Well I love my Kubota B26 that I bought used with 140 hours for $25K. It is a high dollar hoe when new and I could have bought a new tractor with subframe hoe for what I paid for the used one but it is professional grade equipment designed as a TLB butthe hoe is easily removed for 3PH work and it has QA bucket on hoe and FEL. IT is just what I wanted, small and agile and quiet powerful for a 26 Hp motor. It doesnt have a very long reach which is limiting on depth and length you can dig without moving but it is small footprint so you can get into some very small places with it. It handles the 12" bucket OK but I can see why the original owner cut down the 18" bucket to a 7" trencher as I dont think an 18" would do much for digging, may be OK for moving loose materials though. A mini-excavator would be perfect digging machine due to the 360 degree dumping range. When I try to use mine to clean out a ditch for instance, I have to back slanted into it in order to dump past the edge. If you try to dig from the side, then it wants to pull you sideways into the ditch so a tracked excavator would be much better for just digging duty if you can afford a single purpose machine. Kinda hard to transport dirt with an excavator and harder to haul one too.