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Geewizard
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Oct 08, 2013

Driving truck with TC across the lawn?

I need to put my TC in the back yard and this requires me to drive across the lawn. I won't have time to put in a real driveway of gravel or pavers or whatever this fall. So, I need something temporary to get the truck back there to drop the TC.

Anyone ever use some temporary material to protect the lawn? 3/4" plywood? 5/8"? Any other material?

Or just drive over it knowing the track left behind will be a driveway next spring?

Thanks
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  • gbopp's avatar
    gbopp
    Explorer
    Oct 08, 2013
    Personally, if I were going to make it a driveway in the spring, I would not bother putting down plywood or anything else.
    Unless, there is a chance you will sink in and get stuck.

    I did the same thing, drove/parked on the grass. It made small ruts and killed some of the grass.
    It's now a gravel pad. Problem solved.
  • amandasgramma's avatar
    amandasgramma
    Explorer
    Oct 08, 2013
    It's all according to the soil under the grass. The grass will bend, and will recover, but the soil is the biggy. Where I lived before retiring, the soil was clay....you could have driven a semi over it and nothing. But where we are now, it's so sandy below the compost and grass that it moves and sink easily.....we don't drive across it. It would take adding soil to get it back to flat.

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