Will a small Bobcat type loader with a bucket/backhoe dig through drought-solid Georgia clay dirt?

Nov 11, 2007 by MissDeviance | Posted in Garden & Landscape

We had planned a job landscaping around our house, leveling some areas and the placement of brick walls ... But with the drought in the southeast, the dirt is solid as a brick.

Definitely too strong to do anything with regular blades, and we have rented a small backhoe, Bobcat or similar anyway. But even now we wonder if things can break through the earth. I know the team can be really great - they're doing construction and move around and reshape large areas of land as sand. But this equipment is beyond our budget.

We like to do it ourselves, so we're going to rent equipment if you can do the job.

Is there anyone out there has experience with this consumer profitable smaller team (1500-2500 lbs) and clay soil in southeastern very dry conditions? Will it work? Or should we wait until it rains?

We have about a 40x40 area to remodel about 4-8 feet tall.

I have two Bobcats, a tape drive 38HP and a 1968 vintage hydro 120HP. The hard clay here is famous for the manufacture of bricks and the child is going to do anything the big kid who, though not as quickly. If your experienced operator to obtain the largest car has, if not, rent the smallest machine with the smallest cube that they have. Even little make quick work of your project just in one weekend. Slow start, these machines are used to destroy things (including people) in a flash to be very careful.If I am cleaning mud corals more perma-frost type of tracks are a plus, but on dry land is one side that is not necessary.