Back Filling and Grading with CAT 289D Skid Steer

New home back fill and grade.

[aaronburford]

Wow! I love watching the grading process and dirt work being done....thanks for sharing!

[aaronburford]

Rewatched! This is great content on grading with a skid steer.... Love watching and listening to this process. Instant gratification for the completed result!

[bigbeef]

If anyone ever wondered why you can charge 85-100$ hr or more with these machines, this is exactly why. Hell of an operator sir 👍🏻 . I charge 120hr just to brush hog or run the drum mulcher on my kubota svl95 . Best investment I ever made

[gaugegator]

First video of a skid loader grading with teeth and using the spin action to fill side to side! To me, teeth just feather it out better. Great video! And great operation! Speed and use of the machine, and use of the tooth bucket for grading! Highly efficient machines with the right operators

[alfehernandez]

I’m 16 and had the opportunity to clear 9 acres of small brush with my dad on a Takeuchi TL8.Very useful machines that seem like a good investment!👍

[alinehme]

I used to run same skid, just a little newer. I love this machine in the winter the guys would get jealous and I used to lie to them and say these things don’t have heat or ac but they in reality they have bad ass heat in there lol 😊

[dannyhensley]

Happy to see an experienced operator. Damn fine job

[jbird]

Amazing on the skid.. best I seen on grading..

[ConstructionMachineryChannel]

Skid steers seems great for doing this kind of intricate work.

[aaronburford]

Love watching skid steer grading grounds

[theimprovementsguy]

Wow... been learning skid steer already after few hours im doing lift and turn smoothly but after watching this i need much more practice lol

[ericsellers]

How does one get into this business? Sounds very lucrative! Excellent skills on that machine btw.

[justintracy]

This is awesome! Do you have a video of getting it ready for grass!?

[pshalan]

enjoyed the video - thanks for posting

[chadwismer]

Very similar with how I am. Only we have areas that the dirt from the hole is not enough by far, that's when the 953 comes out, then the 289 follows to clean everything up

[jaecamper]

I call them Skiddy's and they're very versatile.

[robquimby]

Why even back blade if you haven't tracked it in. Just double working it.

[pjs]

Did they add a tooth bar on that bucket or what? It doesn’t look like it’s supposed to be on there. Nice video, love watching skid steers/CTLs grade. Could watch it all day long. Is this just one big subdivision that all these videos are coming from?

[jpbinva]

I just bought a machine and am trying to learn.

When you pick from the pile, you seem to dump from a very high point. Is that intentional to break up the dirt clods?

Thanks!

[Zonday]

I dont understand why you were 1. travelling around with a full bucket raised up(big no no) and then 2. flicking dirt into a pile. you can achieve the same thing without good off-roll/unload technique AND while having a lower safe load.