Backhoe In The 60s

rusty6 · Nov 5, 2018

Back in the 1960s you didn't have to buy a big expensive construction grade tractor and backhoe. Just attach one to the back of your Massey 44 farm tractor. This was a local guy that did the trenching for sewer and water lines when my dad got the modern conveniences in the house about 1964.

wilson ind · Nov 5, 2018

Still can!!

GWIndy · Nov 5, 2018

Have one mounted on a MF 35 that we still use today for light work, field tile repair, getting rocks out of fields, etc. Use a Cat 4 wheel drive w/extenda hoe for large jobs.

55 50 Ron · Nov 5, 2018

He even has a hard hat on! Way before OSHA or what ever it's known as in Canada. Those are good tractors. Do you know the brand of the back-hoe and front-end loader? The back-hoe was probably "self contained" hydraulics and took power from tractor PTO?

INCase · Nov 5, 2018

everything is more complicated than it used to be.... and therefore more expensive.. by today's standard he probably didn't make alot of money but probably made a decent living at it.

like to have a little self contained 3pt backhoe. but you can rent a full size loader/hoe for about $200-250/day so it doesn't make too much sense to have a $4000 3pt backhoe sitting around to use every 2 or 3 years.

rusty6 · Nov 5, 2018

(quoted from post at 10:00:23 11/05/18) He even has a hard hat on! Way before OSHA or what ever it's known as in Canada. Those are good tractors. Do you know the brand of the back-hoe and front-end loader? The back-hoe was probably "self contained" hydraulics and took power from tractor PTO?

I would guess it had a pto driven pump as the standard 44 hydraulics likely wouldn't be adequate to run something that big.
The backhoe was yellow, thats all I know.

coshoo · Nov 5, 2018

Buy that boy a Terramite!

My dad was a carpenter, and he took to wearing his hard hat even when working around the farm. I asked him once why he didn't wear a regular hat, he said he had gotten used to it and it was just "his hat" now.

It did come in handy for me once- I was driving the 8N home from somewhere when I was 11 or 12- came across some gorgeous ripe blackberries on the way. Took the webbing out of the hard hat, wiped it out as best I could with an old lunch sack, and picked it full, with visions of a smiling mother and a pie. All this took some time, of course, and when I got home, she was about to send out a search party because she just knew I was lying in a ditch somewhere with the N on top of me. To make matters worse, Dad kind of got a kick out of the whole thing. I'm happy to report that she eventually calmed down and I got my pie.

Billy NY · Nov 5, 2018

Still see a fair amount of backhoes like these out there. I can't see all the levers, does not look like it, but probably a 4 stick like most if not were back then. Some people swear by them over a 2 stick arrangement, not the easiest to get used to operating, but sure as heck beats a shovel LOL !

hd6gtom · Nov 5, 2018

Dads cousin had 1 similar to that on the back on a 8n ferd. He foolishly bid on a the job of digging graves in the cemetery across the fence from home. One December day he drove that darn thing by. About an hour later he came walking back down the road, wanted to borrow a pick to get thru the frost. Dad had to finish chores so he sent us kids with him to help him dig the grave. When we got thru the frost the darn ferd wouldn't start so we wound up digging the whole grave by hand. He never bid on digging graves again.

onefarmer · Nov 5, 2018

I have two 3pt backhoes. The main one is an Arps that will dig down 6' and might go down 7'. the second one is a John Deere. It's not as big but gets the job done.

RedMF40 · Nov 5, 2018

Not mine, but close to where I live. Seems like a reasonable deal for someone willing to build their own tractor.
Build your own backhoe Loader

lenray · Nov 5, 2018

I am trying to sell just the hoe off a White 4-80-17--meaning it will dig 17 feet deep. Needs a rather big tractor or dozer crawler type of machine....

550Doug · Nov 5, 2018

(quoted from post at 11:20:49 11/05/18) Back in the 1960s you didn't have to buy a big expensive construction grade tractor and backhoe. Just attach one to the back of your Massey 44 farm tractor. This was a local guy that did the trenching for sewer and water lines when my dad got the modern conveniences in the house about 1964.

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That backhoe looks like the MF 202 model that I put on my 1965 Cockshutt 2-44LL. It was an industrial yellow before I painted it in 2003. I've used it a lot and much of that paint is gone now. It runs off of a front-mounted hyd pump and does not use the 3pth. It has a beam that attaches under the loader frame ond onto the lower beam of the hoe. It also has a supporting pipe from the top beam of the hoe to the tractor axle.

old-9 · Nov 5, 2018

Post WW II the big thing was surplus jeeps. They made so many attachments for them. When I was 6 or 7 our sewer plugged with roots, dad hired a guy with an old jeep with a pull type backhoe. Was run off a PTO on the jeep. When you are so young , you never forget a machine like that. A simple search found that a mounted hoe was also made.
cool

rusty6 · Nov 5, 2018

I don't have any close up pictures but I would bet money that this backhoe was not 3 point hitch mount. I have never seen a Massey 44 with 3 point hitch here. And I have seen a lot of Massey 44s.
I recall a company named Hopto that made backhoe attachments for tractors and jeeps in the fifties. I have an ad here somewhere if I can find it.

hermit · Nov 5, 2018

I was expecting a picture of a shovel.

rusty6 · Nov 5, 2018

(quoted from post at 17:59:16 11/05/18) I was expecting a picture of a shovel.

We wore out a few shovels here in those days. In fact it really made my day when a neighbour commented "He is as good as his old man on the end of a shovel". That was an all day project shovelling cement and gravel to build a foundation for a machine shed. A whole crew of farmers got it done. Thats the way we did it in those days. Now, we phone the redi mix trucks.

oldtanker · Nov 5, 2018

(quoted from post at 13:20:13 11/05/18) Dads cousin had 1 similar to that on the back on a 8n ferd. He foolishly bid on a the job of digging graves in the cemetery across the fence from home. One December day he drove that darn thing by. About an hour later he came walking back down the road, wanted to borrow a pick to get thru the frost. Dad had to finish chores so he sent us kids with him to help him dig the grave. When we got thru the frost the darn ferd wouldn't start so we wound up digging the whole grave by hand. He never bid on digging graves again.

Well it's a good thing he had that ole Ford.......if it had been an AC product he'd of had to walk both ways......

Rick

sms · Nov 6, 2018

I learned on four stick machines and still have one I don't use anymore. Back in the day most people used cable shovels or one with a backhoe front on them.

sms · Nov 6, 2018

here's one
Bantam Hoe

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