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<blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 7112" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>I'd say for limited use for shallow trenches on firm soil they would be ok.</p><p>However, expect 4 to 5 feet deep instead of 9.</p><p>On soft muddy ground you will tear the soil up or may get stuck because you have to constantly turn the loader to dump the bucket. Some of the bobtach hoes have a swing cylinder in the boom to reduce skidding the loader, at a higher price of course.</p><p>Finally, using your bucket dump cylinders to press the hoe bucket into the ground puts an extreme amount of force on your quick attach locking pins. The QA was designed to be loaded from the top down, not lifted on from the bottom up. Some have had trouble ripping the lower holes out of the QA plate on the bobtach hoe iteself to.</p><p>It is not near as good as a real backhoe, but cost and amount of use (or lack of) make it a ok option for some, just like those of us with a real backhoe, quickly realize how nice a Mini Excavator would be. But we all have budgets to live within to. My personal feeling in good used real backhoes can be found for not much more then the cost of a new bobtach hoe.</p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skidsteer.ca, post: 7112, member: 307"] I'd say for limited use for shallow trenches on firm soil they would be ok. However, expect 4 to 5 feet deep instead of 9. On soft muddy ground you will tear the soil up or may get stuck because you have to constantly turn the loader to dump the bucket. Some of the bobtach hoes have a swing cylinder in the boom to reduce skidding the loader, at a higher price of course. Finally, using your bucket dump cylinders to press the hoe bucket into the ground puts an extreme amount of force on your quick attach locking pins. The QA was designed to be loaded from the top down, not lifted on from the bottom up. Some have had trouble ripping the lower holes out of the QA plate on the bobtach hoe iteself to. It is not near as good as a real backhoe, but cost and amount of use (or lack of) make it a ok option for some, just like those of us with a real backhoe, quickly realize how nice a Mini Excavator would be. But we all have budgets to live within to. My personal feeling in good used real backhoes can be found for not much more then the cost of a new bobtach hoe. Ken [/QUOTE]
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