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16 tradeshows. 3 years. Including the dealers-only floors you can't buy a ticket to.

It's all in one place now — PITCHED. Every show floor I've walked, one episode per show, new season every year.

youtube.com/show/VLPLCoitX-cQJqc

Which show should I hit next?

4 days ago | [YT] | 0

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My family put these muscadines in the ground in 1987. Two 250-foot rows, thirty-nine years old, and this year the worst drought Florida's seen in a decade nearly finished them. The harvest showed it.

So I gave myself one day to fix it for good — 500 feet of trench cut through the rows, drip line buried 8 to 9 inches down where the next dry spell can't reach.

The whole irrigation system came to $78.63. That's the number that still gets me.

For the trenching I ran two machines on the same cart: a Husqvarna K770 down row one, ToolTuff's own house-brand power head down row two. Same chain, same dirt, same guy running it. One of them surprised me.

Before you watch it — which one are you betting on? And has a name brand ever actually earned the price difference for you on a machine like this?

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

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I got behind on firewood this year. Whole pile sitting out, halfway to rotting, and no good excuse for it.

So I put 22 tons of hydraulic pressure to work on it.

Two confessions in this one. There's a moment where I do something you're not supposed to do with a log splitter — and I left it in instead of cutting it out. And there's one thing about this machine I flat out didn't like, which I say out loud.

The 6-second cycle time is the real story though. That's about twice as fast as what I'm used to, and on a pile that size it's the difference between a weekend and an afternoon.

What are you running for firewood — splitter, maul, or the neighbor with the tractor?

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

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I've cut my parents' grass for eight years. An acre, every week, in the Florida heat — and there's a beehive in the corner I've been mowing past as fast as I possibly can that whole time.

Here's the part nobody plans for: one day the person who cuts the grass can't. Age, surgery, a kid heading off to college. Then what?

So while my parents were inside, I set a robot loose on their lawn. Let it run a week. Then I told my mom she's never mowing again.

She had thoughts.

Who cuts the grass at your parents' place — and what happens the year they can't?

1 week ago | [YT] | 1

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Every two minutes I was climbing off the machine to shove the debris trailer forward another ten feet. Off, reposition, back on, dig, repeat. All afternoon.

So I built a hitch that bolts straight to the dozer blade on my mini excavator. Grab the trailer, move it, load it — one machine, one pass, nobody holding the other end.

Nobody sells this. I looked. Which either means I found a gap worth filling, or there's a good reason it doesn't exist and I'm about to hear about it.

So tell me: genius, or did I overbuild it?

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Homestead Garage

Dealers-only show in Orlando. No public tickets, no press badges, just distributors and the brands showing them what's coming.

I got in with a camera. 12 tools worth your money, including one that changes fluids through the dipstick and a hammer chisel Milwaukee thinks will replace your air hose.

What's the last tool you bought that actually earned its spot?

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Homestead Garage

I got into a tool show the public isn't allowed to attend. 12 new tools for 2026.

Which one would you actually put in your box?

Full walkthrough: https://youtu.be/J113xHtNstc

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

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Walked The Landscape Show in Orlando looking for the stuff nobody else was putting on camera. Came back with 8.

The one I can't stop thinking about: a jar of crystals that hold 200x their weight in water. Mix them into the soil, they hand the water back as the ground dries out. Supposedly cuts your watering in half.

Also in there — mulch glue that keeps your beds from washing into the driveway, a paver sealer, a downspout cleanout that finally makes sense, and GPS tracking for under $20 a month if you're running crew trucks.

Here's what I want to know: which one should I actually put through a season on the property? Drop the number and I'll test it.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Homestead Garage

Navimow sent me their smallest AND biggest 2026 mowers — the $1,099 i2 AWD and the $2,999 X4. Two completely different machines.

So I spent two weeks pushing both past their spec sheets: a homestead obstacle gauntlet, a full solo acre, and a 5-day, 100-cycle docking test running the whole time.
This isn't "which one wins" — it's which one is right for YOUR yard. Full breakdown is live 👇

2 months ago | [YT] | 0

Homestead Garage

I just replaced 380 lbs of dead weight in my golf cart with ONE 87-lb battery.

Went in skeptical. Came out a believer.

Full breakdown, install, and honest review (the good AND the bad) just dropped 👇

3 months ago | [YT] | 0