Posted: 8/24/2010 9:46:55 AM EDT
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I'll be back home in November either because my contract ended or it got extended and the company owes me a plane ticket. I want to get started on my shooting range and need someone with a front end loader or a backhoe to help start moving dirt(clay). I have a small ridge running the length of the property on the east side and want to cut a notch in it to make a back stop.
I plan to put the dirt in my back yard to level it some and to level a spot for the concrete shop floor. Anyone have the equipment and time to help or know where I can rent said items. Beer, AR parts, cash all negotiable. I live about 5 miles south of Cache on Coombs Rd. |
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Any idea how much dirt you wanna move? Back hoe will take too long. I'd get a dozer to do the work. If your property is laid out just right, he might be able to move enough dirt to build you a pond with the dam being a pretty good back stop! It would all depend on how the land sloped, how much drainage you could get into the pond. and if you want to walk around to set targets up. ETA I had a 65 hp tractor with a huge front loader and a 6 ft box blade. It took me almost twenty hours to build a water way (drainiage) into a pond where a dozer could have done it in an hour. A blade on a dozer can move some of that dirt in a hurry. |
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The plan is to make a cut 20-30 feet wide and deep enough into the ridge line to have a 15ft tall back stop. I want a 100 meter falt section leading out from the back stop so there will be room for a 25 meter range with range building. The area is former grass land but divided into 5 acre sections. I live on the highest point in the whole area. The drainage is pretty good due to the ridge line but the builders had to build up a flat spot for the modular home and left a funky cut between the house and the ridge line that collects rain water.
Assholes also put the 3 part septic square in the middle of my backyard which also left a depression that collects rain water. Eventually I plan to move the septic to the west side of the house where it should have been all along. This will allow me to build up the backyard some and level it without collapsing the septic tanks. Septic has a sprinkler that sprays the gray water on my lawn at night and building up the back yard will bury the sprinkler head. It's about a 8-10 foot drop into my backyard off the porch now. Wife paid for dirt to be brought in to help level the backyard, but guess what happened to the dirt after the rainy season was over. Figured to remove dirt from the range area and place it around the house. I can't see paying good money for dirt when I'm surrounded by it. I might buy the adjacent 5 acres that already has a pond just to keep the neighbors farther away. Can't decide on the 5 acres to the west with the pond and make my property wide but shallow or the acreage behind me and make it narrow and deep. narrow and deep is all down hill from my house to the future road to the north. Sooner or later there will be houses all over out here and I need to take that into consideration on my range safety fan. |
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A small dozer will bring $85 an hour with a $250 minimum. I'm thinking about getting one out there on that small pasture and reforming my "deer funnel" before we put our food plots in. Brother L, did you ever get a disc? no, hadn't found one worth the asking price |
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The plan is to make a cut 20-30 feet wide and deep enough into the ridge line to have a 15ft tall back stop. sounds like a job for a dozer for sure. if you rent one, which ever the size have the place deliver it on a friday afternoon, that way you have all day saturday and sunday to run out your 8 hours worth of rental, ask the rate/hr if you happen to run over 8, and be sure to have plenty of diesel on hand, dozers burn fuel in gallons per hour. |
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The plan is to make a cut 20-30 feet wide and deep enough into the ridge line to have a 15ft tall back stop. sounds like a job for a dozer for sure. if you rent one, which ever the size have the place deliver it on a friday afternoon, that way you have all day saturday and sunday to run out your 8 hours worth of rental, ask the rate/hr if you happen to run over 8, and be sure to have plenty of diesel on hand, dozers burn fuel in gallons per hour. Or a trackhoe, depending on how the height of the ridge. With a trackhoe on site it wouldn't be much to do your other small projects too. |
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The plan is to make a cut 20-30 feet wide and deep enough into the ridge line to have a 15ft tall back stop. sounds like a job for a dozer for sure. if you rent one, which ever the size have the place deliver it on a friday afternoon, that way you have all day saturday and sunday to run out your 8 hours worth of rental, ask the rate/hr if you happen to run over 8, and be sure to have plenty of diesel on hand, dozers burn fuel in gallons per hour. Or a trackhoe, depending on how the height of the ridge. With a trackhoe on site it wouldn't be much to do your other small projects too. yeah, trackhoe'd be easier if you're digging into a rise/hillside. |
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Originally Posted By Cole2534
Or a trackhoe, depending on how the height of the ridge. With a trackhoe on site it wouldn't be much to do your other small projects too. I've heard of barflies, but not track hoes. Seems like it would be hard to run in stiletto sneakers. |
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Originally Posted By Cole2534
Or a trackhoe, depending on how the height of the ridge. With a trackhoe on site it wouldn't be much to do your other small projects too. I've heard of barflies, but not track hoes. Seems like it would be hard to run in stiletto sneakers. the practiced one's could probably run the 100 in 10 flat. there's an older chick with a fine looking pair legs that plays at the shop pretty regular that wears 3" or 4" stillettos that I've seen run through the parking lot on a rainy day, hell I've seen her walk across the parking lot when it's icy and not slip a bit. |
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there's an older chick with a fine looking pair legs Anyone stop reading at that point? Didn't think so. that plays at the shop pretty regular that wears 3" or 4" stillettos that I've seen run through the parking lot on a rainy day, hell I've seen her walk across the parking lot when it's icy and not slip a bit.
