Rewarding!! I Just Love To Dig! 

Tim, So many people act like there's no other parameter to consider when picking the equipment used for a job. That's just insanity! Of course, you could go in there with a Cat 980G and have this project done it 2 minutes, but you'd spend $10,000 to rent it (if you ave a buddy at the company), then you'd have to get a lowboy into the parking lot, and you'd probably end up clipping the edge of the concrete, destroying the whole pad, and the list goes on and on... I for one LOVE watching your small projects. These videos help me to figure out what the capabilities and limitations of these small pieces of equipment REALLY are, not just what the salesman says. It's hard for us, especially walking into this whole sub-compact tractor market, to really know what's the right way to go with our future equipment purchases. It's even harder to decide if we'll be able to make it "pay for itself", let alone, if it will fit in their storage, transport on the trailer I already have, pull with the truck I already use.

Great video! As a software designer/network engineer myself for over 30 years, I certainly appreciate and agree with your therapeutic perspective. Although I also grew up around a family farm, it’s impractical to think the perfect equipment will always be available to accomplish a task. It’s probably even more so with your typical audience. Making do with what you have immediate access to is the name of the game and nothing wrong with having some fun in the process.

I think it is great that companies make arrangements with people like you to showcase their products. Smart use of their advertising budget, show their products being used by real people to do real work to the target audience rather than the general population.

There is always a critic, in what ever you do. Most of them are jealous of you for what you are doing

Great to enjoy a job well a d truly done🤠

As usual Tim, another good video. I especially enjoy the backhoe videos. And I enjoy any seat time I can get with my 1025 and 260B backhoe, very therapeutic and relaxing . I look for any reason to use it and its an impressive little combination. Hoping to see you get 100,000 subscribers soon.

Backhoe works great for something like this. I built a 12 inch wide blade for my 260 to aide in removing sod or brush. Just need to be aware that you can hook the outriggers.

I love that kind of work, too. There are lots of pros and cons, but you can't get a mini-ex for the price of a backhoe option. My compact tractor loader backhoe is just so versatile for all kinds of small projects.

Feels good to just have a straight forward job, work for the day and get something done.

Same here, I love working the backhoe on the GC1710.

Tim couldn’t agree more about the backhoe where I live in the mountains of upstate ny there is no way to dig with a shovel my 375a on my 3033r is the only way I’m digging anything

My little Massey won’t let me leave it in gear - it’ll kill the engine when you lift the seat to get on the backhoe. The thing that I need to rig up is a remote lever for the loader valve so I can lift the bucket up a few inches to move the machine without reaching around backwards.

Any backhoe is better than no backhoe. I have plenty of hours on 310 and 410 John Deere’s and I wish I had one now. Great all around machines. Can’t do what an excavator as well, but it can do other things better than an excavator.

We want see casey

So this backhoe can do 2 functions at once? I just wonder if a backhoe is worth the extra money unless you can find a lot uses for it. I mean if it sits for years then what is the point in having it.

My sub compact tractor will do EVERYTHING.. haha just kidding.. that’s a quick way to wear it out fast tho even tho it will do quite a bit! Another great video Tim! I’m in the market for a mini/micro excavator.. looking for something used, old and beat up so that I can buy it cheap and fix it up. I feel between my sub compact tractor and a mini excavator it will really open me up for future jobs. Keep pumping out the videos Tim I love them.

Tim, a solution so you never forget a shovel: drill a hole in the end of the shovel handle. Slip the shovel handle through the open round tube at the front of the FEL. Put a sport tube pin through the shovel handle hole, and viola shovel storage.

I think it would be nice if they rented you a John Deere track skid steer

More Casey

What is your daughter up to lately you haven’t talked about her how was your life going I can assume she’s out of college by now please update us thank you

Wow you an IT guy too.

But Tim... how can you check the revision history of a job like this? :D

Tim, What is your work radius from your home, should somebody want to hire you how did they contact you and how far from your home will you go?

You need to get Casey a GPS navigation unit, so he can find his way home without getting lost.

Tim where did you get the hydraulic kit for the thumb on your backhoe? I’ve been looking but can’t seem to find it. I’d like to get one for my backhoe if they make one for it.

do you find that the 2038 fel moves a lot more dirt in one bucket

i hate renting tools when they can be bought for the same price as renting but i am talking about mechanic tools here

what about Casey?

What type of tires are on that tractor? Are they the R14?

