I have moved dirt with a pan behind a tractor, a dozer an excavator and a shovel and I like them all. The pan is very good at removing dirt and then taking it somewhere and dumping it but you can't dig as steep a bank and you need a longer ramp as you get deeper. The dozer is not so good at moving it long distances. The excavator is really the best at digging a hole but not so good at taking it somewhere else. I reccomend them all. Use the excavator for the digging the pan for hauling it off and the dozer for smoothing it all out when you are done.
