A few years back was looking at backhoe on tractor or excavator and a great friend of mine who owned small site work company was who I went to for advice. He said what I wanted could do with either, but the excavator would be a good bit quicker as it would fully rotate and moving for say digging ditch was much faster than with outriggers. Now I realize if you want to dig a hole here and then run 100 feet and dig another the tractor travels much faster. Every time I think on his recommendation am so thankful I went with excavator. No idea about where you are but here for $6,000 you will find a fair selection of 6,000 pound excavators that have lots of life in them. That frees up the tractor to pull trailer for what ever you dig such as dirt but does mean two machines. NO ONE SET UP IS PERFECT while the other is all wrong. I would not trade my excavator for backhoes on each of my three tractors. Then I do use my tractors as tractors and not loaders backhoes. My largest does have loader but I use it with the excavator, the two are much more efficient than to me a tlb setup is. Again that is for ME AND MY USE. Realize others will say for them the TLB is best set up. Just my experience.