3-point back hoe

It hooks up and unhooks quickly. On some jobs, I switch implements 2 or 3 times, and with a little practice, the hoe will go on or off in 5-10 minutes.

The self contained hydraulics with the PTO pump have really worked out well. You're not cycling the temperature on the trannsmission hydraulics, and the PTO pump gives you faster cycle times on the smaller tractors.

It's a digging fool within the limits of the weight of the tractor. On really hard digging, it tends to haul the tractor around by brute force, but that's due to the light weight of the tractor, not the fault of the machine. I continually amaze people with the amount of work it will do.

In several years (6 or more, I'd have to look it up) I've blown a few hoses (normal), put seal kits in the cylinders that spend a lot of time in the dirt (also normal) and welded up a couple of cracks (due to abuse). Here in Maine, rocky digging, ledge and shale are the norm, and the hoe takes a lot of abuse. It cracked at the 'diamond' where the boom and dipperstick connect, right at the sharpest bend in the weldment. Welded it up once, no problems since.

I paid about $4500 for it new. If I needed one, I'd buy another Woods in a second. Come to think of it, that goes for all my Woods implements.

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Actually, the 16 does real well about 90% of the time. The cracks came when I was using the 8" trying to get some fenceposts in that rockpile my Son-in-law calls a field. Wound up having to have about half of them drilled with an air-hammer and pinned!