I bought myself a tow behind de-thatcher yesterday --- ironic that Thatcher needed a de-thatcher... Anyway, I dragged it around my front lawn today. It did a pretty good job or whipping up some dead grass --- I'm sure not as effective as a powered unit, but these metal tines scrapped up a fair bit of stuff. I went over in different directions and really tore it up... not sure if you can tell from the picture. I raked it and used the mower to blow it onto my driveway and then used my bucket to plow it up and take it to the back 40.
Then I borrowed a tow behind slit-seeder from a friend of mine --- spread 20 pounds of seed over my yard. Fingers crossed that something will grow. Time will tell.
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"Anyway, I keep picturing these two little kids, a boy and a girl, playing some game in this big grass of thatch and all. Two precocious little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy New Jersey dead grass lawn. What I have to do, I have to de-thatch them if they start to run over the lawn - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and de-thatch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the de-thatcher in the front lawn and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." ~J.D. Salinger, The De-Thatcher in the Lawn, Chapter 22, Holden Lawnfield
Sounds like a fun and usefull project. With all that equipment you might want to consider a schedule C with poor business success but great returns to help pay for the now necessary equipment barn. I bet it will pay dividends in a fine lawn as a byproduct.
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