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Read articles →A real working session where Tony uses a TYM compact tractor with box blade and backhoe to build an actual on-property road from scratch, grading banks, digging a culvert trench, setting pipe, and spreading gravel. Covers practical decisions like water drainage routing, culvert placement, and why buying gravel beats hauling your own dirt. Includes a handy note on TYM's built-in bucket level indicator. Best for owners tackling similar ground-up infrastructure work.
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The bucket top is level with the bottom, and TYM adds a level indicator: when the bucket is level, a small hump or indentation lines up directly with a mark on the loader arm.
Hauling dirt from the back of the farm burns tons of diesel and wears on the machine, while a load of gravel delivered costs about three hundred bucks and makes a better packing surface.
Dig out the hump in the middle of the trench bottom where the pipe sits, since a hump there can cause clogging; smoothing it out should prevent that.
Tony says it took about three to four hours to dig the culvert out and put the pipe in, with more gravel and packing time still needed afterward.
