Anyone know anything about lawn rollers; weight?

[sh00ter]

It's better to make sure the soil you are dumping has the proper moisture content before it is spread to be compacted. Too wet or too dry it wit compact correctly. Are you planting sod over the compacted material or wth are you doing where you need to have so much compaction?

I am filling some low spots; lawn is uneven has heck probably thanks to the sprinkler installers when the house was being built. The final grade was nice and smooth yet by the time it had sod, it is full of hols and uneven...part of it is from some dumb azz driving a large tractor across the lawn post-sod after a rain. But most i s prob from the shoddy sprinkler install after final grade but before the sod was laid.

Since the lawn is on hard clay and the sod is established for several years, AND the yard is also mostly on a slope, I figure it easier to add dirt to the low spots and re-seed them than to re-scrap the lawn and rip up the existing sod; not to mention the sprinkler heads.

No neighborhood kids to tramp on it?

Dogs but they are just in charge of the fertilizer...the yard is way too big and fenced for kids to have any effect although my daughter made lemonade out of lemons but suggesting we go sledding on our otherwise useless slopped backyard LOL.

If compacting for a new lawn then sure. Some water and just a pull behind water filled plastic lawn roller.

Yes, essentially the new dirt in the holes will fit the definition of a new lawn. I think I will follow this procedure:

- dump mounds of dirt (I have loose red dirt/clay mixed with sand about 50/50) in the low spots
- rake to a rough grade by hand
- roll with tractor/roller OR use hand tamper for spots too steep for tractor/roller
- seed
- roll again
- water

 

[sh00ter]

I think I'm going to go with the 24" instead of the 36"...the bonus of having a handle to hand roll the areas too hard to tow it over, plus the lower cost seems to win out? That is of course assuming the psi is the same for either one since they are the same diameter?????

And after reading some reviews and this thread, I also don't believe 400lbs would be near heavy enough to have any real leveling affect on already sodded and compacted clay soil (even if dampened the night before) so the only compaction I will need is for any new dirt I put down.

So the 24" seems to be the best application despite me liking the "thought" of having the heavier, wider roller?