extrapairofhands
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Hi - great website and I am hoping you guys can help a daft englishman out! I am about to purchase a couple of acres of woodland of which I plan to turn about 1/2 an acre into lawn. The floor of the woodland obviously has a lot of fallen rotten timber which I will clear by hand and the few trees I do intend to drop I will grind out the stumps. However there is extensive coverage of ivy throughout the floor. I have a mid mount finish mower and rotavator on my subcompact kubota. I am nervous of using the mower in case i do come across something unseen (eg a raised root) so was thinking a flail would be better. Alternatively do I go straight to my rotavator and just mash up the ivy. What I want to get to is a flat seedbed for me to then lawn seed. Just wondering what your thoughts would be on the kit to hire. I live in the UK and the soil is pretty light - not rock strewn like you guys seem to all have!