I'm kind of jealous. I've tried to persuade Mrs B to use a loader. She runs around with a little trailer hooked to either a lawn tractor, or a little 20 HP Mitsubishi 4x4 tractor I got cheap. She can't back up a trailer, so things often go badly.
A friend wanted to borrow my Case backhoe. He brought me a Kubota, maybe 23 Horsepower little tractor. That was the weekend I installed the invisible fence. Digging a 6" deep trench wasn't all that bad, until I crossed the driveway! Three hours later I had 40' of 6" deep ditch across the driveway. The smallest diesel 4x4s with backhoe & loader aren't very much more useful than a wheelbarrow and round shovel.
While I had it, a do it himself customer had overshot the power pole installing conduit for his new underground service. The power company refused to connect. It was 3' past the pole, exited the ground in schedule 40 conduit, and about a 45 degree angle from vertical. A simple job, dig down 4 feet, cut back the conduit, bend schedule 80, and couple on. With my case I'd have finished the digging in 20 minutes. Part of that time would be unloading. With the little machine, it had so little reach, by the fifth scoop it was falling back in the hole. I had to turn around several times to use the loader to move the spoils pile. All told it took 5 hours!