slowzuki
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- Joined
- Sep 19, 2003
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- New Brunswick, Canada
- Tractor
- Kubota L5030 HSTC, MF 5455, Kubota M120, Allis Chalmers 7010
I see two problems with the last post. If TractorLuvr really doesn't want to have a backhoe to store I can see him not wanting to own one.
But if the backhoe half pays for itself doing stumps, other projects have ways of sprouting up and needing it.
I have at least a job a month on my parents place (which is only a couple of acres!) which a backhoe would save hours of hand digging.
We have also done other jobs that have taken YEARS since we had to hand dig a basement under the house and between the posts. Every summer for the last 14 years we have dug and poured cement.
Renting a small hoe here is 300-400$ a day and we only needed it a few hours a day, for several days. When you add in renting a pickup and flatbed to tow it, we were up to 2000$ per digging session. About 2 of these would happen each summer so there is 4000$ a summer.
The shovel and pick turned out to be the choice.
Ken
But if the backhoe half pays for itself doing stumps, other projects have ways of sprouting up and needing it.
I have at least a job a month on my parents place (which is only a couple of acres!) which a backhoe would save hours of hand digging.
We have also done other jobs that have taken YEARS since we had to hand dig a basement under the house and between the posts. Every summer for the last 14 years we have dug and poured cement.
Renting a small hoe here is 300-400$ a day and we only needed it a few hours a day, for several days. When you add in renting a pickup and flatbed to tow it, we were up to 2000$ per digging session. About 2 of these would happen each summer so there is 4000$ a summer.
The shovel and pick turned out to be the choice.
Ken