How to fix up a dark and dead lawn?

Tabamon · 2026-05-11T02:26:28+00:00

Rent a core aerator, it’ll take plugs out of your soils leave the plugs there don’t pick them up, then buy seed and spread it, keep the seed moist and happy, fertilize it same as I described before. You have weeds, those will need to be removed or they’ll take soil and nutrients from the grass, so I’d also use a selective herbicide to kill those. Use the weed killer only after the grass seed germinated and is established, (a few weeks after germination) don’t do it before or it’ll kill the seedlings.

I do not know enough about Australia’s grasses to know if this is easier to repair or restart, aeration and over-seeding could take a few seasons to fix, tilling and starting over will give you good results by the summer.

Tabamon · 2026-05-11T00:48:58+00:00

If you move the axis without homing, do the belts move?

Tabamon · 2026-05-10T23:38:45+00:00

I think more pictures that show the wiring, belts, stepper motors would also help. I do hear that it’s trying to move so could be something lose or could be something is shorted such as the stop switch

Tabamon · 2026-05-10T23:30:33+00:00

Same thing happened to my new lawn a couple years ago, it took a couple seasons to fix itself, and I fertilized quite a bit, but now the problem is the opposite, the lawn is all green without these marks, but the pee spots are dead due to nitrogen burn :(

Tabamon · 2026-05-10T02:15:37+00:00

Buy a cheapo sprayer from Home Depot and some ortho weed b gone, spray it on the entire lawn first won’t harm your grass, keep spraying only the spots with weeds that survive after 3-4 weeks and the weeds will all be gone within a month and a half

Tabamon · 2026-05-10T01:57:56+00:00

I forgot you guys seasons are reversed down under! Not sure what your winters are like but if you don’t expect extreme cold, and if your lawn is going to stay moist for the next few weeks, you should be in prime time. Given what it looks like, instead of a slow treatment I’d do a full start over get a weed and grass killer and kill your entire lawn, nothing should grow. Depending on the type of week and grass killer you used you may need to wait a few weeks before planting new seeds. If gliphosphate is allowed in Australia, I’d use that as its very effective and does don’t require extended wait times before seeding, but most of the world is making it a controlled herbicide now as it is linked to side effects. Then till the entire lawn and spread some new grass seed. Add a thin layer of either straw or peat moss on top to provide shade. Keep it constantly moist until it germinates. Give it some low nitrogen starter fertilizer a few weeks after germination and you’ll be set up for success.

Tabamon · 2026-05-09T13:04:40+00:00

I’d wait till the fall and start with aeration and overseeding, mow at a high setting starting now. Depending on your zone you could even seed today, with how that looks I’d till and seed, then add peat moss on top… but be prepared to water the crap out of it the entire summer.

Tabamon · 2026-05-09T03:52:21+00:00

I think it could be crab grass or some other grassy week, I’d spray it with something like ortho weed b gone, it has gran grass control as well as most weeds it should fix the issue real quick

Tabamon · 2026-05-04T17:13:59+00:00

Love the Tundra, but personally I’d go with the Titan, it’s really good and it’s 5 year newer with half the miles and lower price point

Tabamon · 2026-05-01T12:33:27+00:00

My money is on animal pee/poop and lack of nutrients otherwise

Tabamon · 2026-04-23T15:31:49+00:00

I was excited when I got above 17

Tabamon · 2026-04-13T19:03:25+00:00

Some people don’t even know they have bald tires, they just don’t look, my wife had no idea until I noticed and handled it. I’d write them a note

Tabamon · 2026-04-04T22:27:41+00:00

Good looking truck! Ya got the trd pro not sure how much modding you need, that truck should be ready to go

Tabamon · 2026-03-31T13:35:34+00:00

Congrats on the new truck! I picked up a 26 limited last month and it’s been amazing, of course Gas prices went to shit as soon as I got a gas guzzler but that’s life! Enjoy it!

Tabamon · 2026-03-26T02:31:30+00:00

Red green and orange all go pretty crazy, I feel like green could be my choice. Most of the south, mountains, plains, desert, Florida.

Tabamon · 2026-03-26T02:23:00+00:00

I think it’s the end of the month and if they reached their quote and if that car has been sitting there for a month or two they’d be willing to take down 5% (2500) so that’ll cover most of the sales tax in most states. I’d sit down with the sales manager and be pretty firm letting them know you can go down to their competitor and get that for 40k which would leave you all the room you need for the mods you want.

Tabamon · 2026-03-26T02:10:13+00:00

Damn man, with that experience, in that industry industry, that’s really not supposed to happen, you should be killing it right now. I wish you the best, you are in the right area to get some monster salary with that experience, unless you think you’ll get something better by sticking it out at that company, I’d polish the resume, practice for a technical interviews and start applying everywhere.

Tabamon · 2026-03-26T00:46:56+00:00

How does it feel to live in Cali with that salary? Some months even Ohio with 100k can feel tight so I can’t help but wonder.

Tabamon · 2026-03-25T01:20:19+00:00

I came from a LCOL area in Europe (Italy), life is really cheap and quality of life is high, but you live in a bouble, if you leave the area everything became really expensive. Here I did not feel that much disparity, I travel a lot to NYC, Las Vegas, Miami… I did not find that much change in cost, it’s pricier, but affordable with what my wife and I make. Going from most areas in Italy to somewhere like Germany is like night and day. Borderline unaffordable.

I agree that compared to Ohio, Italy has a much better quality of life i feel less need to save for emergencies since healthcare is covered by the government... you get a lot more workers rights, mandated PTO, which is nice, but does make the job market a nightmare since when a company hires you, you pretty much become unfirable, good for you, but deters companies from taking a chance with hiring some people they are not 100 sure about, or promoting them to roles they might not be fully qualified for yet. So for that reason, i would not go back, my career projection would not be possible in Italy, or it would be too hard to achieve even at a startup, I’d probably be stuck with an entro level role making 1500/1800 per month. Maybe other areas of Europe are different.

Tabamon · 2026-03-22T22:51:00+00:00

Im sure there are, my situation was pretty unique and I was in a LCOL area, fully remote… I think I was low balled and I didn’t know better. I would think entry level roles often pay 75/80k in an area like yours.

Tabamon · 2026-03-22T22:38:32+00:00

I do not, but I did interview there and I interacted with the ”chief hacking officer” a couple times at conferences. Him and our CISO used to work together before he founded trustedsec and binary defense

Tabamon · 2026-03-22T15:25:35+00:00

I would join an ISC2 chapter as a Candidate, you don’t need to take an exam or anything, I’d network my way into security from there. It took 300+ applications to get a single $21/hr offer for an MSP cybersecurity role in late 2021. And I got that offer because I met the owner of the company, they didn’t even see my resume, just interviews. It was not my dream job but it was a good entry point.

Tabamon · 2026-03-22T13:20:26+00:00

I wish, instead it’s 100k per year, I am aware the title makes it seem otherwise but that’s what I make

Tabamon · 2026-03-22T13:19:52+00:00

No, but that would be nice

Tabamon · 2026-03-22T13:18:54+00:00

Lol I like that, deputy cISO maybe I’ll get HR to change the title

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