What do you use your Back Hoe for?

[PeterK]

Good question. In retrospect I would have not bought the BX24, but a BX2350 (or now a BX2660) w/FEL instead simply because I don't use the BH. I played around with a stump once and only once. Just don't have the need, don't own horse, already have a pond (from a rented excavator). So IMO, not as important as the $$ would have been for other attachments.

I even went to the dealer to trade for a 2660 but the result would have been me paying a few k$ and giving them the new BH. Everything else would swap. The BH sits on a dolly in the corner of my shop taking up space that I would like back. Wanna buy it?

OTOH, I would be completely disabled without the FEL and 3-point.

Just MHO.

 

[santacruzer]

My dealer talked me out of buying a tractor with a backhoe. I looked at a BX24 but got the 2350. I've had it for over a year and there have a lot of times I could have used the BH...not for kicks ...but really used it.

Nice thing about a smaller one (at least for me) is the places you can get it into.

Paul

 

[LBrown59]

Just barely got mine, so far pulled a stump and dug for a gate.
*I've been mainly using it as an exercise machine by hooking and unhooking it.

I don't get any exercise doing that with mine .
I just leave it on the tractor since i have 2 other tractors.

 

[LBrown59]

Just barely got mine, so far pulled a stump and dug for a gate.
1*I've been mainly using it as an exercise machine by hooking and unhooking it.

Removal of Stumps or whole trees, digging trenches & planting trees is all I have used mine for.
2* I tried the FEL for tree/stump removal, what a job that is.

3*My dealer talked me out of buying a tractor with a backhoe. I looked at a BX24 but got the 2350. I've had it for over a year and there have a lot of times I could have used the BH...not for kicks ...but really used it.

Nice thing about a smaller one (at least for me) is the places you can get it into.

Paul

1*I don't put mine on and take mine off.
2*Doing it with a FEl would suck after using a BH.
3*Glad my dealer didn't screw me up like that.

 

[newbury]

I don't get any exercise doing that with mine .
I just leave it on the tractor since i have 2 other tractors.

If my backhoe was a small as yours

I wouldn't get any exercise either

Yours probably slides off and on easily.

 

[Botabill]

I don't have a BH but in it's place a small excavator - sort of the same. I use it for stump removal, tree moving, burying dead pets, seperating and moving old asparagus plants, rock placing or removal in my garden, septic repairs, waterline trencing, ripping wild grape vines off trees, drainage installaition and control, trail building and most recently to double depth dig a new garden site in horrible heavy rocky clay. The tractor front end loader gets a lot more use but it's nice to have that backhoe.