Harbor Freight Trencher

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I bought a Woods BH6000 off of Craigslist for $2800. It was literally used once to repair the guys stone wall. My Yanmar 186D is virtually identical in size to your 650. This backhoe is the perfect size for our tractors. Now, i did spend several hundred more having hoses made and getting steel cut to build my subframe (i have a welder and built the subframe myself). I strongly suggest you be patient and keep looking. I have heard many times those small diggers pull themselves all over the place because they won't stay planted (at least in soil similar to mine). There are plenty of Woods 650s out there..... scour classified ads and be patient. I looked at PLENTY of worn out, patched up JUNK before i found this. PATIENCE !! I used a "TOE HOE" from Northern Tools for about 15 years, dug lots of water lines, a couple of thousand feet of irrigation lines, sprinkler lines, maintained waterlines at two rental trailers, Water and power trenches for my church and finally blew out three hydraulic cylinders digging drainage lines at our church. I finally Broke down and bought a Korean 7600 for my kubota. clay is a PITA. haven't really had any problems except when I was trying to do something that really needed a larger machine. bigest problem is freight, it weighs 1000 lbs. It can be towed with a car or truck but a long tow would be better on a trailer or in a truck bed. If anybody in South texas would like it you can pick it up in Sequin, TX. It has 12" and a 9" buckets. You will have to finish installing the cylinders, it has all the fittings. My brother built the Cad Digger 628 some years ago. He lives south of Austin and has very hard rocky ground. Used the crud out of it. I tried it out and thought it would work great in soft soil. Beats a shovel. The big thing I noticed was if you tried to pull to hard, it would drag itself forward easy. We have 2 Harbor Freight stores in the area. I have not seen this at any. For the $3k you might be able to find a decent used 3 point. Opinions opinions, everyone has an opinion. So Do I but I actually own and operate one of the HF ride on trenchers (like a small back hoe) and it works good for me. I have few illusions of grandeur about it being a humongous industrial rated monster digger but it trenches and digs OK for me.

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