We had a contractor demolish a house at our camp and move a construction trailer on to a pad. He used a tracked hi-hoe, and there were tandem axle dump trucks hauling away rubble and bringing in fill for the cellar. Then, a small dozer leveled and compacted it and ran around some on the lawn too. The lawn is really mowed meadow and fairly delicate but a month later you'd never known any equipment had been there. You'd think that tracks would tear up a lawn but they spread the load and don't rut things much. Just a few cleat tracks her and there and those disappeared by spring. An aerator would have made a bigger mess.

The biggest problem with lawn damage from my own tractor hoe work is getting the dumpings off the grass. I've taken to dumping onto vapour barrier so I can just slide everything back into the hole. With the soil and lawn we have once dirt gets into the lawn there's really no way to backfill without tearing up the lawn or leaving a bunch of handwork. Much dirt left on top the lawn will definitely kill it.

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