How much can you do in a weekend with a 1 ton (+/-) mini digger and a skip loading mini dumper?
Or to turn it around, I have 2 jobs:
1) Load 6-8m3 previously kango'd concrete into a skip 15-30m away.2) Move the top 300mm of topsoil from an area about 100m2 to lower parts of the garden. Dumper probably not required - can probably drag it with the grading bucket once dug up and loosened.
3) Dig back a 1m high bank a metre or so over a length of about 8m. Soil will be move within digger-arm's length.Weekend feasible - or am I'm off by a country mile? Let's assume I am not super proficient with a digger - but that I managed to learn a tractor with back-acktor in about 30 mins to trenching competance a few years back