I got to run the backhoe this weekend. It is a heck of a machine. The digging bucket will hold close to a half yard of dirt when it is mounded up. The front bucket is 1.8 yards. So you can move a lot of dirt quick. It is so back heavy that if you get a full bucket when the boom is all the way out it will lift the front end off of the ground. That is not a big deal though because you can fill the front bucket up with dirt.

The first hole we dug was to put some brush in. It was about 10 feet wide x 12 feet deep x 15 feet long. The soil was 1 foot of topsoil, 2 feet of a sandy clay and the rest was all clay. The clay changed from brown to gray to brick red. I also dug a small silt pond just above one of the areas where we have some bad erosion.

We did have some mechanical issues though. Saturday we had a hydralic line bust that turns the arm left and right. We got that fixed but had another leak up front near the radiator.