Wow Rick!!!!.....Now that's a crapload of work......I thought I was nutso....lol....And Dirtdawg, THAT was one hell of job to get done, BUT got it done right.....About 8 years ago, when I lived in a home on about just over an acre, and being OCD in everything that I do, I decided to do the entire yard over..It looked terrible, and was in an affluent neighborhood......Surface beneath the grass was, oh yeah, CLAY.....Wife got peed off and left me for an entire week.....I had huge truckloads, one after another, of topsoil hauled in....Hired 3 guys to help me, and an agricultural agent from the county came at my plea, to advise me on the correct mixture of seeds....So, we used wheel barrels, large rakes etc. to move the soil until we had 4-5 inches everywhere....It's called buttbusting!....The agent had the soil checked, he recommended just an amendment or so, and finally we got to planting it....Of course, this was in the middle of September, the best time to plant grass....We hit it lucky with light rain for 4-5 days straight and temps dropped too....The result was a luscious, green, thick lawn that got better and better each year with the right maintenance....Would I do it again????....Nope!.....The so called damned "golden years" were right around the corner, and I think that job pushed me over the edge physically and mentally.....The only thing golden became the urine!...I live in a condo now, and the Association does the cutting.....But I still maintain 4 gardens in spite of 2 failed lower back surgeries....Hell of a topic to get so much discussion------SOIL!....Lol!.....Good luck guys!
