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Reasonable push distance? Need to come up with a plan

fastline

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Yeah, I am probably overthinking just a bit in a smaller pond. Obviously I would need optimal conditions but I think at least 2 highway dump trucks would work as well as anything. My hoe can bulk well over 2yd per bucket so I can load trucks pretty quick, and I have the power to rip material out without much of a fight.

Probably only looking at 1 day difference in the different methods. With the pull scraper, I would first need to find one that is not over priced, then figure out how to get its functions working behind the dozer. In short, probably wasting my time unless I was doing a big 5acre pond.

I don't know how overloaded I can get a dump truck, but I am sort of banking on that. I would guess it will come down to what the soil will allow but hoping at least 20% over.
 

Willie B

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Years ago, a think tank here with 5000 acres, a dozen large farms, & thousands of acres of mountain land decided to build a pond. The engineer assured the excavator he didn't own the needed machinery to dig it. I think to prove a point, he put two large log skidders opposite sides of it & a John Deere 350 dozer in the middle. They started on the downstream end, pushed the muck up into windrows each side, where it drained into useable compost. Two excavators kept four dump trucks busy hauling it to stockpile it. He had a lifetime supply of topsoil.
 
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