Planning to get a lawn roller to help flatten things out in the garden? These are some of the things that you can look out for when you buy a lawn roller. First of all, lawn rollers are classified into two main categories (that is according to the best of my knowledge anyway). There seems to be the poly lawn roller and the steel lawn roller. The poly lawn roller (do not ask me how this name came about but I do not think that it has to do with a parrot but more because of the material that it is made up of which is Polyethylene) is a lawn roller which mainly gets its weight from water. Such lawn rollers are generally heavier when filled with water and more easily handled when it is not filled with water. Compared to the steel lawn roller which always has the same weight, you would have to spend some time filling the poly lawn roller up with water whenever you need to roll the lawn. If you need to roll the lawn often then a steel lawn roller would be better since you do not need to fill it up with water. Then again you can always fill up the poly lawn roller with water and not drain the water out of it. So both have their own merits and uses.
So those are the 2 main types of lawn rollers. To use the lawn roller, you can actually have it being pulled or pushed. If you have a large garden, it would be best to get a tractor and use it to pull along a lawn roller. With a smaller garden you can consider buying a smaller one and pushing it to level the soil. In any case, you might want to check out the lawn rollers from Agri Fab, Precision Products and Swisher.