Dirt Poor
Not. We got lot's of dirt. Sand and Gravel. The sand is a seven minute round trip from a pit in our upper pasture. Yesterday after getting Xena's wing patched up with six stitches, I started to back fill the trench we dug to get water to the Blue Shed. First we put bout 300 cubic feet of sand on top of the 3/4 inch poly pipe. That keeps the rocks in the clay soil backfill from crushing it. Then I started to put the back fill clay soil in the trench. Funny thing with trenches. I just can never get the same amount of fill back in that I took out. I suppose if I had compacter it could be done. What I do is just keep driving the skid steer over the trench and mounding the clay soil up and they repeating as the bump disappears. My skid-steer isn't up to this kind of heavy lifting so I was using Brother Tom's. It is so fast, compared to mine, that I get motion sickness when I use if for any amount of time. ...