Lawn Re-grading

[dqdave1]

Landscape rake with gauge wheels will rake yard well with minumum damage. Rake dips with rake ; pack with tires; rerake; seed; good to go.
If you have access to a harley power rake; this will do a great job.

 

[Rara Avis]

70 feet is pretty deep

The dips are 70 ft in length...

 

[ray66v]

If by topsoil you mean commercially bought shredded topsoil, You may want to use some clay or mixed fill to partially fill your low spots, compact that and then cover with a inch or two or three of topsoil. (Ten inches of good shredded topsoil will not compact very well, making it a soft muddy mess when wet). On the other hand if by topsoil you mean dirt, straight from the from field, (usually a mixture of things), that will possibly work fine by its self.

 

[LBrown59]

The dips are 70 ft in length...

Congrats you're the only one that caught it.

 

[jake98]

I almost got that but I was confused by the 'pack with tires' thing from dqdave... I thought tires would be the wurst thing to put in there...
jake

 

[keeney]

Golf courses do things that tend to keep fairways (and greens) perfectly "smooth".

1. They periodically "top-dress" in thin layers of soil or sand (depending on what the soil needs). The material tends to fill in the low spots and less in the high areas.

2. They aerate. The tines remove less material from the low spots then the high spots, and the cores tend to collect in the low spots more than the high spots.

3. They mow with reel mowers that roll the turf every time they mow.

Of the three, #1 probably does the most to smooth things out.

If you fill in less than an inch every few weeks or so, the grass will grow up through without a problem.

- Rick

 

[frank_f15]

If by topsoil you mean commercially bought shredded topsoil, You may want to use some clay or mixed fill to partially fill your low spots, compact that and then cover with a inch or two or three of topsoil. (Ten inches of good shredded topsoil will not compact very well, making it a soft muddy mess when wet). On the other hand if by topsoil you mean dirt, straight from the from field, (usually a mixture of things), that will possibly work fine by its self.

This is exactly the way i would go at it, actuall i have done this quite a few times, use about 4 or 5" of good topsoil on top and seed it.

 

[dqdave1]

If you have 10" of fill in an area; pack it with the tires and re rake; if you do not pack it; it will become very uneven because it will be too soft. To grow grass, you only need about an inch of loose soil at most.