OT rough ground

Heyseed · Apr 28, 2012

Moved into this house last fall, the yard ahs not been taken care of for years. It is about an acre that I mow and it is rough as a cob. It will rattle your kidneys mowing it. Any tricks or ideas on how to smooth the ground short of bringing in a dozer and regrading the place.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 28, 2012

(reply to post at 23:27:09 04/27/12)

If it's just rough from neglect, can you borrow/rent a hammer mulcher...(rough translation)... Think you folks call them Flail mowers?
When my pastures get more mole mounds than the chain harrow can handle, the neighbor runs the mulcher over it and makes it look nice again. If yours is worse, what about just discing/dragging it and start over?

Have fun.

Dave

Fullers Farmalls · Apr 28, 2012

Wait for a heavy rain and then try and roll it. Not one of those lightweight ones. Ours was a 55 gallon barrel filled with concrete. It will smooth out some but not all. If you want it really smooth bring in top soil and fill in the low spots or just spread it evenly and start over.

JDseller · Apr 28, 2012

Get some good dirt/topsoil. Spread it around the rough spots. Then take a single section of a section harrow and drag it around with your mower to level the dirt out. Plus this will work the ground so you can seed some new grass seed into the filled in spots.

Lou from Wi. · Apr 28, 2012

Years back. a fellow with a railroad tie with protuding spikes,eyelets in the end ,pulled that rig over my really bad rough ground. The rig was weighted down with concrete block when he started. as the ground becake loose he removd the weights and continued making the rounds until the ground looked like a golf course /worked for him and sure satisfied me. regards LOU.

Heyseed · Apr 28, 2012

Thanks for the advice, I thought of trying to spread dirt but it would take at least a couple truck loads and clean top soil is expensive. Around here it is a few hundred a load, no such thing as dirt cheap.
I"ll try and find a roller that I can drag around every time I mow, maybe that will work over time.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 28, 2012

When we lived in Indiana I bought an areator a local welder had made from a section gang of an old pull type rotary hoe. I would weight it down with firewood when the ground was very wet and pull it with the mower. Letting the ground breath and promoting grass growth helped to smooth that yard out.

kevinj54 · Apr 28, 2012

Rent a Harley Rake, that will smooth it out.

Hay hay hay · Apr 28, 2012

I have the same problem and I have a heavy roller and a neighbor has a really heavy roller I can borrow. I have a good stand of grass but it is rough to mow.

MY Question: What is the right time of year and the right soil mosture condition to roll it. I'm concerned that the roller will kill all the grass or that if the ground is too wet I'll make ruts and push the ground up in waves. This is mostly clay loam soils.

any free advice?

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