I am a little over my head in trying to put in a new front lawn of 1/3 acre. The soil lab has said put 1 ton of lime on over the next several years-ok. I have rototilled with a Troy bronco and have most of the weeds and dead sod loose and dry. Tried to go the landscape rake route with the Agri Fab (Sears) rake which requires a sleeve hitch. Ole Red (10 year old DYT 48 ) can not take a sleeve hitch so I put training wheels on the rake so it takes either 1" or 3" bite. Maiden trip yesterday resulted in loading up the teeth real bad. I realize a sleeve hitch would allow raising the rake to drop the load of dry weeds/sod. My bad, but I really do not want to buy a "Garden Tractor."
FYI I tried to hire this task out, but 4-5 companies either never returned my calls or were booked. So If any of you pro's would give me a ball park fig for such a lawn installation I would appreciate it so I could then trade off that cost against a Garden Tractor. (I would really like to move up to water cooled, but looks like used JD or Cub Cadet would start at at least $5K ??)
FYI I tried to hire this task out, but 4-5 companies either never returned my calls or were booked. So If any of you pro's would give me a ball park fig for such a lawn installation I would appreciate it so I could then trade off that cost against a Garden Tractor. (I would really like to move up to water cooled, but looks like used JD or Cub Cadet would start at at least $5K ??)