I just bought a 1025R with the loader and backhoe, my primary use is going to be on my homestead so I didn't really need anything bigger, plus as you mentioned the smaller size lets me get into places that bigger tractors couldn't go.
Oh, yeah, first thing you should do IS CALL FOR A LOCATE! I had a contractor dig out two egress windows for me -- second scoop -- gas line. So, yeah, call first!
Tim, here is a suggestion from an old loader operator. When digging with the bucket jiggle your bucket back and forth as you move forward and as you lift. You will have an easier time.
Loved it. I have a Kubota B3300SU with a BH 77 backhoe. I usually use it for trenching, digging out small stumps, and minor construction. It is a lot of fun and can be a real challenge. I was helping a buddy do the dirt work for a new garage / workshop. Big job for my small backhoe but, as you pointed out, larger equipment would not have been able to get into the smaller areas. My friends house was built in 1856 and he has done considerable restoration. It is a marvelous old house but, as was common in those times the yard is very narrow. It is also built into a fairly steep hill. Part of the one of the walls was buried about 5 feet. It took us a month working 4 hours a day to get everything completed. A lot of this was our inexperience causing us to redo parts we had already finished. We did find a lot of limestone building rocks, old bottles, old chunks of mortar,… that had been used in old out buildings and later used as fill. Like I said fun, challenging, and educational.
I'm looking hard at getting a 1025R, moving up from an X748. The capabilities of this subcompact are amazing. I've seen videos showing how easy the back hoe installs and removes, and drove the tractor at a dealer today. I'm sold, just got to negotiate a price.
Thinking about buying this exact tractor for my little one man landscaping company. Salesman told me it would be perfect at there shouldn’t be much need to go larger for now cause this thing would surprise me, both the tractor and the backhoe. After finding your channel today and watching a few vids, which are very informative and cool btw, yes I subscribed I think my mind is made up. This 1025r is the tractor for me to at least start with knowing I can always go bigger down the road. Thanks for helping me make my mind up and keep the content coming! One thing you said that helped me come to terms is ease of getting this tractor into a backyard because I’ve got quite a few projects coming up this year where fence gates will be an issue but apparently not with this tractor.
One technique I learned, and saw you do one time, is using your backhoe bucket to push the waste pile back as you dump. It keeps the pile from getting too high to dump over. One of the advantages of the Kioti is that the backhoe has an independent seat for just the reason you demonstrated. It’s more wear and tear lifting, turning and lowering every time you need to change functions. The subframe mount is also a great feature for the backhoe. I gather you folks fortunately do not have drain pipes around your foundation? In the northeast we do…even if we’re not in a flood zone. I’ve never quite understood why a backhoe is as standard as a loader on a tractor. I couldn’t imagine not having one! Great video and great backhoe work!!!
Nice attachment, if you set the backhoe up at about 45* angle to the house, away from your spoil heap, you might find it easier than slewing all the way to the left to dump the bucket. 👍
I used the loader on my Massey Ferguson 3165, before I owned a backhoe attachment to dig my basement entry, i dug 8 foot wide, 5.5 foot deep angled entrance about 12 foot long or more. It was difficult, but it worked.
You need to put a lot more pressure on the rest outriggers and put your bucket on the front flattop the ground and more pressure just as for the back outriggers.
I get the impression by watching this guy's videos, that he's some kind of expert. Nothing he does can't be done by anyone else with a similar setup. I've done jobs like these and more with mine, but don't feel the need to video the.
Nope. Not an expert. Just a guy with a tractor. Folks seem to enjoy watching our videos, and we appreciate it. In this early video, we didn’t have the right backhoe bucket for the job. Took forever. We have since got much more equipment. Thanks for watching.
I've dug a couple of those by hand on a crew. It wasn't fun! You have to dig deep enough for a footing, form and pour the walls and connect them to the foundation. Then cut the foundation opening, make steps and put on a bulkhead door if needed.
I agree with your wife. You definately needed a bigger bucket, which you may have by now. Then again, if you had Casey, he would have been more suited for this job, but you didn't have him at this time, if I remember correctly. Overall, you did great, Sir. GOD Bless.
My seat rod has broke twice. the last time I took it in they replaced it with a different design, and so far this rod hasn't broke. I'm having trouble with my backhoe now. It loses pressure in the dipper cylinder every so often randomly, and it will act like it has air in it. No visible leaks, but it keeps doing it. Had it into the dealer twice now, and both times they told me they can't make it do it, therefore there's nothing wrong with it. Not very happy, I'll probably be calling john deere and asking them why their technicians can't fix the problem before my warranty runs out.
Great video man! I got a heavy hitch cat 1 wait bracket for my x730 and I got a cat 1 3 point hitch for the x730 and a rear PTO! I got a tiller and a bush hog!
