Apparently, a Woods BH will not mount to an LS tractor, least my tractor. The LS mounts are all different. So, Woods makes a mount for their backhoes for various other tractors, none of which are LS. However, they do make one for a NH Boomer 45, which is my tractor, but apparently it uses different loader mounts (NH uses a different FEL).
So after a few weeks of calling, emailing, and texting different 'engineers' and getting the usual disclaimer of "it wont work without serious modifications" from them, I decided to purchase the Woods 4pt Subframe Mount. I will need to modify the front of it (to what extent, I dont know yet) to make it work with the LS FEL mount. The 'engineers' were from LS and Woods, and the Woods guy told me they have zero plans to build an LS mount for their backhoes, but is he really the guy making those decisions? The LS guy was really friendly and told me that I would need to modify it so much that it would be better to build one from scratch. He was actually helpful.
The mount was ordered (~$2k) and will take a few weeks to get here. Once it gets here, I will examine it and see what modifications I need to do, to either the mount or the loader brackets, or both. I, of course, will attempt to film it and post it to YT.
I know that I could build one from scratch for less. And modifying something so expensive is heresy, especially since I have access to a shop with a good welder and torch. The shop is my neighbors, (I am building my own soon.) I simply dont feel like building my own from scratch, I really dont have that kind of time or patience. Making a simple modification (possibly no modification) sounds better in my opinion.
In all, so far, the BH cost me $4k, the mount $2K, so I have an $11k BH for $6K. No too bad.
