[roll-bar Bob]

So I find myself in need of a way to move dirt from place to place on the farm. I have ran the pros and cons on all of these but not one of them have jumped out as the winner any thoughts?

Dump trailer
manure spreader - both of these take larger areas to turn around and get stuck easily
sub 6k market place dump truck - will need to be 4x4, requires additional upkeep for my fleet
putting dump bed on my Ram - kills future gooseneck plans
putting dump insert in my Ram - limits load and kills future gooseneck plans



trying to stay sub $6K on this setup.




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[roll-bar Bob]

I agree with most of you on the dump trailer for the most part but I have used a friends dump trailer back there a few times and to date it has not gone well most of my trails are narrow with tight bends not exactly trailer friendly. In the spots where the trail widens out I have 1000 foot strips of mud bog, it has a solid bottom but you definitely want to hit it with some momentum or you are not going to make it, and pulling a trailer through it is some next level fun.

It will dry out back there but it will take 9 months or so, and I don't know if I want to burn that much calendar.

 

[roll-bar Bob]

I am all over the place on this one as I bought 900 tons of sand last year and could use around another 1,600 tons this year I spent around $7500 for sand and burned around 4 months of the calender waiting on others to deliver it. About 3/4 of a mile back I have a 15 foot tall mound of sand about 600 feet long that could be used up buy the house, if I can get this transportation problem fixed. I know moving that much ground will take some time but if I can knock out 2 or 3 loads a night for a couple months that can make a huge dent in it. At one point I thought I had a Belly Pan Scraper lined up for the task but the old Detroit Diesel powering it gave up the smoke, and buy the time I re-powered it and paid for a transporter to get it to the farm I would be over budget.



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