I just got a 1025r a few days ago, my bucket on the backhoe is much bigger, an has 3 teeth. I don't have a spin seat either. Looks like they have improved their backhoe on the newer mods.
I love the 1025r that I have but the backhoe and the loader are not smooth in their operation. I tested a Kubota 25d and wish I would have bought it instead of the Deere. The Kubota’s hydraulics are so much smoother than my 1025r. I also like the ability of the Kubota to use two hydraulic functions at the same time like lift and curl of the loader bucket. Thanks for the video the Deere is still a good machine.
Hey Tim and family. I just bought a new house and looking at getting a tractor. A buddy has an 1025r and got me looking and I found your videos. After like 3, I decided to start from the beginning. So you might see some random comments from me “thru the years”. After all that, thank you for sharing the tractor and family; really convinced me to get one...just what size?!? Thank you.
So the 16" is on it's way??! Still did a great job. Sometimes bigger can be better but not always. Hey it's Jan. here and the grass is not all green. Not t-shirt weather either. :)
Its been more than a year since this video came out, what would have been nice is a extending stick for the backhoe, same with the slider so the boom, stick, and bucket could move to one side.
You gotta get a fabricator to make you a bucket blade: drill four holes in your bucket, or, two and have a lip on the blade. The blade or sweeper is a flat piece of steel as wide as you want it...and you hang-the-clip and bolt it on, and you can sweep dirt/gravel out of a pit like that. You can make it so its on the bottom of the bucket so as you have the teeth straight down, the blade is vertical. That, or, get a Casey and do it parallel to the foundation :)
Nice video. Have you ever thought of adding a work light out on the boom of the backhoe? I've seen quite a few small tractors with them and it makes it easy to light up down in the hole while digging.
@@TractorTimewithTim are you glad that you stayed with the 1025r not the 2025r because I like the 2025r like you but it would be to big for some of your jobs!
Maybe you could shoot a video about how you tie down your tractor on the trailer for hauling. I'm going to buy a trailer when it's time to get my 1025r TLB. It would be nice to see where to hook to, what kind of straps you use, etc.
I noticed a lot of swing with my 447 backhoe on my 3203 tractor. Since the tractor has only 800 hours on it, I was wondering if there were any adjustments I could make, so the backhoe does not swing as much. Is it just the normal wear and tear on the bearing or it is something with the hydraulic?
Interesting job for Johnny. If he was bigger, kids would call him names. Fatty Fatty 2x4 can't get through the fence door. As hard as the ground was the 16" bucket may have called on Johnny's manhood and see if he had enough guts to gitter done. It is a balance and a trade off. I would recommend to the finance dept, consider purchasing a larger bucket, maybe from the used market even. How hard is it to get the pins out and remove the bucket? Idea: If there was an attachment to fit over the front bucket teeth so it could be more of a scupper than digger when needed like this where you were up against the foundation. Enjoyed the video
+RK Harm24 all good stuff. I saw a 16" bucket on Craigslist 1.5 years ago. It never sold...to my knowledge. ...but I don't know how to back and search for it.
We just do this in the evenings. I have no idea how many hours you can get out of one of these tractors. Lots. Having said this, I would be careful thinking that you are going to be able to support yourself with one of these little tractors. That is not our goal. Rather, our goal is to show what projects you can accomplish on your own property with one of these tractors.
+Cash Johnston yep. Poor planning, I guess...I could see better than the camera indicated, but I wouldn't want to dig with the backhoe in the dark without more lights
+Jeff Rainwater I bought the backhoe used. It had the 8" bucket, so I had no choice. Having said that, I think I would have bought 8" at the time. If buying now, with unlimited funds, I would buy 16" bucket and add bxpanded quick disconnect and trencher bucket. The trencher bucket wouldn't get packed full of mud like the 8". So, to answer your question, no, the 12" bucket would be too wide for trenches (in my opinion), and I might as well have the 16" for digging holes. I should write up a website post on this, I guess!
Hi tim nice job the teeth on the bucket work nice & we like to get a small and ditch bucket of ours and yes i think you need some more lights on johnny ! take care !
A mini excavator would be much more effective. kubota kx41 or similar. Backhoe loaders are very old school , takes time . I would have that out in about a hour.
If you dig for a living the mini excavator is for sure the way to go but when you do many different small jobs here and there getting one main machine and using attachment is the way to go. It beats having to buy a skid loader, mower, excavator and several other machines when you can get most of the stuff with one machine using different attachments. I'm looking at a tractor now but think i need to bump myself up to 3 or 4 series. Places like this for example I would have taken down fence panel to get in if room was limited. I'm thinking I'd rather have a little more power and lifting weight.
