:2cents: The Bobcat 2410 with either the 632lb rear single "tombstone" counterweight flat backed model, rear backhoe option model, rear 3-pt PTO option model, or most desirable, most expensive, and hardest to find rear 941B extend a hoe (♡ that, its funny, like hooker on a stick!) model is an AwEsOmE piece of equipment!
VERY hard to come by parts as this incredible piece of gear was produced way ahead of it's time for a limited production run of only three to four years. Most still in existence (and in operational order) are to be found in Canada for some unknown reason.
The rest are scattered throughout small agricultural communities worldwide held together by spit and duct tape to paint a visual. A number are to be found in the U.S. but due to the limited success of the product rollout, most were "donated" (think tax write-off) to various unversities, colleges, and other NPO's by Bobcat when they were owned by Melrose (sp?) under the Ingersoll Rand flagship. They all had Perkin diesel power plants to the best of ny research capabilities. A "Bluebook" is very hard to ascertain on them - to the point that my financed purchase of my used 2410 required input to my credit union by an independent heavy equipment appraisal service. Their values tend to be extremely subjective ending up as just how badly do you want it. I wanted mine VERY bad.
Yes, with the Extend-a-HOe (smirk)Backhoe attachment, PTO setup with large PTO attachment in operation or even the backhoe non-extendable backhoe with rear counterweight(s) in place, she can be arse heavy like one of the Kardashians =). However, in the absence of a rear 632lb tombstone counterweight, smaller 165lb? individual counterweight plates (max 5 allowed I believe - still available new through Bobcat in extremely limited quantities), PTO WITH attachment on board, or one or the other of the two backhoe attachments, it can be extremely FRONT heavy depending on what Bobcat attachment you're running on the front of the unit and/or what you're doing - i.e. lake effect snow removal, wet sand excavation, etc. Remember that it is a front mounted power plant unit.
This is getting lengthy and my dinners getting cold. I'll be back with more for those interested in this old war horses opinion of this unique piece of gear... Semper Fidelis, Gunny and "his" :2cents: