DavisHollow
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- Joined
- Jan 21, 2011
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- Tractor
- Yanmar 2610D
Title says it all. I have a box blade but is there a more specialized 3pt attachment that would do a better job of filled in a trench?
How about this for an idea:
Buy an old, cheap back blade that will pivot around backwards. Cut it down the center and weld it back together so it forms a 90 degree "V". Then when you go backwards the "V" will fill the trench from both sides. No chance of cave-in.
This would be a great idea as you could raise your blade to push in smaller amounts of dirt for tamping if needed. If you didn't need to tamp push it all in. This would be easier to control and a lot less manuvering to fill your trench. I've seen cheapo back fill blades for $150 or less on craiglist but I don't recall seeing an implement made for just your purpose.
Hope you come up with something you need. I never have enough backfilling to do so haven't give it much thought, still do it the round about way; pushing it with loader, pulling it with loader or straight blade on my tractor.
what machine was used to make the trench?
if backhoe. then you can use bucket to pull spoils back into the trench. most likely a tractor with a backhoe also has a FEL (front end loader) with a bucket. and that can be used as well.
if a excavator (wheeled or tracted backhoe and no really a tractor) most likely has a small little back fill blade on it.