We have a 5320 at the golf course I work at, a little bigger than this but not much. We use the loader quite a bit, but rarely if ever the backhoe. We don't have many tasks that ever need it, it mostly just serves as a counterweight on the loader...
i just dug a 2 by 4 ft hole 6ft deep to seal a crack today. took me about 5 hrs to dig and backfill plus about 45 min to clean somebodies early attempt off and tar and plastic it real good
I would love to know what you can charge to do work like this. My wife and I just moved onto a small 5 acre piece of property and would love to have something like “Johnny” for my projects around here, But will need some convincing of the wife and that may be a lot easier if it could pay for itself doing side work
Are you saying that you don’t chargeor that I’m not inexperienced? I have hours operating a bucket on a tractor and backhoe on family members farms. Just don’t know what job prices look like
I have no idea of your experience, sorry. We don’t discuss pricing on this channel for a variety of reasons. The primary one is because every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinks they can pay for their tractor by working for hire. ...and they’ve never even driven a tractor before. It is our belief that folks with proper experience doing this type of work will KNOW how to price it in their area, and they should do it for free until comfortable. That is what we did.
Wow, I think those are the biggest teeth I've ever seen on a bucket that size. You seem to be losing a lot of product when curling the bucket back. Yes a bigger backhoe would have made the job easier. I hope homeowner Dan plans on redirecting the downspout away from the new hole.
The excavator looks like it has way too much slop/limited function for the $8,000 Deere wants for one. I think I would buy one of those Chinese mini excavators for 8k instead. The main positive I see is that it's attached to the tractor and stabilizers so you have 0 rollover risk with it. One less motor to maintain as well.
With all the talks of bucket size, Can you purchase just the buckets or is there a different back hoe model for each bucket size? Those BackHoe's are expensive :)
Why isn't there any backhoes made now that will dig 10" for tractors?? (other than the $200,000. commercial ones??) I had a mid size Massy Ferguson Probably made in the 80's some where between 28-32HP I bought used and the guy said it would dig 10' so I took it to my property and it dug 10'11" hole easy and was great until I had to go in the hospital and someone came and stole everything off my property including my tractor... Now I still need a Tractor, but can't find one that can dig 10+ft... I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to put in 2 1000gal tanks or 1 2000gal, but I need to dig at least 4 feet below the frost line of 4 ft so I need to dig like 2 ft under that to put in the crushed rock and then sand to place the tank on... So if you know of someone that makes a backhoe to fit on a tractor and can be removed easy so I can put other things on it... Please let me know... If there a backhoe maker out there, PLEASE START TO MAKE THEM!!! I don't want to have to get a 100HP tractor I need something I can trailer...
Seen a few of your videos now and can't understand why your persevere with this little tractor when a 2.5 or 3 ton machine would be a far better choice for the work you do I can't see how this is profitable or are you just doing this as a hobby?
Well, we got a larger bucket just after this project. We find this unit quite effective for city yards with small gates. Having said that, yes, this is a part time thing for us. I am a software engineer. Check out some of our newer videos, this one is 2+ years old. We now have a couple of sponsored units which help with our work.
A excavator on tracks would have done that no problem as well there tons out there to pick from plus they would go through the gate no problem and they would have done it faster.
+steven clark yes, but they don't do a very good job of mowing my yard, or tilling my garden. With our new wider bucket, the tractor can dig much faster. See our latest video for an example. Oh, and we would love to have a mini-ex.
A compact or subcompact tractor is a good multipurpose machine. It's not the best at anything but it can do a lot of jobs. Unless you're a professional a mini excavator would be a huge investment with very little use. I agree with the small tractor having access where larger ones can't go but I have seen you doing jobs with that little guy that are too big for him.
No gravel around foundation....these people will definetly have water problems in their basement. The footer drain tile will be filled with mud in no time.
Hey tim I got to ask is that a wallenstein backhoe there made in Canada and they make backhoes for J.D M.F KIOTI and a few others they dealers just put there name and model numbers on them
It really is nice soil. In this case, some of it was pretty hard compared to most soil in this region. However, it was November, and there had been some water leakage too, so the soil was somewhat moist. All of this made it fairly easy to dig. Check out the most recent egress window hole we dug. It truly dug like butter! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cNaw4M5A7kc.html
what you could've done which people do a lot in mexico or at least where im from is get the bucket down and have somebody get the extra dirt in the bucket with a shovel could've been easier
Tractor Time with Tim what do you have for hrs now and have you had anymore problems. I only have 50 hrs now and my seat springs are already shot. I'm loving the Tektite cab in these cold snowy winters.
+Chris Mills I have 194hrs. No snow here, so Johnny has had no real work to do. Seat springs are easily solved. $30 from boltonhooks.com. Tell Ken I sent you!
