How to Build Brick Tree Rings - DIY
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- A mulch ring around a tree promotes healthy growth. But without a distinct border, it can look sloppy over time. Building a concrete or brick tree ring can improve the look of your yard. In this video, I'll show you how to plan and build a brick tree ring.
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Great project. Well built. Will be around for along time. Looking at other comments. Diameter * Pi too technical? Scary, very scary.
Thank you! and .. Exactly.
sleepercell ...it’s better to eat pies that have a great diameter 🤣
Man felt like someone was explaining brick work to me in a nightclub over a few drinks on the dance floor with all that that loud music
This can all be done in a weekend guys. All you need is a trigonometry and graphic design degree and you're all set
Lmao all you gotta do it put a sqaure in that and take off 1/4th from one side
Being a professional landscaper I never recommended edges like this. The tree will continue to grow and the roots will expand and slowly put pressure on the bricks until they break. All you need is a three inch deep edge which you can re trench every couple of years as the tree continues to grow larger.
Landscaper here too. I’ve never seen one of these that wasn’t broken and lifted after a couple of years.
got a link to what you mean? Thanks
what you mean by 'needing only 3 inch edge'....? not sure
@@mml1224 three inch deep in the ground.
@@DaddyGreer65 wait ur saying do not put no type of border, just a 3 inch trench? wats teh point in that.....
Shit got too technical fast lol. Not needed
once he said "cad program" I left this video lol
LOL!
lol I'm not trying to be a jerk, this looks amazing. just don't think I could do this lol
No problem, I thought your comment was funny.
lol almost did the same
The program was just a tool used to help give him a better idea of the brick shape and dimensions. This can (and is) easily done without expensive software. Great video!
DO NOT use concrete... it will not last. The roots will crack it in a couple years. Build with bricks, much easier and you can remove
e-adjust.
You ain’t wong there.
What a fantastic job! You make it look so simple. I could never do that! Lol
beautiful circles, nicely installed. hope you can pull back some of the soil/mulch at the tree's base -- to expose the' 'flare' (they look a little deep -- I learned the hard way, that'll kill a tree in less than a decade).
It looks really nice! I might try something similar myself but in my climate I'm thinking that the winters will damage the concrete base and/or mortar joints. Maybe I'll just end up dry-stacking a couple of brick layers on a sand base.
Awesome, you make it look so easy. I’m all thumbs
The roots will move with time, crack the concrete and the bricks will then lift and move around.
Apart from that, splendid....
After 3.5 years, there are no cracks...
nice job and I appreciate the detail but would prefer to make it flush to the ground so you can mow around it and not have to use the weed trimmer around it
Exactly what I was thinking. Someone also mentioned that the roots will eventually push up and breaking the ring apart. I think I'd also prefer to have a solid ring of pavers but that would involve a saw I don't own, a bunch of calculating and alot of time cutting. Simplest would a rubber tree ring mat but I want one 48" dia. and they don't make them that big.
Some places sell no cut block for different diameters.
great job on the masonry. should look great for years - but, not sure about the tree... if the root flare is covered (soil or mulch), the tree WILL die before this time. look for die-back at the top - once that's begun, the tree’s most likely a goner.
Must admit although I appreciate the effort & intention of this video, I agree with a lot of the comments below: the music track was a distraction & I had to lower it, the CAD drawing & mathematical equations were a first and unnecessary, and pouring brick around a growing tree really is not a good idea for the obvious reasons stated by other commentors. Gardening & landscaping are organic & ever changing & you need to leve room to grow & change areas in your garden. I don't wanna have to break down brick if I want to expand or change that area.
The video and the explanation is great! Some of the viewers like me very new to this kind of work. So I'm not familiar with the tool names or the necessary equipment names. If you add the link to get the instructions then that would be great for the people who need additional help. This is my small suggestion. Really I liked your video and it inspires me to do this project at my home.
Nothing can be more simple you can't complicate....LOL
a project well done but the music track was too loud compared to your voice.
Thanks for the feedback. I noticed that after I uploaded it. I'll watch out for it in the future.
Agreed. I can't hear/focus on what he's saying
homer power I also agree with the music being too loud. I had to keep rewinding to hear what you where saying
@@EngineeredWoodworkingandDIY I don't like any music in the background at all. So distracting.
Great video And channel! I teach high school woodshop and Pre-Engineering and love what your doing.
no level? wow.........dunno, can we trust this guy, ya'll?
Wouldn’t gravity sort that out when he poured the concrete?
That's awesome! But for us who've never done it before, it looks like a shit-ton of work!!!!
That's too many bricks for me. I am going to try larger ones. Thanks for the video!
looks absolutely awesome!
Here's my thoughts though...
If it was me I would make the whole thing at ground level as to mow easily.
As it is now you have to use a trimmer every time and it's a pain when doing cross or diagonal lawn cuts with these above ground tree rings.
