I have a lot of dirt to move, perhaps 1000 yrds or so. I'll be cutting into a hillside for a house site, and dumping down lower for a larger flat area, so it'll be short hauls. I was planning on using my loader w/ bucket, but a friend said a small dozer would cost me "peanuts" and do it a lot faster. "Faster" is probably true, but not having run a dozer over 3 hrs and having not run my skid steer an H of a lot, I'm wondering. I have a JD 332 w/ an 82" bucket, and I planned on cutting a trough "chute" down the middle of the area so I can dump a bucket full, get another, then push both of them down the "chute". Time is not an issue, but maybe 500-800 trips w/ the loader is a lot of time/wear. Eventually, I'll need a blade of some kind for snow, and was thinking maybe a dirt blade would be justified and used for both, esp since I really am supposed to be trying to work this machine for money when I am not building. So all that rambling to ask how well skid steers work w/ a dirt blade compared to a small dozer. Can I effectively cut ancient silt w/ a blade like a dozer, or would a blade be best off just leveling loose dirt? The driveway is also off camber, and I really should blade it some and not just level it w/ 10,000 truck loads of tailings. Thoughts? Get the dirt blade? Rent a dozer and just get a snow blade? If I need OTT tracks to be effective w/ the dirt blade, pls advise; that is another variable in the equation.... Does buying things ever end? Anyone want to buy my 20' jet boat? A dog? Thanks for opinions.