aighead
Senior Member
I have no idea if this is possible or completely stupid or what...
I've made a pretty decent wreck of my yard via driving the backhoe around. I've got ruts galore and my yard is literally my yard, covered in grass that'd be nice to keep in decent shape. When I go to mow, with my beefy, but still smallish, yard tractor, a Husqvarna GTH52XLS, I often have to go very slow over the ruts or it'll break me in pieces. I wouldn't mind having a zero-turn but the benefit of speed with one would currently be lost due to all the bumpiness.
All that being said I don't think that a standard yard roller will be anywhere close to heavy enough to roll smooth the ruts I have. I could drag something or borrow a neighbors tractor and drag it but grass seed is too expensive to buy my whole yard's worth if I were to yank it all up with a drag.
I'm not sure what made me think of it but would it be a terrible idea to rent a real roller, like this or this? I don't know how well they do on unflat (hillyish, nothing major but not level either) terrain? Do you think it would work? Are there better options?
I was thinking of maybe attempting to fabricate a 2 55 gallon drum roller also, but I'm not real sure that'd work either. I don't really plan to stop using the backhoe in the yard so maybe this is all a dumb question but I'm getting to a point where I think I can be more precise about where my ruts end up.
I've made a pretty decent wreck of my yard via driving the backhoe around. I've got ruts galore and my yard is literally my yard, covered in grass that'd be nice to keep in decent shape. When I go to mow, with my beefy, but still smallish, yard tractor, a Husqvarna GTH52XLS, I often have to go very slow over the ruts or it'll break me in pieces. I wouldn't mind having a zero-turn but the benefit of speed with one would currently be lost due to all the bumpiness.
All that being said I don't think that a standard yard roller will be anywhere close to heavy enough to roll smooth the ruts I have. I could drag something or borrow a neighbors tractor and drag it but grass seed is too expensive to buy my whole yard's worth if I were to yank it all up with a drag.
I'm not sure what made me think of it but would it be a terrible idea to rent a real roller, like this or this? I don't know how well they do on unflat (hillyish, nothing major but not level either) terrain? Do you think it would work? Are there better options?
I was thinking of maybe attempting to fabricate a 2 55 gallon drum roller also, but I'm not real sure that'd work either. I don't really plan to stop using the backhoe in the yard so maybe this is all a dumb question but I'm getting to a point where I think I can be more precise about where my ruts end up.