Backhoe Pricing and Good Dealer for Bradco backhoe?

[keeney]

I am looking for a smaller backhoe for my JD4100. Looking at the specs on the web, the Bradco 3265 looks like the model I want.

Anybody have any pricing info on this model?

Other similar models I should consider?

Good mail-order Bradco dealer?

Good Bradco dealer in Twin-cities, MN area?

- Rick

 

[SilverBullit]

Rick,

I noticed a ad in a weekly shopper for a Bradco 3265, 3pt hitch,PTO pump kit and 12" bucket, on sale for $4,199. This was a cash and carry price, or $249 additional for installation.

This is a new unit being offered by a local orange dealer, I likewise wondered if this was good price.

Southeastern Ohio

 

[aloha]

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Think about Woods. While I was shopping, Bradco and Woods prices were virtually identical, quality looked comparable.

I am still a novice with my Woods 7500, but it is slick! With the subframe and using tractor hydraulics, rather than PTO pump, it is well under 5 minutes to get off or on the tractor. That ease of installation is important to me.

 

[Rodger]

did you ever buy one?

 

[keeney]

I never ended up getting a backhoe. The cost was too high. The best I could do was right around $4000 for either a 3-pt Wallenstein, or about $4500 for the JD 46 without the folding ROP's.

I hired out all the bigger digging that the small backhoe wouldn't have been able efficiently to do anyway.

I made due with my FEL, a trencher and an auger that I borrowed for all the misc. digging.

The trencher and auger attachments were for a Toro Dingo walk-behind unit. I built an adapter to fit the Dingo attachments onto my 410 FEL. I added a PTO-hydraulic pump and control to run them. Worked great.

Cost me about $450 for the pump, valve, tank, hoses, and the steel to make the adapter. The extra hydraulic pump would still be useful if I ever change my mind and add a backhoe.

Now I can borrow or rent the Dingo stuff anytime I need it. The Dingo attachments are about the right size for the tiny little 4100 as well.

Also, I noticed the other day that my local Home Depot has a trailer full of Dingo and attachments in their rental department - very convenient!

- Rick