Levellers or Lutes

Hi all
I look into getting a leveller or lutes!

I have a lawn to level out that is a big area to do and I like to get is flat as possible!

I found out about levellers and lutes I know their manly use for an older lawn to sort out dips in them!

Has anyone used one these tools or new lawn at all to level the ground out, please?

 

Lutes are quite expensive for what they are . As you know they don't sort out bumps these have to be sorted out individually. I personally use a landscape rake for my own lawn for spreading top dressing round . You could use some ladders with some rope attached to pull around the lawn .

 

Thanks for getting back to me Perki!

Yes, their not cheap at all! I could always build one! :-) Yes, I know about the ladder trick! I also have seen some videos on Youtube where plates are been dragged about too!

Is that the landscape rake with the big ally teet?

 

Yes but you use the back of the rake which is straight. Is they are reason for the lawn to be very level ? I level mine but at this time of year the worm cast make it slightly uneven again .

 

Thanks, I thought so!:-)

Put like this is just a mud pach! LOL I have 2 big areas to sort out! So trying to find bets way getting a levea as possble before lay truf!

 

I see , has the area been rotavated or dug over ? To get a good level lawn can take quite a while and shouldn't be done in one go. I re seeded my own rear lawn a couple of years ago and I lost count how many times I had to correct things , like air pockets or when you rake a stone up leaving a hole etc. Its likely they will be a bit of movement after the turf has took a top dressing next spring will correct any little hollows . Also turf can be done anytime through winter as long as the ground not frozen .

 

If you're turfing or reseeding, the main thing is raking the surface of the soil to a fine tilth, so that the seed or turf roots can establish well.

You need to stand on a ladder as you do that raking, so that you don't stand on the raked soil and compress it. (Actually two ladders, so that you can stand on one as you move the other). And with the ladder there, you've got a flat reference so that you can move the raked soil to flatten things a bit more.

Don't expect it to be perfectly flat immediately though. Even if it was perfectly flat underneath, you're at least going to have some gaps between turves. Next year when it's got roots down, you can top-dress it to fill the gaps, and at that point use a lute. Or just use a rake.

 

I remember the lute, or as it was then called, The true lute. When doing my groundsmans course at the university of london's sports ground. There is a much larger version for towing behind a tractor.

 

Thanks for the information it a great help!:-)

 

Thanks for that Graham! I have some scaffold board I can stand on! :-)

 

Hi Mike, I can remember using a trulute, I think mine was made by SISIS.. It was reversable so you used one side to spread and level the top dressing and the other side to work the top dressing into the turf. Ah, lawn maintenance, happy days.

Blackstart

 

Lute chap here too. Handy tools as well as the mesh wire systems called dragmats for seeding but they are expensive but can be found at reasonable amounts from trade suppliers. Fine if you are into lawns but for a home owner it might be an over kill.
They are mostly used in the sports industry and are easier on finer lawns and can be hard work if the lawns full of bumps and dips.