Dig, Trench, and Extract Like a Full-Size Hoe—Sibom’s Skid Steer Backhoe Attachment Gives Your CAT, Bobcat, or Kubota the Muscle of a Mini-Excavator

Every contractor, landowner, and municipal crew eventually faces the same dilemma: you need a backhoe for an afternoon, but you only own a skid steer. Renting a dedicated excavator means transport fees, crew idle time, and another machine to maintain. Sibom solved that problem by creating a skid steer backhoe attachment that snaps onto the universal ISO plate you already use for buckets and forks, turning any loader—whether it wears the yellow of CAT, the white of Bobcat, or the orange of Kubota—into a precision digging tool that rivals purpose-built machines.

One Attachment—A World of Digging Tasks

At first glance the Sibom unit looks like a compact mini-hoe, but inside its rugged steel spine lives everything you would expect from a commercial excavator. A high-flow valve block feeds twin cylinders on the skid steer backhoe arm, delivering breakout force that chews through frost-hardened clay as confidently as it feathers loam around fragile utility lines. Need to trench irrigation laterals? Slide on the 12-inch skid steer trench bucket. Need to dig footings for a deck? Swap to the 24-inch replaceable tooth backhoe bucket with heavy cast teeth backhoe tips that pop out with a roll-pin punch. From root removal backhoe duty in landscaping to foundation digger skid steer work on an infill lot, one carrier and a few buckets handle it all.

Universal Mount, Rapid Attach

Sibom machines every hitch to the ISO spec, giving you a truly universal mount backhoe. Drive forward, curl, and the quick locks engage. Flat-face couplers click—no case-drain line required because the priority valve manages return flow. In under two minutes, your loader is now a skid steer hydraulic digger with serious reach. That same plate makes jobsite logistics simple: one trailer, one power unit, multiple tasks.

Stabilizers That Fold Fast and Grip Hard

Digging means leverage, so our engineers built a foldable stabilizer backhoe system that swings out and drops with a single valve. Big float pads spread weight on asphalt without divots. On sloped shoulders the stabilizer equipped digger claws into gravel, holding a CAT 262D rock-solid while you carve a meter-deep utility trench backhoe cut. Finished? Flip the switch; the legs fold inside the frame so you can back through tight gates or load on a trailer—no manual pins or sledgehammer persuasion required.

Precision Hydraulics, Zero Wasted Movement

Hydraulic flow climbs from your auxiliary pump into a two-spool joystick valve. The boom cylinder pairs with a regenerative circuit for faster crowd speeds, while the dipper cylinder uses load-holding checks for inch-perfect control. That blend makes the Sibom head both a high force backhoe digger when you crank the lever and a precision digging backhoe for delicate septic connections. A full swivel backhoe attachment joint offers 180° of side-to-side sweep, letting you dig parallel trenches without repositioning the loader—ideal for cable trench backhoe jobs along fences.

Comfort, Visibility, and Safety in One Swing Seat

Climb onto the ergonomic operator seat backhoe mounted at the rear of the frame and pull the lap bar. The seat rotates with the boom, so you keep eyes on the cutting edge, not on noisy spotters. Grippy floor pads and an adjustable suspension post create a fatigue reducing backhoe environment that seasoned operators appreciate after eight hours of trenching. A boom lock backhoe pin drops automatically when you transition to travel, and a rotation lock backhoe bar secures the swing axis—no rattling cylinders on the highway.

Built to Survive Dirt, Clay, and Rock

This is no light-duty garden toy. The Sibom frame is laser-cut from high-tensile plate, boxed and ribbed. Pins ride in greasable bronze sleeves with accessible grease fitting backhoe ports—daily service takes sixty seconds. Cylinders use chrome rod and induction-hardened eyes. The rugged backhoe arm shrugs at rocky glacial till, while the long life backhoe bucket carries side wear straps that you can weld-on replace without touching the cutting edge.

Use Cases Across Industries

• Residential digging backhoe: plumbers setting a septic tank line dig a narrow trench without hand shovels.

• Commercial digger attachment: electricians trench conduit 400 ft in a mall parking lot between cars.

• Agricultural backhoe attachment: farmers replace an irrigation riser at the edge of an alfalfa pivot.

• Municipal drainage backhoe attachment: city crews clear culvert ends after a flash flood.

• Contractor backhoe skid steer: remodelers excavate footing piers for a deck behind a tight backyard.

• Road maintenance pile extractor synergy: dig beside damaged guardposts before resetting piles with a driver.

Each task leverages the loader you already own, cutting rental invoices and transportation headaches.

Compared With a Mini Excavator

A dedicated mini can certainly dig, but it lives on another trailer and burns another engine hour. The Sibom small excavator alternative eliminates that duplication. Your CAT loader grades stone, then flips to the multipurpose digger attachment to trench, then runs forks. One engine, one fuel supply, one operator. For small outfits or municipalities with limited fleet budgets, that is a cost effective backhoe strategy that pays off in months.

Low Maintenance, High Uptime

No complex electronics. No grease-starved swing bearings. Daily service equals: check hydraulic quicks, wipe rods, pump two strokes per pin. Annual service equals: inspect hoses, change cylinder wipers, flip bucket teeth. Operators love that simplicity; fleet managers love the low cost. The attachment’s sealed bushings are rated for thousands of cycles, making the Sibom head a durable backhoe attachment and a long life backhoe bucket partner for any loader life cycle.

Safety First, Everywhere

Stabilizer legs include integrated reflectors. A pressure-relief valve protects hoses if an operator accidentally dead-heads the cylinder. The boom lock backhoe lever pops automatically in transport position. In-cab decals remind operators to fold the stabilizers and pin the swing before roading. Compliance officers smile; insurance auditors nod.

Field Results

A Colorado landscaper replaced a mini excavator rental by fitting a Sibom mini backhoe attachment on a Bobcat MT100 stand-on loader—saving $400 in rental fees the first weekend. A Midwest road crew dug 220 curb drains using a CAT 279 and Sibom’s 12-inch bucket, finishing two days ahead of schedule. A Texas rancher used the agricultural backhoe attachment to clear mesquite stumps and lay poly irrigation pipe with the same bucket.

Order, Attach, and Dig Today

Sibom dealers stock the attachment with 8-, 12-, and 24-inch buckets; long arm kits ship in two weeks. All units bench-tested at full pressure, serial-logged, and powder-coated safety yellow. Register online for two-year structural and cylinder warranty, lifetime tech line staffed by seasoned hoe operators.

The Bottom Line—One Loader, Infinite Holes

Why shuttle between skid steer and excavator when one engine can do both? With Sibom’s versatile backhoe attachment your CAT, Bobcat, or Kubota loader digs trenches, sets posts, shapes footings, and yanks stumps before lunch—then swaps to forks and moves pallets by dinner. That’s not just multipurpose; that’s professional backhoe digger performance without the extra keys.

Snap it on, drop the legs, and watch the bucket curl through clay the way your loader curls a bucket of gravel. Less hauling, fewer rentals, faster invoices—Sibom gives your skid steer the backhoe arm it has always deserved.