And now we know why her pins look so good. But I'll be the first to say it: This Thread Is Worthless Without Pics. |
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there's an older chick with a fine looking pair legs Anyone stop reading at that point? Didn't think so. that plays at the shop pretty regular that wears 3" or 4" stillettos that I've seen run through the parking lot on a rainy day, hell I've seen her walk across the parking lot when it's icy and not slip a bit.
And now we know why her pins look so good. But I'll be the first to say it: This Thread Is Worthless Without Pics. What he said. 
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there's an older chick with a fine looking pair legs Anyone stop reading at that point? Didn't think so. that plays at the shop pretty regular that wears 3" or 4" stillettos that I've seen run through the parking lot on a rainy day, hell I've seen her walk across the parking lot when it's icy and not slip a bit.
And now we know why her pins look so good. But I'll be the first to say it: This Thread Is Worthless Without Pics. one of these days when I accept the directors spot there's going to be a lot of tape and a pics posted of some of the stuff I see daily  .
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The plan is to make a cut 20-30 feet wide and deep enough into the ridge line to have a 15ft tall back stop. I want a 100 meter falt section leading out from the back stop so there will be room for a 25 meter range with range building. The area is former grass land but divided into 5 acre sections. I live on the highest point in the whole area. The drainage is pretty good due to the ridge line but the builders had to build up a flat spot for the modular home and left a funky cut between the house and the ridge line that collects rain water. Assholes also put the 3 part septic square in the middle of my backyard which also left a depression that collects rain water. Eventually I plan to move the septic to the west side of the house where it should have been all along. This will allow me to build up the backyard some and level it without collapsing the septic tanks. Septic has a sprinkler that sprays the gray water on my lawn at night and building up the back yard will bury the sprinkler head. It's about a 8-10 foot drop into my backyard off the porch now. Wife paid for dirt to be brought in to help level the backyard, but guess what happened to the dirt after the rainy season was over. Figured to remove dirt from the range area and place it around the house. I can't see paying good money for dirt when I'm surrounded by it. I might buy the adjacent 5 acres that already has a pond just to keep the neighbors farther away. Can't decide on the 5 acres to the west with the pond and make my property wide but shallow or the acreage behind me and make it narrow and deep. narrow and deep is all down hill from my house to the future road to the north. Sooner or later there will be houses all over out here and I need to take that into consideration on my range safety fan. A bit of advice here. Buy up all the land you can get. Beg, borrow, or steal as much as you have to to get it. You'll thank me later. I turned down the 60 acres beside me at $800 per acre 8-10 years ago. I offered $600. It sold within the week at $1200. A house was built on it and I had to move my range. The guy said that .45 rounds were impacting around his shop  
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The plan is to make a cut 20-30 feet wide and deep enough into the ridge line to have a 15ft tall back stop. sounds like a job for a dozer for sure. if you rent one, which ever the size have the place deliver it on a friday afternoon, that way you have all day saturday and sunday to run out your 8 hours worth of rental, ask the rate/hr if you happen to run over 8, and be sure to have plenty of diesel on hand, dozers burn fuel in gallons per hour. Or a trackhoe, depending on how the height of the ridge. With a trackhoe on site it wouldn't be much to do your other small projects too. yeah, trackhoe'd be easier if you're digging into a rise/hillside. Get a trackhoe and I'll you an operator.  |