? leveling a grass pasture road/path wih out distroying the grass?

[BHD]

leveling a grass pasture road/path wih out distroying the grass?

I do not care if I end up with a two path trail that may not have a lot of grass but do not want a "road, road"

the problem is at one time the ground had been farmed and going one direction it is nice and reasonable smooth, but going across it is, rough and hard on me and the machine.

any one have any great ideas to help knock the ridges off and lightly fill in the voids,


about the only thing I am coming up with is using a rake made of spring loaded fingers (like a harrow) in two paths and drag it or three point it on a tractor, to make two tire paths, (would like to make a path around the fence, and may be a cross path/road as well, and do not do it all at once, but do it and then the grass recover then do it again, until I have leveled out some of the rough ness,

Any other ideas? WHAT would you try?

 

[Msc2177]

You could top dress the low areas with sand a little at a time and grass will grow back thru it.

 

[jimgerken]

Maybe roll it when its really wet.

 

[CNC Dan]

Could you stand a road road for a short while? If so, till it, seed it, drive on it. The grass will re-grow except for where the tires drive on it.

 

[BHD]

Thank you for your Ideas,

 

[dieselcrawler]

You, like my wife, will have to accept that moving dirt will disturb grass... but, as she found out this summer when I dug an area out for our new above ground pool, grass grows back in short order.

I would smooth and grade your non-road to the contour you want. Maybe even put some gravel on the wheel tracks... it will get driven in... sow grass seed and mulch it... even over the gravel. drive on it if you like... it will grow back even with light traffic. In a few months you will be surprised at the results.

 

[BHD]

You, like my wife, will have to accept that moving dirt will disturb grass... but, as she found out this summer when I dug an area out for our new above ground pool, grass grows back in short order.

I would smooth and grade your non-road to the contour you want. Maybe even put some gravel on the wheel tracks... it will get driven in... sow grass seed and mulch it... even over the gravel. drive on it if you like... it will grow back even with light traffic. In a few months you will be surprised at the results.

I understand and if we got rain I would not even blink to do that, I would take a land plane or a box blade out and do it, but since it has taken 10 years to get the grass established I have I am not tearing it up, from what I see West Virginia averages 40 plus inches a year, our local area may be get 12 inches average, and this year were short, not as sever as last year, but it is hard to establish native grasses.