Yes Minnesota has plenty of jumbos, lot's of pretty women with big fat faces. Glad I am married my liver could not take drinking them skinny.
I have 2 3' mounds of dirt in my yard that need to settle as much as they can before I start packing it down with my truck this spring.
Yeah, I doubt it works very well. I have no clue why he couldn't have at least lightly packed it with the bucket. He said it would settle and I'd just have to seed it this Spring. It won't be settled 3 springs from now, on its own anyway, it's just an eyesore that bugs me. Wouldn't mind if it was the backyard
you can rent a mini skid loader/bobcat from Home Depot for a couple hundred bucks for a few hours. I doubt your trucks gonna do it evenly at all. Plus if you have aggressive tread at all on your tires all the wheel cranking us just going to tear up the rest of your lawn. (been there, done that.)
A rake a shovel and a 6 pack, you pay a couple kids $20 each sit in a lawn chair and drink beer while they do it.
did I just time warp to 1987? I promise there isn't a kid in my neighborhood that would do it for less than a hundred bucks, then they'd get bored 20 minutes in, start messing around with their phones, then probably walk away leaving the tools next to a 1/4 finished job. The crew of Hondos that do full service on my neighbor's lawn would probably do it as a quick side job after doing my neighbors for a hundred bucks though. Take them 20 minutes.
I could picture myself 5 minutes in storming out and grabbing it from the kid and saying jesus christ it is a shovel not a GD rake.
People who constantly create drama. The young people of today think their existence is a youtube video and they can become melodramatic every 5 minutes. I'm so over it. I don't want to coach people through their drama and mindframe shortcomings anymore. Parents. Develop your kids to be have normal tendencies along with resilience. Maybe get them into a few fist fights when they are younger so they can learn toughness and humility when they get their A kicked.
cls74, the dirt must have been wet and big clumps. Is that all original dirt from the holes that were dug or did the workers add more? It doesn't look like they packed the dirt at all. If so, you'll end up having to soak it repeatedly with your hose in the spring. If they added dirt and packed it even slightly, you'll likely have to remove some of it.
All original dirt, wasn't a lot of mud. Some clay towards the bottom. Excavator was saying he wished the frostline had been a bit deeper. Didn't tamp it at all, put a couple scoops in gingerly to cover the new line, then just dumped bucket after bucket. That's why I'm wanting lots of rain before spring, I'd rather let nature do as much as possible. I'd like to get some sort of prod to stick in the ground that I can hook to a water hose and soak it at different depths rather than from the top down. Nothing else I'll just have to remove some dirt and get some more the next few years as it settles. Hell, the one out by the street he covered the manhole cover with about a foot of dirt after putting it back in. Won't be able to read the meter for a few months.
