Micro Hoe Plans enable you to build and service your own backhoe attachment. Customers using our plans are fabricating Micro Hoes for their garden and compact tractors. Virtually any make or model tractor can be outfitted. Dig trenches for water or electric lines. Excavate a small pond or pull out a tree stump. Whatever the job, do it with your own DIY digger. Break ground today with Micro Hoe Plans from P.F. Engineering. You’ll save money upfront and keep saving on maintenance for years to come.
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Call it a ‘bucket loader,’ call it a ‘wheel loader,’ call it a ‘scoop.’ Whatever you call it, you can build your own and use it to push and lift all sorts of heavy loads. Hundreds of DIY builders with Front-end Loader Plans are fitting boom arms and a bucket to tractors of every kind, even ATVs. And they’re using theirs to quickly move soil, mulch, gravel, and snow. Our plans show you how to construct the perfect loader attachment. With the know-how we provide, you control the budget and schedule. Order Front-end Loader Plans
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OUR NEW PIN-ON MINI PAYLOADER IS READY! This attachment is designed with a self-leveling bucket, a feature that distinguishes it from our mid-mount front-end loader design. We call this payloader “pin-on” because it’s a cinch to mount or dismount on your John Deere tractor’s front quick-attach implement brackets. We call it a “mini payloader” because it has a single boom lift cylinder and a single bucket cylinder connected to the self-leveling bucket linkage. This allows very high angles of rotation for bucket curl and dump. Get started today with Pin-on Mini Payloader Plans.
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Log Splitter Plans show you how to make a dual-split model that will half the time you spend preparing firewood. Its durable design is ideal for heavy use, even after lying dormant during the warmer months. Spare yourself the brief thrill and lasting disappointment of buying the cheapest log splitter on the market. Using our plans, you’ll be able to put together a sturdy workhorse of a splitter that you can use and maintain for decades. See how easy this log splitter is to operate in Paul’s prototype video.
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Learn how to beef up your garden tractor’s front-end spindles, so they can properly bear the weight of a new loader. In our recent DIY Article, The 1000-pound Front Spindle Upgrade, you will find out which parts you’ll need and the steps involved.
Take charge of your DIY project’s motion and maintenance, learn how to make your own bushings. Read about these humble yet crucial components in Build replaceable inner bushings for hydraulically or manually articulated arms.
P.F. Engineering specializes in DIY (Do It Yourself) plans for backhoes and front-end loaders. Our plans make it possible for you to extend the use of a garden tractor, or a compact tractor.
Loaders and backhoes made from our plans are the perfect tools for landscaping and maintenance done on your property. Light and powerful, they’re great for those hard-to-get-at locations where a larger machine won’t fit. They cause less surface damage and minimum ground compaction while traveling over lawns and other landscaped areas.
If you would like to build your own loader or backhoe, you’ve come to the right place. Our plans are professionally drawn, DIY friendly and priced right for your construction budget.
Right now, I am building a second Mini Payloader that should be ready for sale later this year. I’m also designing a small trailer for use around the yard that has a “walking beam” suspension. It has four wheels, hydraulic dump linkage and a carrying capacity of around 1000 pounds (450 kg).
First customers of the Mini Payloader are starting to send us pictures of their builds! Please send us some of yours, and we’ll post them to our Gallery of Pin-on Mini Payloaders.
Gene H. from Palm, PA - Pin-on Mini Payloader on a John Deere 318