How to roll Lawn
Leveling Lawn With Lawn Roller - Does It Work?
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I've been getting a lot of questions
about long rollers and whether you
should roll your lawn and I've
personally never done it so today I
decided what better way to either
recommend or not recommend that you do
it by actually trying it out myself so
that's what I'm gonna do so I rented the
roller from a local hardware store for
only around ten dollars or so so I
figured that's a pretty good price to
try this thing out essentially it's very
very easy we just fill it up with water
there's a little plug in there that we
have to take out and fill it up with
water put that back in and we start
rolling and the point of this is that
because I'm going to be going lower on
my front yard it's much more important
that the ground is more even and there's
not as many bumps and with our climate
the things that happen between freezes
and thaws and all that stuff it just
gets bumpy over time and I've never done
this before so I'm going to try it out
today
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it actually takes quite a bit longer to
fill than you think it's going to so
just keep that in mind
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definitely a workout if you're going to
be going up hills so that's the first
thing that I'm noticing right now
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okay so that's the initial part of the
job there on my front yard is it a lot
of fun
no is it very easy no it would obviously
bill out easier if I had some kind of
lawn tractor to pull it or some kind of
mower or something but it's really not
that bad it's just take your time on it
and don't try to kill yourself on it now
I'm gonna go in one more direction on my
front yard just to kind of level things
out one way and then go the opposite
direction on there and then I'll try a
little bit on my side yard and that's
pretty much going to be it will be able
to tell once I use my real mower on here
which also has full rollers which is
going to help a lot to keep continuously
kind of flattening this out over time
and then I will also need to do some top
dressing for sure
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all right so let me give you a couple
final thoughts here on what I think of
the lawn roller and how it worked out so
it did definitely improve things a
little bit if I had to give it a number
I would have to say probably maybe 25%
or so just from walking on and now a
couple times and using my real mower a
couple times which is coming up in my
next video which you will seem really
soon it definitely helped a little bit
not quite as bumpy as it originally was
so keep that in mind if you're looking
to use one it is going to give you a
little bit of improvement it's nothing
extremely drastic but a little bit is
better than nothing for a ten dollar
rental so a couple other things to think
about with this roller as well as you're
gonna want to have your ground be soft
enough that it's going to actually be
able to roll over it and actually smooth
things out a little bit so if you
haven't been getting any rain you want
to water ahead of this you don't want
the ground so soaked though that if you
walk on it it kind of feels spongy or
anything like that because if you take
this roller across there at that point
you're gonna be creating a lot of
compaction and you do not want to do
that so it just needs to be wet enough
that it's going to be able to smooth
things out if it's dry then it's not
gonna do a whole lot of good so keep
that in mind you're going to want to do
some kind of watering make sure that the
ground is soft enough that this is going
to actually do some good for your ground
second thing is are we causing some
compaction of the ground with this thing
absolutely yes we are so you have to be
diligent that you're going to be
aerating your soil if you're going to
use one of these rollers I do mind for
sure in the fall sometimes in the spring
and the fall so one time of using this
roller here I'm not too worried about a
little bit of compaction but if you were
to use this every single year every
spring and you're not doing any aerating
then over time this is going to create a
lot of compaction so you definitely want
to be doing some aerating if you don't
know what that is you want to learn more
about it I have some videos on aerating
my yard so you can check those out as
well so this roller worked for me but I
will be doing some topdressing of my
lawn as well it's probably a fall
project when seeding is going to be the
best time here where I'm located that's
going to fill in all those little uneven
spots and kind of bring it up to the
level of what we consider the bumps
right now so this did smooth out kind of
the top bumps on the lawn but if you
have some indentations anywhere then
you're going to need to fill those with
some topdressing in order to get it to
be level over time so that's going to be
the best process for doing that but for
ten dollars to try this out just to
smooth my yard
little bit I would say it was worth it
just remember again that aeration is
going to be very important so I hope you
enjoyed this video and it gave you some
information on lawn rollers thanks so
much for watching we'll see you next
time
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