Did you catch that analysis too @wesleyflores, I read something similar about the lighting being off in those clips.

I live in Tucson and my first summer here I painted my shed a dark brown. The next morning it looked like a dried out river bed, cracks everywhere. Learned that lesson real quick.

Oh man, I gotta disagree a little bit here @andrew921. I mean, yeah, technique matters a ton, but sometimes the tool really is just junk. I've had a few times where I swapped out a cheap blade for a decent one and suddenly everything cuts smooth as butter. No amount of holding it different would've fixed that. It's usually a mix of both, not always just one or the other.

Man I saw this video the other day from some university extension office about replacing lawns with native plants and it blew my mind. They said the average American lawn takes like 10,000 gallons of water a year to keep green. That's crazy when you think about it. A bee lawn or prairie garden drinks almost nothing compared to that. Plus those monarch caterpillars are picky eaters, they literally can't survive without milkweed. Its wild how one small change just ripples out and gets other people interested. Your HOA story gives me hope honestly, people really do come around when they see the bees and butterflies showing up.

Emma's point about the hairline crack is something I see all the time now, not just on cranes. I was at a gas station last month and watched a semi back up over a patch of asphalt that looked fine, but a whole section just caved in where a storm drain had rotted out underneath. It's like that old train crash in Montana a few years back where the track looked perfect on top but the ground underneath had washed out from a beaver dam. We treat the surface like it tells the whole story when it almost never does. I think the operator has to own the final look because they're the one who's going to feel it when things go bad, but the crew should be digging test holes or at least probing that ground before anyone sets a rig on it. The problem is nobody wants to be the guy who slows down a 500k setup.