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The Plus and Minus of Ignoring Your Lawn
As Kenny stated, get a soil sample done first.
The best way to prevent weeds is NOT chemicals, it's a thick healthy lawn. It will choke out weeds and leave no room for new ones to creep in.
If your lawn is so desperate for nutrients that it yellows off regularly the problem is the soil, or lack of it. Repeated light topdressing, or a full on makeover may be in order.
Best of luck.
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Bob, without even knowing what area you live in, let alone what your soil conditions are like, any advice on what or how much to use would not even qualify as a guess.
But as a VERY general rule, a decent lawn needs an absolute minimum of 4" of quality topsoil, 6" is the accepted minimum for creating a quality stretch of turf.
As to how, if you're not talking multiples of acres, a strong young lad with a spade can dig and fling topsoil or triple-mix directly out of a FEL bucket around waist level. This method requires the minimum amount of physical effort.
If you give me a few more details, I can offer more specific advice.
Best of luck.
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It doesn't have to be expensive, or even particularly expensive, but it will take some time. It can certainly be done with a little Yankee ingenuity and basic stuff readily available in your area.
For instance, if you have, or can get or borrow an old manure spreader you can very effectively if not crudely topdress a lot of land fairly quickly. With 10 acres I'm guessing you have some place where you can create your own topsoil by getting some aged manure from local farmers, some excess soil from construction sites where they've stripped the topsoil for building, maybe some wood chips or sawdust from local tree companies and all the leaves you can gather every fall. Blend it all together with the loader and let it brew for a year or two.
We 'make' several thousand cubic yards of topsoil every year by doing this.
Just don't forget to get it tested before you spread it to be sure it's reasonably well balanced.
If you spread it in repeated thin layers the grass will grow right up through it and give you a much improved lawn.
Best of luck.
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Look around for a used topdresser from Jacobson, Ransomes, Toro or Cushman. like the one below.
http://www.agdealer.com/list/view_image.cfm?Cushman-Top-Dresser-743010&SearchID=205205376&startrow=1&Act=EQUIPVIEW&listpage=index.cfm&ID=743010
They are very easy to mount on a cheap single axle trailer, use the 'fat boy' snowmobile trailer tires as flotation tires.
BTW if you're going to pick up a politician, be sure to get a PTO powered one, not ground-driven. With PTO drive you can creep real slow or speed up to vary application rates.
I think your tractor is a little light for that unit, unless you only (very) partly load it at a time.
Best of luck.
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