I as well find it hard to use. I was able to see a dozer with a laser stick on it and the blade moved with the laser! The blade is independent on front or back wheels moving in and out of holes. We tend to work at it and do the best we can with what we have and that is the better part of it. The dream team is the back hole machine dumping dirt into your trailer and then the trailer dumping it somewhere!

Yes sir, we want Casey back!

Use Casey

As a Mike myself 😉 I am happy to have my BH to play in the dirt. Rented a mini Ex once and happy to no longer need it. If your happy on your machine, who cares how long it takes.

I've worked in IT for about 7 years now, and you're definitely right. Tech and software jobs are just an endless cycle of uncompleted projects, and they're constantly changing with no end in sight. We recently moved out of the city to a 5 acre lot and everything is so peaceful. I still commute to the city for my job, but being able to return to the country every day (to my wife, children and 2025r) is so calming and peaceful. Wouldn't change it for the world!

Tim I hear Bobcat makes a great mini ex (hint, hint) maybe someone can be kind enough to let you borrow one. And working alone is so nice, nobody to bother you.

I agree a tractor with out a backhoe may as well not have a loader either. I simply cant imagine NOT having my backhoe attachment. it has saved me more than a few times. beside the backhoe is for digging a lot better and more than the front end loader in my opinion. I use the hoe to dig and the loader to simply move loose dirt after its been dug up.

I like tractor time with Tim, its almost like a soap opera... I can't wait for the next episode. I agree a backhoe is very handy to have. Beats a shovel any day and it's a lot cheaper than a mini ex.

We would like to see new Casey videos thanks

So you have 38 hp on that 2 series?

I also disagree with that other RU-vidr... I really like my backhoe.

If it were me I'd dig the bulk with the front end loader and trimmed around the slab with the backhoe. But that's the 36 years in Quality Control in me. The kid in me would be do what you did!

Tim I know you folks are nice people but just to drive the message home I have to say pushing the tractor sidewise with the back hoe bucket was a BONE head move. you nearly turned the machine over ( not a good move for the guys that don`t know any better , watching). SAFTY FIRST!!

I understand your "Rewarding" comment. I am a semi retired Electrician, working with these machines is a completely different animal. We are expanding into landscape construction.

I think that I know who you are referring to and I agree with them for most people as you are only using it maybe once a year or longer unless you are a contractor who works with it every week. I didn't buy one on my newest or oldest tractor since I would only use it maybe once or twice and I could rent a backhoe and tractor and use it for the small projects I would use it for. That tractor is doing a nice job though and the backhoe is handy for it.

Hi Tim that backhoe look kinda small for Johnny 2. Yeah it fun working outside running tractor it just like a big kid playing with a big toy all he need now is Kirsty show up bring Tim a cheeseburger happy meal 😀

My finance committee is shaking in her boots🤣🤣🤣🤣. I have figured out that in my case it’s better to invest in a new tractor with the backhoe witch I should have done in the first place. Next step... finding red a new home

It's kinda sad that you have to put diclaimers in your video, for basic stuff that shouldn't matter to anyone. If you called miss dig or not or how you aquire d the tractor really is no one's business, I guess it's the world we live in now. I've been watching you now for awhile and anyone should see that your a respectable and courteous person. Great job keep the film rolling.

I've already added a hydraulic top link and a 4way bucket before. I will not get a backhoe, But there may be a request sent to the financial Committee.

I have gone back and forth on if I should get a back hoe attachment for my 3 series or an excavator. The only reason I have chosen to go with an expensive excavator is that the backhoe will not be able to do the main jobs that I'm looking for it to do and thats land clearing work. We have a small farm that a creek runs through it and gets clogged up with trees and I need an excavators reach and high flow hydraulic capabilities to use a fecon type of attachment to remove brush and trees away from the creek. Other than that If I didn't need to do that I would definitely go with the way cheaper backhoe option.

Good job Tim, Hard to compare running’s tractor to writing software. Writing software can only make you go buggy, no punt intendent

I work in healthcare IT and your comment about the unrewarding nature of your software engineering work rings loud with me. I have been running a asphalt maintenance business on the side and the clear success of finishing projects is undeniable.

I was moving the backhoe with the bucket within my first week. Never on a backhoe before. Just saw other operators do this on construction sites.

