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Knight Division Tactical
  1. Services
  2. Heavy equipment
  3. Backhoes

Does KDT supply backhoes for wildfires?

Backhoes

Yes.

KDT provides backhoes for wildfire incidents, rubber-tired tractors with a bucket, rented by the day with an operator or bare.

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Typical configuration

Description
Rubber-tired tractor with bucket
Typing
No national typing; sized to your job
Method of hire
Daily, with operator or bare
Knight Division TacticalConfigurations vary by unit
Used on
  • Wildfire

A backhoe is a rubber-tired tractor with a bucket, the go-to machine for digging, trenching and loading around camps, roads and facilities. There's no national typing for backhoes, so tell us the size and attachments you need and we'll match the machine.

KDT supplies the backhoe with its operator or as a bare rental, and moves it to and from the incident.

Available as

  • Backhoe with operator
  • Bare backhoe rental
  • Backhoe with transport

What's included

  • Operator with the machine
  • Delivery and pickup

Where it's used

  • Digging and trenching
  • Loading and moving material
  • Work around camps, roads and facilities
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does KDT supply backhoes for wildfires?

Yes. KDT supplies backhoes, rubber-tired tractors with a bucket, by the day with an operator or as bare rentals.

What type of backhoe do I need?

There's no national typing for backhoes. Tell us the size and attachments you need and we'll match it.

Backhoe or excavator?

A backhoe is a rubber-tired tractor with a bucket and has no national typing. Excavators are crawler-mounted hydraulic machines, typed 1–4 by horsepower and base weight, fitted with a hydraulic thumb or clamshell for fire work.

Goes with it

Often ordered together.

  • Heavy equipmentExcavators
  • Heavy equipmentFront End Loaders (Wheel Loaders)
  • Heavy equipmentSkid Steers & Compact Track Loaders
  • Heavy equipmentDump Trucks
  • TransportationLowboy Transports (Type 1–3) & Heavy Haul

Need it on your incident? Say the word.

Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.

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