Re: What is best way to cross a ditch or wall?
Crossing a Ditch:
If you have a strong loader and hoe and have a bit some skill and caution.
Pick up front wheels just a bit with the loader bucket, keeping floor of bucket flat with ground.
Place hoe in the the ditch and pick up rear of tractor.
Swing rear to other side of ditch using hoe.
Use the bucket to crab and push front end.
Crossing a wall.
For short walls like a foundation footer you place the hoe on the other side of the wall, lift the machine so the rear tires sit on the wall. Set the brakes hard.
Lift the front of the machine high with bucket edge.
Place few cinder blocks so you can set the front tires down as start to move the rear of the machine over the wall with the hoe.
Re-position the hoe and bucket so you can move the tractor so the front wheels rest on the wall.
Set the rear tires on the ground.
Use the bucket to get rear tires over the wall.
Block up front tires with cinder blocks sitting on planks. You don't want blocking kicking out on soft ground.
Use the loader to lower the tractor.
I've don this when the door opening for the footer wall is too narrow to fit the machine inside the foundation and you need to spread stone for the floor ,etc.
Helps to have a spotter.
Better yet, just rent a small skid steer.
