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I bought a John Deere backhoe with an aftermarket JRB 4-in-1 bucket. That 4-in-1 makes the machine incredibly useful for cleaning up around the farm -- you can clamshell 20 foot tree trunks, wads of blackberry vines, snarls of barbed wire, lengths of PVC pipe. You can pull tee posts without leaving the cab. With a straight bucket I'd be booting this stuff all over the place, or looking for backup, or wrapping the items with a chain. As a dozer, even a 4WD backhoe is never going to equal a tracked machine, but the 4-in-1 in dozer mode does a passable job consolidating brush piles, or making a first pass through 20 foot tall blackberry, or lightly grading a gravel driveway. For me, the 4-in-1 bucket adds trememdously to the efficiency and versatility of the machine. I don't see any real downside (other than more stuff to break) .. the bucket still loads and grades just fine in bucket mode.
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