I was faced with this situation just in the past few weeks. i needed to move a significant amount of dirt. Started looking at dump trailers - Big Tex trailers makes a 12,000 pound dump trailer but I found that they wanted some 7K for it - so I ended up hiring a dump truck by the hour- $50.00 and was able to move 35 12yd trucks in eight hours - for me it was a great solution. By the way, my first pond project ( no thanks to meadowlark, by the way) is almost complete - in all I have moved 6 thousand cu yds of dirt. all with a John Deere 260 loader with steel tracks and a 84" grosser blade.Pond project broke ground July 4th and so far I have put in 170 machine hours on the project- it has been a blast!!!!!!!