On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 23:34:06 -0600
"Pete C." wrote:


Ignoramus16276 wrote:

You can do anything, but it will cost you a lot more than a real
backhoe and it will likely not be very usable.

Exactly.

The little towable backhoes and tractor attachment backhoes sort of
work, but they are painfully slow, often can only actuate one joint at a
time and have very little diging power. They have open center hydraulics
with gear pumps of perhaps 10gpm and rarely have more than 20hp driving
them.
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Several youtube videos showing them in use:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...reight+backhoe

I think you would be hard pressed to build one less expensively than
what Harbor Freight will sell you one. Unless you already have a bunch
of the parts...

http://www.harborfreight.com/towable...her-65162.html


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