Cattle damage to lawns

[Baldbloke]

My local farmers cattle had a day out on my lawns last autumn and I've yet to repair the poaching. It was wet at the time and twenty X four hooves have made a right old mess of the ground as well as the grass actually now being longer than I'd like, because I was unwilling at the time to try to level it off with a mower. Some of the deeper indentations are around 9" deep. I'm tempted to wait until things dry up a little and run a roller over it, although mine is a little on the light side. I've about 2 acres to do. Any suggestions? 

[Matthew Storrs]

Hard to say without seeing a picture, could you Harrow and roll it?

[Matthew Storrs]

Sorry just seen you’ve say roll already- harrowing it before hand will probably do a better job once it’s dried out...

[woody paul]

Get farmer to put it right as his cattle damaged it.

[peatff]

Top it with some riddled soil and grass seed mix, as above let farmer sort the bill.

[Graham]

The farmer should be covered for this with his insurance.  I did some occasional work for someone years ago and this was a fairly common job we did.  Lift out the worst with a fork and then top dress and seed.

[Baldbloke]

13 hours ago, Graham said:

The farmer should be covered for this with his insurance.  I did some occasional work for someone years ago and this was a fairly common job we did.  Lift out the worst with a fork and then top dress and seed.

This was the third time I had this problem so I did claim on his insurance this time. I did get a payout covering my time for a couple of days work. 

 

14 hours ago, Matthew Storrs said:

Sorry just seen you’ve say roll already- harrowing it before hand will probably do a better job once it’s dried out...

I'm a little concerned with harrowing as we have heavy clay soils here and some of the green within the lawn is moss. 

 

The ground hasn't really dried out since last summer, so putting a large tractor over it is probably going to make matters worse. 

Thanks for the suggestions, and I'm thinking rolling it, followed by something that can pull some spikes and top dressing of coarse sand/grass seed

Edited April 5, 2018 by Baldbloke