Really nice video. Thanks. I am definitely going to use that technique on my 1 acre bumpy lawn; I keep spilling my beer whilst mowing, and that has to stop.
Amazing yard!! As a landscaping company owner who spends half my week on a zero turn, my sore back thanks you for your efforts in making your yard as smooth as humanly possible and also for this lawn leveling video and all the people who learned how to do this!!
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve come back to watch this video… it’s such a satisfying video. Connor, your lawn looked amazing and I can’t wait to see this new renovation pay off for you!
Everyone (well some then) making fun of this guy, seems like an ordinary working-class guy who's taking pride to make his property he's worked so hard for, the best he can.
wantapgt 1 million views prolly paid for that sand and the labor he put into doing it. At least he’s not out there trolling other people desire to have a nice yard by condemning them for being “obsessive”
Nice job. To all the skeptics out there watching this, this is done on athletic fields all the time. Many soccer fields are built with sand drains to keep them from getting muddy too
Yes but this is done to prevent injury. Any small divot on a professional field and an athlete can break an ankle, pull a ligament. Etc. Is this guy playing rugby everyday?
@@christopherarendt3531 Exactly I've had the same blade on one of my lawn mowers for at least 20 years. Yes ,the cutting edge is probably 1 inch closer to the back of the blade from sharpening each year. It still cuts like new.
great video - I definitely need to do this in my backyard. My lawn is anything but smooth & level. I'm somewhat disabled and less than smooth is difficult to walk on. My son will be thrilled to have a project! And you good folks that say his lawn was level to begin with, this is his 4th year doing this. THAT'S why it looks so good.
You have some serious dedication for your lawn. I actually really need to do this to my yard which is about 1/2 acre. Dumped a couple truck loads of topsoil last spring, still need more. A lot more! You now have me wondering if I should use sand. I don't have the 4 wheeler though, so spreading is extremely tedious. Great job man and kudos to making the video.
Your yard looks great. Glad to see you are taking pride and the time to make an improvement progressively. Try not to let the negative comments discourage ya. Good job!
@jubjub247 - "MEN" are defined by gender and their character. Boys (or men who are hopefully only momentarily acting like juveniles) easily confuse being "MEN" with physical strength. Some day when your back goes out for good, or you suffer terrible knee problems, why don't you let the whole world you are no longer a man? You WILL do that, right? No, you won't. Because you're not acting like a MAN when you say such foolish things.
Great work Connor, it is nice to see someone that takes great pride in their hard work. If you ever sell your house your lawn will add a few thousand dollars to the value of your property and will definitely have appeal to prospective house buyers. The reward of all this hard work is ultimately it makes the beer taste much better after the effort put in at the end of the day. Take care.
Very helpful video. I took the advice to put sand on my lawn from a landscape guy. He failed to mention how important it was to work the sand into the turf. I ended up killing parts of my lawn. It eventually recovered with good drainage. Thanks for the helpful DIY device ideas and process details.
At the golf course I work at here in Ohio, we actually have a contraption that is a essentially a heavy plywood board with two 36 inch brooms on it that we use to drag in our greens for a heavy top dress! Looks like in that situation something like that would be a huge help for you! I’m sure you could throw something together like that and do the job well!
I worked at a golf course over 30 years ago. We did this to level the greens, but we used a large broadcast spreader and a steel mesh drag. We would drag clockwise, then counterclockwise. Watching this video made my back hurt. We used a loader to fill the spreader. I think you use coarse sand as it doesn’t hold moisture as well, makes it easier to spread. This makes a huge difference when you’re mowing. If only I had the time!
I bet the grandkids really enjoyed that ride. I've seen a guy pull an old boxspring mattress behind a tractor to smooth our a dirt road...it works fine...for fine grading, Just gotta make sure its brought back in the bedroom before someone's ass hit the floor unexpectedly. Did it more than once on a boxspring mattress at my girlfriend's grandmother's house in Detroit years ago. We'd bounce horizontally two feet high on that. So much fun, and brought back memories. Thank goodness the house was two doors away from the fire station, just in case someone hurt themselves. This is a true story. And that nite in the living room we were watching the black group from Detroit, The Spinners singing "Rubberband Man. It was that nite we bounced on the spring mattress for the first time. Girlfriend was watching her grandma's house while she was away. Man, that was a long time ago. But hey, seems like just last year.
I've seen guys run over a ball field with a section of chain link, same deal. Box spring would work better I'd say. They had a piece of wood fastened to the trailing edge of the fencing.
I did this to my lawn about 12 years ago and my neighbors thought I was crazy until I explained what it was for and then they all wanted to do it but were too lazy.
To broom the sand in we use a piece of artificial grass and tow it behind a 4 wheeler. It is a neat design and it works really well. Just a rope to a 2x4 and a 2x4 piece of wood atached to the piece of artificial grass.
