Backhoe Big Tractor, Little Backhoe?

[quadridermx]

Renting is an option, but there's the convenience aspect of owning one for landscaping. Renting a backhoe every time we want to pull out a shrub or plant a tree would be far more expensive than owning one in the long haul. There's always the money that's recouped when an owned piece of equipment is sold as well. I could buy a nice 3 point hoe for $3500, use it for 6 years, and sell it for $3000. Far less costly compared to renting them as needed.

 

[JimRB]

Look at the JD backhoe and mounting kit for your tractor. The backhoe for my tractor mounts to the loader links by my feet and also hangs off the rear axle. Whatever else it does I do not know as I was a week late answering an advertisement for a bargain price hoe for my tractor.

 

[tjkubota93]

I would love to have an industrial hoe like the ones you guys picked up, but they are just too big for my area. It would have to constantly sit outside, which bugs me to no end. Plus it would be another piece of equipment to have to maintain and repair. My JD only has 600 hours on it, so I'll hopefully get at least hundreds (years, for me) of trouble free hours out of it!

I have looked into a small trencher/backhoe but would again have to store it outdoors, and anything in decent shape around here goes for $4500+.

Does my JD 4600 have an aluminum rear end as mentioned?

If so, both my wife and her father are boilermakers, so they have a lot of experience welding and fabricating. If it indeed does have an aluminum rear end, what are some good points to use as a strong point to tie a backhoe to? Would I need to tie into some points further forward in the tractor?

What do you guys think of this idea....

Get a small(ish) 3 point backhoe. Fabricate mounts to effect of using the 3 point setup to lift the backhoe into place, and then once in place, bolting on the supporting plates/hardware. Keep the backhoe attached to the 3 point lift arms and top link, but also have some good brackets assisting with transferring the stresses to another part of the tractor. Kind of a small hybrid system that would have the ease of a 3 point setup, most of the strength of a frame mount, and maybe only 8-10 bolts that would have to be installed.

Would that be a lot easier said than done? What would be some strong points to bolt to if the rear of the tractor is aluminum?

Having just bought a woods bh65 for my kubota, if you're the diy type, buy the 3 point and make your own subframe. I kinda wish I went that route, but I already have ton of projects waiting. Building a subframe is just 1 more. There has been 1 thread where a guy built a subframe out of channel iron.

 

[newbury]

I've two Kubota tractors, a B7610 (23hp) and an M4700 (50hp) bought in 2013.
I bought a Woods BH70-X in 2009 for the B7610. When I inquired about putting the backhoe on the M4700 Woods technical support said they did not make a frame for it but it was perfectly OK to mount it with a 3 point kit they sell:

 

[quadridermx]

besides explosives.

Now we're talking!