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Laying Sod, how many pallets can I do?

Bacho said:
Back in my younger days, we did a lot of sod installs. If you’re dealing with squares that are decent quality we would plan on one person putting down one pallet of sod per hour. That assumes you can keep the pallets quite close to where they’re being laid.

If you’re dealing with rolls, it’s gonna take a little bit longer. Rolls bring the suck.
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I would agree with this other than I preferred the rolls but our sod supplier had the perfect size of roll. I can see if they were bigger, it would bring the suck.
 
grumpy356 said:
THIS RIGHT HERE!!!
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you of all people should know that in YOUR part of the state, yall have had so much rain that we could air drop pallets of grass from a c-130 and every single square would land and grow double its size in a week.

i live in a more arrid climate but im hoping for more rain coming soon.
 
Texas97 said:
i work cattle all day by myself, i spray mesquites alone in 100+ weather, early 40s, non-smoker, was just in a boxing ring for a sanctioned fight in April etc. Give you an idea of my physical fitness. Right now i have Friday off to handle some errands, i have a yard i plowed up and i want to place sod down.

My calcs say i need 8 pallets.

Realistically, can i lay all 8 pallets in an an afternoon by myself? possibly from noon to dark? What if i dont get finished and i need to do a couple pallets the next morning, how big an issue is that with the grass on the pallets?


overall, what is a good estimate of what i can get laid down in a day?
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When I've done large amounts of Sod I used 3' wide rolls and had the Sod farm install for $.12 per square ft. Less seams with 3' wide and money well spent.
 
Got kids or dogs? Bermuda seeded right now isn't going to give you enough coverage to handle traffic going into winter. But by next summer should be pretty much filled in. I seeded a couple acres one spring and had enough grass to stop erosion that summer, took a couple years for it to fill in enough to consider it a lawn.

8 pallets is ambitious for one man in a day. Take 4 advil before bed or else the 2 or 3 pallets left over for the next day are liable to turn into garden features. :lmao:
 
Bacchus said:
Got kids or dogs? Bermuda seeded right now isn't going to give you enough coverage to handle traffic going into winter. But by next summer should be pretty much filled in. I seeded a couple acres one spring and had enough grass to stop erosion that summer, took a couple years for it to fill in enough to consider it a lawn.

8 pallets is ambitious for one man in a day. Take 4 advil before bed or else the 2 or 3 pallets left over for the next day are liable to turn into garden features. :lmao:
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hell, im aware. Tylenol PM is awesome. but my standard from my baseball days was 6 advil in the morning, 6 before bed at night. knocks the inflammation all the way out. gotta ramp up on it though. before the amatuer doctors chime in, 12 advil is the same as 1 celebrex. what they subscribe for inflamation to people with arthritis, or they used to...
 
Bacchus said:
Got kids or dogs? Bermuda seeded right now isn't going to give you enough coverage to handle traffic going into winter. But by next summer should be pretty much filled in. I seeded a couple acres one spring and had enough grass to stop erosion that summer, took a couple years for it to fill in enough to consider it a lawn.

8 pallets is ambitious for one man in a day. Take 4 advil before bed or else the 2 or 3 pallets left over for the next day are liable to turn into garden features. :lmao:
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no dogs, but do have kids. this is a small yard on the west side of the house that i have neglected but now i dont want to neglect anymore. kids dont really play back there but i do know my oldest was riding her 4 wheeler through there. no problem, ill just tell her not to.


more and more im leaning towards just seeding. i seeded some areas around 4th of july. its up about an inch now. but you are correct, going to take a while to crawl and fill in and be lush.
 
Texas97 said:
you of all people should know that in YOUR part of the state, yall have had so much rain that we could air drop pallets of grass from a c-130 and every single square would land and grow double its size in a week.

i live in a more arrid climate but im hoping for more rain coming soon.
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It's not necessarily the water (although often it is) it's about it burning in the sun, but you do you.

good luck with it.
 
also, an FYI, this thing is awesome.
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grumpy356 said:
It's not necessarily the water (although often it is) it's about it burning in the sun, but you do you.

good luck with it.
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its all about the water here. everything burns in the sun, but if you have soil moisture, you can make it work.
 
I was able to do 4 pallets in a day on the first day. The 2nd day I only got 2 done. I needed to also get 4 the 2nd day. The 3rd day, I said fuckit and went back to work to rest. I went ahead and placed them in the evening of the 4th day and they actually still took. This was spring time in the ozarks, so dealing with very steep hillsides and humidity, but the rain and not quite glaring sun helped. I'm not in nearly as good of shape though.
 
Texas97 said:
its all about the water here. everything burns in the sun, but if you have soil moisture, you can make it work.
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Don't be like Matt.

