Yard Grading with machinery?
Does anyone have recommendations for getting your yard graded properly? We had a new water/sewer line put in and now our yard is one big dirt mess. We have a front yard vs. a back yard (our house is at the back of the 25×100 lot), so it would be easy to tackle this with…
Does anyone have recommendations for getting your yard graded properly? We had a new water/sewer line put in and now our yard is one big dirt mess. We have a front yard vs. a back yard (our house is at the back of the 25×100 lot), so it would be easy to tackle this with a bobcat or other machinery, but we just haven’t found any companies that offer that type of service. We need to have a level yard so we can put down a path, etc.
Thank you for any suggestions or recommendations!
masterbuilder-
what type of fertilizer?
The last commercial project I worked on was an elementary school on about an eighth square mile lot. And we still had to shovel grade.
Make sure to till in fertilizer etc. while you’re at it.
Bottle of spirits and aspirin for when you’re done!
Thanks Masterbuilder for your comment. The yard is about 40 ft. x 20 ft. so we are going to try and grade it by hand and see how it goes.
How big is the yard? Back in my landscaper days I used a Bobcat for moving dirt, but even for larger scale commercial jobs there came the shovel grade phase for the softer topsoil. We used heavy duty rakes to remove the rocks, gas powered tampers to compress the soil and flat nosed shovels for the top grading.
If the yard isn’t gigantic (hard to picture in New York) a landscape crew should be able to do this without a Bobcat.