I have a field about 3 acres in size that desperately needs this leveling approach. After each rain, you can see all the low areas, by just look for the puddles. Job well done. Thanks for the advice.
Thank-you! I've known about top dressing for some time, but never knew how to do it. I put a $400 suspension seat on my Kubota, when I could have spent the money on some sand, haha. I'm doing this in the fall. Thanks again.
Keep at it and your lawn will be higher than the slab of your house and then all the water will drain INTO your house. Where I'm at, we want our lawns to slope down to the street with our slabs at least 3-4 ft higher than the street level. We had 60" of rain over a couple of days and the water didn't come even close to my house. Some people who lived in subdivisions whose slabs were close to street level did end up being flooded though.
+Daniel Salvador You would be fighting a losing battle in Florida just due to the sinkholes... :) I was in the Orlando area when the Winter Park one happened... Quite impressive... Just look at a satellite map of the area and you'll notice a lot of very round lakes. More than likely, they are the results of sinkholes over thousands of years... Most of Florida is basically a sand filled coral reef that is now above water that acts as a speed bump for hurricanes headed into the Gulf (thus protected the rest of us Gulf Coast residents). Thank you Florida... We really appreciate your sacrifice...
Actually I doubt he would have that problem. Because he’s adding pure sand...his lawn drains like a sieve providing the underlying slope is adequate and it appears to be. That’s why it’s good to use clean white beach sand when doing this. It slowly over time self compacts and will not hold water by simply adding a mm here or there. The water will move through that sandy base like a funnel.
Good video. Even better comments. This video has to have sparked some of the funniest responses I’ve read in a long time on UA-cam. Looks like the work paid off!
Yeah, the truck driver was either shaking his head or laughing .... or both. He just stopped by the bank and cashed that check, that's all ....with a "SEE YA NEXT YEAR" ............. LOL !!!
My dad and I did this when I was a kid, 40 years ago. We killed 90% of our lawn... I can still hear our old man neighbor telling my dad, "youre gonna kill your lawn, Dan"... and he did...
This was my job 20 years ago at the local golf course..... Flatest nicest greens in town thanks to this method every year. Great video and honestly never thought to try it at my home. Nice channel.
My mom had the same drive to want the perfect flat yard, I know she didn’t grow up with one being from Hawaii their yard was multilevel, small and not seen from the street. But every summer in Texas heat and humidity, my dad and I were following her instructions moving sand with just a wheelbarrow and a shovel. Pulling weed roots by hand, working a mixture of banana peels, egg shells and coffee grounds into her Rose garden. Ugh I hated it. But now with my own home I do my best to have maybe not the best lawn but a close 2nd or 3rd on the street. I really need to start on leveling this year. I cut down a diseased 60yo maple few years back and even though I stump friend it down what remained has rotted I guess and now lawn has a big dip in it. Great lawn sir and your dedication to it is very nostalgic for me.
thanks for sharing that. I was the same. I was forced as a child to work in the yard with my parents. I hated it. Now that I have my own home I love it. I do not force my children to work in the yard though. Having flat lawn... it looks nice.
Connor Ward thanks. This will be my yard goal this year! I was using peat moss for the low spot, cuz it’s lighter, it helped a bit but spot was still spongy. Maybe your kids could help a little to gain that same appreciation we got! Haha.
YOU FREAK!! I love it lol. Awesome job my man! Thanks for the ideas. I have a new lawn at my camp that just perturbs the crap out of me because it has low holes in it that holds fish ponds when it rains. Thats got to be fixed this spring when my Bermuda grass comes out. Thanks again my fellow OCD lawn keeping enthusiast!! May your yard forever be green, flat as a pancake and your lawn mower start on the first spin of the engine.
I was searching for ways to fill in spots that have become uneven in my yard due to a lot of rain the past two years. I don't know if I can pull off what you've done, but it's a great idea to start. Thank you!
Looks great! Be careful if you have an older home with a pier and beam foundation. You can end up with drainage issues (water pools under house with nowhere to go)
Thats what happen when the wife dont pay mind to you anymore so he has to find anytning to ocupied him self with!! You right lawn was flat but at least he feels avompanied by yje bugs and worms !😂😂😂😂
It's because he mows his yard with a powered reel mower normally used to mow putting greens. When your grass is a half inch tall you can visually see low and high spots and it would drive someone like him crazy.
Cant believe I'm taking lawn advice from a dude that not only owns 2 flamingo t-shirts... he actually wears them ! :) Good video, educational and entertaining.
I did something similar to level topsoil across an area whee I had a ditch culvert installed, then filled in. However, I took one of my 5ft high 4ft wide chain link fence gates off of the fence, ran climbing rope through the hinges, rigged 2x4s tol hold bricks on too for weight, then attached the whole rig to my riding lawn mower. Worked like a charm.
I rigged a broom system on a sand pro. Worked great and put the sand down fast and level. Of course, it was a hydraulic lift and very stiff so the level was easy to achieve. Great video.
Good job, absolutely nothing more rewarding than pride in ownership getting your hands dirty, and a hard days work,...your in pretty good shape pal, moveing 14 to 15 ton of material by hand in a few hours is awesome, I've seen guys eat up an entire Saturday doing similar projects and that's with a couple of buddies helping them out.
Not that I agree or would do this to my lawn, unless it was severely uneven, but it's nice to see somebody that takes pride in taking care of their property. All the haters on here are probably either renters or own their homes, but they look like poop. Don't pay attention to them. And to say that he's got to be rich because he's taking care of his pad - what a bunch of BS.... I'll find you poor people middle-class people and rich people that all take care of their stuff just because they care and have pride.... All Races all colors... That's what builds a great country... Not lazy bastards that knock somebody for taking care what they own...
Damn right on the latter part and hell no on the first. I'm all over a perfect damn yard and I do all the work myself. No one mows my yard and no one washes my truck. They'll never get it right
I bet you could drag around a 10ft x 3ft chunk of chain link fence and it'd do the job and be lighter. It'd cut the time down too since it'd be a big square chunk of many contact points....a bit more than the 3 rails on that homemade thing.
@@Aerialassault155 ya may not be fully understanding me. Check this for the full idea. (also...this guy uses cinder blocks, but old tires are actually better) ua-cam.com/video/LCHoDXpIQ7A/v-deo.html
There’s not many people that take pride in their yard. I personally look at a well kept lawn just as hard as I look at a nicely restored vehicle. Great work and thanks for the continued tips for those of us that try to keep our lawns looking nice and our neighbors feeling envious.
I showed this video to my wife so that in the future, she would let me do anything to my yard. If this guy can sweep his grass flat, then nothing I have done re: yard maintenance can be considered excessive. Thanks flat-grass guy!
A few questions; How much did you pay a load? What kind of sand??? I heard there’s multiple types What part of the country is home? Great job like you said hard work but well worth it. Thank you for the video
@TheMatron'sMilitia Thanks,I seriously don't have the umph I used to have and I feel like I am dying when I get up in the morning I can't just get up and go and it worries me
I have 4 acres, and mow it with a 6 foot Landpride mower pulled by an old Ford 8 n tractor. My lawn is country grass, that is kentucky Blue, fesque, rye and a bunch of junk, but when it's cut it looks nice. My unflat lawn when cut with a zero radius Xmark or other commercial mower, you bounce like a basketball, and is so uncomfortable to mow. So I appreciate you showing us what to do. I have a front loader, by Ford new Holland, and could do this a little quicker than shoveling by hand. And for guys attempting this, no one says it has to all be done in a weekend, or the entire year for that matter. Break it down into segments.
You should mount the broom heads on the back of your drag grate. This way the front metal knocks down the piles upon impact and the brooms push the sand down into the canopy as they pull behind.
I use a 50/50 mix of topsoil and compost. $40/scoop. 3 scoops covered 1500 sq ft. I dropped it in piles and raked it smooth. Then I worked over it with a leaf rake to bring out the grass that was underneath. I had a lot of bare spots so I heavily seeded it. Watered it 2x a day for a month. Water bill cost $60 more for the month. But it looks good. Have to do front lawn this year. Maybe in fall though.
I want to try to raise my grass up next season. We had concrete poured and it’s a couple inches higher that the lawn, and I hate it. I think this is going to help!
Bro, I admire the HELL out of you for your hard work and commitment but OMG my back and knees are friggin killing me just watching this. Besides, your lawn was gorgeous when you started!
If it takes 15tons for this guys damn near level yard i'm easily in the hundreds if not thousands of tons for my yard. Nice work yard looks absolutely amazing but damn I ain't got time for all that.
I had planned to kill my grass, till up the soil, level the tilled soil and then re-plant. I think your method will accomplish what I want done with far less work. Thanks!
While watching this, I was remembering the old farm days and a manure spreader behind a tractor. I’ll bet it could broadcast spread sand as well. Of course the big tractor would play havoc with the already fairly smooth lawn.
I did this with a lawn 20+ years ago. But instead of just sand I did a 50/50 mix of sand and compost from aerating, thatching, moss removal and grass clippings from the season before. I didn't have a quad for leveling but used a 16' 2x4 and my wife's help to screed the mixture in like leveling concrete. My lawn where I live now is terrible, I need to add some sand and compost and completely renovate it. But I will need other help since my wife is now 62!!!
Kevin Noble 👍Same here. My lawn used to be one of the best in the neighborhood now when I walk. I’m almost embarrassed but I’m just fed up because it’s such a ongoing process that takes so much time effort and money✌️(screw it)
I should have made it more clear my lawn now is a different place. I have moved since I did the first place. This place was never done right and my well doesn't have enough capacity to water more than 20 minutes before it goes too low to pump.
Really nice video. Thanks. I am definitely going to use that technique on my 1 acre bumpy lawn; I keep spilling my beer whilst mowing, and that has to stop.
