I've seen in not so many years, a transition I consider huge. Years after my birth (in 1956) The first tractor backhoe loader was introduced. By the time I remember, smaller jobs were being taken over by TLBs Big cellar holes, and highway construction continued to be performed by dozers, or track loaders. The house I sit in now built in 1981 had no hoe type digging until the power line was installed. The Drott bucket predated, for the most part the excavators. An international 150 (1.5 cu yd) IH spent a week digging for my small house.
The local IH dealer had a Farmall M C 1940 with trip loader, and primitive hoe. The toothless hoe was able to lift its small bucket full of sand. The lotion of liberating a big rock would have been silly. My father hired it with operator to dig a drywell for mother's new automatic washer in maybe 1964. After a day or more they gave up. The drywell was ultimately dug by hand.
Mid sixties, a local bought a new Case 530? Construction King. He had more work than he could handle. He had a single axle dump truck, if I remember, an IH I'd guess 2200 LBS gross, gas. The standard transport was to hang the front bucket over the truck tailgate, lift the front wheels off the ground. I've never done it, I bet cornering is imperfect. A good friend tried it later and smoked the transmission of his TLB.
Rules evolve, new ones are the result of stupidity. This crap was once OK!