art
Super Member
Just my thoughts on a better investment of time and money for you. If you were to take some time off, rent the excavator and not the standard backhoe as they don't compete with them for digging ability. Also rent a dozer for your grading work.
Digging into the bank for a foundation with the excavator with full circulation to dump behind you with a dozer to grade it would be the fastest. In between coould be making runs on teh pole barn area. If you have a good friend that could run the dozer you have less then a days work!
Then buy the compact that could do everything else like back filling the foundation and the normal grading and small backhoe work. Depending on what you would like to use for a mower that would tell you how big of a base tractor you would need. You have to remember that if you spend the 25,000 for the big TLB it would still take close to a week for prep and then it will sit, how about storage?
I haven't checked the rates lately but even to have a pro do that in our area you wouldn't spend but about 2000 for two men and machines for the day and you should be assured that the grades are right.
Digging into the bank for a foundation with the excavator with full circulation to dump behind you with a dozer to grade it would be the fastest. In between coould be making runs on teh pole barn area. If you have a good friend that could run the dozer you have less then a days work!
Then buy the compact that could do everything else like back filling the foundation and the normal grading and small backhoe work. Depending on what you would like to use for a mower that would tell you how big of a base tractor you would need. You have to remember that if you spend the 25,000 for the big TLB it would still take close to a week for prep and then it will sit, how about storage?
I haven't checked the rates lately but even to have a pro do that in our area you wouldn't spend but about 2000 for two men and machines for the day and you should be assured that the grades are right.