It goes with the job I guess.
I do believe one of the most stressful things about being a dirt mover, is having a whole bunch of work to do and not being able to do anything because of the weather.
Of course when it does dry up and there are the three or four months of work that need to be done right now, that can be a little stressful too.
Weather delays also make scheduling a bit of a guessing game.

Some more pointers since your working your scraper by itself.
Load going towards the fill.
Load going downhill if possible.
Lay out a cut about 10 widths wide and long enough to get a load, work it from one side to the other, then repeat many times.
On the fill start on one side on the end, dump slow enough to dump 10" thick loose fill. On the next load start dumping where the first load ended without leaving an unfilled spot. Keep hooking load onto load until you get to the other end. Then move in a width, right beside where you've filled and repeat hooking load onto load till you get to the end, also not leaving any unfilled areas between the the first and second width.

At some point you may want to learn about "panning" which is how you smooth things up with a scraper. The specific method depends on if you have a conventional or paddle scraper.

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