Looking at Lx490_ I have fallen love but hydraulics exposed

[Raised on a Deere]

Been looking at LS, Kioti, Kubota for comparison and for year. Yanmar was off the chart for reasons I can't explain. I just associated the name with stuff that was around 35 years ago. When it got through that it is a john deere, Cub Cadet, long story how I came to realize they had some really nice stuff. Went to see Lx490 and fell in love. The engine is awesome. The turbo allows a smaller more efficient and quieter engine when just tooling around with power when you need it. Direct injection engine, I am still trying to figure out why tractors have stayed with indirect injection, it is not as efficient, anyway love the engine and that power reverser as it is called when it has green (John Deere) paint on it is just what I wanted to help me stay with gear. Otherwise I was firmly intent on hydrostatic knowing there are times when gear provided the performance I want. I love the transmission, the engine is what I wished LS or Kubota had, haven't driven the Kioti, and the loader fits my specs.

Problem is the loader hydraulic hose connections are hanging under the tractor on the right side just begging to be torn up by limbs or stumps and twigs and what ever else I am always running over. I do a lot of bush hogging where I am knocking down 10-15 year growth in wooded areas on rolling terrain and those couplings and hoses are in the absolute worst place. The hydraulic filter is exposed along with some other hydraulic tubing that could be protected somehow but I don't have time to research before I have to jump on the deal I have found.
This is a deal breaker for me if I don't feel confident there is some workable solution to all this mess under there. In open fields and around the barnyard they would be fine.

Any ideas or experience with this situation that contains this problem will make a Yanmar man out of an old John Deere kid.