Digging Out a Hillside With a Compact Tractor
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- čas přidán 1. 03. 2022
- Digging into a hill with a John Deere 2038r compact tractor and 270b backhoe. I am grading around the quonset hut to improve drainage and get better access
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Looks good, keep em coming.
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Think about the “limitations” of a shovel, tired body and wheelbarrow. We are blessed to have these amazing tools
Very true.
Can’t believe how previous generations accomplished so much by hand
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You made a big dent in it, looks good!
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While enjoying the video. I saw a bit of the pond in the background. It is looking good.
Yes sir. It is cleared up a lot from last year. I still have a lot planned for the pond in the spring
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@@RockhillfarmYT Looking forward to seeing the entire pond.
Good idea to loosen everything up with the backhoe and the scoop it with the loader. The backhoe just wasn’t going to work to load the trailer at that elevation.
Yes sir. Just not quite enough reach to comfortably get over the sides of the trailer.
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I used geotextile fabric OVER stone to keep soil from silting trench and plugging drain pipe.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve seen different opinions on how important that is
I’ve done a bunch of French drains this year and some of them I used the fabric wrapped over it and some of them I didn’t. In this case I was out of fabric
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I just wish I had more room to play with my tractor.
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Great vid Brock! I liked how you explained everything and walked us through your progression of what didn't work so well to what worked well! I learned something so thank you!
I try to show exactly what I’m doing, for better or for worse
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Looks like you’re doing a great job
Thank you
Looking good. This weekend I put in two full days moving 3 dump truck loads of dirt around a new house we're having built. I thought for sure I could have it all moved and graded in one day. This stuff just takes time.....when I was done, I was thinking I wouldn't do that for someone for less than $1500!!
Professionals with the right equipment could do this job in an hour or two but for me I’ll probably work on it over the course of a few days
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good video I think that's a great idea to build an approach and use your Gannon bucket by backing up and cutting into the hillside to bring the dirt down to the leech line . I think your front bucket will also work pretty good once you get a flat area built to work off of
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Great video, Brock! I sure wish it was warmer here. I miss doing my dirt work! Still working on collecting saw logs and cutting up some firewood. I'm thinking it will be another two months before it actually gets to be warm enough to get to my dirt work. I guess I shouldn't complain, because here in Minnesota we put up with some extremes in temperature, but it's a great place to live! Especially here on my property. Wouldn't want it any other way! Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I’ve been ready for winter to end so I can have longer days and get out and accomplish more.
I don’t know how you guys up north deal with it. Must be tougher me. My wife is a Minnesota Twins fan and took the kids to Mall of America a couple years ago but I’ve never been that far north
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Is “what you want it to look like” good?
Pretty much
Mainly it needs to drain water and give me access to the back side of the building
If only I had some dirt.... Ha ha!
Yeah I was going to haul it off for this project and then bring it back later to fill alongside the building
Brock,
Would you buy that backhoe attachment again? Pricy option…?
That is a tough decision. I would buy it again personally because I use it a lot And this job would’ve been much harder without it. Sometimes it is frustrating though because it has the limitations, like barely being able to sit down in the dumps trailer and not being able to finish my pond with it Because you can’t set dirt behind you
it’s so expensive that it’s almost cost prohibitive for some people wanting to buy a tractor. I did a video talking about how I prefer to buy equipment instead of rent it Because of convenience and because it holds it’s Resale value
Mine is $9000 which is about halfway to buying one of those really small mini excavators Which would be better for most jobs
I guess it just depends on your situation
@@RockhillfarmYT yeah $9k sounds brutal
Better to put towards abs used or cheaper newer excavator, but like you said it’s easy to throw on back and use for small jobs and transport on your trailer.
Can’t believe it’s so much for that, I mean wowza
Why don't you just push the soil down along side the building as you regrade the slope? And grade on the way out. I'd charge half day with the mini do that.
Thanks for the suggestion. I had thought about that as a way to throw dirt down to the bottom
One purpose today was to get access to be able to drive the tractor next to the building and pack it in
Is this your building or are you doing work for a customer just curious
This is my building
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If this was for a customer my mindset would be completely different. Here I’m just experimenting with it
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One thing A lot of people don’t realize is that you didn’t necessarily grow up operating equipment every day of your life as a norm like lots of guys do. It is all self taught through trial and error.
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No offense BUT how much planning and thought do you give to these projects? Are you responding to problems or “designing” a solution? Why weren’t these issues dealt with before you built the hut? Not critical about it But I just don’t understand the sequence of decisions.
I rented a machine and hired someone to build the pad. After putting the block wall in place I decided it would be nice to build up dirt behind it.
I have never put up a building on a hillside before so I just figure it out as I go
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