I bet the neighbor's cats love his lawn!!!
That is alcohol abuse
The Flying Dutchman 😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
Use TOP SOIL the first time. You'll save a LOT of beer .... and your machine ..... and especially your blades ....
Lone Wolf 🤣😂🤣you guys are hilarious
Amazing yard!! As a landscaping company owner who spends half my week on a zero turn, my sore back thanks you for your efforts in making your yard as smooth as humanly possible and also for this lawn leveling video and all the people who learned how to do this!!
Smooth lawn looks better. That is why I do it. Well worth my time and money.
This is the most “dad” thing I every seen. Good on you pops!!!
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve come back to watch this video… it’s such a satisfying video. Connor, your lawn looked amazing and I can’t wait to see this new renovation pay off for you!
I admire his moxie. That’s a ton of work, but he likes what he’s doing. He sounds satisfied.
The book of ecclesiastes talks a lot about the satisfaction of work I'm reading it right now. That's a book in the bible.
Everyone (well some then) making fun of this guy, seems like an ordinary working-class guy who's taking pride to make his property he's worked so hard for, the best he can.
Lite Tactic he’s a bit neurotic. Kinda taking it to unhealthy obsession level. Guaranteed it takes up way too much of his money and time.
Lite Tactic Amen to that Cleatus Y’all
I like that
wantapgt 1 million views prolly paid for that sand and the labor he put into doing it. At least he’s not out there trolling other people desire to have a nice yard by condemning them for being “obsessive”
Carter Hoffman pffff a million views is nothing.
Nice job. To all the skeptics out there watching this, this is done on athletic fields all the time. Many soccer fields are built with sand drains to keep them from getting muddy too
Yes but this is done to prevent injury. Any small divot on a professional field and an athlete can break an ankle, pull a ligament. Etc. Is this guy playing rugby everyday?
Yes but that is done to prevent injury to professional athletes. Is this guy playing rugby everyday?
Three years later, the perfectly level lawn is higher than his mailbox.
EVIDENTLY he has never lived in Florida & have to replace mower blades EACH year because the sand blasts them to nothing
Numa Newbern SE GA is nearly as bad.
Adam Wade I guess you haven’t figured out how to work your way around a grinder
We've never replaced a lawn mower blade... never seen brown tipped grass lol
@@christopherarendt3531 Exactly I've had the same blade on one of my lawn mowers for at least 20 years. Yes ,the cutting edge is probably 1 inch closer to the back of the blade from sharpening each year. It still cuts like new.
great video - I definitely need to do this in my backyard. My lawn is anything but smooth & level. I'm somewhat disabled and less than smooth is difficult to walk on. My son will be thrilled to have a project! And you good folks that say his lawn was level to begin with, this is his 4th year doing this. THAT'S why it looks so good.
You have some serious dedication for your lawn. I actually really need to do this to my yard which is about 1/2 acre. Dumped a couple truck loads of topsoil last spring, still need more. A lot more! You now have me wondering if I should use sand. I don't have the 4 wheeler though, so spreading is extremely tedious. Great job man and kudos to making the video.
At least the cats in the neighborhood will have a nice place to take a dump.
lol
Good fertilizer
Your yard looks great. Glad to see you are taking pride and the time to make an improvement progressively.
Try not to let the negative comments discourage ya.
Good job!
I was thinking about doing this to my yard, but since I got physically tired watching you do it, I think I'll pass.
😆
@jubjub247 - "MEN" are defined by gender and their character. Boys (or men who are hopefully only momentarily acting like juveniles) easily confuse being "MEN" with physical strength. Some day when your back goes out for good, or you suffer terrible knee problems, why don't you let the whole world you are no longer a man? You WILL do that, right? No, you won't. Because you're not acting like a MAN when you say such foolish things.
me either, he said it is tiresome... so it is not worth it
bruzote n
So funny
Great work Connor, it is nice to see someone that takes great pride in their hard work. If you ever sell your house your lawn will add a few thousand dollars to the value of your property and will definitely have appeal to prospective house buyers. The reward of all this hard work is ultimately it makes the beer taste much better after the effort put in at the end of the day. Take care.
Very helpful video. I took the advice to put sand on my lawn from a landscape guy. He failed to mention how important it was to work the sand into the turf. I ended up killing parts of my lawn. It eventually recovered with good drainage. Thanks for the helpful DIY device ideas and process details.
I would do this but it is too hard working around the old sofas and car parts in my lawn.
Haha
Any toilet bowl planters as well?
Yeah, I have the old planters right next to that old lumber pile!
At the golf course I work at here in Ohio, we actually have a contraption that is a essentially a heavy plywood board with two 36 inch brooms on it that we use to drag in our greens for a heavy top dress! Looks like in that situation something like that would be a huge help for you! I’m sure you could throw something together like that and do the job well!
How do you calculate how much material you need?
