastation of addictive drugs. So, many thanks for what you got cleaned-up and sorry some of it was outright hazardous. Still, this is an example for, "How do you clean an unusually messy yard?" and helpful to anyone finding one in need in their lives. Knowing your work standard, I'm already looking forward to a neat and clean final result. A good start for the next tenant. (I was eyeing the table you cut up but it had a fair amount of severe damage. Only a person with skills of Furniture Restoration could have tackled that, if they considered it overall worth the time. Cutting it up did make it easier to cart away.) Nice recovery and restart.
Thank you for the well worded comment and for watching!
So, this is gonna sound weird, but I follow a lot of landscape pros and except for those two Asian guys doing amazing jobs with basic tools, you must be the only one with a proper rake and shovel ?! Gotta say that was really satisfying lol I was raised by a dad who was very strict about tools and using them. Heck, he thought me to drive a mower and then heavy machinery before I had a licence for a car. ( He had his own company) sooooo all this to say, he had this saying that I'll loosely translate " if you use the wrong tools like a moron, you'll get hurt like a moron. " And heck, I believe he's right 😂😂
Looks like you need a more powerful Whipper Sniper
It handled it fine in my opinion, but would never say no to more power!
Now you see what al bladez and lawn care juggernaut has to do on all their lawns .
'Obviously you don't want to judge someone...' Immediately judges.
Similar to 'no offense intended' :D
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I wouldn’t even want to do business for people like this. I wouldn’t trust them to pay or not screw me over somehow.
I think I covered in the video, if the work was for the residents I wouldn't take it, but the owners of the rental property have done business with me multiple times before, I don't have any trust issues with them.
See that van driving by verrry slowly? Did you Google the address for news stories? 🤔
LOL Good eyes!
Excellent job. Lots of things to deal with. He needs a responsible new tenant.
I agree, thanks for watching!
I like videos like this. I find them soothing. On another note, do you get concerned if you’re making passes up and down a lawn and the grass clippings are thrown onto the neighbors yard in some instances such as this when you’re on the standup? Do people say anything to you normally? I guess you can’t help it sometimes but is it something you try to avoid?
You hit the nail on the head. I try to avoid it when I can, but lots of houses are so close it just isn't physically possible to keep all the grass off another person's lawn.
Where is the white bobcat mower that you was using ??????
Sold the white mower to make room in the garage! :D
Brad with you finding that gun ammunition, it makes me wonder if the tenants of that house were involved in illegal activities. With them burning a computer, gun ammunition & other things, it smells really fishy to me. What were they trying to hide that they didn't want others to find out about??? Possible crime scene??? If the yard looked that disgusting, I can only imagine what the inside of that house looked like. Hopefully the inside of the house wasn't damaged, or that disgusting, but we can only hope for the best. Those tenants who were living in that house sure don't care about anyone else's property. If that house would have belong to those tenants, it would probably be condemned within a short period of time if they would have owned that house. I sure feel sorry for the homeowners who have to deal with the repairs that will be needed to fix up that yard & house.
I would really suggest that if ANYONE is a landlord & they're looking at renting out properties, to do a google search on the possible tenants & see what comes up on the internet about them. By doing a internet search on people before renting something out to someone, it can save a whole lot of headaches & money, by eliminating the bad apples from the list of possible tenants for their properties.
Brad you did a fantabulous job of cleaning up that very disgusting yard. 🙂 ❤
Thank you for the well thought out comment, I really appreciate it!
OMG!!!!!! What the hell happened in this yard!!!!!!! Wow!!!! Gross !!! Such pigs!!!!
Almost looks like my 223 rounds
I'll have to take your word for it!
hey men no usas cubre bocas con tanta contaminacion
I drilled holes in the bottom of my trash bins.
Good tip, thanks!
As a landlord, renters can be so rude and selfish regarding property they are just lucky enough to be borrowing. I have never understood the thoughtlessness of some lowlifes. Thankfully, they are not the norm. You did a good thing. This is why I charge a huge deposit.
I feel like you almost have to have a big deposit, it doesn't take much damage to eat it up.
Reminds me of some of the l bladez lawns in lawn care Juggernaut lawn / you need to team up with them and do a yard together
U should wear a mask for dusty areas. Just saying.
Nice video. Looks like a crack house clean up.
Great job on this one! Thanks for recycling that metal btw. No sense in letting it rot in the ground. Kinda goes without saying, but you shouldn't fire off those rounds. Not exactly sure how to dispose of live ammo but I believe the local police station would accept and safety dispose of it.
Good tips, thank you!
Great job!
Thanks for the visit!
When people rent, they don't have to care. They chose to be at their worst.
It will be someone else's problem beyond the deposit they lose.
I'm with Cory.......what the heck does the inside look like based on what the outside looked like? I am trying to figure out how people can tear up a chain link fence so badly, and why? You made it look tons better, but it still has the fugly factor going for it. Great job.
That fence had me scratching my head. Had to be just malicious shenanigans.
Seen way worse on every block in detroit
I believe you!
I thought about protesting the death-by-chainsaw of the coffee table, until I remembered that that thing had been sitting outside for God only knows how long, and was likely rotted to hell and back. The way it started to shake itself to pieces from the vibrations of the first cut said it all: *not structurally sound.* And with all that varnish on it, you'd have to completely strip the pieces before you could even use them for firewood. Damn shame, but not your bad, man~
Haha, thank you for the pass!
I was one of those who told you not to do it! I would have freaked if I had found ammunition
Haha, I was a bit startled!
That was a disgusting mess. Was that rotten food on the window ledge? Yuck! You did a great job on the outside. I'm sure the inside is even worse.
It looked like ramen and cereal? Gross.
If the people are going to complaining, why aren't they there to help out. Other wise keep your mouth shut and watch he's doing for the good
Haha, thanks Paulette!
Nice job 👍
Thank you!
Looks like a slum lord property. Rented to some undesirables. Probably had rosters back there. Those pens didn't look strong enough for fighting dogs. But, never now. Google up the address & see if there was some sort of police "bust" there.
Good thinking on the roosters, I didn't think about that.