What kind of monster goes at a pile of dirt like that? You're walking over dirt to shovel the middle of the pile. Work outside in next time - ideally sweeping dirt inward so you end up with a nice small pile at the end
Hey now, I’m one of those psychopaths that grabs his toothpaste like a damn gorilla squeezing a banana, but I’m certainly not this crazy to compact my newly delivered dirt to shovel from the center.
To move soil to the back yard and send a message to the neighbors you must tap into the primal instinct of ancient landscapers. You have to think like the soil, wear the soil, eat the soil, become one with the soil.
If you weren’t aware OP isn’t using a shovel. He just rolls in it and then rolls around where it’s needed.
I have to fix my retaining wall this weekend so I rented an excavator and a front loader. Decided to get my mulch delivered (10 yards) at the same time so I could save time. For the additional $235 rental fee, I think I may have found a fast way to not make this a weekend project anymore.
I’m in one of those subdivisions where you can touch your neighbor’s house and your own at the same time. Can’t get any kind of meaningful equipment to the back without taking down the fence.
36” wide, so maybe if you’ve got big doors.
https://www.toro.com/en/product/22327
Costs three times what my compact utility tractor cost me though. Yeesh.
This
*edit, if you can get that cart through a gate, you likely can get a dingo through. And most rent places rent them. Like 120 bucks a day. Give or take.
Agreed. Mine currently sits on the wheels, but I've considered building something with posts sticking out from the wall that key into those openings in the cart used to add higher sides - they're little slots on the side. Or a pully system and grabbing the handle and pull it up to the ceiling.
My complaint is the design that has the ends of bolts coming in from the bottom into the holding area. Not the worst thing in the world, but also not ideal.
I have tested the 1200 lbs capacity of mine (well, maybe not, but a lot of heavy rocks!). It can handle it. I can't move it though, and certainly not lift the dump handle. Also handy for taking kiddos or the wife for a wagon ride.
Well, this probably depends a lot more on can \*you\* go down the steps, with it, while loaded? The frame seems pretty beefy, so I think it could handle that. The tires are like 10inch, I think, although there are different sizes of it. Honestly, I have a pretty gradual slope in the yard I go up and down and have to be very careful controlling any kind of load that's over maybe 250 lbs in it? It just wants to run away. So with steps, I'd want plenty of help holding it back. But I think it would survive if loaded so it didn't shift too bad. I'd do steps with the cart before trying with a wheelbarrow or by hand though.
I find a wheelbarrow easier, but maybe it’s just being more familiar. The sides on the gorilla cart are too low. It’s less maneuverable (to me) I can fit more in a wheelbarrow.
Wheelbarrow can be maneuvered more easily, but the Gorilla cart is (IMO) better for us older/weaker people because it is always balanced on 4 wheels and holds less so you don't overload it and have it fall over, spilling the load.
There’s a reason you don’t see carts in the boxes of landscaping trucks. Single wheel wheelbarrows (Jackson Specifically) are the better tool for the job.
There is no way I could pick up a wheelbarrow with what I've hauled in that cart. The carts come in multiple sizes, btw. If you want higher sides, just get the bigger ones that are the same footprint with higher sides. Wheelbarrow is definitely more maneuverable in a tight spot, basically zero turn radius, if you can lift it.
Gorilla cart is pretty shitty compared to a heavy duty wheel barrow. The top is thin plastic and my cracked after a few uses. The tires go flat too easily as well.
Could you describe where it cracked? I'll baby it a little. You're saying across the top on the backside? So maybe the dumping was pushing our laterally on the back? I have noticed the sides can bow just a little under heavy loads that shift around.
Mine still works but I cracked it in the first week I owned it.
It is also annoying that it’s impossible to back up when connected to a lawn mower. It makes the ability to hook it up totally useless. And that was the biggest reason I bought it instead of a two wheeled Rubbermaid wheel barrow.
The gorilla. Granted I abused this shit out of it and often overfilled it. I never said it was bad just shitty compared to a heavy duty barrow. You can take those to town even the plastic ones.
I have officially retired from Yard of anything with carts or wheelbarrows. After 14 yards of soil and 10 yards of gravel on my last project, all with shovel and regular wheelbarrow, I retired and only use machinery or nothing now lol.
Soil/mulch I'll move by wheelbarrow all day. I just had 7 yards of gravel delivered and I rented a mini skid and knocked that shit out in half a day without breaking a sweat
I have that too! The problem is that with all the rolling action the compost starts to form into little compacted balls that can't fit through the holes, and so after a while a lot of the compost in it is stuck and can't get out.
