Street roller on yard??

[maxx075]

Here ya go:

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[Steve300xcw]

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

Suppose it really depends on how much brush we are talking about. It isnt all that hard to separate it outta the dirt as you go though.

 

[KurtR]

Suppose it really depends on how much brush we are talking about. It isnt all that hard to separate it outta the dirt as you go though.

How many yards of dirt have you moved to come to that conclusion? You just dont jump on a blade and do it there are plenty of blade drivers and very few blade operators

 

[renagde]

Everybody I've ever talked to says that rolling your yard is terrible. It compacts the soil and hinders grass growth. However, I live close to Amish and they mostly still use the push reel type mower. Because it's extremely difficult to get a reel mower to mow grass nicely if it's bumpy, almost all the Amish in this area will roll their yards in the spring. They do it while the ground is still soft, you don't want it dried out and obviously not too muddy. They have some of the nicest looking grass and the smoothest yards around. My theory is the yard guys don't want to roll it because of risk or liability? They'd rather tell you to aerate and fill but in my experience, rolling actually does a better job.

 

[Fujicon]

By "roller" do you mean smooth drum? That might help if you first used a sheeps foot (some call it goats foot; see pic below) roller to help compact the soil where it's overly bumpy, but you'd need to perfectly time it when soil is mildly soft yet not too soft. Probably just using a grader would be the better option.

 

[Steve300xcw]

You just dont jump on a blade and do it there are plenty of blade drivers and very few blade operators

Agreed

 

[JasonT]

What about a pulverizer?

 

[KsRancher]

I suppose it depends on what you call smooth. When I think of yard smooth I am thinking a baseball or football field. Where you can ride a lawn mower and it be smooth. Then there is small tractor with brush hog smooth. Two total different things. I have ran machinery for a lot years and done some work on football and baseball fields. That dirt is SMOOTH. Your aren't doing that with vegetation and a blade. If you just after small tractor smooth then a lot of the ideas mentioned above will work.