Jeremiah, when the excavator was here renovating my pond it tracked across a wet area. It sunk down about 3". I walked in the track marks that it left and sunk past my knees. That's why using a piece of tracked equipment doesn't work when trying to compact the soil. Do some research and look for information on how many PSI the equipment exerts as ground pressure and you'd be suprised.

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