Did Bobcat make a gas powered mini backhoe ?

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Bobcat did have a line of smaller tractor backhoes similar to the Termite. The smallest was B200, all were Kubota diesel powered no gas version. If it is one of these the starting issue may be easy fix, they use an electric fuel lift pump but no type of filter between tank to pump. The pump would plug with debris and quite working.

Be advised; these are good little digging machine but have slow ground speed they do not have 2 speed motor/differential. Also the pump system is quite expensive to repair or replace because these are no longer built and the company that made the pump went out of business, was bought out by another company. I do not recall names of the pump supplier. There are a couple threads in the Bobcat Construction forum here in TBN that discusses troubleshooting and repair of these backhoes.
 
   / Did Bobcat make a gas powered mini backhoe ? #12  
I read somewhere that Bobcat bought the Terramite and then brought out new models of it, and then dropped it after a few years.
 
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I read somewhere that Bobcat bought the Terramite and then brought out new models of it, and then dropped it after a few years.

No it was not Terramite, it was Earthforce made in Chech Republic. Bobcat only had this backhoe line for about 4 years, the purchase was primarily to obtain the manufacturing facility to expand in Europe. Bobcat had the backhoe line because IR (corporate owner at the time) wanted it.
 
   / Did Bobcat make a gas powered mini backhoe ?
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No it was not Terramite, it was Earthforce made in Chech Republic. Bobcat only had this backhoe line for about 4 years, the purchase was primarily to obtain the manufacturing facility to expand in Europe. Bobcat had the backhoe line because IR (corporate owner at the time) wanted it.

So did bobcat rebrand the EF1 ?, seems the early EF1 backhoes had the Kohler command gas engine ...
 

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