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[mrlullabye]

My father and own two adjacent plots, he is constructng his house now, and I will build one next year. We have had a lot of traffc in and out everythng from dozers, concrete trucks, lumber trucks, and pickup trucks and the yard really is rutted up pretty bad in a lot of places.

I have a front-end loader and box-blade and plenty of fill dirt available in different parts of the yard. I know I could level this all out with the front-end loader and box-blade but was wondering f there was a better tool for the job.

I know a power rake is pretty impressive with this sort of job, but is also pretty pricey. Does anyone have any recommendations? I had thought of everything from landscape rakes, scraper blades, and weighted rollers.

Probably the biggest challenge is where the concrete trucks drove, it rained the day before they came so they really put some tracks down, as deep as 6 inches. The only thing I really know to do s to run over t with the box blade to knock down the high spots, then spread some loose dirt and keep dragging over it until level, but I feel that would take forever and would completely destroy my grass due to the number of passes. I think a scaper or rake might do a better job. The scraper only because it would shed the dirt from side to side.

 

[beenthere]

What country or part of the country are you at? Don't see that in the bio or in your post. Might make a difference on a recommendation.
If two houses in two years, I'd not get too anxious to do anything just yet. But if the ground will (or not) freeze, that makes a difference on a recommendation too.
How about more info. ??

 

[Carykong]

if you have construction in front of you, I would surface the damaged area with wood chips,usually free, and then get serious with your yard after all the constuction is completed.

 

[teg]

Yard Tool

It's got a second row of teeth on the back side. I picked one up used for $250 - I like using it to level things out, semi-finishing work. I've seen them at a couple of rental yards, so you might be able to try it out (renting) before buying one.

 

[mrlullabye]

Sorry about not enough info. It's the alabama gulf coast. My dad's lot is downhll from mine, the crews are driving across my lot to get to his so once his is done he won't have any real traffic on his lot. The big problem is since the land does run downhll the ruts serve as a channel for water and get deeper and more uglier.

In the summer the grass grows real fast so we need to get t smoothed out before the spring so we aren't mowing over such rough terrain.

It has unfortunately been really rainy since he started his house so we have several problem areas. I had never see one of those yard tools, but that is pretty neat.

 

[jenkinsph]

It sounds like you have a bunch of ruts but still have most of the grass to save. To me I would interpet that to mean you need to smooth the ruts, fill and pack them as best you can for now. Depending on how much rain you anticipate having you may need to refill and smooth just prior to replanting seed. For the most part you want to control the erosion until you can get all the ground covered with grass again.

If you can cut down the high ridges from the tracks and transplant some St Augustine runners this year you should have a good chance for controling the erosion.

 

[MarkV]

I would knock down the high spots with the boxblade and add dirt to the low spots. If your grass is a running type, like most of the warm weather grasses, it will fill in quickly. The only thing is that if you anticipate more construction traffic over that area you are most likely wasting your time during this wet time of year. If erosion control is the priority you can stake down some straw bales to slow the water flow where the larger ruts are.

MarkV

 

[Thomas]

If I,also fill in ruts than knock down high spots,than after no more trucks..homes built..fill in low spots w/good soil for grass.

 

[mrlullabye]

That yardtool has me interested. I see it is basically a non-powered version of a power rake.

a power rake looks awesome, and if I found a good deal on one I would buy it in a heartbeat. How close does the yardtool come?

I can see where it would be easier to smooth with than a box blade because of breaking up the existing great.

my interest is peaked.

 

[JDGreenGrass]

If it were me I would put down gravel, sort of a temporary driveway and then when all is said and done put down 2, 3 or 4 inches of loam right over the gravel and seed it.

Mow many feet of ruts are we talking here.??