Front back hoe

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RalphVa

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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
We got stuck behind a tractor going up the road apparently to Barracks Farm (where the hessian POW camp was back in 1775). It had a back hoe in front. Probably used the same hydraulics as the FEL. One would just swing the front of the tractor to make it go side to side.

It was an older JD. Have no idea what model. Had a big bush hog on the 3ph.

Ralph
 
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Did it look anything like this? What a Rube Goldberg!
 

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I once had a problem with the septic system on a rental property we own and the guy I called came out with a Bobcat skid steer with the hoe on the front. He dug up the problem line going to the leach field with no problem. I could have never been able to do it with my B7800 Kubota and hoe, even if the hoe was on the front. Right machine for every job.
 
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But this is like one of those swiss army knives with the Grapple, Forks and Backhoe right there ready for use. lol
 
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Either a front hoe or just the machine is an excavator. Helps with a lot of tash!
 

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I have never seen that before. Seems like a very practical setup. If you pick up a rock in your excavation work for instance, you aren't bounded by the arc of the hoe, or don't have to reposition a tractor.
 
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IF the tractor is equipped with a front 3-pt. hitch-----then you can use any attachment on either end of the tractor, including a 3-pt. backhoe!
 
 

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