re: Fill dirt vs top Soil

If you live close to a sugar mill- you can buy Wash Mud just like fill dirt. It's the little bit of dirt that gets washed off the cane before it goes into the mill. It's the best topsoil (because it is) you can get, and it's cheap- $3/yard loaded is about what it goes for.

This is different than Filter Press which is the really black mainly soil material that gets sucked off the juice as it's processed- people will put it out as well, but it stinks too much to put in a neighborhood yard- at least in the short term after putting it down.

If you don't count compaction, you only need about 7 loads with a 30 yard trailer- can you get in there with something like that? It is a helluva lot cheaper to move 30 yards at a time vs. the normal 14 yards in a dump truck.