yard/lawn people's need advise

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anzohaze

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@neosapien thanks your a genious. I'll call around now and see what I can find or do.
@panhead THANKS for all your help as well I'll look for local puts and see hat I can dig up last time I got dirt it was 200 dollars for 1 8 yards of fill dirt
 
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mainliner

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Happy digging :) hope you have a nice grow:)

don't forget about the bugs and the animals :)

and a damn good water supply :) ...... Id give you my tears but im all cryed out :(
 
oldtimer54

oldtimer54

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Depending on your location and by that I mean how far you are away from and building or construction. You could put up a sign asking for fill dirt. I did that many years ago on the property that I currently call home and in a short amount of time had a sizeable mound of useable soil...or maybe you could move soil from another area on your property to the area you want to improve but as someone said earlier you must be cognizant of your neighbors. You don't want to divert water from your property onto someone else's land.....Maybe this situation could have been avoided had you looked at the topography of your land prior to building . If you have road frontage maybe you can divert water to the ditches. I would try and use any natural drainage on the property to help ease my problem !
Good luck
 
ODanksta

ODanksta

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I use to be a heavy equipment operator by trade.. Back-ho, track-ho, dozer, front-end loader, crane, skidder, and so on.. You do not want to use wood chips.. I'd rent a dozer for a day.. or pay someone to do it.. Grading with a dozer or a back-ho may look easy but it's not.. Anybody can run a dozer but only a few are truly operators.. doing a 100 plus yards by hand will take forever.. I takes me about a hour and a half to unload a cubic yard from a trailer.. And its back breaking work.. on average it cost about 1000 a for a operator to run his equipment for 8 hours minimum. Or about 5 to 600 to rent the equipment for a day to do it yourself
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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anzohaze said:
I have a few acres it's all wooded except for an acre around my house. When I bought my house there were trees every were evey ft was a tree so i cut down prob 150 trees and etc as well as dug up the stumps. My yard is pretty low now and my yard floods badly. I would need several 100 yards to put in yard to raise my ground. My thought is would wood chips be any better for the cheaper route or no. I would then of course put dirt on top. What's yall opinions
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Wood chips are good as a soil amendment, but absolutely horrible as fill. As the chips decay, the ground will sink and you will be back where you started in 2 yrs.
 
overgrowem

overgrowem

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U have GOT to know Ur elevations and Ur neighbors elevations. Get these and a plan is usually evident. In my area clean fill runs $4. to $6 a yard, free is better. First question, is it clean. U will need a tractor with bucket and box blade min.. Often a local farmer has this equip. and can save U some cash over renting a dozier or loader. Good Luck.
 
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anzohaze

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My might be able to get a 310e backhoe. My neighbor use to let me borrow it. Maybe he will again. I just got done searching for my septic tank and I foumd it.... It's slammed full so not I gotta get it pumped out fuck my life lol
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Jimmyjonestoo said:
A lot of times you can get free fill dirt from construction sites and such. See it on craigslist. Use that to fill majority and put a thin layer of decent top soil on top for the grass seed to take to.
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That or if you see any large construction areas just stop and ask. I had a neighbor get free dirt from the state. They actually had to pay to get rid of it. They were happy to dump all they could.

And on the back hoe, we rented one from the rental place for less than a couple hundred a day.
 
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old shol4evr

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i dont no were you live but i can tell you that if you go to your county barn ask them when they grade the roads if they can dump it on your property my county brought out 3 truck loads to a low spot i had ,guy down the road was out of work i paid him 150 bucks .came over with big ass tractor and blade had it spread out in 4 hrs .then i just went out picked all debri out of what i could see ,hired him again 50 bucks to spread truck load of top soil 100 bucks a truckload 12 yards ,got some damned nice grass growing there and water stays on neighbors property were it came from,just a idea
 
Commander Strax

Commander Strax

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in my neck of the woods people put up a sign by the road that says "clean fill wanted" and then you hope for some construction company that is working in the area to come by.

They may be able to save fuel by dumping at you house instead of driving to their dumping ground
 
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