I mean, that looks great, but I don't suppose your average DIYer would end up with the same product lol.
Really nice yard work and video. I'm inspired to do the same. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoy DYI projects but it seems to me that maintaining a trench around the tree is much easier. Also, this project is way above my “pay grade”.
Looks nice but you still have to use a trimmer. It does appear to be a circumference that fits the tree now, but what about when it's grown? Is the tree centered or is it just the camera that makes it look off center??
damn you need to be a math wizard to build a ring around a tree.
LOL!
Yeah no fooling. How to landscape around a tree, for rocket scientists.
Craig Souder true 🤓
Craig Souder just lay them out dry,then you can better space them.
Craig Souder 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very nice!
Very beautiful yard.
You're genius.
Thank you my dad told me to do this in the morning but I completely forgot how to do it you saved me
Wow... you make it sound like a simple morning project 0_0
how do you cut the grass around the ring? i would prefer a solution where the tree ring will be on the same level with the ground (Digged in)
great vid (minus the annoyin music), very informative and use of time. however, you didn't add a sand base to the concrete, how do you know its not leanin or level? I am sure you can make up the diff. with the top brick for eveness, but had2ask, thanks!
Yea dude, ya went to far with the CAD program. A real mason doesn't need all that for a simple tree ring of brick.
no need for music, can you please just turn it off so i can hear what you say better!
Nice work!
The problem is that I have tree roots sticking up all around the tree. Now what?
CAD is such a cool program. It's wild to watch people apply it to their work so easily across the spectrum.
It looks great!
Thank you for the compliment!
Can I hire you?! I love the brick tree ring!!! ❤
Well, if you don't happen to have a cad program, couldn't you just lay a brick down on the ring and use a piece of string to mark the cuts from the outside corners? I tend to agree with a lot of comments on here, that while this looks great now, the tree roots will eventually push it up and crack it all up. But you should get 5 years before that happens at least. The manufactured stone blocks at the home centers are getting better and better. But they tend to be a little small on the diameter when set together.
Thanks for the video.
How can they be small on diameter when you decide how big to make the circle?
@@judyl.761 I was thinking of the ones that are circular or have a radius. Otherwise you are correct.
So how many degrees did you taper the bricks down on each side from 90*.......looks like about 3 degrees? What was your inside diameter?
Beautiful
Super 👌👌👌👍
Great video but could you make the music not so loud. Your voice is drowned by the music. Lucky for subtitles
What material are the bender boards? PS That music is to loud!
please figure out how to turn down the music volume. Thankyou for the tutorial it helped. But your music level doesn't help.
What hell Bill Nye.
Relax people. Just measure two circles. The computer stuff is more a precision job requirement for a professional but you and I could easily do this without the computer part.
Please, please, don’t bury the tree root collar (where the tree trunk naturally meets the ground) like this. It causes rot and mis formed roots. It is a VERY common problem, and will cause tree death or even failure (falls over) in future.
Five years on, how is the tree going and any sign of the roots disturbing the concrete?
How does it look today? Has the concrete cracked at all?
Just do concrete with a dye... Those look great
No way, clay bricks have a unique beauty. -Joseph
Amazing!!
My trees are very old and very thick and the yard is small in comparison. I wonder if a tree ring would just throw off the curb appeal.
Great vid... thanks!
I'm not cutting no bricks!!! I can buy the bricks!
Where did you buy those rings?
Did you wear a respirator cutting those bricks?
Masha allaa
I hope that tree done growing 😂
Is that a circular saw at 2:50? and dose it cuts wood too? And can you tell where can I get the table from? If you can get me a link for online shop that would be great. Thanks for sharing the video 👍🏼
why don't you adhesive glue the bricks to the concrete ring?
That's a good questions. The true adhesive for blocks and brick is mortar, which is what was used in the video. Anything else is just a user-friendly product meant for a basic DIY'er. That aside, I would have still needed mortar for use in between the bricks, so using an adhesive, like from a tube, would have been an extra product, an extra step. Lastly, the "liquid nails" and similar adhesives that you are probably thinking about are 10 times more expensive for the same use shown in the video.
Ristagno idrico?
When I bought my last house, the first thing I did was to remove the tree (mulch) rings from the previous owner. My yard now looks bigger and more natural without those hokey looking tree rings. Installing tree rings is like putting a sign in your front yard that says: "My name is Jim. I'm too lazy to trim around my trees so I put in these dumb looking tree rings so I can just cut around them with my mower".
So not true.
nice
Get idea. But where do you get bender board? I’ve been to two hardware stores and they are completely lost on what a bender board is...???
I bought the bender board at Home Depot. If you can't find it, it is just 1/4" MDF that is 4" wide. You can buy a sheet of it and rip it down.
Appreciate the video! Don’t wanna talk shit about it but could you do future videos with the music a little lower. It was hard to catch your instructions.
