Posted by George Marsh on August 15, 2014 at 04:10:28 from (50.121.113.247):
In Reply to: Ford 4000 industrial posted by Brad Buchanan on August 14, 2014 at 07:52:43:
Brad, I use my toy terramite all the time taking care of little jobs on all my properties, I have 10 rentals and 2 homes.
Yesterday, I was moving mulch. Doing flower beds. I was thinking I would hate to have a backhoe with standard tranny. Mine is hydrostatic. Loading mulch from a pile to my dump trailer is a lot of back and forths, turning. If it were a stick I would have to slip the clutch when loading the bucket. It would be no fun for me grabbing gears, using a clutch.
It would be no fun if I had to get off the tractor seat and get on a different seat to operate the hoe.
As for a strong front end, my toy can handle all I can put in the bucket. However I have a pile of motar sand, quick sand, in the gravel pit. When I try to load it, the front wheels want to get stuck. That's when you have to use a ballast weight on the back hook to transfer weight to the rear wheels. Using a backhoe is a game of torque, levers, transfering weight to compensate for the weight you put in the bucket.
I use my hoe to push an 8 ft homemade show plow in the winter. Growing up on a dairy farm in N Indiana, taught me diesels are very hard to start in cold weather. So, I like a gas tractor. I have no problems starting mine in sub-zero temps in a cold pole barn. I don't like the smell of diesel eigher. Just my opinion hoes. Get one, they are a lot of fun. I'm like a kid in a sand box.
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