Bobcat backhoe on a kioti? Or buy a mini-ex.

[.devo]

I bought a DK5810. The KB2485 backhoe got dropped off the truck and is irreparable. A new one is 5 months away.

Bobcat's equivalent is the BH86 on the CT4055, and is available right now. It's also 2k cheaper and mounts up like a Kubota backhoe which would be nice. Has anyone fitted one of these to a kioti or have any comments?

The kioti subframe is additional to the longitudinal subframe that connects the loader frame to the rear. It looks like the bobcat subframe replaces the longitudinal loader subframe. The loaders themselves are different but the bottom portion of the loader frames looks awfully similar in parts diagrams.

My tractor is hopefully due before Christmas but isn't here yet, so no measurements just yet.

Ask the dealer....? Well, dealer product knowledge is mixed. Kioti told me I couldn't fit a KB2485 to my DK, it had to be a KB2475. And Bobcat told me not to buy the BH86 and to get a Chinese 3-point backhoe because removing the Bobcat backhoe and returning it to take rear 3PL implements took 6 hours. So I'm on my own I suspect.

Or I just buy a 2nd hand mini ex and decide on the backhoe when I'm ready to sell it. But that's probably a whole different topic.

Thanks in advance!

 

[hayden]

I would definitely get a mini-ex if that's a viable alternative. They are so much better than a tractor-mounted hoe. More $$ of course, but you get what you pay for. And with all the contradictory info you are getting about a tractor mounted hoe, you could easily find yourself months down the road with a hoe that doesn't mount well or work well, but past begin able to return it.

 

[DK35vince]

Kioti told me I couldn't fit a KB2485 to my DK, it had to be a KB2475.

????
A KB75 on a 55+ HP tractor
I've been running an 85 on my DK 35 for 20+ years.

 

[LouNY]

The Kioti backhoe is several thousand dollars, you can get a new mini x for less then the backhoe attachment.
And it will be more versatile.

Edited to add; I got the backhoe with my Kioti CK2620, I was torn between that hoe or one of the mini x's,
at this time i suspect I may have chosen wrong time will tell.