I'd skip the part of the project that involves buying the CAT. I'd only buy a machine like that if I were confident I could immediately sell it for at least what I paid if things didn't work out. I don't see anyone handing over five-thousand dollars for an antique, and certainly not if they intended to do any work with it. And collectors would probably pass or want it for much less.
I did a similar project years ago at my previous house. Former owner left a hole where a swimming pool was dug into the side of a hill. I rented a loader/backhoe to move a load of dirt from a tandem dump truck and graded over the whole thing to finish. Remarkably good job for a rank amateur. Once seeded, you'd never know anything was there. It was a lot less worry using a machine that I knew would be replaced if anything broke.
Bobcat T-180 tracked loader rents at the local place here for $1180/wk. It's part of a chain, ABC rentals. Even if you spend a couple days getting used to the machine, you'd be money ahead using something like that to do the job. You can do an amazing amount of work with those machines and it'll have ROPS, likely an enclosed cab and maybe even AC.
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