Next door neighbor Matt, like a lot of people, likes to put his toes in the sand at the beach, so when he bought the house it had an astroturf putting green that he ripped out and replaced with half a truck of fine sand. What he didn't calculate was that his two labs and GSD would be walking through it. Tammy says, "Goddamnit Matt, the couch is full of sand, the floors are covered in sand, it's like living at the Goddamn beach". So Matt gives in and wheelbarrows most of the sand to the back 40 of his property, and lays down some topsoil and seed. The the Monsoon storm came, and washed all the seed into a nice pile at the bottom of the patch, which made it easy for the birds and bunnies to munch up.

Sod is awesome, but as others have said, 8 pallets is ambitious.
 
For me it was the hauling of the sod that was more of a problem than the laying.
MY car hauler was pissed.
 
Roc Doc said:
Don't be like Matt.

Next door neighbor Matt, like a lot of people, likes to put his toes in the sand at the beach, so when he bought the house it had an astroturf putting green that he ripped out and replaced with half a truck of fine sand. What he didn't calculate was that his two labs and GSD would be walking through it. Tammy says, "Goddamnit Matt, the couch is full of sand, the floors are covered in sand, it's like living at the Goddamn beach". So Matt gives in and wheelbarrows most of the sand to the back 40 of his property, and lays down some topsoil and seed. The the Monsoon storm came, and washed all the seed into a nice pile at the bottom of the patch, which made it easy for the birds and bunnies to munch up.

Sod is awesome, but as others have said, 8 pallets is ambitious.
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bermuda varieties love sand. i spread 6 yards of sand and 7 yards of topsoil on my other yards and its going well. the grass is backfilling nicely in the sand.
 
Texas97 said:
everyone says to hire help. im not sold yet.
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Me, my brother, my mom, my dad. Laid 2 acres worth. Couldn’t tell you how many pallets that is. Did not get done in 2 days. Mom mainly did the driving to pick it up. We honestly did it sections at a time. Me and my brother were 10-15 years old at the time I think.

Basically, one person and 8 pallets all in one evening, no way. Do sections at a time, sure. You have a tractor to move them along with you?
 
SEVENS said:
I would agree with this other than I preferred the rolls but our sod supplier had the perfect size of roll. I can see if they were bigger, it would bring the suck.
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With good quality squares, you can grab two Squares at a time, drop them into position and kick them into place. No bending over required.

Never got to lay a lawn with rolls that didn’t require lots and lots of bending over.

Since the OPS specified that it’s Bermuda, I would probably be OK with letting it sit one night on the pallet. It’s not gonna look so hot the next day, but that’s not gonna kill it.
 
OutlawRider said:
Me, my brother, my mom, my dad. Laid 2 acres worth. Couldn’t tell you how many pallets that is. Did not get done in 2 days. Mom mainly did the driving to pick it up. We honestly did it sections at a time. Me and my brother were 10-15 years old at the time I think.

Basically, one person and 8 pallets all in one evening, no way. Do sections at a time, sure. You have a tractor to move them along with you?
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my bobcat would move it around.
 
OutlawRider said:
Me, my brother, my mom, my dad. Laid 2 acres worth. Couldn’t tell you how many pallets that is. Did not get done in 2 days. Mom mainly did the driving to pick it up. We honestly did it sections at a time. Me and my brother were 10-15 years old at the time I think.

Basically, one person and 8 pallets all in one evening, no way. Do sections at a time, sure. You have a tractor to move them along with you?
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You sure about that? That's 8 or 9 semi trailers worth of sod. I've laid 2.5 trucks in a day with a crew of 8, and lost both middle fingernails from rubbing the inside of my gloves. Fuck doing that 4 times.

Texas97 said:
my bobcat would move it around.
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2500-3000 lbs per pallet depending on water content. Worst case you have to take a few layers off top.
 
Texas97 said:
no rolls, cut squares.
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If you go this route, please post a picture of the pallets. I've only seen rolls that were about 12-18" wide and 5 feet long rolled out. I've never seen pallets of square cut sod.
 
Never seen squares of sod here either, pretty sure it's a warm season turf thing. Some of that shit you can let turn completely brown, give it water and it comes back.

Not cool season turf.

Void_of_Light said:
Those look heavy as hell.:eek:

The rolls I've seen were like small hay bales, there was a machine that unrolled them across the yard like carpet.
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Not that bad unless they're wet. We were doing a job in December, rest of the sod was installed. Customer decided to add some so the sod farm cut it for us. It was wet to begin with then it rained...hard. Had freaking rivers of water running out of every roll. That sucked.
 
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Bacho said:
With good quality squares, you can grab two Squares at a time, drop them into position and kick them into place. No bending over required.

Never got to lay a lawn with rolls that didn’t require lots and lots of bending over.

Since the OPS specified that it’s Bermuda, I would probably be OK with letting it sit one night on the pallet. It’s not gonna look so hot the next day, but that’s not gonna kill it.
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Usually had one guy on the ground and another bringing them over and dropping them. got to where you knew where to drop for the other guy to roll it and move to next.
 
I am in my fifties and would try doing it in two days. Mine you I have been told I am not very smart by my wife on a daily basis.
 
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