Making our own lawn roller

The lawn roller is an essential piece of garden equipment. Although it is not often used in the summer cottage, its absence brings unnecessary trouble, so we recommend buying it in the store, or making it yourself.

Purpose of the roller

The skating rink in the country is used for several types of work:

1. Preparation of a gravel and sand base for paths.
2. Compaction and leveling of the surface for sowing the lawn.
3. Rolling the seeds after sowing.
4. Rolling roll lawn.
5. Rolling the asphalt while laying it.
6. Rolling up cut grass and other mulch.

Rink selection

Before you go to the store, you should decide on the choice of a skating rink model that suits you in terms of financial capabilities and the amount of work that they will perform.

For vast areas of large suburban areas, a large roller can be recommended, which will be attached to any self-propelled mechanism.

For plantations that are not very large, a hand-held lawn roller is more suitable. It weighs less and is sized to fit in tight spaces, walkways and walkways.

When choosing a model, you should also pay attention to the smooth rotation of the roller drum around the axis, so it is advisable that the roller be equipped with bearings.

It is also a good idea if the roller is equipped with a screw plug for filling in sand or similar weighting materials. This will increase the functionality of the mechanism and apply it in a wider range of conditions.

Homemade ice rinks

Nothing is impossible for our dacha Kulibins, and therefore many of them use hand-made lawn rollers. Moreover, the fantasies of our summer residents can only be envied. Indeed, as rollers or materials for their manufacture, they use any available materials:

• logs;
• metal and asbestos pipes;
• barrels;
• bottles for water;
• gas cylinders.

If you have experience in welding and the necessary equipment, then it will not be difficult for you to make a real roller from a piece of steel pipe.

Below is a diagram illustrating how to make a lawn roller.

The sequence of work is as follows:

1. We cover the thick pipe with metal on both sides.
2. Cut holes for the axle in the center of the pancakes. This operation must be performed according to precise marking, centering of the hole is very important.
3. We weld bushings into pancakes or weld bearings.
4. We insert the axle and weld the handle or rings to it to attach it.
5. We attach a pre-made handle to the roller.

In another embodiment, pins are welded to the centers of the pancakes, which rotate in bearings or bushings mounted on the handle on the principle of a well drum.

Below is a photo of one of the many home-made devices.

If you have a metal barrel at your disposal, then it will also make a good lawn roller. You just need to insert a metal axle into it, and a reliable belt can also serve as a handle. The barrel has a filler plug, through which it can be filled with a weight sufficient for the work that you are going to perform with the help of such a roller.

In addition to the above-mentioned structures, rollers are made of asbestos-cement pipes with a preliminary insertion of a metal axis and filling the interior with cement mortar.

When constructing a roller, a piece of such a thickness is chosen from a piece of log so that its weight is sufficient to perform the work. Steel reinforcement is screwed into the ends of such a log in the center as an axis, and rotation occurs at the junction with the handle.

DIY video for making a lawn roller