In a green keeper hear in UK we have a spreader that goes on our gator
For doing our big greens on a short game area
Hello fellow golf course employees.im a mechanic at course here in va lol
@@gerryr1893 we got the dakota attchment for our toro workman.aint ever had problem with it.good machine
I worked at a golf course over 30 years ago. We did this to level the greens, but we used a large broadcast spreader and a steel mesh drag. We would drag clockwise, then counterclockwise. Watching this video made my back hurt. We used a loader to fill the spreader. I think you use coarse sand as it doesn’t hold moisture as well, makes it easier to spread. This makes a huge difference when you’re mowing. If only I had the time!
I have to do this to make a newly installed drainfield level. Your results are amazing.
Hats off to you brother. Never seen anyone put as much work in a lawn that was a homeowner.
I can't help it.
My grandpa used to drag a box spring behind the 4 wheeler. I hate my bumpy lawn and this is a good idea!
Chris Howell lol I can just see my Neighbors if I was out there with my bed box springs spring ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Was Granny laying on the box springs? 🤔
I bet the grandkids really enjoyed that ride. I've seen a guy pull an old boxspring mattress behind a tractor to smooth our a dirt road...it works fine...for fine grading, Just gotta make sure its brought back in the bedroom before someone's ass hit the floor unexpectedly. Did it more than once on a boxspring mattress at my girlfriend's grandmother's house in Detroit years ago. We'd bounce horizontally two feet high on that. So much fun, and brought back memories. Thank goodness the house was two doors away from the fire station, just in case someone hurt themselves. This is a true story. And that nite in the living room we were watching the black group from Detroit, The Spinners singing "Rubberband Man. It was that nite we bounced on the spring mattress for the first time. Girlfriend was watching her grandma's house while she was away. Man, that was a long time ago. But hey, seems like just last year.
I've seen guys run over a ball field with a section of chain link, same deal. Box spring would work better I'd say. They had a piece of wood fastened to the trailing edge of the fencing.
I did this to my lawn about 12 years ago and my neighbors thought I was crazy until I explained what it was for and then they all wanted to do it but were too lazy.
To broom the sand in we use a piece of artificial grass and tow it behind a 4 wheeler. It is a neat design and it works really well. Just a rope to a 2x4 and a 2x4 piece of wood atached to the piece of artificial grass.
"Mom...that weird guy at the corner is throwing sand on his lawn again..."
30 tonnes a year...
If I did this my neighbors woulf think Im cracked out. "Why the hell is that guy sweeping his yard?" Well at least Im not using a vacuum.
"Mom...that weird guy at the corner is sweeping his lawn again..."
😂😂😂😂
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I have a field about 3 acres in size that desperately needs this leveling approach. After each rain, you can see all the low areas, by just look for the puddles. Job well done. Thanks for the advice.
Thank-you! I've known about top dressing for some time, but never knew how to do it. I put a $400 suspension seat on my Kubota, when I could have spent the money on some sand, haha. I'm doing this in the fall. Thanks again.
Keep at it and your lawn will be higher than the slab of your house and then all the water will drain INTO your house. Where I'm at, we want our lawns to slope down to the street with our slabs at least 3-4 ft higher than the street level. We had 60" of rain over a couple of days and the water didn't come even close to my house. Some people who lived in subdivisions whose slabs were close to street level did end up being flooded though.
Not sure his intensions are to have his entire lawn the same level, rather I think he is trying to get rid of random low and high spots
Grumpy OldMan don't get grumpy.....old man
You’re right. Same apply to neighborhood in Florida, especially because of the hurricanes.
+Daniel Salvador
You would be fighting a losing battle in Florida just due to the sinkholes... :)
I was in the Orlando area when the Winter Park one happened... Quite impressive... Just look at a satellite map of the area and you'll notice a lot of very round lakes. More than likely, they are the results of sinkholes over thousands of years... Most of Florida is basically a sand filled coral reef that is now above water that acts as a speed bump for hurricanes headed into the Gulf (thus protected the rest of us Gulf Coast residents). Thank you Florida... We really appreciate your sacrifice...
Actually I doubt he would have that problem. Because he’s adding pure sand...his lawn drains like a sieve providing the underlying slope is adequate and it appears to be.
That’s why it’s good to use clean white beach sand when doing this. It slowly over time self compacts and will not hold water by simply adding a mm here or there. The water will move through that sandy base like a funnel.
Dude's lawn looks nicer than the carpet in my house
Checks my green carpet. His lawn looks a lot nicer than my carpet :o (top class lawn)
Lololololol. That's awesome
thespig13 I have no carpet. Wood 100%. I win!
Dump some sand on your carpet, job done
@@RubberRivet 😆 lol
I can't wait for the day that someone donates a top dressing machine to you. I can already see the smile on your face.
Holy crap. How cool would that be
Good video. Even better comments. This video has to have sparked some of the funniest responses I’ve read in a long time on UA-cam. Looks like the work paid off!
