Tiller or power rake for lawn renewal?

[sierradmax]

With fall coming, I plan to redo my spring attempted lawn failure (weed success!) I plan on applying herbicide and waiting a couple days to till the soil and reseed. What works best? Tiller or power rake?

 

[buckeye4life]

My choice would be a power rake ( Harley Rake ). A tiller works great at breaking up the soil, but the rake will also screen out debris like rocks, pieces of construction debris, sticks, and clumps of plant debris. In the past I have used my tiller followed by a rock hound. The rock hound would only capture rocks larger than a quarter and jam up with rocks bigger than your fist. The harley rack does a great job of preping a seed bed. Wish I could afford a new one. The local rental store has one for $100 day that fits my 3 point. They also have a nice hydraulic powered one for a skidloader.

 

[leonz]

With fall coming I plan to redo my spring attempted lawn failure(weed success!)
I plan on applying herbicide and waiting a couple days to till the soil and reseed.

What works best? Tiller or power rake?

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About your lawn,

See if you can rent self propelled stone burrier from a rental house for a week as you
will have seedbed to sow grass in the minute the stone burrier passes over it as it burys
the rocks and the sod clumps on the first pass.

The stone burrier gives you a flat ready to seed area with no extra work.

 

[sierradmax]

That tool looks impressive. However, there's not a rental store around that even knows a stone burier exists. As far as my lawn, I know there aren't any large rocks. I spread the loam myself in the spring and it was screened.

 

[bucktaker]

if you decide to do a total kill and do over wait at least 7 days after application to allow it to kill to the roots.

 

[sierradmax]

I intend on applying the first round of herbicide this weekend with a round up product. It claims you can plant new vegitation within 3 days but I will proably apply again in another week to make sure everything is dead, then wait anouther 7 days before tilling/raking.. Then re-seed.

 

[jenkinsph]

sierradmax,
where are you located?

 

[sierradmax]

southern new england. Skid steer power rakes are even hard to come by around here. Rental companies are weeks out. It seems like this is the most feasible alternative.

 

[jenkinsph]

Don't know about your locale but my experience has been that planting grass in the spring has to compete with lots of weeds which are the predominate new growth. If I plant in August it is too late for the weeds to come up and I have almost all grass without using any herbicide. Just went through this, planted about August 2nd and have a full stand of grass on this new patch.

 

[sierradmax]

How about a turf renovator?
STR60S-2 Landscape Equipment

Would killing the existing grass & weeds, waiting a week and using this work just as good?