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I need some advice from you tractor experts! My bro bought a new house and wants the lawn graded due to water pooling in the front yard and also it needs to be seeded. I had 3 people come out to give estimates on the job. What i want done is the front yard of the house to have a gentle slope away from the house to give a nice look to it. Dont want any big hills, just a barely noticable slope. OK, so only one guy that came out to give the estimate seemed like he knew what i wanted and what he was doing. We agreed that we needed 3 10-wheeler loads of fill dirt and 2 of topsoil for the job.(We already have 1 load of topsoil on the site). So i figured all this out and in our area this comes out to about $600 worth of dirt. One estimate was at 1500 and the other is at 1700. I would much rather do the job my self and get it done exactly how i want it done! The problem is i dont have much experience with the use of a tractor and not sure how big of a job this is? I figured out that i could buy the dirt and rent a tractor for a whole week(which would allow plenty of time) and still save about 500 on the job. Now i have no problem backing a 900 horsepower yacht into a boat slip but have limited experience with running a tractor. I have dug a few garden ponds with a backhoe, thats all! What do you guys think about this job? What type of tractor would i need? implements?
thanks to all
thanks to all