I spread 45 yards of recycled asphalt millings and 50 yards of loam in April. All by hand. Was a boat load of fun.
This makes me so happy! I will totally be doing this when we have a yard again... I love a nice flat lawn! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the positive comment.
When I saw the second truck, I fell off my chair laughing!!!!
james nagle Tru story
Yeah, the truck driver was either shaking his head or laughing .... or both. He just stopped by the bank and cashed that check, that's all ....with a "SEE YA NEXT YEAR" ............. LOL !!!
Was it really that funny?
@@Icutmetal it was
I was thinking same thing, I mean I admire the work put into the lawn but
He could host a beach party with all that sand!...😄
My dad and I did this when I was a kid, 40 years ago. We killed 90% of our lawn... I can still hear our old man neighbor telling my dad, "youre gonna kill your lawn, Dan"... and he did...
This was my job 20 years ago at the local golf course..... Flatest nicest greens in town thanks to this method every year. Great video and honestly never thought to try it at my home. Nice channel.
My mom had the same drive to want the perfect flat yard, I know she didn’t grow up with one being from Hawaii their yard was multilevel, small and not seen from the street. But every summer in Texas heat and humidity, my dad and I were following her instructions moving sand with just a wheelbarrow and a shovel. Pulling weed roots by hand, working a mixture of banana peels, egg shells and coffee grounds into her Rose garden. Ugh I hated it. But now with my own home I do my best to have maybe not the best lawn but a close 2nd or 3rd on the street. I really need to start on leveling this year. I cut down a diseased 60yo maple few years back and even though I stump friend it down what remained has rotted I guess and now lawn has a big dip in it. Great lawn sir and your dedication to it is very nostalgic for me.
thanks for sharing that. I was the same. I was forced as a child to work in the yard with my parents. I hated it. Now that I have my own home I love it. I do not force my children to work in the yard though. Having flat lawn... it looks nice.
Connor Ward thanks. This will be my yard goal this year! I was using peat moss for the low spot, cuz it’s lighter, it helped a bit but spot was still spongy. Maybe your kids could help a little to gain that same appreciation we got! Haha.
His lawn is 10x better than mine before he even started. 🤣
IF my yaqrd looked like his I wouldn't chance doing ANYTHING to mess that up
YOU FREAK!! I love it lol. Awesome job my man! Thanks for the ideas. I have a new lawn at my camp that just perturbs the crap out of me because it has low holes in it that holds fish ponds when it rains. Thats got to be fixed this spring when my Bermuda grass comes out. Thanks again my fellow OCD lawn keeping enthusiast!! May your yard forever be green, flat as a pancake and your lawn mower start on the first spin of the engine.
Hard work = good outcome. Thanks for the video, it gave me some ideas.
Dude! I'm building a broom drag, and just saw your comment. I'm glad I'm not the only crazy broom dragger!
I was searching for ways to fill in spots that have become uneven in my yard due to a lot of rain the past two years. I don't know if I can pull off what you've done, but it's a great idea to start.
Thank you!
Same here
Looks great!
Be careful if you have an older home with a pier and beam foundation. You can end up with drainage issues (water pools under house with nowhere to go)
I don't know but it looked pretty flat before
Thats what happen when the wife dont pay mind to you anymore so he has to find anytning to ocupied him self with!! You right lawn was flat but at least he feels avompanied by yje bugs and worms !😂😂😂😂
J CM lmmfaoooo only because this hits home. Thanks dude.
Some spot its low because of foot print. It happen when walking while raining.
It's because he mows his yard with a powered reel mower normally used to mow putting greens. When your grass is a half inch tall you can visually see low and high spots and it would drive someone like him crazy.
Cant believe I'm taking lawn advice from a dude that not only owns 2 flamingo t-shirts... he actually wears them ! :) Good video, educational and entertaining.
I did something similar to level topsoil across an area whee I had a ditch culvert installed, then filled in. However, I took one of my 5ft high 4ft wide chain link fence gates off of the fence, ran climbing rope through the hinges, rigged 2x4s tol hold bricks on too for weight, then attached the whole rig to my riding lawn mower. Worked like a charm.
You are the type of neighbor I wish I had. Thanks for sharing your work.
Your yard is so flat, that flat Earthers are on your property line recording footage for their channel.
Micah Epps hahahahahaha too funny lmao
Yes the Earth is flat and if you dug more than 8ft down you would fall through the other side and float away Into space.
Flatearthers should be the judge of lawn flatness. Its the only way to know the truth
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🌐 there, you're wrong!
I'm a flat earther and love your comment. Lmao.
I just put small pieces of turf from lowes on top of my lawn low spots. And to my surprise it worked great
If I’m ever over in the states I’m helping you out son, massive job! Solid as bro.
I rigged a broom system on a sand pro. Worked great and put the sand down fast and level. Of course, it was a hydraulic lift and very stiff so the level was easy to achieve. Great video.
