Gravel Backfill, Final Grading, and AC Unit Relocation

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$5000 job in a day part 3

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What happens here

After the drainage fabrics are in place, use the mini-loader to transport and spread gravel over the non-permeable poly sheeting. This layer of gravel provides additional drainage, helps stabilize the poly, and creates a finished look. Following the gravel, use the mini-loader with its bucket or a power rake attachment (if available) to till and distribute black dirt in preparation for seeding or sod. This final grading step ensures smooth transitions and proper slopes for aesthetics and water runoff. Finally, two people lift and carefully relocate the existing air conditioner unit back onto its permanent pad in the newly prepared area.

Goal: Complete drainage layers, grade the landscape, and set up the AC unit.

Tools and materials

AC Unit Pad — Base for the air conditioner unit
Air Conditioner Unit — The appliance being moved
Bucket Attachment Custom Loaders — Scooping and distributing materials
Mini-Loader CastLoaders Carbon 33T — Transporting and spreading gravel and dirt, and for final grading
Rakes — Smoothing the final grade
Shovels — Spreading and fine-grading materials
Black Dirt — Topsoil for final grading and seeding
Gravel — Drainage layer and backfill

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in place [Music] gotta love these tailgates that as we've been talking about numbers on and off during this series one of the calculations we have to take into effect is the cost of the equipment now as we look at just this scene right here we have a four thousand dollar mini loader we have a jumping jack packer which can cost anywhere from two to five thousand dollars depending on how new it is and what brand you're using the pickup truck is forty six thousand dollars and the sure track trailer is anywhere from five to ten thousand dollars again depending on how relatively new you are used you're using the material cost on this job at this point has been one load of boulders and two loads of dirt so we've got about 120 in dirt we probably have about another hundred fifty dollars in material cost so if you really look at this five thousand dollar job broken down not a lot of it has to deal directly with material costs we have less than a thousand dollars in materials to handle this job it's about the labor and the labor savings that means this all this fancy equipment we've got helps us to do a job like this in one day but we've also got to take into account the cost on a per day basis of owning all of this equipment we need to be able to break this down into our overhead that's a very important factor hmm there's not in the morning or is that they're already shut off they're shut off okay yeah just wet all this this time here already weird that it's just wet yeah steve can i record this on the camera okay cool are we gonna put black dirt down on the path well i'm a little concerned about the you know the little ruts here maybe not a big deal like i said i'm gonna have this guy come and punch all this so i don't know maybe when is he when is he going to do that it's not scheduled to do that just contact you okay if we put some a little bit of black dirt in and some seed here and then he can if he punches it it's going to kill the seed and it's not going to hurt anything i'll kill the seed no just move it around yeah the seed will just pop grow anywhere yeah yeah so probably so just this hill to level out some of these rocks right up to about here i think just kind of yeah and then this is more balanced down up here yeah this should come back yeah yeah this will come back okay so we just need a little bit for right there nothing down below we don't have to worry about nothing nope okay perfect and then we got a little bit of a mess right here you wanna lay…

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