/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2792257
theoretically you could but that sounds retarded

>>2792260
yeah that's why I made a thread, it sounded like a good idea for 5 minutes but then I thought maybe there's actually something intended for this purpose and I don't know what it's called.

>>2792261
>I thought maybe there's actually something intended for this purpose and I don't know what it's called.

mexicans

>>2792257
Get a wheel barrow and a tarp so it doesn't get wet/heavier. You can rent a standing bobcat thing if you are really that lazy. 7 yards is a lot but not impossible, two days youll be done.

>>2792257
Make sure it doesn't have contamination. A herbacide, 'grazon' (Get it? graze on) that will go through several seasons and still kill the plant shortly after it grows more than a few inches.

Only from the psychopathic minds at monsanto, dow... ag 'science', brough you agent orange, glyphosate, etc. Now, aminopyralid! Just to keep pushing mindless boomer monocropping b.s.

>>2792257
go rent a small mini excavator for a day

>>2792278
^This and it's useful to learn how to run one, but that pic is not a mini in case OP doesn't know.

>>2792257
Grow a pair and keep shoveling. Maybe you'll have the tiniest glimmer of character by the time you're done.

>>2792257
I got 12 yards delivered last month and I just finished shoveling the far pile which is probably 8-9 yards. Aside from renting a skidsteer which doubles the cost of the project, there isn't much of a solution. Having another person helps immensely. Best of luck.

>>2792257
>>2792260
Not retarded at all, it's called pneumatic conveying.

If you have a heavy duty compressor and some money to blow, look into exair's line vacs.

>>2792257
If you have any space plastic garbage cans like pic related, tip them on their side next to the pile and scoop/rake instead and use a handtruck to cart them away. That or take several smaller tarps and rake mulch off the pile into smaller, wider piles on those tarps and drag them. It sounds like more work but it isn't because you won't be lifting your arms as much with a shovel full of mulch into a barrow. If you have a large rake/tine rake and you're traveling down hill you'll move more material too.

>>2792257
Actually vacuuming it is a bad idea. It'll kill the pump. What you can do though, is to "blow" it. basically like a carburetor, with a strong source of air blowing through the straight part of a T-junction, while the third pipe is sucking in the soil.
There are similar setups for heaters that burn with pellets or shredded wood.

>>2792359
Not a 'bad' idea. There's a company on amazon that makes a large venturi separator that goes ahead of the shopvac. Fits on a lid on that 55 gal rubbermaid posted earlier.

Will drop 99.5% of dirt or better, into the bottom. It's meant as a fine dust separator so you don't run through bags and filters, or are stuck with the smaller volume of the shopvac.

ALWAYS, in regular operation, have a renewable filter on the shopvac (my pref over paper disposable) AND a (third party amazon cheaper) bag, when doing dry. The filter protects the motor, the bag catches the dry dirt. For this particular project, add the venturi, then all the dirt dumps into the 55gal.

>>2792364
Called the 'Dust Deputy' by Oeinda.

>>2792324
welp. last time I did a project like this. i went to the rock/soils yard and had the put the dirt in the back of my pick up adn hauled it myself. that way when at home on the project, i just backed up the truck to where i was putting the dirt and easily shoveled out what i need, where i need it
thats just one of the infinite things that pick up trucks are meant for. if you dont own a pick up truck or know how to use it for things like this, then you should probably just stay inside the kitchen making sandwichs and doing the dishes

>>2792278
Yeah I think that's what I'll have to do

I still think the vacuum idea sounds cool

>>2792375
yes I need a truck I know
they're just so expensive now
my state has vehicle inspections so it has to be in good enough shape to pass inspection.

>>2792412
>living in a communist state
I think I found the problem

>>2792420
It's New Hampshire
strictest vehicle inspections in the country. Put salt on the roads then fail you for rust. It's a racket.

>>2792422
what a shame. I've never been there but from images I've seen, the east coast is simply beautiful up that way.

>>2792425
It is, but it's not cheap to live here. I mean yeah no income or sales tax is nice but my property tax is quite high, 2.7% of assessed value, and because it's a pretty wealthy white state there's very little discount stores or ways to get things cheap. No mexicans at my home depot...

>>2792409
That's a skid steer, not an excavator but might serve your purposes better. Excavators are better for precision, skid steed for bulk movement.

Jesus youre weak. Try shoveling 16 ton-of 2” clean in 4 hrs….

>>2792257
lol
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1714253169477374.webm?t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o

>>2792422
yeah sounds like what i thought i saw when i looked into possibly moving there awhile back.
would love to live there if i could afford it.

>>2792427
>>2792469

I did 4 cu yards of mulch today. Shit sucked. However make sure you have a mulch fork and it will go way better than a shovel. For dirt that only really works if it's not super dry though.

>>2792257
I got the same thing last year. Just shovel it into a wheelbarrow you pussy

>>2792451
Try having a straight spine with intact cartilage in your late 30s.

>>2792352
I really dig this solution

>>2792257
Determination and persistence will get the job done. Take your time, don't give yourself a back injury. Make sure you get tons of protein so you don't get weaker day after day.

>>2792709
This. My daughter and I shoveled 13 cubic yards of dirt last summer and it was great! For an 8 year old she did great and we leveled the ground where 10 trees were removed. Took us two weeks with a couple of rain showers in-between.

>>2792257
gripstrength-let gtfo my /diy/

>>2792257
Most rental outfits deliver. Get quotes.

>>2792257
just run your mower with the bagger on over it. curse at your neighbor when he congress over to ask what the fuck your doing that sounds like nickels in a vacuum cleaner
>>2793559
>$400 bobcat rental to spread $150 of dirt
ops probably a fatass and could use the free exercise

>>2792716
>2 weeks
You should have helped her.

drive to any home depot at 6am and be prepared to shell out 120 per set of brown hands

>>2792257
>I just don't put the shop vac base on
OMG OMG my sides. STOP!

>>2792257
get a snow shovel. I use that and a wheelbarrow and more 1 cubic yard from my truck bed into the planters in 20 minutes

>>2792664
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>>>2792451
>Try having a straight spine with intact cartilage in your late 30s.

You are not supposed to lift weight by bending your spine, neither are you supposed to twist your spine while it is under ANY load. Must hurt to watch you work!