which backhoe to buy for a dk50 with cab and hydro

chubby · Oct 31, 2012

don't know how much the claw weighs, when putting on the 12" bucket I just line bucket under dipper then lift bucket, put in one pin then, lift teeth to line second pin. Bucket probably only weighs 50 lbs. Now when I used to put on the 24" I did use a floor jack for assistance. Think it weighs 100lbs. How much does the claw weigh? If the claw works like I think it will, I will only take it off to dig footers or dig out a driveway, or bury animal!

IslandTractor · Oct 31, 2012

Mine weighs close to 100lbs. The challenge in mounting it is that it doesn't lay flat like a bucket so you need to stabilize it at the same time as lifting and lining things up. I save up projects and minimize switches.

Coyote machine · Nov 1, 2012

chubby said:
don't know how much the claw weighs, when putting on the 12" bucket I just line bucket under dipper then lift bucket, put in one pin then, lift teeth to line second pin. Bucket probably only weighs 50 lbs. Now when I used to put on the 24" I did use a floor jack for assistance. Think it weighs 100lbs. How much does the claw weigh? If the claw works like I think it will, I will only take it off to dig footers or dig out a driveway, or bury animal!

As already stated, if you lay it on its back with the tip pointing up toward the tractor's back end, on a hard surface, it will easily connect up by lowering the dipper stick into position. Done. No muss, no fuss. The scoup portion lays on the ground/floor and provides stability. I dropped my 18" four tooth Kioti bucket onto the dolly and move it out of the way for storage, and do the above all in less than ten minutes. Your experience may vary.

Jesse masterson · Nov 2, 2012

Coyote machine said:
As already stated, if you lay it on its back with the tip pointing up toward the tractor's back end, on a hard surface, it will easily connect up by lowering the dipper stick into position. Done. No muss, no fuss. The scoup portion lays on the ground/floor and provides stability. I dropped my 18" four tooth Kioti bucket onto the dolly and move it out of the way for storage, and do the above all in less than ten minutes. Your experience may vary.

If I do it that way can keep all my fingers. Lol

Jesse masterson · Nov 2, 2012

Will I get to keep all my fingers if I do it like that? Lol

blucoondawg · Nov 4, 2012

I have the Woods 90x subframe mount on my DK50SE Hydro, no cab. I have just rolled 50 hours on the tractor, the majority of that is backhoe time. I have been very happy with both the tractor and the backhoe, I have taken the hoe off twice and remounted, the system is quite easy off is just a couple minutes, usually a few extra minutes to mount depending on how well I line it up on approach. I have done quite a bit with the hoe so far, I have been working on puttin up 550 ft of chainlink fence I am burying a little in the ground to keep dogs from digging under, I have dug some larger holes for burying rock and other debris, I have pulled many stumps of various sizes, as a matter of fact one was very large, 3 basswood growing in a clump and a single basswood about 2ft away but grown together in the roots, I dug it out then had trouble moving the massive thing, I tried to use the loader to roll it away and it ended up slipping off the bucket and smashed my grill guard into the headlight cowling smashing **** out of it

, oh well, it got its first battle scar and my first repair project, lol.

chubby · Nov 8, 2012

Thank you Kioti, new dipper stick and bucket installed. Tech worked on cold start smoke issue for three hours and still have white and black smoke with rough idle on cold start. Removed all four glow plugs and all are heating correctly. When warm at full throttle still have puffs of white smoke. I never run at full throttle so I never picked up that little tid bit of info. Tech is going to talk to Kioti and I guess we will go from there. I have had rough run and smoke at cold start since new. But HOE is now as it should have 11/11/11 when I took delivery.