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If you have lawns, you will know that they can become compacted with heavy traffic. Also, if you have clay soil, compaction is worse and drainage is a major problem.
The traditional solution is to spike the lawn, and dress it with a light rich soil that works its way into the holes. This, however,
is an unexciting process and fails to treat the soil a few inches below the surface.
But wait! Those awfully nice chaps at MaxCo. have - this very minute - invented the MaxCo. Lawn Fracker. This wheel-mounted device carries a large water tank which can be filled, hosewise, to provide weight. Using this weight as a counterforce, the Lawn Fracker then drives a heavy-walled pipe two feet into your lawn. It then injects, under intense pressure, a liquid slurry containing organic matter, gypsum and sand. The pressure drives open cracks in the subsoil, into which the slurry permeates, creating a network of drainage channels and, at the same time, introducing gypsum to remedy the clayiness.
After use, the probe retracts and the whole device can be trundled a few metres away to repeat the process.
A total man-toy ... the Rodinator
https://www.youtube...watch?v=uJExdtUEfi8 [normzone, Mar 14 2017]
http://www.terraina...e-original-ter.html
[hippo, Mar 15 2017]
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//The traditional solution is to spike// the lawn every 10' or so with a quarter charge of C4, a foot'ish down. Tamp, appropriate to a planar effect. |
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//Rodinator// But with C4 you don't have to know where the gopher tunnels are. And it makes the ground untunnelable for awhile. |
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Is clay layered (like slate) ? or just globby. |
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This kind of already exists - see link for slightly
scary-looking machines which will inject your lawn
with 280psi air to break up compaction. They use
these at Kew Gardens (lots of rare, valuable trees,
and also lots of heavy pedestrians compacting the
soil). |
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This is a brilliant idea, but I'm in a bad mood [-] |
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This is an idea - I'm brilliant. Okay, maybe just moderately clever, but it's still an idea. I'm not even bad. |
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//This kind of already exists// Wowwwww. Suddenly I want one of those machines. I declare this idea baked. |
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ANFO. Drill down, pump in ANFO, drop in a det on a bit of primacord, stem the bore hole and fire the shot. Lovely. |
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^ "Not what the customer ordered" |
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