best mini backhoe for agricultural work tips

[barracane]

best mini backhoe for agricultural work tips
We would like to buy a mini backhoe for the countryside. What do you think? A tractor mechanic advised us to get a 5-ton excavator with a bulldozer blade. What do you think? Thanks.

 

[Gecko]

It depends what other machines are available (as well / instead of).
As the owner of a backhoe, I'll say they are versatile, but always fall short of a single purpose machine.

Have you read: https://www.planttalk.co.uk/threads/is-the-backhoe-loader-a-thing-of-the-past.2491/
It's only 100 pages

 

[Simon edwards]

Have you looked at the older modelJCB 2cx/2Dx, really capable little tools.

 

[barracane]

JCB 1CX ''??

 

[Lancs Lad]

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Towable 1cxt still my dream machine

 

[Smiffy]

Towable 1cxt still my dream machine

I think if they made it light enough to be towable it would be of no actual use.


Hydromec make one aswell but slightly bigger possibly slightly more useful.

 

[Lancs Lad]

I think if they made it light enough to be towable it would be of no actual use.


Hydromec make one aswell but slightly bigger possibly slightly more useful.

Yeah exactly still a great tool to have about the patch tho

 

[barracane]

Should I get a backhoe loader or a mini excavator?

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HMK 62 T mini crawler backhoe loader

 

[doobin]

I think if they made it light enough to be towable it would be of no actual use.


Hydromec make one aswell but slightly bigger possibly slightly more useful.

100%.

My Bobcat T450 is towable- if you remove the bucket. It's also very small when you actually put it side by side with a mini digger.

Maybe a decent quality back actor to fit it that you could transport in the towing vehicle would be as close as you could get to a towable 1cxt. Lot of faff changing buckets though- you'd loose half the convenience.

I'd be looking at the Hydromec rather than the 1cxt, but even then I think the back actor is only as good as a 3t mini.

 

[Smiffy]

100%.

My Bobcat T450 is towable- if you remove the bucket. It's also very small when you actually put it side by side with a mini digger.

Maybe a decent quality back actor to fit it that you could transport in the towing vehicle would be as close as you could get to a towable 1cxt. Lot of faff changing buckets though- you'd loose half the convenience.

I'd be looking at the Hydromec rather than the 1cxt, but even then I think the back actor is only as good as a 3t mini.

They are very niche machines I think and would work best when you want to change a lot between attachments. We hire the 3cx compact alot with the breaker on the back and 4 in one on the front. Then have a skidsteer with planer head.
The 1cx/hydromec would be absolutely brilliant on a paving gang with the option of putting the planer head on the front and breaker on the back and remaining small.
Or sweeper bucket on the front and planer head on the back. Would be cheaper and better than a pothole pro.

Other useful jobs would be things like crash barrier replacement or lamp column replacement.

 

[Gunners]

The concept of the 1cx is you get a 3t digger, and a skid steer tool carrier in one machine.
The issue is its not anywhere near as good at either machines job! Visibility to the front bucket is terrible, as is lift capacity and on the back end you obviously have the usual backhoe problem of it being a 180.
But it does look super cool, especially on tracks

Then you get a price for one and realise you could actually buy a 3t digger AND a skid steer for the money a 1cx costs and have some change left over towards a little dumper too. Kinda rules it out I think.

But they do look good....

 

[Smiffy]

The concept of the 1cx is you get a 3t digger, and a skid steer tool carrier in one machine.
The issue is its not anywhere near as good at either machines job! Visibility to the front bucket is terrible, as is lift capacity and on the back end you obviously have the usual backhoe problem of it being a 180.
But it does look super cool, especially on tracks

Then you get a price for one and realise you could actually buy a 3t digger AND a skid steer for the money a 1cx costs and have some change left over towards a little dumper too. Kinda rules it out I think.

But they do look good....

What about the hydromek? Price wise ?

 

[Gunners]

What about the hydromek? Price wise ?

No idea, was back in 2015 I drove a 1cxt and got a price. Not sure Hidromek were around in the UK back then? Certainly not on my radar.
I did have a look round the HMK 62T at Bauma last year. Some good bits, some worse than the JCB - bit like every machine really.

 

[DaveDCB]

The concept of the 1cx is you get a 3t digger, and a skid steer tool carrier in one machine.
The issue is its not anywhere near as good at either machines job! Visibility to the front bucket is terrible, as is lift capacity and on the back end you obviously have the usual backhoe problem of it being a 180.
But it does look super cool, especially on tracks

Then you get a price for one and realise you could actually buy a 3t digger AND a skid steer for the money a 1cx costs and have some change left over towards a little dumper too. Kinda rules it out I think.

But they do look good....

This is always the same issue with a backhoe.. but when you get up to a 3cx size they become a force to be reckoned with!

 

[barracane]

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