Lawn roller to help level lawn ruts from a truck?

[TechBoyJK]

We did a bunch of work in my yard, and had a truck back there a few times. One time it was more wet than we though, and the truck sunk in a few inches in some spots. Left some nasty ruts.

While I'm not expecting it to be perfect, I'm going to fill in the ruts with a mulch/dirt mix and let it settle for a few weeks.

http://www6.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/Lawn_Roller/PRC-24RBH/index.html

I found this lawn roller at home depot, and it's pretty cheap to rent for the day. <$20. I'm thinking after a good rain, I could take that out there and use it to level the ground somewhat. Not expecting perfection, but just curious if it's worth a $20 rental.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

You could try but don't expect great results, those are for new loose soil. something like this will take more time but be a better result overall.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ames-8-in-x-8-in-Steel-Tamper-2233400/204476033

 

[skyking]

I'd rake some soil into the ruts and be done with it. The grass will come up through it quickly.

 

[edro]

Yeah, the fill in method works.
Mix that with simply walking on the high rails when it is wet.

 

[boomerang]

Get a pitchfork and raise up the low spots. The lawn must be wet and the more saturated the better. Then when the lawn is wet, ideally right after using the pitchfork, if you have a garden tractor drive over the humps created when the ruts were made. If you don't have a garden tractor, buy the roller and use that.

Walking will work too.

I have had areas next to my driveway rutted by delivery trucks and I take my car when the turf is fairly saturated and have my wife guide me while I drive on the peaks created by the ruts. Works great.

If you think about how the rut was created, the turf was just displaced. You need to convince it to go back where it belongs.

I have too much property to be stringing hundreds of feet of hose to try and grow grass if I fill in and reseed. I had a guy do some tree work who thought the ground was nearly frozen when it wasn't. His heavy equipment created some nasty ruts. He came back in the spring and did the pitchfork trick. Him and three of his guys stayed pretty busy for a couple hours. It turned out great. I ran the mower over the peaks and it all settled down pretty flat.