Landscaping/sod cutting

[canebreaker]

Need to route water away from a concrete pad. Rent a sod cutter? I'm wondering if you remove the sod can you run the cutter over the dirt to remove a layer? First cut of removing sod would be 30 ft wide by 60 ft long. Each cut toward center of the 30 ft would be deeper for a shallow trench. Sod would be replaced when finished.

["G"]

Remove the sod if you want to save it......running a sod cutter without sod.....all it will do is loosen the dirt and you will have to have a way to remove it, your best bet would be to hire some body with a Bobcat to do what you want to do.

[canebreaker]

The contractor hired a crew to lay a 30X30 parking pad. Instead of laying it flat they sloped it. My son has contacted him about it.
We have a front end loader, no problem moving dirt where we want, just don't want to remove more than needed.

Wish there was a product to add to the pad, like Thin Set. Can't find any that's made for outdoors.

[Cray]

I used a middle buster. Used a rake to pull the sod back. Cut it about 8-10 in deep. Works fine. Grass grew back into ditch and solved drainage problem. About 120 ft long.

[canebreaker]

Talked to son briefly this morning. He talked to the owner of a sod farm near him. Can get him to remove sod a bit cheaper than renting a cutter and don't have all the work involved. The sod will be stacked on pallets and moved out of the area with the cutter. Plan to run the disk over the area then the blade and loader. He wants to cut it 3" deep by the pad and 10" deep 65' away. The ground is about an inch above the pad now since it has a slope to it.

[Rees Guide]

Sounds like you got a plan now, Happy Thanksgiving Jimmy

["G"]

Good deal.....git R done