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Backfilling and Rough Grading with Heavy Equipment

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Finish=Turning a Hill into a flat(er) backyard 4k

What happens here

With the retaining wall complete, the area behind it is prepared by backfilling and rough grading. A Caterpillar 259D skid steer is used to move the excavated soil back into place, creating the initial contours of the new yard. This particular skid steer is equipped with a specialized 'Hydro Bucket' attachment, which integrates the functionality of a Harley Rake. This powerful combination allows for efficient spreading of material while simultaneously loosening and aerating the compacted soil, making it ready for the subsequent fine grading process.

Goal: Fill behind the completed retaining wall and establish the initial contours of the new yard.

Tools and materials

  • Excavated Soil N/A — Filling the area behind the retaining wall to create the new yard level
  • Hydro Bucket Attachment CMP Attachments — Efficiently moving soil and, with its integrated Harley Rake, loosening and leveling the ground
  • Skid Steer Caterpillar 259D — Moving and grading soil for backfill and yard contouring

What they say

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all right so we gotta do a cut to finish this one so what we do for these is measure so we got six inches from the back so you measure six inches from the side that you're going to cut there and then [Music] you just put the square on there draw a straight line it should drop right in [Music] down [Applause] [Music] oh like a glove look at that all right all right the wall is done we glued the last cap right before it started to rain so that was pretty lucky i'm usually not that lucky so yeah the wall is done but the rest of the work has just begun and with the rains coming in they're gonna call it to the next morning so here's the plan we're gonna fill in along the back of our wall here that little bit we still gotta do and then we gotta re-gray we gotta grade all this out so we got the hydro bucket out here that should make pretty quick work of that and then sod it we'll probably be doing that in the morning but before we fill this in most important part gotta sign it i'm gonna go see if the kids wanna write their names on the back there too so then we'll start filling her in hey morning so question for you um i do this thing on all the jobs we do we're like we'll sign it you know so i wasn't sure you know if like the kiddos wanted to come and write their name or something on the back of the wall yeah before we seal it up so yeah awesome when you're doing it now yeah okay they are in the middle breakfast but we'll try again oh yeah no that's cool they'll have yeah they've got a little bit i'll go i'll get some markers and stuff and just whenever you want to come out there yeah awesome yeah we'll wrap up and come on out cool so this is actually the first wall that sam's ever based out on his own blaine helped set the first block and oversaw and checked to make sure everything was on but otherwise the rest of this wall was based out by sam we've got the kids artwork all on there so seal her up with the wall done now we've got a yard to build and all of the material that we excavated out to build the wall will get reused to build the yard [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with the general contour set the boys can switch gears and start to concentrate on the finished grade so they bring in the hydra bucket with a built-in harley rake this bucket allows them to keep grading but also to start to loosen up the soil to prep for the last stage which is seed or saw i'll watch you bow your head each day it's a little things that make you feel this way don't let their…

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