Hay Tim l run full-size backhoes and if u have trouble keeping grade or u want to put a crown on say a road what I do is lower the air pressure in all 4 tires just enough till the tires are pliable and get a bucket full of dirt with the hoe bucket and swing it to the side I want to be deeper and the with the hoe bucket to the side the machine will Lean to that side. Hope this helps you.

I hear you about the 'reward' aspect of tractor-work - even with something as simple as mowing a 3-acre yard or snow-blowing a 200 foot driveway, what a great sense of accomplishment and instant feedback surpassing much of one's 'day-job' where you don't often see the end-product.

Maybe mention to Mudd that some of your viewers drive orange tractors...make a few buckets for that color too.

Casey come home!

All the proper equipment is always a better scenario. I think you do a great job showing everybody what can be done with a tractor and backhoe attachment. Thank you for all of your videos.

More Casey!!!

Casey needs to come back to the fleet

I wanted to trade in my 2018 1025R for the 2038r, but the dealership only gave me half what I paid for. If I was to do it over, I would just go with the 2038r.

I miss seeing Casey

It's better than a shovel, hydraulics are always better than my back. Even if it takes a little longer or might not be the ideal machine, hand the critics the shovel.

Casey needs to come home. Maybe Katriel could bring him home for Thanksgiving.

Funny you mentioned the video of the other youtuber, 4 reasons not to buy a backhoe i just watched that and I'm with you cant imagine not have one.

Hi, I’m just trying to learn on my own how to operate the backhoe on my (2014) 1025R & I’m awful 😣 at it! Do you think that you can do a video on how to operate it, your operating it is smooth. Thank you

an åkerman h8 8 tonnes is 5 000 usd its used but it would do that job in 2 days

Your absolutely right that it’s very rewarding to finish a job you enjoy doing. Ready to move on to the next dirt job. To bad you didn’t have a helper, even to work your laser level.

This was a good kickback video, similar style of when you first started. I do enjoy seeing Casey videos, if he comes back get him on camera more often.

Do you know what the differences are between the 2038r and the 3038e (other than the the r and e parts). Like why would someone want a 3038 if they could get a 2038 for cheaper? I guess it’s also the same issue with the 1025 and the 2025.

All this backhoe talk makes me wish more, that I would of got the backhoe for mine.

Is Case"y" on strike?😉

I like Johnny 2 but, miss Casey. Thanks, TTWT

How does mowing with a large chassis 2 series compare to the 1025R? I find that my 1025R is too small for a lot of what I do, aside from mowing.

Hey Tim, I was watching you move the piles with the bucket loader with the tooth bar... It looks like it is harder to get full scoops with the tooth bar installed. Looked like it makes it harder to fill the back side of the bucket up and tends to push the pile more. I have been debating getting a tooth bar but once I break thru the top crust of the ground I don't have any issues digging into the dirt w/o the teeth, unless there is a lot of rock. Do you feel this is the case sometimes? Do you feel there are any down sides to using the teeth?

What about the case excavator yall have it anymore

Can you keep the tractor in gear and get off the primary operators seat? The one I demoed even with the parking brake on would kill the engine if I got off the seat while in gear.

Smaller equipment= often more fun than getting it fast done.. 👍

Tim I ordered a backhoe attachment for my L3200 last Aug. of course it hasn’t come in yet but my question is, will the backhoe for my L3200 operate smooth and have sufficient power. Thanks and God bless

You talking about tractor Mike?

That was a 2038r ? The hydraulics on the 1023 I have I’m just not happy with if I have to put it in 4 wheel drive and cut tall grass it will stop the mower and I’m stuck is the power and hydraulics on that tractor any improvement and will that tractor take a 54 in center mower thanks tim

Alot of people complain about not having the "right" equipment on a site. I'm surprised that the Topcon with magnetic receiver didn't come out to help on this one. I enjoy using mine every chance I get. I dug a leach field and hole for a 1500 gallon septic tank with my 1025R. Some said that it couldn't be done, well challenge accepted and completed. If you have the time, anything can be completed. Thank you for the video's and keep them coming

Tim u da man with that green n yellow

Digging is fun. A equipment oriented theme park opened near me in New Jersey. It's named Digger Land. I have not been there. But I heard it's fun for young and old kids.

