This is just one person's opinion, but when I bought my Kubota L3830 new I asked that it be equipped with a backhoe, and I was given a choice between a Kubota backhoe and a Woods brand backhoe. They looked to me to be of equal quality, but the Kubota backhoe hooked directly into the tractor's hydraulics, and the Woods backhoe had it's own seperate hydraulic oil tank, powered by a PTO-driven pump. I liked the idea of keeping the fluids separate, so I went with the Woods backhoe. It mounts to a subframe bolted to the frame of the tractor for strength. Digs 9'.