Anyone level their lawn with sand?

[bdog]

We laid sod back in April. The ground was leveled well before we laid it and we rolled the sod twice. It wasn稚 really bad but mowing at 3/4 with a reel mower you could sure see the high and low spots.

Decided to level it with sand. Entire project took about six hours and 5 yards of sand with me doing the work by myself. Without the BX to shuttle the sand around it would have been a lot harder.

This side I just spread the sand on today. This picture is just it raked in and not smoothed with the leveling tool.



I did the exact same thing to the other half of the yard two days ago and it has already grown in this much.



I can稚 wait until I get to mow again and see what a difference it made.

 

[/pine]

We laid sod back in April. The ground was leveled well before we laid it and we rolled the sod twice. It wasn稚 really bad but mowing at 3/4 with a reel mower you could sure see the high and low spots.

Decided to level it with sand. Entire project took about six hours and 5 yards of sand with me doing the work by myself. Without the BX to shuttle the sand around it would have been a lot harder.

This side I just spread the sand on today. This picture is just it raked in and not smoothed with the leveling tool.

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I did the exact same thing to the other half of the yard two days ago and it has already grown in this much.

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I can稚 wait until I get to mow again and see what a difference it made.

It's always worked for greens keepers :thumbsup:

 

[goeduck]

It's always worked for greens keepers :thumbsup:

Yep, that is what we did when I worked at a golf course.

 

[John Skull]

yes. you don't say what type turf you're running, but my Zoysia likes masonry sand for fill-ins. Doesn't introduce weeds like dirt could/would.

 

[bdog]

It is celebration bermuda.

 

[TractorGuy]

Looks good!

How did you spread and rake it?

 

[bdog]

I dumped small piles across the yard with the BX and then used these.



I actually spread it around with the rake. The picture above is just with it being raked. After it is spread it needs to sit for a couple hours until it dries then I worked it in with the leveling tool. The leveling tool is useless when the sand is damp. It just clumps together.

 

[jaxs]

yes. you don't say what type turf you're running, but my Zoysia likes masonry sand for fill-ins. Doesn't introduce weeds like dirt could/would.

You can never be too carful about what's brought in. Sand in Texas often has sandburs or goat heads growing in it. I once bought concrete truck "washout" for road base and wound up with sandburs.

 

[bdog]

I had that concern but nothing some preemergent won’t take care of. That being said mowing at 1/2-3/4” every three days there are not many other plants that can survive.

 

[ultrarunner]

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The sod in back is a little rough from gophers/moles and trenching...