What would you charge to do something like this
The issue here is the author, neglected to research and present how this same project could be done without a computer or sophisticated software, inorder to calculate how to cut the bricks properly. Impossibly sophisticated cathedrals were built over 600 hundred years ago, and palaces, temples and other works even much older than that, were fashioned and built with no CAD Program or computer. This video was inspiring, yet just as much, it was a source of discouragement. Show the relatively simply math, that I'm sure can solve this geometry problem.
Did he show the finished product? Maybe i missed it? The entire video to show you something then never shows the end product to see if someone would spend all the time
The finished product is at the beginning and end of the video. You may have missed it because I faded from before and after on the video. Watch again. Thanks!
Adds pop up immediately and obscure the finished product at the end. I hate that!
Do you think this method would work with a large diameter circle, like 6 feet?
I think it would. Do it!
Why didn’t you just mark the concrete when wet with a scraper to have brick patten? Double job ?
Many reasons, but the main one is that the second that the mortar is laid on top of the concrete, it would cover the lines.
Engineered Woodworking and DIY my point is not to lay anything after you have drawn the lines. Making the concrete taller with deeper lines. Maybe you could paint the concrete to look like bricks.
Instead of cutting blocks, I would just weld a flat bar as per the CAD brick section the press it on the concrete all around the circumference.
They make stamps for concrete could have made it look like brick and yes concrete will kill a tree had concrete patio with a tree in middle of it left 6ft ring around tree 6 years dead besides not everyone has a 800 dollar wet saw to cut brick
measurements detail?
Really great video but the name of this should be *"How I Built a Brick Tree Ring"* not "How to Build". This is definitely a bit too technical for most people I'd dare to say.
nice job, but i think im just gonna pay someone to do it lol
That’s overkill. You built a foundation for a house already. Lol
When you start building brick ring with CAD
Firestictricks
So how did you know at what angle to cut the bricks?
I drew the brick ring in Autocad (or you can use Sketchup which is free), and then I cut the bricks to that measurement.
Engineered Woodworking and DIY ggv
Im not convinced that you need to cut all the bricks to a taper angle. The taper could be achieved by the varying thickness of concrete mix.
Vendor board? Did I hear that right... what is it?
Bender Board.
Probably turn down the music more in the sections where you added you talking. Otherwise this is basically just a montage
never liked brick style rings. Just make it all cement with a design, and makes the job alot easier.
is it me or does that brick ring look off centered?
Can you share how much you cut bricks???
I use either a wet tile saw or a masonry blade on my "metal" chop saw.
Engineered Woodworking and DIY I mean dimension, how much you make it smaller?
You cut bottom of bricks, how much you cut it??
@@gus5028 it was 3/8" from each side to make the pie shape. Was that your question?
Engineered Woodworking and DIY
yes
thank you
music in the background is too loud and your going to fast
Informative video but the music is soooo annoying!
Concerte's rad but doesn't it have negative effects on our planet? I want a small brick house one day. Idk.
The electricity you're using to power the device you're using to view and type this has far more negative impacts than just concrete.
How to kill a troublesome tree in just 95 simple steps.
Could you have picked any worse music? Thank god for mute.
Thought this was a dyi? Lol
Just buy the tree ring kit.
I see you can buy no cut block rings in different sizes.
Imma just eyeball it.
PLEASE lose the horrid music.
Now… cad and pi aside… (way too complicated for me.)
And I have to say I'm no expert… trying to learn how to best do this myself. BUT what I can say about trees, this isn't good for them. Ever see city trees planted in holes in the sidewalk? Ever see an old one? They simply can't live long.
Next…. if you bury the trunk above where it's natural dirt line is, you WILL kill it.
Last… as the tree grows, (hopefully) and your ring may need to be expanded, what do you propose? Getting a jack hammer to rip out the cement? Also I'm not sure if the chemicals in the cement are all that good for growing trees. (Maybe someone knows more about that.)
I think I'll stick to a much simpler method. Dig out a ring of grass, level the ground, lay some sand, SET pavers or bricks onto that, fill the ring with dirt, THEN plant the tree. And only do this ground level or one row of stone higher, no more or the roots will girdle, or grown around in circles until the tree dies. (Just watched another video where he want about 4 levels up. NO way those trees will last long.) Your tree is established already so your problem here will be the covering the trunk issue.
Oh man! The music, what a headache.
you are either a civil engineer or an architect.
I'm a civil engineer.
These brick rings are never a good idea. Almost always the roots will ruin them over time.
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Good video, But how come every video has music. It’s ok but why is it always so loud. To the point you can’t hear the person talking.
PS I’m not picking on this, Video. Most are to high.
Old guy, Sorry 😀
That music is louder than your voice and it's so annoying that couldn't stand watching the entire video. Please try nicer music and not that high volume that can't hear what you're saying