No vermeer comes close to a ditch witch

They make a 4-way bucket for it, this guy probably just didn't purchase one. They have several buckets

Actually yes. A few times I've leaned off the back of it with a coworker to lift a too heavy sod/stone palate or root ball. The company I work for got one of these 2 years ago to move around tight spaces where our tractor loaders would not fit... But of course it has a lot less lift capacity than the larger tractors, so we tend to push it too hard some times.

That increases the lifting capacity. ;)

Just use a camel