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Well, it is Feb 1st, and I am getting REALY ready for winter to be over.
Now if any of you remember, I just had my new house built last year. Now this was not an easy prosess, and we got screwed BIGTIME by our builder. Now they are bankrupt, and does not look like we will see a cent of what they owe us, but it is time to move on, and finish the work myself.
They never did anything with the yard at all. After back fill, they just went over it quick with a dozer to level it a tiny bit, and never cam back. This has left me with over an acre of rocky, bumpy, weedy,mess of a yard. Now the end of the year last year, we were going to have someone do the yard. They had got as far as dumping, and quick leveling 4 tri axles trucks of REAL nice top soil. Well they had to stop becouse the rains came, then the wether turned to cold, so they had to stop. Good thing realy, becouse then the bottom dropped out of any chance of money from the builder, so we realy could not afford to have it done anyway.
SO here I am. I am SICK of an over grown jungle of weeds and rubble, and NEED to get a lawn in this year. Anyone have a game plan for me? Here is what I have to work with.....
old 8N tractor.
two ingersoll GT's
small dozer blades for the Ingersolls
tiller for the Ingersoll.
Now I don;t have much cash, so I can't just go out and get all the attachments I need for the job. I can probably swing one 3PH attachment for the N, but it would have to do most of the work needed. Anything else would have to be rented.
My thoughts. Pick up a box blade for the N. Do most of the leveling with that, then rent a rake for the finle finish. My local rental place rents a rake, but it is for a GT. Now thats not bad, becouse with most of the work done with the boxblade, I figure a weekend with the rented rake, and my 444 will be fine.
Anything elce I may be missing??? Giving some thought to making some kind of a drag also. Just see how well that would work, but still feel the box blade would be better, more controlable. Any tips for me guys? I want to be ready for when the wether changes.
Now if any of you remember, I just had my new house built last year. Now this was not an easy prosess, and we got screwed BIGTIME by our builder. Now they are bankrupt, and does not look like we will see a cent of what they owe us, but it is time to move on, and finish the work myself.
They never did anything with the yard at all. After back fill, they just went over it quick with a dozer to level it a tiny bit, and never cam back. This has left me with over an acre of rocky, bumpy, weedy,mess of a yard. Now the end of the year last year, we were going to have someone do the yard. They had got as far as dumping, and quick leveling 4 tri axles trucks of REAL nice top soil. Well they had to stop becouse the rains came, then the wether turned to cold, so they had to stop. Good thing realy, becouse then the bottom dropped out of any chance of money from the builder, so we realy could not afford to have it done anyway.
SO here I am. I am SICK of an over grown jungle of weeds and rubble, and NEED to get a lawn in this year. Anyone have a game plan for me? Here is what I have to work with.....
old 8N tractor.
two ingersoll GT's
small dozer blades for the Ingersolls
tiller for the Ingersoll.
Now I don;t have much cash, so I can't just go out and get all the attachments I need for the job. I can probably swing one 3PH attachment for the N, but it would have to do most of the work needed. Anything else would have to be rented.
My thoughts. Pick up a box blade for the N. Do most of the leveling with that, then rent a rake for the finle finish. My local rental place rents a rake, but it is for a GT. Now thats not bad, becouse with most of the work done with the boxblade, I figure a weekend with the rented rake, and my 444 will be fine.
Anything elce I may be missing??? Giving some thought to making some kind of a drag also. Just see how well that would work, but still feel the box blade would be better, more controlable. Any tips for me guys? I want to be ready for when the wether changes.
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