nosy neighbor eliminator --

[Unregistered2013]

-- you've got me scared now --

i have to haul the stuff like 600 feet --

and truckers are expensive, i think -- !!

we'll see how saturday goes --

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Well, you can always use your RTV to help haul ;-) I just wanted to warn you about what you might expect to find out after you start. This way you can start thinking of alternate plans of attack and hopefully get things done without costing too much. I am not sure what the truck rates are for 10 wheelers now but they use to be roughly $50/hr and you can load a truck fairly quick with that loader so you should be able to keep both trucks running without much dead time if any once you are use to the controls. I do know hauling a large amount of material with a bucket any distance is very inefficent and not very exciting. Didn't mean to scare you or rain on your day but I know how disappointed you would be feeling as you hit 30 hours and are not where you wanted to be. Then you start cutting corners and pushing things a little too far and risk going in the drink or getting careless and breaking something. If I did have a 10 wheeler I would come up to give you a hand. Even a small truck that could hold 8-10 yards would be a big help. Does the rental yard have trucks also?

 

[escavader]

Why waste your time,rent a d-9 and drive through their house

 

[MossRoad]

Try this...

Push into the pile low and crowd the bucket as you lift and curl back to fill it in one, fast motion. Then, as you are backing out of the pile, lower the bucket to the ground by slapping the joystick into float and quickly pop it back up a couple inches. With the bucket in this position, low to the ground, drive backwards to the dump site as fast as possible. The bucket will act as a wheelie bar/skid and you can go a heck of a lot faster with a full bucket in reverse than you can forward. If you do it driving forward and the thing starts bouncing, the bucket can dig in and suddenly stop you. By going in reverse, the bucket will drag over anything and you will hardly notice it.

If it takes you one minute to load the bucket and scoot backwards 600 feet to the dumpsite, it will probably take you the same to dump it and scoot back to the loading site. So, to be conservative, plan on 2.5 minutes per round trip. That's 24 trips per hour @ 2.5 yards per trip, because you can get more than 2 yards in a 2 yard bucket when it is heaped. That's only 60 yards per hour on a best case scenario.

In 8 hours you should be able to move 480 yards of material.
In 40 hours you should be able to move 2400 yards of material.

How much material are you planning on moving and is it already in a lose pile?

 

[Unregistered2013]

thank you for this great info, all --

i am basically moving land from my pond dig, which is like 140 wide by 200 long by 6' deep --

 

[jpm]

eric what did the neighhbors do? don't get me wrong i like idea

 

[Unregistered2013]

eric what did the neighhbors do? don't get me wrong i like idea

they're just smug -- you know, sometimes wave, sometimes don't --

-- and i think they're mad with my build -- :|

basically, all was good till my house started filling out, and then they acted weirder by the day - -

-- it's not my fault the guy thought he was an all-around builder with his house -- :|

 

[EddieWalker]

Eric,

I just googled a dirt calculator to see how much dirt is in 140 feet by 200 feet and six feet deep. The calculator came up with 7,112

Where you planning on moving all that dirt?

Eddie

 

[MossRoad]

Eric,

I just googled a dirt calculator to see how much dirt is in 140 feet by 200 feet and six feet deep. The calculator came up with 7,112

Where you planning on moving all that dirt?

Eddie

140' x 200' = 28,000 square feet
28,000 sq. ft. x 6' high = 168,000 cubic feet
168,000 cu. ft. / 27 cu. ft. (27 cubic feet in a yard) = 6222 cubic yards of material.

Of course, that is if the pile is a perfect rectangle with squared up sides. It could be a lot less or a lot more, depending on variable side, depth, height, etc...

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like it could take a couple/three weeks to move it at the rate listed below using just a loader.

Of course, I have no actual idea that it will take him that long, and those numbers that I quoted were just pulled out of my aaaarticulated loader. But he could do a similar calculation after moving a measured amount of dirt for an hour, and get some real numbers to determine how long it will really take.

Man, that's gonna take a lot of fuel, too.

 

[oliver28472]

Going by what I have read here more than once you should put a sign up saying "fill dirt needed" . Flag off the area where you want it. They say it will come.