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O/T: 1978 Ford F600 with backhoe on it?

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MeAnthony

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Found this critter in Jackson. Old gent with a tiny car lot has it. Wants $4000 cash, runs, works, new tires, only 70,000 miles, just needs a little hydraulic oil in the rear unit, he says. Body is banged up and rusty but not rotted out, already crawled under it.

I've never seen a setup like this. He said it's a Ford built unit, including the hoe. Were these intended for a particular purpose or industry? Anyone else ever seen one?

Thanks,

Anthony
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Yes Ford offered a truck mounted backhoe. You supplied the truck and some company mounted it. Was mainly desinged for munisapalty Aw heck city use. Number sold was proably pretty low.
 
How does that hoe set in the saddle for transport with the seat and controls in the way?

What am I not seeing?

Gary
 
The gas company here had a few of those. Used to see them on the streets. Never seen them on any truck but Fords so I always figured it was sold that way new from the factory.
 
I don't think that's a factory built set up unless it's special order type deal built by an after market company. It's definitely a Ford backhoe but I've seen Case and JD hoe attachments mounted on trucks before. If that cradle is for the hoe, the only way it could fold back that far is if the bottom pins for entire hoe mount at the back come out and the entire hoe and controls flip back after the seat is removed. The hoe looks similar to the hoe on a 750/755 TLB which is a pretty big unit.

It could be a decent unit but having to get off the hoe to move the truck every time you need to re-position would be a pain. If the hoe runs off the truck engine, it might be hard on fuel. $4000 doesn't seem like too bad a price though. The truck would easier to fix than a tractor backhoe unit.
 
I've never seen one, except in '70's sales literature, and now here. Will have to check if it was ordered as a complete unit, or if the customer supplied the truck.
 
Never saw such a thing.

Wouldn't be for me, pain to change seats to move, and poor traction on truck tires - hoe needs to work in mud 90% of the time 'here'.

No loader bucket to fill in the hole.

Just an awkward looking machine.

--->Paul
 
(quoted from post at 20:26:22 08/07/12) I don't think that's a factory built set up unless it's special order type deal built by an after market company. It's definitely a Ford backhoe but I've seen Case and JD hoe attachments mounted on trucks before. If that cradle is for the hoe, the only way it could fold back that far is if the bottom pins for entire hoe mount at the back come out and the entire hoe and controls flip back after the seat is removed. The hoe looks similar to the hoe on a 750/755 TLB which is a pretty big unit.

It could be a decent unit but having to get off the hoe to move the truck every time you need to re-position would be a pain. If the hoe runs off the truck engine, it might be hard on fuel. $4000 doesn't seem like too bad a price though. The truck would easier to fix than a tractor backhoe unit.
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Local phone company had one.. some of their operators could move the truck all over the place with the hoe; and never left the backhoe seat. Smaller Ford hoe mounted on a one ton Ford chassis...
 
My dad used to have one. It was real handy. Years ago, Consumers Power in Flint MI used to have a few of them. Brings back memories.
 
Are you the Paul from Klossner/ St George area? Forster Welding in N U built several similar outfits for their own use back in the 50s. always had a dozer on job for backfilling.
No need to leave the seat until job is done. Have watched them operate. Push down on stick to lift rear of truck, extend boom & move truck forward. Push down on stick to lift rear of truck, use swing to shift rear of truck sideways. Lift outriggers, grab a good bite in bucket to lift front of truck, use swing to shift front of truck.
Other questions- the way I look at pics, seat & control pod are offset so boom will bypass into transport position. Also operator can look past boom to watch bucket.
Willie
 
If you look close in the 2nd picture, just behind & below the operator's seat, you can see the big pins where it mounts to the truck. I noticed two big horizontally mounted cylinders when I was under the truck and three rear marker lights that were pointed at the ground.

My best guess is that the operator's platform somehow pivots on the mounting pins 90 degrees up/forward such that the seat cushion/controls are pointed at the center saddle and dipper boom would then sit in the saddle? Also 90 degree rotation would then point the marker lights rearward.

Anthony
 
Dad said they always had to ask what conditions one was in, whether to bring the rubber tired machine or the real backhoe. I don't remember seeing one of the units, but heard of them. Maybe was one in the back row but I was too little to pay attention....

Has it's plus side, you can travel easy with it, but for a farmer to own, seems a real backhoe or a 3pt for work around the farm would be better.

Beats a shovel tho no matter what you do. :)

--->Paul
 
Was looking through my old sales literature... You could order it on an F600 only, with a 300 I6, 330 V8, or 361 V8, and either a 13' or 15' backhoe. The seat was removed and put in a storage pocket before tilting the hoe to the cradle for transport - safety switch wouldn't let the hoe tilt w/o the seat in the storage position. The marker lights did indeed point to the rear then.
This was from '73 literature; later years may have had different options. Didn't show up in my '77 literature.
 
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