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Excavate and Grade the Lawn

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How to Build a Simple Deck

What happens here

The first major task is to clear the existing lawn to prepare the area for the new deck and landscaping. This involves using a Ditch Witch SK800 mini skid steer with a bucket attachment. The machine is unloaded from a BigTow trailer, with chains removed from the front of the skid steer. The operator carefully drives the skid steer off the trailer, positioning the bucket to scrape off the grass and weeds.

Goal: Remove existing grass and weeds to prepare the front yard for construction.

Tools and materials

  • BigTow Trailer BigTow — Transporting the mini skid steer
  • Chains — Securing the mini skid steer to the trailer during transport

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this [Music] off like AE we're playing big big toys today uh my friend's over at Tate's r were really nice enough to help me uh with this project they hooked me up with this mini skits steer I wasn't too sure if I need the big skitser but they said this should be just fine the idea here is just going to start working in whichever direction we can and start dumping in the back which didn't really think that through did I let's start tearing stuff [Music] it's a lot harder than I thought it would be [Music] body I think I'm kind of getting it it's like you got to you got to push and then lift and then push and lift so push and then lift huh I think I'm kind of getting the groove of [Music] it I don't like doing that next to my truck's wheels so close with my luck I'll destroy something and I'll be expensive [Music] you I'll be back home soon when the sun when the [Music] sun oh that's a good load right there that's a solid load right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm getting the hang of it uh the controls are kind of interesting cuz you're controlling each track at a time like typically would it's a lot of like video Gam stuff right you got you know just efficient use of the Hydraulics with your you know dexterity but the hardest part here is really knowing how much to lower that bucket like you don't know you can't see oh okay well I'll just follow this line cuz there's no level gauge on it there's no way to kind of see it so you're kind of roughing it creating this little skid part uh but I'm sure with all my research that I did is you know there's rough grading and then there's finish grading so we'll be able to clean the sucker off pi and span

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