A JCB with a spinning cone trims evergreens in HomeTransform's generated Short
A ladder wobble and a phone call set up the gag, and the machine works its way down a whole row of trees.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 143,726 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (13,052).
This Giant Machine Trims Trees Into Perfect Cones! 🤯🌳 #Technology #Gardening
"This Giant Machine Trims Trees Into Perfect Cones!" is a little comedy of escalation. A man trying to shape a tall evergreen from a step ladder loses his balance, makes a quick phone call, and a JCB telehandler arrives carrying an enormous cone-shaped rotating trimmer. It lowers the spinning cone over the tree, cuts it to a neat point, then moves down the row and does the same to every tree. The man is left with a rake and a lawn full of clippings.
None of it comes from a real garden. The description says the visuals and audio were modified or created with generative tools. That sits a little oddly beside a channel whose about text promises "no shortcuts," and one of the Short's only two comments makes the same point.
The audience came anyway. Sixteen hours after going up, the Short had close to 120,000 views, around ten times what a HomeTransform Short usually gathers in its whole first day. Likes kept pace, passing a thousand where the channel's Shorts typically collect a couple of hundred.
It arrives at the end of a run of near-daily uploads that took HomeTransform from a steel tank turned barrel sauna to a stone-and-timber bed and a swan pool float cast in concrete. The moldable putty repairs posted on Monday are still the most watched of the lot.
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- Channel
- HomeTransform
- Subscribers
- 479,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,135,197
- Channel views, pace per day
- 826,890 (on a normal day: 428,406)
- Video published
- October 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 119,264 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 143,726
The numbers
A Short that ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, with likes climbing alongside the views.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which 1990 Tim Burton film does Johnny Depp's character clip suburban hedges into elaborate sculptures?
In Edward Scissorhands, Depp's Edward uses his blade hands to turn a neighborhood's hedges into topiary, and the trimming makes him a local celebrity.