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Read articles →An owner-operator documents a real Saturday scramble to locate and uncover a buried septic tank using a John Deere 2210 front-end loader, no backhoe. The video follows three dig attempts, explains the soil-probe method, and honestly notes how much hand-digging was still required. Practical takeaways include cost savings over hiring out and a riser recommendation. Best for 2210 owners curious about front-loader earthmoving on unplanned utility projects.
An owner-operator sharing candid, unscripted real-world impressions from their own property, with no apparent commercial affiliation.
Yes, though you can't dig straight down like a backhoe. The owner made ramps into the holes and still needed hand digging to finish uncovering the tank lids.
The tank was found exactly sixty feet out from the house, only four and a half feet down, after two earlier holes were dug in the wrong spots.
Not reliably in rocky soil. The owner felt what seemed like tank edges in two wrong holes, which turned out to be rocks and gravel, not the tank.
One company would dig for a hundred and fifty dollars an hour, plus another hundred and fifty dollars an hour just to locate the tank first.