Would love to see casey

I have a straight cutting edge that drops onto the 24" bucket on my older JD 1650 backhoe attachment. The 1650 is a 16' reach unit that was made by American Trencher and branded JD. It goes on my 2440 JD tractor. The cutting edge came with the hoe, I'm not sure where it was made. It pins on over the bucket teeth with two small spring pins, goes on or comes off in a minute. I find that it is useful to have it on for about 75% of all digging. It lays over the teeth and gives you a smooth trench bottom plus increases the bucket capacity by maybe 10%. For digging in hardpan the straight edge gets removed, it's best to have the teeth working for that. Wish I could add a photo, it's a very simple piece that really helps. I agree, the tractor backhoe attachment is a tremendously useful item. I didn't want to fork out for the attachment, but the seller would not sell the tractor separately. Really glad of that now.

Great job again Mr.Tim

Seems like changing the earth is in mans DNA. I do the same: clear land,move dirt,move rocks from here to there: just makes me feel good. I do get more satisfaction repairing what was thought to be junk by someone else but putting it to use after I fix it is just as good.

Come home Casey we miss you

Hi Tim, Always nice to have a simple quiet day playing in the sand box! Working by yourself, you had the perfect tool for what needed to be accomplished, except for the hand shovel! :-) :-) Add it to your departure checklist! I like to use one simply to eliminate the need to memorize what's needed for every project.

I agree with you about how much fun and satisfying a BH is. I got my 2038r in August. Interesting that we had similar careers. I retired from software in April after 35 years. This is more satisfying.

Hey Tim, I immediately went to look for this backhoe hater🙂. To be fair I can understand his arguments against it and if you really are a person that would only use it once or twice a year then yes, renting is the way to go. I have a 1025R with the 260B and I have easily put 20 hours on it my first summer and I expect to double that next summer. Larger jobs such as burying your 700lb buddy that has gone on to that great pasture in the sky will need an excavator and that’s fine. I have a few acres getting cleared of Alderwoods, blackberries and a plethora of other vegetation along with some massive stumps, so I hired a guy. It’s too much for Johnny and once that’s cleared, Johnny can manage the rest. The 260B does a great job on rootballs less than 3 feet across and can probably do some larger ones with a lot of patience. Another complaint was removing, but he REALLY hated re-attaching the backhoe. Again, I understand, but I wonder if non-John Deere’s are more difficult. Even the 260B can be a pain if it slumps out of position, but a little practice and patience goes a long way to get better. My plan is to create a jig to hold it in that sweet spot and that will eliminate the re-attachment pain altogether. This brings up a suggested episode... perhaps you could provide some tips on re-positioning the backhoe when it slumps out of position?

Even tho I own a mini I still find the backhoe on my tractor quite useful. I use it all the time on my smaller projects where I need a small trench for some conduit we’re running or if I just need to dig a small area and don’t want to bring the mini. You learn how to deal wit what your spoils the more you do it. If I’m Digging a patio I usually dig it half at a time and deposit them on the other half so I can scoop it with the front bucket. If I find the soil is a easy dig I will dig a area the size of the tractor with the hoe and then I can keep the bucket on grade and dig out the rest using the front bucket. And for power I find that the 46 backhoe on my 2720 has plenty of power. I even use it to lift my 350lb compactor in and out of the hole.

I saw the recent video that you referred to and I agree with you. The peace of mind that my 270B brings to me is immeasurable. I am physically unable to do much with a shovel for myself anymore, but I can certainly run the backhoe and my back doesn't hurt when I'm finished. "TM" is just jealous of those who want to be self sufficient.

I disagree with that backhoe video as well... If you can afford to have one it's only going to make your life easier around the house.

I can watch you dig all day long! 😃 Thank you for sharing! God bless you always! ❤️

I built a 4ft x 5 1/2 ft electric over hyd. dump trailer..its low enough to fill with my backhoe w/o slowing things down too much..nice not to handle the same dirt twice..the next project is fabricating a hitch on the backhoe to hook the dump trailer to and not have to hook and unhook or utilize another tractor..might be an idea for you as well

Now I understand better why these videos r such awesome quality you probably understand the importance of good editing software and stuff

Just heard at tradeshow

You've got to check out the kubota l47. We've got almost 500 hours on outlets. Amazing little machine. And you dont have to get off the machine to move forward and backward. I've also found that running a smaller backhoe. Idle it up a bit higher and the controls smooth out a bit

Casey may have been the right tool for the job, Tim. Nice work as always! It is very true what you said about such work being rewarding. I am a police dispatcher and do light excavation with my skidsteer on the side. There really is something about seeing some progress at the end of a workday. Even if the job is not complete.