Sub compacts are under estimated

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I haven't seen concrete septic tanks used in a decade. Fiberglass or plastic now is about all that is used. Concrete is way too heavy for most homebuilders construction equipment to handle and no one wants to pay the rental for a crane to set them, plus the cost is way more than plastic or fiberglass. It is also much easier to seal your plumbing piping in the plastic tanks.

Here concrete tanks are still the norm...see then on the road about daily...the gantry trucks that deliver them set them in the hole...

 

[4get gto]

Here concrete tanks are still the norm...see then on the road about daily...the gantry trucks that deliver them set them in the hole...

All I see around here.

 

[bunyip]

Whaat??!!! The Bx2370 has a FEL lift capacity of 745 lbs. What happened to the other 445 lbs?

I quoted from the specs on the AU website, maybe I didn't read it properly.
Bit of work in progress most of which the 2370 has done, it is very dry here at the moment although it started raining Saturday and hopefully will break the cycle, we are normally green all year round.
The white stuff is 6 truck and trailer loads of gravel which I have used to flatten out the arena, the mounds are packing sand.
Drone is a DJI Mavic.
Arena on Vimeo

 

[BrokenTrack]

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!

If a person has a 1/4 cubic yard capacity tractor, and every night after work they go out and make 20 scoops, in a months time they would have moved 300 cubic yards of material. That is 22 dump truck loads (wheeler sized)!!

Last year I got a grant to build a heavy haul road on my farm, and a contractor wanted $7000 to do the work. I had a bulldozer, but the transmission pump went on it so I ended up being forced to use my Kubota. Now we had the gravel, we just needed to move it, yet I needed to move 400 cubic yards for sub-base, and another 350 cubic yards for surfacing material. Using my Kubota, my log trailer with dumpbox, and my grocery-getter Ford Explorer; my wife and I calculated that we could get it done in 35 days if we could move 10 loads per day (surface gravel).

We did.

Amazing things can be done if people just stay with a job and keep at it. It only seems daunting at first.

 

[bunyip]

I am not in a rush and can shift and level one of those piles in about 3-4 hours, only problem is stopping because I get too hot, get wet or get a sore backside as the BX suspension doesn't have a lot of give, well, there is no suspension.
It could be time to visit ebay and find a gel seat pad, it has also been quite dry and hot for the past few weeks and the wind stirs up the sand and it finds its way into your eyes, nose, throat and crevices that you didn't think it would until you have a shower.
The Akubra (broad brimmed hat, straw in my case as felt is too hot) is a must when you have as little hair as me but the wind can take it off for you (and they are not cheap) and I don't like baseball caps.
Leveling is going to be the biggest issue, I am using the bucket to rough it out and will most likely use the grader, maybe if I just drive over it a lot it might help as the top sand will be quite thick and the girls may decide on a different material too like bark.

 

[bcp]

Amazing things can be done if people just stay with a job and keep at it. It only seems daunting at first.

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Bruce

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

You picked up a 1000 gallon septic with your BH ?? Concrete ?Don't want to say I don't believe you but I'd to see it to have my foot put in my mouth. :confused3:

It was a plastic tank, weighing about 400 lbs. Would'nt even be able to push a concrete tank LOL.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Like the other posts said about big projects, it took me about a month to do the whole system. Working sometimes just 2 hours, sometimes 5-6, depending on soreness and or temp. Didn't mind either way, not in any rush.

 

[GC1710]

I surprise everyone with this little Massey...I take it a little far sometimes but she always comes through!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

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Nice work on the steps. How heavy are the stone slabs? Post a pic of the finished project please. I like the thumb. Is that a "universal" or a MF specific?