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2005-03-13 107945
psimonson, there are several 2210 owners that are interested in backhoes. We all have been following posts on TBN about the first Woods unit, as well as pics taken by another poster at the Ft. Wayne tractor show. Your homemade unit appears to be a quick-change one, are you willing to share any info with those that are leary of a subframe unit that isn't easy to change over?
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 57 Northeastern Tennessee
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2005-03-14 108007
I haven’t seen any posts on the subject but my local dealer got in a Woods Groundbreaker X for the 2210 and left me a phone message to stop by and look at it. I did that about a month ago but it was a day when the high temperature was in the teens so I didn’t look too closely/long; I was dressed for a dental appointment, not outdoor activity.
Woods has an extended frame to spread the load forward but it is not an under slung subframe. From what I could see it went forward over the rear axle and tied into the main frame somewhere under the floor board area. It looked like the frame mount can remain in place and not interfere with the mid-mount mower and 3-point arms. They said the initial install took a few hours but, after that, the hoe goes on and off in a few minutes similarly to the way an OEM Deere 4X backhoe would mount to a 4000 series tractor. They know I made my backhoe so they wanted me to stop back and give the Woods unit a test drive for comparison. I’m still waiting for warmer weather.
I’m not fond of 3-point backhoe mounts so I made a more conventional subframe for mine that goes beneath the rear end housing and forward where pins attach it to the FEL mounts. It hooks over the round bar that the 3-point lower arms attach to in the rear. I used a PTO hydraulic pump because I wasn’t sure how to build a power beyond outlet and none were available for the 2210 at the time. It takes me less than 10 minutes to mount both the pump and backhoe.
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2005-03-14 108009
Pete,
The poster I referred to is on another tractor site. The other interested 2210 owner I mentioned who attended the Ft. Wayne show spent some time with the Woods people, and they claimed the first install would be the better part of a day, and subsequent ones would take an hour. If this is true, the feeling of several of us, is that we would be reluctant to want to use an attachment that would take an hour to put on and then take off. That's why when I saw your post about the toolbox and looked at your bio, I became so interested in your quick-tach set-up. If you were open to it, I would be interested in seeing what you fabricated. I live in Southington, so we can't be that far away. Supposedly Deere has a BH under developement, but that could just be a rumor.
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