Has anyone seen a HOE like this HOE

[seedman4]

Get on this web site to view the HOE

ForeHoe/Backhoe Loader Digger

 

[Bedlam]

Wow interesting Not sure how it would handle the rocks etc that we have in my area. but seems to be good for the price, and the right jobs.

 

[Ductape]

Might as well get out the hand shovel.

 

[texasjohn]

I'm not going to buy or make one anytime soon.... too much rock where I am.. and, if you are in sandy land, why not pull pipe, etc. with a subsoiler arrangement. There may be an application for this, but I can't see it right now.

 

[john_bud]

P.T. Barnum was right.

jb

 

[JoeinTX]

Novel idea, but how does it empty away from the cutting area? I suppose if you were adept with FEL and had the time to blow.........you could make a semi-decent gouge in the ground. Not a bad idea, but just not the optimal one........a guy on a backhoe who knows what he's doing.

 

[MJPetersen]

Seems to me to be alot of effort to avoid a shovel!! I think that an attachment on the 3pt would do more faster where you could see it.

Mike

 

[heymack]

That's funny.....I won't be trading my Ford 555A for one anytime soon.

 

[Jimbrown]

I would rather have one like this!

 

[Soundguy]

Yikes.. a small stump bucket at 8" wide could be added tot he loader e and dig better than that. maybee not as deep.. but that thing looks flimsy to me.

Soundguy

 

[srjones]

Seems to me to be alot of effort to avoid a shovel!!

Mike

Next time you're digging a trench with a shovel, you might not feel the same way

At the risk offering a contrarian view, it seems like for what this is, it's probably well built and reasonably priced. I don't think the P.T. Barnum rule applies here. Considering that a backhoe attachment would be 10-20X the cost, it would seem to serve a specific market niche. Of course, backhoe or trackhoe would be a better option if you digging a lot or deeper, or in rocky soils.

No, I don't have one, but I think I could fab something like this (and I just might )

 

[Vern1]

Greetings,
Actually yes, I have seen a similar one in action.
The owner must have used it quite a bit as he was pretty good and quick with it.
Granted he was not as fast as anyone who had spent over an hour or two on a real hoe but he built his own and didn't have the 6 to 8 grand invested in a regular hoe - it WAS as fast as a some of the "compact toys" with short booms doing straight trenching about 2 feet deep.....but then he WASN'T in the clay where I live!
Most private people (not commercial users) with a hoe only use it a little - and if you figure the cost vs hours used, it comes out to hundreds if not thousands per hour.....until you use it a lot!

If you look around at the skidsteer bunch, they have something similar but use a regular shapped bucket but the skidsteer version is much quicker due to the manueverability of the machines it's attached to.

 

[Grizz]

Anything got to be better than this

 

[Grrrr]

That thing looks like it would be a PITA to use. You wouldn't be able to see it as the bonnet would be in the way.

For digging a trench I think a bucket dragged along on the TPH would be better.

For digging a deeper hole I would just get out a spade (or use a PHD)