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| Anyone using a lawn roller on an established lawn to smooth things out? A friend of mine called and was going to rent a lawn roller. Since it is/was Saturday, he was going to have to rent it through the weekend and offered to bring it to my house to use too - if I wanted.
Long story short, the rental place in my neck of the woods no longer rents rollers - end of that endevour. My question is - are lawn rollers beneficial in any way to an established yard? My buddy was going to use the roller today because it was very wet and the thinking was that it would smooth out the yard. Thanks!
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- Posted by garycinchicago Z5 Chicago IL. (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 22:04
| I roll every spring after the frost leaves the soil and before it drys out. Here in the midwest, frost will heave areas of a lawn and also small little sections. The rolling eliminates the humps and bumps pf spring. |
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| In my experience, your typical water-fillable roller does little for smoothing. It will get rid of worm mounds and things like that. Also minor frost heave. OTOH, a large steel roller full of concrete will smooth things out, but you'll be pulling it with a 4-wheeler or lawn tractor, so things can't be too soggy. |
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| Clarification... I was referring to the plastic water filled ones not the steel water filled ones. The plastic flexes too much to be useful for smoothing. They are more for rolling in the seed. The steel ones that you pull behind a tractor are for smoothing. |
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- Posted by garycinchicago Z5 Chicago IL. (My Page) on Fri, Apr 6, 12 at 20:52
| Mine is a old 50 year old steel water filled roller. No tractor. Tubby pushes it himself. |
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| I have a one of those tractor attached/handle type rollers. My soil is clay based here in central Texas so I just use it for putting new sod down. For smoothing out a lawn I prefer to use a drag behind my lawn mower. Easily made from old used fencing material. Too much rolling for me will cause soil compaction issues. |
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