robbyr
Elite Member
Soooo. The tractor is Mahindra 4500. The backhoe is Bush hog 852. My FIL always used to get me to help him when he needed to hook up or unhook the backhoe cuz its a real booger. He passed away in 2010 and had the backhoe sitting on some cinder blocks but it had fallen over. So one weekend I tinker around and get it upright and took some doing but managed to get it on the tractor. Since its a pain I decided to leave it on tractor as long as I could which was about a year until I needed the PHD.
Fast forward to today. Trying to expose some drain pipe to see if there is a grease trap. Decide to put backhoe on tractor. Up and down off tractor trying to line up 3pt arms. Finally get one pin in. Had to ease forward a bit and finally get the other arm on only to find out the toplink won't reach (its a solid bar). Undo it all start over again. Backed up, got the toplink on, then ease forward and manage to get the pins in after a few up and down trips to see when holes line up.
All of this to say I probably spent thirty minutes or so trying to hook the durned thing up and then promptly spent about two minutes ripping a water line up.
Fast forward to today. Trying to expose some drain pipe to see if there is a grease trap. Decide to put backhoe on tractor. Up and down off tractor trying to line up 3pt arms. Finally get one pin in. Had to ease forward a bit and finally get the other arm on only to find out the toplink won't reach (its a solid bar). Undo it all start over again. Backed up, got the toplink on, then ease forward and manage to get the pins in after a few up and down trips to see when holes line up.
All of this to say I probably spent thirty minutes or so trying to hook the durned thing up and then promptly spent about two minutes ripping a water line up.