Backhoe fun - a picture thread

[Luke'sScreenName]

I owned a 1969 680ck B then had to buy a second for a parts machine. Truly amazing capabilities but I definitely spent more time working on it then running it.

The last time it broke down I was straddling a rock wall and trying to bury a dead dog. Multiple similar instances of it breaking down with a half finished project.

Arround here that's about all you can get for 5k.

I sold them and bought a bigger CUT and ZTR. Rent an excavator when needed. So much more productive.

If I really needed a full size TLB I would spend at least 12-15k or I would not do it. Just my opninion and limited experience.

I'm about to find out what a 9ft hoe can do on a bigger CUT. Hopefully I'm not disappointed.

 

[kneedeep]

The BH is one of the most used attachments on the farm next to sprayer.

 

[joecdeere]

Knee deep, not to scold, but, NEVER, EVER, be in a ditch over waist deep, less really, without shoring, and or tapered walls. If one of the side walls in your above pic had even begin to let go, it would be too late.
I spent over 20 years riding a fire engine, seen many a cave in. Always heard the same thing, "was only gonna be in there a second"

We'd much rather have you and your family here to post than reading about you in the paper!
Lecture over, nice tractor, I like the thumb, want one for my Ford.

 

[farm boy00]

I owned a 1969 680ck B then had to buy a second for a parts machine. Truly amazing capabilities but I definitely spent more time working on it then running it.

The last time it broke down I was straddling a rock wall and trying to bury a dead dog. Multiple similar instances of it breaking down with a half finished project.

Arround here that's about all you can get for 5k.

I sold them and bought a bigger CUT and ZTR. Rent an excavator when needed. So much more productive.

If I really needed a full size TLB I would spend at least 12-15k or I would not do it. Just my opninion and limited experience.

I'm about to find out what a 9ft hoe can do on a bigger CUT. Hopefully I'm not disappointed.

Sadly our budget won't allow for a 7k backhoe even so we are stuck with cheaper ones but they seem to be decent machines around here. For us we are on all flatland and it will only be used occasionally so that helps some knowing we don't need a perfect backhoe

 

[dickfoster]

Knee deep, not to scold, but, NEVER, EVER, be in a ditch over waist deep, less really, without shoring, and or tapered walls. If one of the side walls in your above pic had even begin to let go, it would be too late.
I spent over 20 years riding a fire engine, seen many a cave in. Always heard the same thing, "was only gonna be in there a second"

We'd much rather have you and your family here to post than reading about you in the paper!
Lecture over, nice tractor, I like the thumb, want one for my Ford.

The first person I ever saw die died like that. He was a backhoe operator digging a sewer line ditch and of course I was one of the kids in the neighborhood watching. He went into the ditch and came out on a stretcher already dead. They couldn't dig him out fast enough.

 

[Adam1742]

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

That trench is a work of art! Well done.

 

[Adam1742]

Thank you sir. I cheated a little though, just kept the outrigger a certain distance from the building and kept it at that distance. Whatever works eh

 

[TMGT]

Putting in a new 40ft culvert, was tough digging where the old road used to be.

 

[RoyJackson]

Knee deep, not to scold, but, NEVER, EVER, be in a ditch over waist deep, less really, without shoring, and or tapered walls. If one of the side walls in your above pic had even begin to let go, it would be too late.
I spent over 20 years riding a fire engine, seen many a cave in. Always heard the same thing, "was only gonna be in there a second"

Agree 150%!!!
After I graduated high school and before I went in the Navy, I worked as a plumber's helper/apprentice. Worked in a lot of sewer trenches...hated it!
I was buried hip deep once...and that was quite enough! Reckon I was lucky though...the trench was probably 7-8 feet deep and only part of the side wall caved in.