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BobReeves

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Saw this on Craigslist and it gave me an idea.

https://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/d/4x3-ft-4-wheeler-drag-food/6668511601.html

I have been on our lawn with the tractor when I shouldn't have and mowing some areas are a pretty bumpy ride. Thinking of building a frame like this using expanded metal but with something in the rear to level out sandy top soil. Dump in sand or sandy top soil which will fall down through the expanded metal and hopefully fill in the low spots. Thinking an I beam or angle iron in the rear would keep the high spots cleaned off.

Anyone ever tried this, ideas???
 
I use a piece of bridge walkway grating 4-5 ft wide with something heavy on it.no building
necessary
 
If the lawn is an acre, and the ruts are 20%, I would agree with the idea of leveling as you describe. If the lawn is well seeded and good, I would use a roller to smooth high
spots, and fill the ruts from a trailer or truck, then seed those areas. Jim
 
First house I bought had a really rough back yard, like it had been plowed for a garden many years before, grown up in weeds and wild grass.

I just used an old chain link fence gate weighted down with rocks and concrete blocks.

Worked well behind the riding mower.
 
Agree Steve. Better yet, get hold of that 6 foot tall commercial chainlink fence. Have a piece 6X10 with 3x3 angle iron from an old power transmisson tower bolted on. Very heavy and you need a real garden tractor to tow it. You just dump little piles of sand all over the place and just keep driving back and forth. Enough loose sand and some time gives you a Pool Table smooth lawn. The grass usually grows right through it in a couple of weeks.
 
if you can find one, an old all steel box spring from a bed set.

Might have to toss it on a bonfire to get ride of the cloth coverings.

It will give you an aggressive cut when upright and a mild cut when upside down.

Not to sure how you would get any auto deposit of earth into the low spot.
I would think that would have to be a separate manual operation with a shovel and rake.
Then use the box spring to smooth it all off and feather it into the high spots.
 
I have heavy clay soil with a mixture of buffalo grass and Bermuda. Anything done to disturb the sod just ends up being big clumps of roots and grass. Impossible to level or work with without plowing it under.

My experience with trying to use a roller is if the ground is soft enough for the roller to do anything, it is too soft for what I have to pull it with. A rider or ZT just spins it's wheels and a tractor just makes bigger ruts.
 
The last lawn I put in, I used a junk 14.9x24 rear tractor tire. Drilled a hole in the tread and fastened a piece of chain to it and pulled it with my garden tractor.
Loren
 
Probably will work good for dirt, but I tried pulling a piece of chain link fence behind my disk, when I first started disking. All it did was roll up the weeds. Looked terrible. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 12:34:33 08/24/18) Probably will work good for dirt, but I tried pulling a piece of chain link fence behind my disk, when I first started disking. All it did was roll up the weeds. Looked terrible. Stan
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ll these plans are null & void if sod is already there.
 
I have two things to do what you want.

One is a 3 inch metal pipe attached to
the bottom of a 7 ft back blade. That
will knock off the high spots on your
lawn and level out the loose dirt.

Another device I made out of 10 inch I-beam
I welded the beams at right angles to each
other making a V shape. Then I made
brackets to attach it to 3 pt. I used my
6 ft woods finish mowers as a design to
attach the V shape leveler to 3 pt. Each
arm that attaches the leveler to 3 pt
can move a little.

The v shape pulls in dirt to the middle
of the V. That works the best, better
than using a box blade. V shape is self
leveling too.

If you want something like you posted on
craigslist, just use a chain link gate
which comes in varying sizes. I've used
gates before, but the V shape works
best, pipe on back blade second. Gate
and bed springs so, so on leveling loose
dirt, but not so good on sod.
 
I have used 2 wooden wagon wheel metal tires. Each about 5' across. Chain one behind the other (about 18") and pulled them about 6' behind small Kubota tractor. Could pull with garden tractor. Takes several passes but levels out the high spots and fills the lows.
 
Well your lawn probably isn't big enough, mine isn't
either... but if you want it level this is what we use in
the field.

In reality for a lawn I've used a heavy gate and
dragged it behind the gator to level loose sand / soil
over my lawn.
Sorry don't have pictures of that.
Good luck. Grant
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Hey gang, it's grass not dirt, on loose dirt just about anything will work.

From my previous post...
I have heavy clay soil with a mixture of buffalo grass and Bermuda. Anything done to disturb the sod just ends up being big clumps of roots and grass. Impossible to level or work with without plowing it under.
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With established grass I dont believe just using a drag will be very productive. Has not been for me. Add some loose soil then drag or be prepared to tear up the yard and rework it. Catch it after a small rain and a really large roller will take out some bumps but not fill in ditches.
 
(quoted from post at 05:44:06 08/25/18) Hey gang, it's grass not dirt, on loose dirt just about anything will work.

From my previous post...
I have heavy clay soil with a mixture of buffalo grass and Bermuda. Anything done to disturb the sod just ends up being big clumps of roots and grass. Impossible to level or work with without plowing it under.
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I have powder like white sand lawn with I do not know what kinda grass. I hauled in more of same sand to fill in what use to be low rows of old furrows, etc.
Then used the bed springs, upside down WITHOUT any additional weights on it.
Worked good, sand got leveled out and feathered into the surrounding higher spots.
Did not tear up any existing sod.

Maybe the roots go deeper down here compared to what you have.

If doing the above will up root your sod, then you likely will have to do it all with shovel and rake.

Good luck.
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