3 point dirt scoops

Navajo350

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Anybody know about these dirt scoops? I see some are reversable. Underneath the barn there's "compost" stacked pretty high that I'm sure is many decades old. I can't get a skid steer in there do the ceiling clearance and steep grade going in. Would one of these implements work? Maybe if I brake up the compost a little first?

Robert
 
If all else fails there is always the dreaded pitch fork. LOL.

Might need some sort of tines on whatever you can get in there.
 
(quoted from post at 07:12:22 10/10/17) If all else fails there is always the dreaded pitch fork. LOL.

Might need some sort of tines on whatever you can get in there.

I have been mucking the far part under the barn just to see how deep it goes and what is underneath, which I found is limestone. I just finished cleaning out the hay mow by pitchfork and rake. The compost obviously is a bit heavier. I will probably end up mucking it out by hand, but was just thinking about when I was a kid seeing the old timers all bent up. I just bought this place and would like to enjoy it when it is up and running all straight up.
 
I wonder if one of those toro dingo's have much power and if they rent them with some sort of a tine bucket ? They are very small and you stand on the back and/or maybe walk behind too. Maybe get a trencher or roto tiller attachment on there too and loosen it up ?

I never have used one of those 3 pt scoops ? I heard people tell of digging ponds and such with them. Must of taken forever ? I'd think most anything with a straight cutting edge will have trouble penetrating that stuff ?
 
I've heard them called a fresno from my youth and that term might also come from and actually apply to the hand operated version pulled by a mule team, but don't bank on it. Such names seem to be more a matter of the local it's used in than an agreed upon official name. A backwards one would sure beat any shovel work, but they don't dump a very big pile's worth, you'll need a second machine if you are looking for a decent pile of results. We have one with the long handles but it doesn't work very well without precision control over the tractor or mule team used as the center balance point between 'dig' angle and being launched like a catapult amounts to a scant couple of inches at the handles. It's also an art to maneuver from 'dig' position to coming up and sliding the loaded scoop around on top of the soil too.

They built vast irrigation works with them and mule teams over a hundred years ago, would have been a sight to see the actual work being done. Not too many You Tube videos on it I expect. Certainly a lost art and possibly no one that did that work could be made sad about seeing it left to the history books. They must have had an army of hay wagons on the move to keep those mule teams fed, so much other work involved in a getting a days work done.
 
It will work just fine. I have an old Massey that is reversible and uses a trip rope. I have moved a lot of dirt with it in the past. It is slow as you're only moving
about a wheelbarrow full at a time. Sure beats using a shovel and wheelbarrow!
 

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