Some people will opt to pick up a used backhoe.
then some will not citing high maintenance cost, Outside of storage space if you don't use it the cost is nil
If you intend to do some hard work with the backhoe, it might be a lot cheaper when the smoke clears to have bought a machine designed...
Why not buy a tractor without a backhoe?
good used 2 & 4 wheel drive backhoes are cheap, plus you get a machine that was built for a backhoe
and you don't have to baby it
Here's a frame mounted tractor backhoe that the owner assumed he could operate like a real backhoe. This was on a facebook...