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Anonymous Poster · Jan 28, 2002

This looks just like the backhoe I built from the CADPlans company. They work with a place call Metkit that supplies it as a kit for like 1,600.00 and all you need to do is weld it together. I made one for my BX and it works great for digging holes for trees, drainage trenches, and even a small pond. It works great for the jobs it is sized to perform.

smilingreen · Jan 28, 2002

Gerard,
I have rented a New Holland backhoe 3 times from Nations Rent. Cost per 8 hour rental? $300.00 per 8 hours + delivery. Did a lot of digging and dirt moving in those 8 hours.

shade2u2 · Jan 30, 2002

Paul, Steve,
I vote for 2 & 3.
I would be interested in a larger lite duty unit for my TC33D at this price.

Also, In our area one can rent a trac-hoe (5000lb, 10' depth) for $206 per day + $35/hr for hrs in excess of 8. this includes Saturday 2pm until Monday 8am...

cckjone · Mar 27, 2004

( I have read enough here and spoken with enough people face to face to suspect that most potential hoe buyers think similarly, at least in the lightweight, homeowner category.
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I, for one, want to hear more. There's a market out there for light duty FELs. (Kubota makes a ton of money on BX machines that are restricted to under 500 lbs.) I believe there's a market for lightduty, inexpensive backhoes. If you build it, they will come.

Henro · Mar 27, 2004

I could not help but think of those CadPlans units that people buy and use and are happy with.

Granted SteveP's little backhoe is not what most of us might want if we were going to do anything more than slightly on the side of hard work.

Still, someone with a small tractor like the Kubota bx, or equal, just might like having something like that to use for light duty things like planting a tree or digging a 2' deep trench, or the like.

Keeping in mind that it might cost me $800 to $1,000 to put a top and tilt on my tractor...and that is only a couple control valves and cylinders and some hose...$2,850 delivered starts to look more reasonable...

That being said, add hydrauilc stabilizers and before you know it the price may approach 2/3 of a "brand name" backhoe...

Perhaps SteveP should consider marketing something that no one sells...an even smaller backhoe for the sub CUTS. Light duty, maybe 4' capacity, 12" bucket ...something that home owner that would never buy a real backhoe might consider just to have since it would not break the bank...

I guess I have another opinion and it is "Go smaller young man..." /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I suppose that is choice 2, slightly modified... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Bob_Skurka · Mar 27, 2004

Does that come with a PTO powered hydraulic pump or use the tractor's hydraulics?

I would only offer the hydraulic stabilizers.

I agree that marketing to the sub-cut owners or small cut owners who are looking to plant a few trees is the way to go.

keeney · Mar 27, 2004

The need for a small, inexpensive hoe is best explained by the convenience factor.

Yes, I can run down to the rental place and maybe 90 minutes or so later, come back home with a track-hoe or a TLB that could dig my whole basement in a day or plant a tree in ten seconds.

The hassle is that I have to have a truck and trailer (or rent one or more of those as well), or pay for delivery. Delivery adds even more delay.

By the time the equipment was on my lot, I would instead have already decided, heck it will only take half an hour to dig this hole with a shovel, and the work would already be done.

Also, once I paid the $250 or $300 daily charge, I would be tempted to save up a bunch of little projects to do with it. That would add immense complexity to my honey-do-list scheduling, or would be a great procastination excuse.

Net answer is that I always end up using a shovel or improvising with the FEL, or some combination.

If I had a small, quick-to-attach backhoe sitting on hot-standby, I would just go connect it up, dig what I had to dig, and be done before the rental machine could even arrive.

So the value is convenience.

- Rick