Street roller on yard??

JasonT

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Anyone ever use a street roller in their yard? I mow about 4 acres and it’s so rough it will jar your teeth lose in spots, along with a sore back for the day. I bought a nice grammer seat with the fore and aft option which helped but definitely not enough. I’m thinking of renting a small street roller to see if that will help. Not sure if that will cause too much compaction and just let weeds grow? I don’t live in town so I’m not too worried about a pristine yard but don’t want a weed bed either.
Just curious if anyone had success trying it?

I have also tried messing with air pressure in tires.
 
We had 1/4 acre section in our yard like that. I quit mowing it a few years ago. Deer and rabbits love it but it is getting a bit overgrown now.
 
There’s a guy in the town I live in that goes around and rolls yards with a street roller. I’d imagine it works a hell of a lot better than anything you could pull with a lawn mower or 4 wheeler.
 
I have an old dirt track roller that I use to roll my lawn. It weighs 6,000 pounds. It works to take the smaller bumps out if I catch it early enough in the spring when the lawn hasn't dried out.
 
You need to mow all that?
I rented a roller once, fill with water might have weighed few hundred pounds and it seemed to work. But I had an acre tops and I had to mow it all.
Those “lumps” might be moles. Best thing I found was a few male cats I had. They dug as good as any dog and slaughtered those moles. Never ate them though and always brought them to the side door.
Must have tasted like dirt. :D
 
I also mow about 4 acres and have the same issues. When we seeded the yard we had some torrential rains that caused several ruts. I've tried filling them in but it never works. This year I had a guy with a plug aerator come out and run over these areas a couple times. I'm trying to find a heavy roller to go over it now. My thinking is a super aerated area with some spring rains will make a roller more effective. I'd be worried about a street roller getting stuck at the bottom of my sloped areas?!?!
 
I also mow about 4 acres and have the same issues. When we seeded the yard we had some torrential rains that caused several ruts. I've tried filling them in but it never works. This year I had a guy with a plug aerator come out and run over these areas a couple times. I'm trying to find a heavy roller to go over it now. My thinking is a super aerated area with some spring rains will make a roller more effective. I'd be worried about a street roller getting stuck at the bottom of my sloped areas?!?!
Ya with any slope and if there’s any moisture you would be screwed. I have had to pull more than one up a hill. Maybe a pull type behind a tractor with turf tires would be a better option
 
The way may place is set up it just wouldn’t look right if I didn’t mow as much as I do. I have a guy cut about 7 acres for hay, which helps.
I look over it all the time trying to figure out if I can eliminate some mowing, lots I would rather do than get beat up for a few hours every week.
I may just start tilling a different section up each yr until it’s all done.
 
The way may place is set up it just wouldn’t look right if I didn’t mow as much as I do. I have a guy cut about 7 acres for hay, which helps.
I look over it all the time trying to figure out if I can eliminate some mowing, lots I would rather do than get beat up for a few hours every week.
I may just start tilling a different section up each yr until it’s all done.

Turn it over into pollinator habitat.
 
Get a guy in there with a blade of some sorts an cut that shit smooth
Not to be argumentative. But blades and grass don't work. Unless you take all of thr vegetation off and dont want it spread back out. Cutting the humps off and filling the lows sounds good. But it will not work with vegetation.

His tiller idea is the best bet
 
Box blade it, use the rippers. Take out the high spot, smooth with the blade then reseed. I did my 9 acre pasture cause it was a pain in the butt even using the brush hog with the high spots. Spent a couple days with the box blade to level ebeything and I can cut it with the zero turn now.
 
Depends on where you are at. We used to use small rollers on lawns back in Minnesota, it worked OK some of the time. Out here in Colorado the ground is so hard that a roller wouldn't do anything. As a DIYer best thing to do is get a load of dirt and slowly start filling in low spots so that the grass remains peaking through and use a coarse rock take to knock down high spots It'll take a summer or two.
 
Box blade it, use the rippers. Take out the high spot, smooth with the blade then reseed. I did my 9 acre pasture cause it was a pain in the butt even using the brush hog with the high spots. Spent a couple days with the box blade to level ebeything and I can cut it with the zero turn now.

did it look like you tilled it up using the box blade/rippers? I have one so may give that a try.
 
Save fuel and hire some sheep. They'll take care of the grass in hurry. Blade it after they eat it to the roots and reseed. You gotta love mother nature.
 
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