jinman
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- Joined
- Feb 23, 2001
- Messages
- 21,008
- Location
- Texas - Wise County - Sunset
- Tractor
- NHTC45D, NH LB75B, Ford Jubilee
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( The backhoe will dig footings for a garage/shop foundation, trench utilities, put in underground water tanks and septic system, plant trees. )</font>
Aloha, I look at your list of items, and I can't help but think you will be spending $5,000 for $500 worth of work. How close is a place to you that rents backhoes? Does your tractor dealer rent them? I would love to have a backhoe of my own, but I just can't bring myself to spend that much money on one. You'll have to remove it every time you want to put any other implement on besides your FEL. My suggestion to you would be just the opposite of what you said you would do for the first two years. Instead of buying the backhoe and then maybe selling it after two years, why not buy the tractor without the backhoe and wait two years to see if you really need a backhoe?
When I had my septic system installed, it had to be done by a state licensed contractor who showed up with his own backhoe to do the job. Most of these guys know exactly what they need to do and honestly, if I'd been trying to do my own hoe work, he'd probably charged me double or maybe even refused to do the job. I don't know your situation, but this is just my thought about the septic system. When I had my house built, the builder, plumbers, and concrete guy all showed up with their own tractors. I even offered my tractor a few times to move some dirt, but they used their own smaller and less capable machines. They didn't want me or my tractor anywhere near the job. The one exception was the excavator who piled up dirt and then let me haul it to where I wanted to fill some low spots.
Lots of rental places have small tractors with backhoes you can rent to do all the jobs you mentioned in your original post. Let me be the first to say that I'm no expert on backhoes for your machine. I really don't know if $5000 is too high or too low. I'm just suggesting that you consider how close you are to a rental yard, if you have a vehicle that can tow a small backhoe on a trailer to save delivery charges, and if you are willing to have a little more inconvenience each time you need the backhoe. Just remember, you can buy a lot of other nice implements for that $5000 price. If you watch it sit with very little use for two years, you may be asking the same types of questions I'm asking you now. Whatever your decision, I'm sure you'll get plenty of good advice here on TBN. This is one heck of a great resource. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Aloha, I look at your list of items, and I can't help but think you will be spending $5,000 for $500 worth of work. How close is a place to you that rents backhoes? Does your tractor dealer rent them? I would love to have a backhoe of my own, but I just can't bring myself to spend that much money on one. You'll have to remove it every time you want to put any other implement on besides your FEL. My suggestion to you would be just the opposite of what you said you would do for the first two years. Instead of buying the backhoe and then maybe selling it after two years, why not buy the tractor without the backhoe and wait two years to see if you really need a backhoe?
When I had my septic system installed, it had to be done by a state licensed contractor who showed up with his own backhoe to do the job. Most of these guys know exactly what they need to do and honestly, if I'd been trying to do my own hoe work, he'd probably charged me double or maybe even refused to do the job. I don't know your situation, but this is just my thought about the septic system. When I had my house built, the builder, plumbers, and concrete guy all showed up with their own tractors. I even offered my tractor a few times to move some dirt, but they used their own smaller and less capable machines. They didn't want me or my tractor anywhere near the job. The one exception was the excavator who piled up dirt and then let me haul it to where I wanted to fill some low spots.
Lots of rental places have small tractors with backhoes you can rent to do all the jobs you mentioned in your original post. Let me be the first to say that I'm no expert on backhoes for your machine. I really don't know if $5000 is too high or too low. I'm just suggesting that you consider how close you are to a rental yard, if you have a vehicle that can tow a small backhoe on a trailer to save delivery charges, and if you are willing to have a little more inconvenience each time you need the backhoe. Just remember, you can buy a lot of other nice implements for that $5000 price. If you watch it sit with very little use for two years, you may be asking the same types of questions I'm asking you now. Whatever your decision, I'm sure you'll get plenty of good advice here on TBN. This is one heck of a great resource. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