Good job, absolutely nothing more rewarding than pride in ownership getting your hands dirty, and a hard days work,...your in pretty good shape pal, moveing 14 to 15 ton of material by hand in a few hours is awesome, I've seen guys eat up an entire Saturday doing similar projects and that's with a couple of buddies helping them out.
It was worth my efforts.
Not that I agree or would do this to my lawn, unless it was severely uneven, but it's nice to see somebody that takes pride in taking care of their property. All the haters on here are probably either renters or own their homes, but they look like poop. Don't pay attention to them. And to say that he's got to be rich because he's taking care of his pad - what a bunch of BS.... I'll find you poor people middle-class people and rich people that all take care of their stuff just because they care and have pride.... All Races all colors... That's what builds a great country... Not lazy bastards that knock somebody for taking care what they own...
Damn right on the latter part and hell no on the first. I'm all over a perfect damn yard and I do all the work myself. No one mows my yard and no one washes my truck. They'll never get it right
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Sand is pretty cheap. And he has the time to put in the effort. Good on him. This is what they do on golf courses.
30 tons of sand is not what I would call "cheap"
This dude is awesome. I have a ton of respect for his work ethic and commitment to excellence
I bet you could drag around a 10ft x 3ft chunk of chain link fence and it'd do the job and be lighter.
It'd cut the time down too since it'd be a big square chunk of many contact points....a bit more than the 3 rails on that homemade thing.
R C would flex too much and not create a flat screed across the 10ft width. Good idea though
@@Aerialassault155 ya may not be fully understanding me. Check this for the full idea. (also...this guy uses cinder blocks, but old tires are actually better)
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literally every little league/baseball field on earth has one of these to rake the infield...
There’s not many people that take pride in their yard. I personally look at a well kept lawn just as hard as I look at a nicely restored vehicle. Great work and thanks for the continued tips for those of us that try to keep our lawns looking nice and our neighbors feeling envious.
I use an old street sweeper head with just a chain. It works awsome. They give them away. I never believed in the sand thing till i tried it. It works
You move fifteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and...a flatter lawn.
Pro1er you sir are old as shit, for referencing that song! wait a second, I caught the reference, I guess that means I'm old as shit also😒
I happen to be a proud Medicare card carrier. ;-p
If I did that -- a flatter stomach.
He owes his soul to the sand store.
Yeah I sure do
The wife is lucky to have a husband who takes care of the lawn and flowers/trees.
Fantastic.. finally i have found my next place to do drifting with my monstertruck.
Great work Connor, this year will be my first year of top dressing, keep the videos coming
Fab job.
I showed this video to my wife so that in the future, she would let me do anything to my yard. If this guy can sweep his grass flat, then nothing I have done re: yard maintenance can be considered excessive. Thanks flat-grass guy!
Good recommendations ! I am glad I`m living in tiny Switzerland with a very tiny lawn!😀
A few questions;
How much did you pay a load?
What kind of sand??? I heard there’s multiple types
What part of the country is home?
Great job like you said hard work but well worth it.
Thank you for the video
For years people have been telling me to go pound sand. .... If id only known this before .... Wow !!!!!!
I give this man alot of credit He is a hard working SOB I did tis in my 20s and 30s but just dont have the WHATEVER to do it anymore WISH I DID
@TheMatron'sMilitia Thanks,I seriously don't have the umph I used to have and I feel like I am dying when I get up in the morning I can't just get up and go and it worries me
I have 4 acres, and mow it with a 6 foot Landpride mower pulled by an old Ford 8 n tractor. My lawn is country grass, that is kentucky Blue, fesque, rye and a bunch of junk, but when it's cut it looks nice. My unflat lawn when cut with a zero radius Xmark or other commercial mower, you bounce like a basketball, and is so uncomfortable to mow. So I appreciate you showing us what to do. I have a front loader, by Ford new Holland, and could do this a little quicker than shoveling by hand. And for guys attempting this, no one says it has to all be done in a weekend, or the entire year for that matter. Break it down into segments.
Awesome! It’s like one of those super satisfying videos brother. Keep em coming Connor 🙏🏻
You should mount the broom heads on the back of your drag grate. This way the front metal knocks down the piles upon impact and the brooms push the sand down into the canopy as they pull behind.
That's a great idea!
why am I watching this, its so addictive
I use a 50/50 mix of topsoil and compost. $40/scoop. 3 scoops covered 1500 sq ft. I dropped it in piles and raked it smooth. Then I worked over it with a leaf rake to bring out the grass that was underneath. I had a lot of bare spots so I heavily seeded it. Watered it 2x a day for a month. Water bill cost $60 more for the month. But it looks good. Have to do front lawn this year. Maybe in fall though.
Thought it has to be done in the growing season so you don`t suffocate and kill the dormant grass?
