I like it Smooth (bumpy yard)

[Cherokee140]

Have you read five SIMILAR THREADS in the blue box at foot of this page?

Hay forum cop don't quit your job at the TSA.

But tell me do those threads show up before you ****** post you **********.

But thanks for the tip...I will check out those year old to 7 year old threads....perhaps we should lock the entire forum down as all this has been covered before you ***.

 

[Cherokee140]

is some of the problem (clump grasses) grass that grow in clumps or bunches with space between them the field can be smooth and the grass is what is rough, in that instances, and if it is clump grasses then removal of the clump grasses and replacement of the lawn type that make a field type or lawn type look,

I guess this could be it, but there sure are holes there as well.

This back area gets a great deal of runoff, but I did not bring it up before as the part I "fixed" does not hold water anymore. At one time we called this area the swamp....really that is what it was....wetlands.

The area that we ran the disc over for about a month is now not holding water and drains very nice....I bet this area will be the same after all this rough area for the water to sit is gone....cut down on the mosquito problem as well.

 

[philbuilt]

I use sand. You can put small piles where you need it and then use a land plane or box blade. If a box blade is used set it so the inside cutting edge is up a little. The sand should fill the hole and the grass will grow though eventually as you keep cutting. It's a lot less work then redoing the whole yard.
good luck and have fun

 

[Pine Strip]

Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, pay the piper....and do it right.

 

[Cherokee140]

Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, pay the piper....and do it right.

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Yea...If I was landing there I would want it smooth. I would think with even with a small private strip you would be fighting that battle all the time. I know the little strip by us does, and they mainly do ultralights and those little Taylorcrafts.

 

[Pine Strip]

Yea...If I was landing there I would want it smooth. I would think with even with a small private strip you would be fighting that battle all the time. I know the little strip by us does, and they mainly do ultralights and those little Taylorcrafts.

Doing the regular yearly maintenance with my Rosco Roller. All part of the fun !

 

[pmsmechanic]

I have two old diamond tooth harrows welded together side by side. I attach this on my 3 point hitch add some weight and when the ground is wet I harrow my lawn. It's amazing how this levels the lawn and you don't have to reseed. I've used it to fill in old plow furrows and also ruts from driving across the lawn when it's too wet. It was cheep to build and works very well. You don't end up with a perfectly smooth lawn but it's a huge improvement over what was.

 

[coobie]

I would till, then grade then roll and seed. Can't see how you can save the grass you have.

++1 on THIS.

 

[JimRB]

I was confused about the term bail. Bail as in you are in jail and you pay bail to get out. Or bail as in my rowboat is leaking and if I do not bail the water the boat will sink. But then you talk about wetlands so bail might make sense.

I would assume it does not mean making hay because many people would not want to work a hay field that rough.

I think you are describing animal holes and terraces.

I was mowing a field down the road from me. Maybe 3-5 acres. OK mowing on the outside but some knucklehead disced in the middle and left big clumps or mounds of dirt. I had to get off 3 times to pick up rocks and run with my loader bucket low to bulldoze the dirt piles. Along the way I came upon at least five 8" or bigger holes in the pasture that armadillos or other creatures had made. Leg breakers for a horse or a person. I also came upon plenty of fire ant mounds which when they collapse can make some pretty big holes. If that was my property I would have filled in the holes using some of the dirt mounds. I would have gotten my pulverizer out and dragged the rest of the dirt mounds out to smooth the rough middle section. The terraces stay otherwise everything will wash away.

The 500 acres that was subdivided in 14 lots of 1.5-200 acres used to be a cow pasture and before that working crop fields. There are mini terraces to control erosion. You may not notice them bush hogging but you feel them driving the trucks across. The worn down terraces create a harmonic that if you drive too fast gets the trucks wallowing like a 1970 Cadillac. 1987 long bed Toyota and a 2004 Dodge 2500 regular cab long bed. Different wheelbases but both feel the worn down terraces. Terraces are good things but maybe not so loved in a hay field or golf course. The ones left in our neighborhood have been smoothed over enough that I could make hay on any of the properties if I were so inclined.

By the way the 200 acre cow pasture across the street has been disced 2 years in a row and planted with oats in an attempt to get weeds under control. I would have sprayed weed killer but the farmer went a different route. It seems that every time you disk around me you just turn up, pull up rocks that make horrid noise when bush hogging.

 

[Cherokee140]

What is a pulverizer?

Sorry about the words, spelling was never my strong point....bale perhaps

There are some critter holes and bumps...but mainly moles. There are some terraces, but they are not an issue. It has been raining the past two days, so I have not been back there as there is just too much standing water right now.

With the one person describing "clump grass" that sounds like part of my problem, but then there is dirt type holes that I can put my out reached hand in and not come above ground level till past my wrist.

I am thinking of the box blade for now (as I have it) and getting pretty aggressive with it....see where that will leave me.