BX2200 trade-in for BX22
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Hi,
I don't know anything about the cad plans back hoe...
But I do know that backing up a trailer sometimes is a pain! I have a B2910 Kubota with a backhoe. Since the backhoe hangs on the back, it is a simple matter to back where I want to dig and do my business... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I can't imagine a trailer type backhoe being as easy to get into position. Now I am talking some slopes for the digging out of stumps and so on. I suppose if you were only going to dig a trench on flat land with few obstructions the trailer kind of backhoe would be fine.
The only experience I have backing up a trailer is with my garden tractor and its little trailer. But I can tell you, sometimes it just doesn't seem to work like your mind thinks it should.
I would take a back hoe that was mounted on the tractor any day, even if it cost twice as much. Then again, I could just be one of those guys that have two left brains...how's that for giving myself a lot of credit????
Bill
A henro in Pgh, PA
I don't know anything about the cad plans back hoe...
But I do know that backing up a trailer sometimes is a pain! I have a B2910 Kubota with a backhoe. Since the backhoe hangs on the back, it is a simple matter to back where I want to dig and do my business... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I can't imagine a trailer type backhoe being as easy to get into position. Now I am talking some slopes for the digging out of stumps and so on. I suppose if you were only going to dig a trench on flat land with few obstructions the trailer kind of backhoe would be fine.
The only experience I have backing up a trailer is with my garden tractor and its little trailer. But I can tell you, sometimes it just doesn't seem to work like your mind thinks it should.
I would take a back hoe that was mounted on the tractor any day, even if it cost twice as much. Then again, I could just be one of those guys that have two left brains...how's that for giving myself a lot of credit????
Bill
A henro in Pgh, PA
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[blue]The only experience I have backing up a trailer is with my garden tractor and its little trailer.[/blue]
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gifSince I've owned, rented, towed, and backed just about every kind of trailer imaginable (and of course took some frustrating times in my younger days to learn), I find it hilarious to watch other folks trying to back trailers. This past summer, I finally taught my 13 year old grandson to back the little trailer behind the riding mower. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif If you didn't already know it, that just might be one of the most difficult trailers to back because it's so short. The closer the trailer axle is to the pivot point (hitch), the more awkward it is to back where you want it to go. On the farm, I had a 10' trailer and a 16' trailer; neither was any problem for me, but the 16' was definitely easier and quicker than the 10' one.
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gifSince I've owned, rented, towed, and backed just about every kind of trailer imaginable (and of course took some frustrating times in my younger days to learn), I find it hilarious to watch other folks trying to back trailers. This past summer, I finally taught my 13 year old grandson to back the little trailer behind the riding mower. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif If you didn't already know it, that just might be one of the most difficult trailers to back because it's so short. The closer the trailer axle is to the pivot point (hitch), the more awkward it is to back where you want it to go. On the farm, I had a 10' trailer and a 16' trailer; neither was any problem for me, but the 16' was definitely easier and quicker than the 10' one.
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Bird; That's for sure! I used to use a 4'x8' trailer behind the truck for an ATV and for utility uses. It was one of the ones you could pick up at Central Tractor for $200 or so. It had a fairly short tongue, and would jump out with every twitch of the steering wheel. I was a little apprehensive when I bought my 6.5'x12' landscape trailer, but I find backing it up is child's play comparied to the smaler one it replaced. Every move of the steeing wheel gives me a smooth, measured response.
Will
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I was a little apprehensive when I bought my 6.5'x12')</font>
Apprehensive? You should have seen me when I bought my first 8' x 25' travel trailer 31 years ago. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif At that time, all I'd ever pulled was small utility trailers and boat trailers, and I was more than just apprehensive getting that thing home. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Apprehensive? You should have seen me when I bought my first 8' x 25' travel trailer 31 years ago. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif At that time, all I'd ever pulled was small utility trailers and boat trailers, and I was more than just apprehensive getting that thing home. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Bird,
Backing up haywagons and feederbins are always fun as the steering is again reversed from a single, tandem, or tripple axle.