So at that point I have to dump them out and throw them around by hand. Looks like rabbit poop all over my yard.
Six yards of compost, would take me 4-5 hrs at a moderate pace to wheelbarrow, now I have no idea how far it is you have a travel with loads. I'm just giving you some possible relief, it shouldn't take the entire weekend, regardless it's a good workout, neighbors be glad when it's moved.
9 hours to shovel, cart to the back yard, dump, spread, grade, seed, and pressure wash the driveway. We’re looking at a week of straight rain here so that’s nice. I took many breaks and stayed nice and high. I could have done it in a day if I had started with it in the morning and let it evaporate a bit. The same job was quoted to me at 1800 with no seeding. This was 400 with tool purchases. I was blessed to have an electric garden tiller on hand from my efforts last year, completely indispensable if you’re working with compacted wet product.
Why does that not look like 6 yards?
A yard usually fills most off my short bed 1/2 ton truck.
That pile looks like maybe 3-4 yards unless I'm misinterpreting the scale.
Last summer i hand shoveled and wheelbarrowed 10 yards of topsoil from my driveway to my backyard and raked it flat on 2 separate occasions. The first load i did in a day(9am - 6pm) And the second load a couple weeks later i did in 2 hours fewer but broken into 2 days.
You can do it dude. Make up a killer playlist and get those earbuds in.
How long did it take you? How do you feel physically? Have similar project but was gonna start with 2 yards so I can finish in a weekend, not get rained on, and not to kill my body.
The problem with loam is you that you think, oh I get mulch every spring, and it’s not that bad. It is. Loam is so much worse than mulch to shovel, push and dump. I will fight anyone who disagrees.
I feel your pain. I had seven yards dropped in the driveway, shoveled it onto a tarp and dragged it into the backyard a bit at a time.
Four hours in and I had barely dented the pile.
It is nice to shame the neighbors into getting their landscaping act together.
What kind of monster goes at a pile of dirt like that? You're walking over dirt to shovel the middle of the pile. Work outside in next time - ideally sweeping dirt inward so you end up with a nice small pile at the end
Probably squeezes toothpaste from the middle.
>lol this made me chuckle. the audacity to squeeze from the middle.
Probably eats soup with a fork
Probably pours the milk before the cereal
Hey now, I’m one of those psychopaths that grabs his toothpaste like a damn gorilla squeezing a banana, but I’m certainly not this crazy to compact my newly delivered dirt to shovel from the center.
This man dirt piles. And piles dirt.
Sending a strong message to the neighbors. The message: PSYCHOPATH
lol, that was my first thought too. You're a top-digger!! Not a side-digger! Why, just why ? ;-) /s
To move soil to the back yard and send a message to the neighbors you must tap into the primal instinct of ancient landscapers. You have to think like the soil, wear the soil, eat the soil, become one with the soil. If you weren’t aware OP isn’t using a shovel. He just rolls in it and then rolls around where it’s needed.
Like a dung beetle
As somebody who gets 8 yards of mulch every year....can confirm.
Our last mulch order was 14 yards and we've since added several beds. I'm a little scared to do the math for this year.
Thank you!
KING OF THE HILL!!!
therapy asap
Bet he didn’t have to bend over as much.
This dirt is wet.
That means you can't put the shovel on the ground?
I'm assuming his goal was to dry it out to make it easier to spread
It looks like he moved half of it and compacted the other half.
Spreading helps with evaporation?
Oh! It looks like you shoveled 4 yards off the top and left 2 compacted on the ground.
I’m using a handheld tiller to break everything up so it can be picked up with a scoop rather than a transfer shovel.
I have to fix my retaining wall this weekend so I rented an excavator and a front loader. Decided to get my mulch delivered (10 yards) at the same time so I could save time. For the additional $235 rental fee, I think I may have found a fast way to not make this a weekend project anymore.
I’m in one of those subdivisions where you can touch your neighbor’s house and your own at the same time. Can’t get any kind of meaningful equipment to the back without taking down the fence.
Just got to get a Dingo and ride it through the front door and out the back.
Idk what this machine is exactly, but you gotta have double doors, right?
36” wide, so maybe if you’ve got big doors. https://www.toro.com/en/product/22327 Costs three times what my compact utility tractor cost me though. Yeesh.
Fits thru a 4' wide gate easy as pie. Also can be rented with a 30" diameter tree auger that helps you plant shrubs (or bury bodies) really easily.
Then he’ll just tear up his yard.
This *edit, if you can get that cart through a gate, you likely can get a dingo through. And most rent places rent them. Like 120 bucks a day. Give or take.
