John Deere 8b Backhoe Manual and help

[spook1]

Anyone have the operators manual for a 8b Backhoe. I have one with my 1070 tractor I recently bought. I am mainly wondering if there is an easy way to attach it back to the tractor. I played with it last night but the reinforcement bars seem to get in the way of each other. I am sure it is one of those things after you do it for a while then it becomes easy. But any advice on attaching to the tractor is appreciated.

 

[jwinner]

I don't have a manual, but I have seen the attachment before. You should be able to back up close to it, connect the hoses, then use the backhoe controls to maneuver a round bar toward the rear of backhoe frame into the two brackets below the drawbar at the rear of tractor. Then when you raise the backhoe boom, it should rotate the more forward round bar on the backhoe frame up into the two latches on the support bars running between the rear wheels and the loader support bracket on the tractor. Then just lock the latches.