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Shannon Cason's Homemade

Get the Right Tools | Everyday is a Story

Shannon Cason's Homemade

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4.8860 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Everybody in Detroit is outside doing yard work right now. I bought a chainsaw, started clearing bushes and trees, and quickly realized how satisfying it is to have the right tools.


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0:00.0

Once you start cutting things, it's hard to stop.

0:03.5

Every day is a story.

0:04.9

I'm Shannon Kaysen.

0:06.3

Make sure you like and subscribe.

0:08.6

When it warms up here in Detroit, everyone is outside.

0:12.3

Right now is lawn mowers, leaf blowers, home depot runs, and just a lot of hard work.

0:19.9

And I have two houses that I'm responsible for, for all the

0:24.1

line work. And both of these are on the east side of Detroit. And one of my biggest things for this

0:30.2

early season right now is to clear out as much as possible. I just want to start with a,

0:37.1

with a clean slate,

0:38.6

get everything out of the way.

0:40.4

So at one of the houses,

0:41.7

there's a tree right in front of the house

0:43.6

next to the stairs.

0:45.2

And one day I told the landscaper

0:46.9

to cut the tree.

0:48.8

I do it want to trim it.

0:50.5

Just trim the tree so when you walk up

0:52.2

the stairs,

0:52.8

you don't have to brush around the tree.

0:56.8

And this, he got overzealous. It was a young guy who was doing the landscaping. He got overzealous. And I just wanted him to trim it. And he cut it back to the white meat. He cut it like to the brown part of the bush.

1:11.2

And now it's just all ugly right next to the stairs.

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