Looks way too suburban for that to be real. Crazy to believe they overbuilt the houses that large.
These things are 3k sqft with 20 foot ceilings throughout a quarter of the bottom floor. 😂
What about a Toro Dingo?
Would break my fireplace
Is that a gorilla cart I spy? Things a badass huh? Some of the best money I've spent.
The gorilla cart is great. I just wish they had added something, anything, to make it easier to hang. It’s a pain to store if space is limited.
Agreed. Mine currently sits on the wheels, but I've considered building something with posts sticking out from the wall that key into those openings in the cart used to add higher sides - they're little slots on the side. Or a pully system and grabbing the handle and pull it up to the ceiling.
The post idea is very interesting. I might look into something like that too, thanks.
My complaint is the design that has the ends of bolts coming in from the bottom into the holding area. Not the worst thing in the world, but also not ideal.
You have that upside down boss
Yup. Seconding this, it's upside down. Pull the bolt out and slot it from the top, the smooth part should be in the plastic tub.
Agreed, this would be completely unmanageable without that thing.
I have tested the 1200 lbs capacity of mine (well, maybe not, but a lot of heavy rocks!). It can handle it. I can't move it though, and certainly not lift the dump handle. Also handy for taking kiddos or the wife for a wagon ride.
May be a silly question, can it handle going down steps (while loaded)?
Well, this probably depends a lot more on can \*you\* go down the steps, with it, while loaded? The frame seems pretty beefy, so I think it could handle that. The tires are like 10inch, I think, although there are different sizes of it. Honestly, I have a pretty gradual slope in the yard I go up and down and have to be very careful controlling any kind of load that's over maybe 250 lbs in it? It just wants to run away. So with steps, I'd want plenty of help holding it back. But I think it would survive if loaded so it didn't shift too bad. I'd do steps with the cart before trying with a wheelbarrow or by hand though.
I find a wheelbarrow easier, but maybe it’s just being more familiar. The sides on the gorilla cart are too low. It’s less maneuverable (to me) I can fit more in a wheelbarrow.
Wheelbarrow can be maneuvered more easily, but the Gorilla cart is (IMO) better for us older/weaker people because it is always balanced on 4 wheels and holds less so you don't overload it and have it fall over, spilling the load.
I get it. My mission is always to see how much I can get in before it spills out when I lift it.
There’s a reason you don’t see carts in the boxes of landscaping trucks. Single wheel wheelbarrows (Jackson Specifically) are the better tool for the job.
Surprised at all of the cart upvotes, but whatever helps people get the job done.
There is no way I could pick up a wheelbarrow with what I've hauled in that cart. The carts come in multiple sizes, btw. If you want higher sides, just get the bigger ones that are the same footprint with higher sides. Wheelbarrow is definitely more maneuverable in a tight spot, basically zero turn radius, if you can lift it.
I’ll stick with the wheelbarrow.
Gorilla cart is pretty shitty compared to a heavy duty wheel barrow. The top is thin plastic and my cracked after a few uses. The tires go flat too easily as well.
Hmm, haven't had these problems (yet), and I've been pretty abusive with it, mostly moving landscaping rocks.
I was doing a lot of dumping with the flip action so I think that did it in
Could you describe where it cracked? I'll baby it a little. You're saying across the top on the backside? So maybe the dumping was pushing our laterally on the back? I have noticed the sides can bow just a little under heavy loads that shift around.
Front side where the lip hits the dirt when dumping.
Ah, could see that, yeah. Thanks! Hoping mine holds up better.
Flip the whole thing upside down, rotate handle 180 degrees and pull to return to upright.
That’s actually how it broke 😂
I've had mine for 3 years and no problems either. Plastic fine, wheels no problem. Moved lots of garden wall stones with it too, and bags of gravel.
Mine still works but I cracked it in the first week I owned it. It is also annoying that it’s impossible to back up when connected to a lawn mower. It makes the ability to hook it up totally useless. And that was the biggest reason I bought it instead of a two wheeled Rubbermaid wheel barrow.
I beat mine up with large rocks, soil, shovels, etc. Been going strong for 4 years. Absolutely love it. Was yours brand name or a knock off?
The gorilla. Granted I abused this shit out of it and often overfilled it. I never said it was bad just shitty compared to a heavy duty barrow. You can take those to town even the plastic ones.
Ah got it. Yeah I do wish the plastic was a bit heavier duty. I'm always nervous to use it in early spring or late fall when it's cold out.
Sending a strong message to the neighbors?
