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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Earthwerks Unlimited" data-source="post: 19534" data-attributes="member: 1300"><p>Surplus Center.com sells new and used electric over hydraulic valves for this puirpose. Not cheap. Then you have to run a separate wire harness and connector at the boom for it to that runs isndie the cab with electrical switches. The dealer wanted something like $800 for the harness which included new control lever "switch pods" that replace the existing ones. Labor was extra and was about the same as the parts. Push came to shove--pun intended-- you could use an electric V-snow plow controller and pump to do the controlling then just run a power cable to it and a pig tail inside the cab--just don't raise the boom to far. What I did was buy an 8' snow plow and made it rigidly mounted to a spare mounting plate. I use it for snow plowing. For loose dirt it's ok but heavy clay forget it--it submarines too easily. I have a feeling you be sorely disappointed once you get this set up becuase the machine will slip sideways very easy. And if you're used to a dozer, you will be kicking yourself. I say that becasue a friend of mine is/was a Bobcat salesman and we discussed a Bobcat 6-way dozer. He said don't do it. And I have tracks too which triples the traction but still he advised against it.</p></blockquote><p></p>