Let me start over. I apoligize for my ignorance. I bought this 463 new in 04 (?) with the blower (s150). I have only used it for snow removal in the past (about 600 hrs so far). I also use a 56" utility bucket and 60" Mega broom. I do mainly sidewalks and driveways for roughly 12 square blocks around my home. Before the 463 I completely rebuilt an old 500 and used it for 7 years. The blower and bucket work very well but I need to speed up the process alittle as more neighbors are requesting service and always cycling the bucket seems to take too long. A blade seems to be the right way to go. I bought a 5' back blade and removed the 3pt brackets. I removed the quick tach plate from the broom and welded 2" receiver adapters to it. I welded male ends to both the blade and the broom so I'm able to change from one to the other using the same plate. The blade works great so far. Fits the sidewalks angled and great for pulling back from the garage doors without cycling the tilt so often as done w/the bucket. I use 1 1/4" poly ahead of the cutting edge. Hydralic angle would be even better but I have never had an attachment w/cylinder only function. As I am beginning to understand, I think, all I need to do is add the right size cylinder, hoses and flat face coupler ends and attach them to the front auxillary ports. On the 463 the auxil. is engaged by shifting the right lever to it's detent has opposed to the switch on the bigger machines. By momentarily bumping the auxil hydr lever that will move the cylinder until it's limit and the bypass valve in the loader will reverse flow to retract the cylinder. Correct?? Do I have this right?? I was thinking I needed a directional valve, etc. that I had to operate from in the loader (left lever switch) as I do the blower chute angle. It makes sense as less heat from fluid movement. I'm old but never too old to learn something new. Again, I appoligize for my ignorance. I hope I got it right. Thanks.