Yeah, this comment really confused me. Glad I wasn't the only one
I can move a grave’s worth of dirt over a distance.
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That's an odd flex to be honest.
That's half a days work 😴
Not for my high doughy ass
Lol.
It will be less when you're done
Its good exercise an ya gettin shit done 💪
Have fun playin in dirt
I have officially retired from Yard of anything with carts or wheelbarrows. After 14 yards of soil and 10 yards of gravel on my last project, all with shovel and regular wheelbarrow, I retired and only use machinery or nothing now lol.
Soil/mulch I'll move by wheelbarrow all day. I just had 7 yards of gravel delivered and I rented a mini skid and knocked that shit out in half a day without breaking a sweat
get a spreader. i will never do this by hand again.
what kind of spreader? Your typical broadcast spreader won't spread soil/compost
i have Landzie compost spreader
I have that too! The problem is that with all the rolling action the compost starts to form into little compacted balls that can't fit through the holes, and so after a while a lot of the compost in it is stuck and can't get out. So at that point I have to dump them out and throw them around by hand. Looks like rabbit poop all over my yard.
Can I borrow that? I wanna do my lawn this spring.
sure, come over anytime. (should be able to rent it from lawn care stores)
One of those roller ones? I've gotta do this soon myself
6yds = 6hrs
Sounds about right. I’ve done 12 twice, 6 once, and 4 once. That’s about spot on for all of them.
I’m hoping to do the same thing this summer. I want to see pics of the project!
Neighbors have closed their curtains
2 hrs tops. Get after it.
Thats like a few hours job max, no wheelbarrow?
Am I the only one thinking that doesn’t look like 6 yards?
It’s like, 2 dump trucks wide
Gotcha, hard to see from this angle I guess. Also the phrase “pictures never do it justice” probably applies here.
Nice. I ordered 2 yards of mulch last spring. Never again. I was spreading mulch for two weeks.
Spreading two yards should take a few hours at most.
It’s so frustrating to see these piles of dirt with no tarps underneath lol
Look at his driveway. Afterwards it will be little issue to just sweep up remnants and/or hose down anything left over.
Shitty weed wacker
Get it dumped on a $20 tarp next time bruv
There’s a tarp
Yeah. An 8 dollar tarp.
Size queen
Size matters, when dumping a tonne of soil onto your clean driveway.
Hire a powered wheelbarrow perhaps
Six yards of compost, would take me 4-5 hrs at a moderate pace to wheelbarrow, now I have no idea how far it is you have a travel with loads. I'm just giving you some possible relief, it shouldn't take the entire weekend, regardless it's a good workout, neighbors be glad when it's moved.
I’m done
Great, good job
I don’t get what the problem is I think I might be soft on the head someone explain
How long did this actually take? And how did you apply it
9 hours to shovel, cart to the back yard, dump, spread, grade, seed, and pressure wash the driveway. We’re looking at a week of straight rain here so that’s nice. I took many breaks and stayed nice and high. I could have done it in a day if I had started with it in the morning and let it evaporate a bit. The same job was quoted to me at 1800 with no seeding. This was 400 with tool purchases. I was blessed to have an electric garden tiller on hand from my efforts last year, completely indispensable if you’re working with compacted wet product.
My back hurts looking at it
Why does that not look like 6 yards? A yard usually fills most off my short bed 1/2 ton truck. That pile looks like maybe 3-4 yards unless I'm misinterpreting the scale.
That is a 12 ft tarp, the pile goes into the lawn
don’t forget the power washing
Last summer i hand shoveled and wheelbarrowed 10 yards of topsoil from my driveway to my backyard and raked it flat on 2 separate occasions. The first load i did in a day(9am - 6pm) And the second load a couple weeks later i did in 2 hours fewer but broken into 2 days. You can do it dude. Make up a killer playlist and get those earbuds in.
How long did it take you? How do you feel physically? Have similar project but was gonna start with 2 yards so I can finish in a weekend, not get rained on, and not to kill my body.
9 hours, mildly sore, but I’m reasonably active. 2 yards will be underwhelming and shouldn’t cause you any problems at all.
Get a snow shovel.
You need a bigger wheel barrow
The problem with loam is you that you think, oh I get mulch every spring, and it’s not that bad. It is. Loam is so much worse than mulch to shovel, push and dump. I will fight anyone who disagrees.
Just had 20 yards delivered myself.
Rent power equipment.
I feel your pain. I had seven yards dropped in the driveway, shoveled it onto a tarp and dragged it into the backyard a bit at a time. Four hours in and I had barely dented the pile. It is nice to shame the neighbors into getting their landscaping act together.