Posted by 135 Fan on December 12, 2010 at 19:32:09 from (68.149.56.30):
In Reply to: Building a Backhoe ?'s posted by LOU from Wi. on December 12, 2010 at 18:50:12:
You'd have to rent one an awful lot for it to be worth considering building your own. If you want to dig stumps out, you need a decent backhoe. You can get backhoes that tow behind a vehicle. Princess Auto in Canada has them. By the time you purchased all the hydraulics, an engine, the steel and everything else to build one, you'd spend more than buying a new one or a good used self propelled one. Like was said, there's a lot of engineering in a backhoe. I have Cat designed and built backhoe on my track loader and still managed to rip the top swing mount out of it. Any homemade hoes I've seen were very crude looking and I doubt would work anywhere near as good a factory made one. What would be a better project would be to make boom with a reverse bucket and cylinder to fit your skid steer. There's pictures of them on the internet. Dave
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