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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mrbb" data-source="post: 121562" data-attributes="member: 13825">OK so your planning on moving a  1,000 yards of dirt? I think I would be looking at larger front end loaders, than a skid steer! that or I would would be making a road to where this ravine is, and have the trucks as they show up, dump right into it, and have a dozer on hand to push it in as a 1,000 yards is about 80+ tri axle dump truck loads and thats a LOT of skid steer buckets,  and a lot of hours on a skid steer to do so!even if only a few at a time show up!plus a larger \machine will also work to compact  things down more for you,   having less settling for you as well! also another thought is, if your having someone haul in dirt, maybe have them move it for you, as odds are they will also have larger equipment I know a lot of places near me get  big deliveries of fill from local contractors, to fill in  old strip mines and such, and they typically, here they  just haul in a  dozer, after  a few loads, move and take away and repeat as needed, some sites are going on yrs now, of them doing thisthis way your not up keeping a machine, or wearing a smaller one out!, food for thought for you!</blockquote>