Ken,

Harvey made a good point. I checked with a local guy who sells gravel, dirt, etc. I asked him where he got the top soil and he showed me on his property. He was taking the top 6 to 10 inches of soil off an area he was planning to build a church on. I ordered 46 tons of it and my wife and I spread it around the yard and house filling in areas like you are speaking of and in areas around the house where back fill on the foundations had settled. This was before I even though about buying a tractor about 11 years ago. We were exhausted after that ordeal. It took us 2 weeks of steady daily spreading the dirt around via shovel and wheel barrow. NEVER again. The top soil did well and grass grew up right through it. All we did was pick the big rocks out of it. Tried the sifting and it took way too long. That 4410 and 430 loader sure would have been handy back then! By the way, 46 tons is not a very big pile of dirt. It was only 2 2/3 filled dump truck loads. I think I paid something like $60 a dump load back then.

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