I want to try to raise my grass up next season. We had concrete poured and it’s a couple inches higher that the lawn, and I hate it. I think this is going to help!
my back started aching just watching this video.
Bro, I admire the HELL out of you for your hard work and commitment but OMG my back and knees are friggin killing me just watching this. Besides, your lawn was gorgeous when you started!
Possibly the most insane thing I've ever seen on YT.
LMAO
It's Miller time! I got thirsty just watching!
Impressive amount of work. I would love to see the end results.
3am and I’m watching someone do yard work on my phone. What a time to be alive.
LAST YEAR!! you have to do this every year! damn, i'll live with all the bumps
Good idea but you should use TOP SOIL. Should last for years with a touch up ONCE IN A WHILE .... definitely not every year.
This guy makes me laugh every time...such a fricken rebel. See how he just threw that gasoline on to the gas tank on that quad? Fricken Connor. 😂
“Hey honey, I’m really bored, I’m gonna level the grass!”
Great job! Despite the rude comments! Gotta be proud of your homestead.
I admire your commitment, your lawn looks great!
I have 3 acres of "lawn"... I'm lucky I get it mowed below 3 feet on a regular basis
10 mins, 2 quads and 30 tonnes of sand later and the grass looks identical to when he started.
If it takes 15tons for this guys damn near level yard i'm easily in the hundreds if not thousands of tons for my yard. Nice work yard looks absolutely amazing but damn I ain't got time for all that.
LOL, you see that small yard, and I'm used to 4, 10 & 15 acres
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About 1 cubic yard per 1000...the idea is to fill in the deeper holes and take the sharpness off the high spots..
Then you need a dozer or skid steer not sand lol
15 when the video started. Then another truck showed up.
Great video. Always felt intimidated with leveling the lawn. Good step by step. 👍🏻👍🏻
I need to do this! I got moles last year and they really did a number on my lawn.
Impressive effort - well done. Is it river or sea sand, and how much does it cost in your area?
Connor, if you are really that bored I got some yard work for you. I can pay you in sand dollars.
I can beat that .... I'll give you Monopoly money... lots of it.
That was funny man good one
The first thing I thought about when I saw this video was, "I NEED to do this to my lawn, too!" I then remembered I don't own a house >.
Lol. Best comment ever.
...that`s not my beautiful house, that`s not my beautiful lawn, that`s not my beautiful sand...hey where did the beach go?! One day Ralph, one day....
I had planned to kill my grass, till up the soil, level the tilled soil and then re-plant. I think your method will accomplish what I want done with far less work. Thanks!
Done that before to a half acre lot...BIG mess..lots of weeds, but flat.....
Awesome video buddy enjoy your enthusiasm and work ethic. I'd say a little walk behind skid steer would be the ticket. Have a good one.
@ 5:49 Exhaust fumes: You are driving in the wake of your own CO plume.
Yeah... But I like to breath exhaust though so how does that factor in?
Well, save that entertainment for your garage with the door closed. But we would rather you stick around to make some more videos on over-seeding.
Idiot , not as harmfull as you fat slobs that dont bathe
don’t forget to factor in the curvature of the earth which btw is not a perfect sphere!
Grandsons: grandpa please tell us a story...
Grandpa: ok...let me tell you about the time I flat leveled my lawn...
While watching this, I was remembering the old farm days and a manure spreader behind a tractor. I’ll bet it could broadcast spread sand as well. Of course the big tractor would play havoc with the already fairly smooth lawn.
That's a man who takes care and pride in his castle. Well done sir, well done!
I did this with a lawn 20+ years ago. But instead of just sand I did a 50/50 mix of sand and compost from aerating, thatching, moss removal and grass clippings from the season before. I didn't have a quad for leveling but used a 16' 2x4 and my wife's help to screed the mixture in like leveling concrete. My lawn where I live now is terrible, I need to add some sand and compost and completely renovate it. But I will need other help since my wife is now 62!!!
Kevin Noble 👍Same here. My lawn used to be one of the best in the neighborhood now when I walk. I’m almost embarrassed but I’m just fed up because it’s such a ongoing process that takes so much time effort and money✌️(screw it)
I should have made it more clear my lawn now is a different place. I have moved since I did the first place. This place was never done right and my well doesn't have enough capacity to water more than 20 minutes before it goes too low to pump.
Kevin Noble Have you considered trading the 62 yr old wife in for two 31 yr olds. Then no need for you to do ANY of the work. . . . Just sayin' . . .
Initially I was thinking of two 20 year olds, but my wife says I am not wired for that.
That sounds tough, you have a very loving wife.
Is the 5:45 tree dead from that blow? 😂
Seriously though, beautiful yard man.. it looks great!
She survived
The rumor has it that the guy is still leveling his lawn.
I enjoy playing with my yard as well. I find it good for my sole to be outside playing around good for you!
Yearly! I would have to psych myself up to do that once. Plus my dogs would dig and have it looking like a WWI battlefield come fall. Good on you man.