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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roadkill" data-source="post: 4079" data-attributes="member: 543">Hey Tazza,My 743 has the backhoe attachments, would measurements or pictures help?  My hoe is a really old Davis Manufacturing hoe, not Bobcat.  I didn't realize how much power it really has....I bent the bucket pulling a treestump.  The aux hyd connectors are pretty close to the coupler arms.  It is pretty hard to get the hoses disconnected with the backhoe support arms on the balls.  I noticed that the bottom hose disconnects easier than the top, then I can get a grip on the top one easier.  I can't get the frame on the balls using just the bobtach hydraulics either, I'm not sure if it's because of tilt ram slop or not.  I have to raise the couplers up with lift arms or stabilizers and use the backhoe digging arm to tilt the whole frame backward to get them on the balls.  It's difficult to explain.  The bobtach doesn't tilt back far enough.  I can take measurements or pictures if it would help.</blockquote>