Seeding Grass Question

Captplaid

Will this work in lieu of a drag for seeding grass?

NeoBlackdog

Looks to me like it'll leave furrows rather than a nice flat seed bed. 

hillbille

piece of bunched up chain link fence will work, just drag it around like they do on the ball fields........ if the ground is worked up fine enough

varian

maybe not for a lawn but if your are overseeding like rye grass for the winter, i think that would work very well.

select-fire

Few beers and an atv and it will work

jimdeere

Fescue needs about a half inch of soil to propagate. Soil to seed contact is critical. 

truthful

Unless you are seeding bluegrass that needs light to germinate, that should work very well. Fescue or a dry-land pasture mix needs to be into the soil a bit. Whatever you plant don't forget to spray some water on it now and then.

Bubba Jr.

When I planted the grass after we built our house, I rented a Brillion seeder to plant the seeds. It worked great. I used my back blade behind my tractor turned around backwards to even out the ground then used a fence panel to smooth it out. This is a good time of year to plant grass unless you are in Arizona.

toad67

How are you spreading the grass seed, with a drill in rows, or a broadcast spreader? It also depends on the type of seed you are spreading. Rye grass and fescue need to have something over them to keep them damp and covered during the germination process. That sprocket nosed roller is really only good for breaking down clods, after the bigger implements break up the main portion. We've always run a packer (teeth out) in front of a drill, with a light drag harrow behind when drilling grass. This firms up the soil so the seed has enough contact with the soil, so it can contact the moisture and do its thing. 
So making a short question into a long answer, IMO, that would not be a wise choice to use in place of a drag. Use that dude to get the soil into small chunks, but not so floured up that it crusts over when watered, and doesn't allow the seed to poke thru. Use your spreader/drill, and use a piece of chain link fence to cover it up....

Captplaid

Today's project was seeding it. Ran the rototiller over it a couple times again. Broke it up 3 weeks ago. Then ran the culyipactor, dragged it with a cattle fence panel, seeded it and dragged it again.

Figured the ground is dry 4-6 inches deep and worked fairly fine. It's going to soak the water. I'll have to keep it damp enough for the grass to poke through in the next couple weeks.

Nothing has grown in the last 3 weeks except 4 velvet leaf weeds.

toad67

Should work good...

hillbille

I never had any luck unless I mulched it with a few inches of straw.........

lkannes

https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1894464/seeding-grass-question

Thats what I used with excellent germination, well except my garden tractor is a JD 265.