Most pro installers use infiltrators or their polyethylene bead cousins. The reason is the enormous savings in labor over using rock. Whether you use a pro or do it yourself you will not save money with these products. But using them is a LOT less work.
I dug my own septic system back in 2002. I used traditional 1.5 inch drain rock both because I wanted to farm over the top of the system and I feared the many gophers and ground squirrels would invade and inhabit the hollow infiltrators in the bottom two trenches in my serial system. (Code required more capacity than I would likely ever use.) I thought handling rock would be no problem because I'd recently bought a backhoe.
Boy, was I wrong! An inexperienced operator cannot achieve the proper grade with the backhoe alone. Drain rock is one of the hardest materials to move with hand tools, especially the big stuff I was using. A shovel just bounces off.
I can remember reflecting upon the meaning of the words "idiot stick" as I hand shoveled 3000 pounds of rock back into the loader bucket in the hot August sun. (I'd slipped with the machine and dumped too much at the end of a trench.)
The county health inspector was really impressed with my system (after I'd spent almost a month building it). He said hardly anyone used rock any more. I had, by that time, painfully learned the reason for this.
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