I've been doing a lot of seeding lately. I start out with the fel to move dirt, backdrag to get roughly smooth, then use the hand landscape rake for final. It goes pretty quick with a landscape rake, it covers a large area quickly and gives you the ability to move some small amounts of dirt to relevel. Then I seed, fertilize, lime, straw, in that order. The first three ingrediants go down with a broadcast spreader, the straw by hand. Right now, at least where I live in New Hampshire, is the best time to seed. The days aren't too warm, 60-75 degrees, the nights cooler, wet lawns in the morning from dew. I had grass in 8 days with only watering once each morning for 1/2 hour. Back to your original question, I did 3/4 acre by hand (life before Kubota) using only the landscape rake but the loam was already down. To do what you need, rent a tph landscape rake to get the rocks (or do by hand) spread what you can to level, then grade by fel first, hand landscape rake by hand. I spent about $300 the first time for seed, lime, fertilizer, the hand landscape rake and rotary push spreader, but the rake and spreader were permanant items and I had enough seed left over to do reseed several other large areas of lawn. I think the key is the straw to keep moisture down and the birds away and water every morning. Good luck, David