William Fissell
Member
Hi, All,
Performing a cut n fill in back for FEMA compliance. The area is slightly irregular 40x20 have to go down no more than 24" Very wet loam. May hit a little clay at the bottom.
Option 1: hire it out, quotes here are $15,000-$20,000. seems high for 60 cubic yards moved about 75 feet uphill.
Option 2: rent a track hoe and dump trailer
Option 3: use my own pippin excavator on to-30 (pictured), rent dump trailer
Option 4 find or buy a pond scoop
What do folks here think? I am leaning to #3 but its a small backhoe and would go pretty slow. I imagine the pond scoop would also be pretty slow.
thanks in advance!
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Performing a cut n fill in back for FEMA compliance. The area is slightly irregular 40x20 have to go down no more than 24" Very wet loam. May hit a little clay at the bottom.
Option 1: hire it out, quotes here are $15,000-$20,000. seems high for 60 cubic yards moved about 75 feet uphill.
Option 2: rent a track hoe and dump trailer
Option 3: use my own pippin excavator on to-30 (pictured), rent dump trailer
Option 4 find or buy a pond scoop
What do folks here think? I am leaning to #3 but its a small backhoe and would go pretty slow. I imagine the pond scoop would also be pretty slow.
thanks in advance!
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