I been seeing little 4 wheel wagons for lawn tractor use cropping up. Those should be good for some laughs /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Safe backing,
Michael
Backing up haywagons and feederbins are always fun as the steering is again reversed from a single, tandem, or tripple axle.
I been seeing little 4 wheel wagons for lawn tractor use cropping up. Those should be good for some laughs /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Safe backing,
Michael
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Backing up haywagons and feederbins are always fun )</font>
Yep, but not impossible. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif 40 years ago, I used to just marvel at some of the mail handlers' ability to back three 4 wheeled mail wagons with the little electric tractors we used in the Dallas Post Office. Never could get the hang of that. But a few years ago, a neighbor was hauling hay pulling two wagons at a time behind his pickup. Trouble was he'd have to unhook the rear wagon and get it out of the way to load the front one from the rear, then manually pull the second wagon back up to the front one and hook it up to load it (couldn't load a wagon from the rear and slide the bales forward without having something to keep the wagon from just rolling forward). I tried to show him how to back the whole rig and turn the second wagon out of the way of the rear of the front wagon without unhooking anything. He decided it was impossible, so I drove the truck hauling the hay and he drove the tractor doing the loading. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Now that was easy for me because we were loading in a big open hayfield with lots of room, but if I had to back two of them at a time in tight spaces, I doubt that I'd do very well. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Yep, but not impossible. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif 40 years ago, I used to just marvel at some of the mail handlers' ability to back three 4 wheeled mail wagons with the little electric tractors we used in the Dallas Post Office. Never could get the hang of that. But a few years ago, a neighbor was hauling hay pulling two wagons at a time behind his pickup. Trouble was he'd have to unhook the rear wagon and get it out of the way to load the front one from the rear, then manually pull the second wagon back up to the front one and hook it up to load it (couldn't load a wagon from the rear and slide the bales forward without having something to keep the wagon from just rolling forward). I tried to show him how to back the whole rig and turn the second wagon out of the way of the rear of the front wagon without unhooking anything. He decided it was impossible, so I drove the truck hauling the hay and he drove the tractor doing the loading. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Now that was easy for me because we were loading in a big open hayfield with lots of room, but if I had to back two of them at a time in tight spaces, I doubt that I'd do very well. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
chocolatehauler
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Looks like about half the price of a bx22 I haven't compared the digging to much. I think the bx is 5-6 ft the 821 is nine feet. of course I do have to weld it togather and what not. I all ready have and engine for it so that saves 700 to 1000 dallars. When I bought my bx2200 I just didn't want to spend the extra to get a small backhoe. And buying and after market for the back didn't sound like a good idea acording to others on this forum. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
MDNick
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I always got to cheat backing up the hay (straw in our case) wagon. The Ford 800 had a stub draw hitch on the front bumper. Talk about easy backing up of a trailer. Good visiblity, very fast response. Occasionally had problems with a good load if the trailer would hit a rut though. And yes, I'd rather back that loaded hay wagon any day as compared to our much shorter wheel based gravity wagons.
I can back up most anything with a truck or tractor, but my old landlord mentioned a rig that I think would be real difficult. At the power plant he works at, they have an articulating payloader. To it's rear end they hitch a 5th wheel dollie, and put a semi trailer on it. To dang many degrees of freedom there.
It is also yet another reason for the joy of hanging out at a boat ramp in the summer. Great fun. Don't laugh to hard, some of them take it personal. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I can back up most anything with a truck or tractor, but my old landlord mentioned a rig that I think would be real difficult. At the power plant he works at, they have an articulating payloader. To it's rear end they hitch a 5th wheel dollie, and put a semi trailer on it. To dang many degrees of freedom there.
It is also yet another reason for the joy of hanging out at a boat ramp in the summer. Great fun. Don't laugh to hard, some of them take it personal. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
