Overseeder for lawns???
 

Anybody use one before? If so how did it work out?

Awesome. I use one every other year, cut your lawn down at low as your mower can, overseed 3 direction, water the crap out of it for a month

What is "overseed 3 direction"
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There are a few ways to over seed. I believe you are talking about a slice seeder. They are good but cAn be a bit aggressive and the process is in my opinion time consuming. The method I prefer is core aeration. You can rent the machine at Taylor rentel. The is will pull three inch cores in a 2 inch by three inch pattern. You can then over seed using a broadcast spreader and drag the cores in with a four by four piece of chain link fence. This will not only pull in wanted thatch but it will allow air sun light and water into the root One of your lawn. And you should never cut your lawn as far Dow. As the mower will go. This will scalp the crown of the plant and can do serious damage. You should never cut more than one third of the ant at any given time.
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Sorry I am not illiterate I am typing this on the I phone.
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Imho Ryan over seeder is the best and core aeration works as well unless you have an underground sprinkler system where you can damage the heads or
pipe laid less then 6 inches deep.

Is this a good time to do it or wait till October?

Right now is the best time to do it FR. It takes a good 3 weeks for a premium, bluegrass/fescue mix to germinate. The soil is warm, the nights are cool and leave moisture on the seed, and the fall rains help the germination.
The secret is to keep it moist as was stated before.

the other sort of forgotten secret is where you have firm contact
with the soil which hastens germination. In the "OLD" days everyone in the neighbor hood had one of those iron (steam roller) type drums
with a handle that you filled with water to compress the seed after you spread it. that method has been largely forgotten...

but look to nature: she drops her seeds and then covers them with heavy snow that melts and waters the seed pressing it to the soil
in the springtime .

my point is that you can take advantage of snow and do a planting of
seed just before a good snow storm (that will stay put) in late spring
or i should say "false spring" and accomplish the same thing.

i used to run the core machine at the golf course.... then we would
push all the cores into piles and haul it off to an area that needed
some grass started and spread it there. then we would distribute small piles of compost to the cored section and rake it into the holes.

what this did was to increase the organic matter in the lawn (greens) and allow it to retain more water when it rains or was watered.

you can accomplish this same thing by wind rowing your maple and other crispy leaves (JUST NO OAK LEAVES)
and then run the mower over them until they are tiny pieces 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch square and then
let the worms pull them down into their burrows. worm castings hold ten times their weight in water.

Don't forget to fertilize use a low rate of ammonium sulfate watered in frequently to start then put down a feet with a high punt of phosphorus and potasium
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Damn iPhone I meant to say a fertilizer with a high rate of p and k
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i'm not so sure that will help Tom Brady unless he's on the grass.:rotf2: