I feel like I rode a bucking bronco yesterday!

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I had begun to move the 18 cubic yards of dirt in my front yard to my back yard with a shovel and my lawn cart hooked to my lawn tractor. That is, until the lawn cart tried to gut me when I pulled the bone headed move of unhitching it fully loaded and trying to reposition it. I got smart after that and rented a small stand-up front loader. Of course this thing was so rough that I'm more sore today than I was after a full day of shoveling. Until I learned how to run it, this thing beat the snot outta me!

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I had a dirt pile about that size delivered to level my lawn, and figured it would take 5-6 hours with a wheel barrow to level out the grass. It was more like 20 hours of work and I was sore all over and completely exhausted when it was finished.
 
I woke up one Sunday morning years ago feeling like I rode a bucking bronco yesterday-but it had nothing to do with moving a plie of dirt with a baby bulldozer :D
 
That reminds me of a funny story. At least I think it is funny. My wife sure don't.

When we moved in to our house there was no lawn, just brambles. We spent a week of evenings clearing out the brambles and small stumps that were there. Did it all by hand, etc. I had a load of loam delivered and my wife spent a whole Friday, working with a teen aged son of one of my workmates, to shovel that pile and move and spread it with a wheel barrow. I was to start in on the second pile on Saturday.

I went out in the morning, spent an hour shoveling and carting that dirt around. That was enough for me to head back in and call for a tractor delivery for the following weekend. She's still mad about that. :D
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
I woke up one Sunday morning years ago feeling like I rode a bucking bronco yesterday-but it had nothing to do with moving a plie of dirt with a baby bulldozer :D
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Same here, Hanna did say she was moving from MA to LA, I guess she did:D
 
You could get some O.D. paint and a .30 cal air cooled browning and go play Army in the woods with that thing!

Or John Wayne in the "Fighting SeeBees".
 
figured it would take 5-6 hours with a wheel barrow to level out the grass. It was more like 20 hours of work
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Crap. I have a load of dirt coming in a few weeks and expected it to take 5-6 hours. Better go find me a couple more body's to help out.
 
A heart attack or heat stroke isn't worth it.

Let the Wife do it..... OR

Pay someone else with the mini dozer and you or the Wife can supervise. If She supes, you dissappear and keep mouth Shut.

Just pay the Bill up front in Cash to keep a good relationship with the mover.

You may need him/them again. You want them to think Nice thought about working for you.
 
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Moments of mental weakness ARE NOT enhanced with pictures and posts. Silence is best. Don't know, wasn't there, didn't see or hear anything. Its just lawn -- grew itself!!
 
parallel said:
I had begun to move the 18 cubic yards of dirt in my front yard to my back yard...
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Say, next time have the dirt guy deliver the dirt to your back yard! :D ;)

That's a tip for those of you with a similar project in mind.

Man, to be 16 again! We used to hire out for stuff like that in high school to make pocket money. I hear kids don't do work like that anymore, that it is all done by illegal Mexicans.
 
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