Lawn Fracker

If you have lawns, you will know that they can become compacted with heavy traffic. Also, if you have clay soil, compaction is worse and drainage is a major problem.

The traditional solution is to spike the lawn, and dress it with a light rich soil that works its way into the holes. This, however, is an unexciting process and fails to treat the soil a few inches below the surface.

But wait! Those awfully nice chaps at MaxCo. have - this very minute - invented the MaxCo. Lawn Fracker. This wheel-mounted device carries a large water tank which can be filled, hosewise, to provide weight. Using this weight as a counterforce, the Lawn Fracker then drives a heavy-walled pipe two feet into your lawn. It then injects, under intense pressure, a liquid slurry containing organic matter, gypsum and sand. The pressure drives open cracks in the subsoil, into which the slurry permeates, creating a network of drainage channels and, at the same time, introducing gypsum to remedy the clayiness.

After use, the probe retracts and the whole device can be trundled a few metres away to repeat the process.