Cherokee180
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- Joined
- Sep 10, 2010
- Messages
- 35
- Tractor
- Kubota BX24
I justified buying my BX24 due to my wife wanting extensive landscaping in our new homes back yard. Roughly a 1/3 acre total lot, it hardly qualifies as BX country, but the backyard and a long driveway helped me to justify the acquisition.
While I was hoping to push the landscaping off a year (to let savings build up) my son-in-law volunteered to do the project, so it began a week ago.
It included, moving a lot of sod, then a lot of clay and sand as we excavated the for the sunken patio and fire pit. Then moving 10 yards of sand and gravel, then about 30,000 pounds of patio pavers and wall blocks (10 pallets I estimate at 3 to 4K pounds each. Then various french drains etc.
We have another 4 or 5 days to finish phase I, but it is obvious when I tried to manually carry some of the 100 lb wall blocks even the 30 to 40 feet, that the BX24 was the better way.
In the end, I BX will have saved me about double the contractor price of the project and paid for itself one and a half times over.
I am looking forward to winter again now (moving snow.....what fun).
While I was hoping to push the landscaping off a year (to let savings build up) my son-in-law volunteered to do the project, so it began a week ago.
It included, moving a lot of sod, then a lot of clay and sand as we excavated the for the sunken patio and fire pit. Then moving 10 yards of sand and gravel, then about 30,000 pounds of patio pavers and wall blocks (10 pallets I estimate at 3 to 4K pounds each. Then various french drains etc.
We have another 4 or 5 days to finish phase I, but it is obvious when I tried to manually carry some of the 100 lb wall blocks even the 30 to 40 feet, that the BX24 was the better way.
In the end, I BX will have saved me about double the contractor price of the project and paid for itself one and a half times over.
I am looking forward to winter again now (moving snow.....what fun).