Saw an Interesting Machine Yesterday...

[bjcsc]

but I don't know what it was; I've never seen one before. It looked like a mini-excavator body, but no boom - it had a 6-way dozer front blade (that was heavy, not just a push blade) and a backhoe on the rear. Anyone know what it was?

 

[Soundguy]

I've seen tracked dozers with hoes on the back.. this what you saw?

soundguy

 

[john_bud]

I too vote for tracked dozer with a rear hoe. Common around here. Neighbor has a deere like that.

 

[bjcsc]

Nope...definitely not a dozer. It had a body exactly like a mini excavator...

 

[2manyrocks]

Did it hover in the air and then disappear into the sky?

 

[bx23barry]

like this?
http://chico.craigslist.org/grd/856592766.html

 

[Lunk]

I saw a tracked skid steer (ASV, etc.) that had a rear-mounted backhoe the other day. Looked really strange. Didn't catch the brand. Looked handy.

 

[bjcsc]

Did it hover in the air and then disappear into the sky?

I'm starting to wonder

I wish I would have caught a name on it but it passed me in traffic on a trailer headed the other direction and I saw it at the last minute.

bx23barry: No, it wasn't a mini-excavator. It had a real dozer blade up front, some type of sweep in the front that came over the cab about halfway at a 45deg angle at the top, parallel tracks like a dozer and a hoe. Must of been some type of strange forestry machine. It was either red or dark orange...

 

[Soundguy]

Did it have any boom? Might have been a cable layer or pipe layer...

soundguy

 

[Matt_Jr]

Ditch witch xt850?.