Posted by John_PA on October 05, 2011 at 15:37:42 from (96.236.164.10):
In Reply to: ploughed ground posted by Ken-in-ky on October 05, 2011 at 08:31:05:
My sister is pretty heavy, let her tramp on it for a while.
Re-ploughing the ground is the best option if the sod roots are thick. a disk will just break teh tops up, but not get deep enough. I have a Howard HB120. It's a 10 foot wide "rotospike." Like a big nasty 4000 lb. rototiller on steroids. It would level it like a pool table in 2 passes, but the black smoke would be rolling from the tractor.
Do you get freezes in the winter? If so, when you get a spring thaw from the first 6 inches of frost in the soil, you could hit it with a weighted cultipacker and that should bring it down some, but I don't know what kind of equipment you own, so it really depends on your tool set as to what would work best.
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