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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bobbie-g" data-source="post: 34971" data-attributes="member: 26"><p>I have an old old backhoe that I had completely refurbished. No idea what brand or age (spent way too much on it). It had no stabilizing arms on it at all. So we welded on a Bobtach mounting plate, which worked just fine, but it still needed the arms to help stabilize the upper part of the hoe. I had seen the 909 style arms that fit the trailer balls, but didn't like the way the arms were fixed and rigid (hard to hook up to the Bobcat). My 751 Bobcat also had the trailer ball mounts for a 909. So we made some arms for the hoe out of 2" x 2" x 1/4" tubing and welded a trailer hitch on one end. The other end of the arm is attached to the hoe via a bolt through a horizontal hole in the arm. This allows the arm to swing down over the ball when hooking up. One on each side. Slick. More to the point, my T180 has no mounts at all. I plan to mount trailer balls on it, just inside of the ROPS cage. I'll put them as close as I can to the cage to keep them out of the way. The T180 has a lot of metal at that point and I believe it will be beefy enough to support the balls. Then I'll probably have to modify the hoe a bit to make the arms line up with the balls, but that should do it. Haven't done this yet on the T180, but love the way it hooks up to the 751. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ----RC</p></blockquote><p></p>

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