??? There is no such thing as a perfectly flat lawn in my neighborhodd (or
anyboby else's I've ever seen).

"Stubby" wrote in message
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The machine will work fine if your lawn is perfectly flat.

jaygreg wrote:
I'm considering thatching and resseding my lawn. A local equipment rental
showed me a machine by Classen
(http://littlewonder.com/turf-seeder-self-propelled.asp) called a turf
seeder (he called it an overseeder) that he thinks I should use. When I
saw the arrangement of the blades - considering the machine drops seed
first then lets the 24 or so blades roll over them, my eyebrows rose; it
seems to me a lot of seed will simply fall on top of the grass and those
blades will miss them. It doesn't look like there's enough vibration to
shake the seeds down through the existing lawn and onto the furrows the
blades create.

Is this a recommended way to get seed into a mature lawn that needs to
thicken to prevent unwanted weeds? Or should I rent a thatcher then this
machine to plant the seed when all the thatch is gone. The guy at the
rental agency says the machine will thach as well but not as much as a
stand-alone type.