Hi Graham,
Ah yes on closer inspection I can see the hitch now, That HE style of Q-Hitch is rubbish! I had one on my first own machine which was a ex HE Fiat-Hitachi, apparently that hitch was designed by Hugh Edelanue Mr HE himself and he just wont admit its no good!!
For starters you cant turn the bucket around to do any face shovel work and I found that they wear very quickly so the bucket is always flopping around
Yes I agree those 130 Kommies are a bit underpowered, I used one recently with a V-ditching bucket on, we only wanted to hire a V bucket but of course their buckets wont fit anything else!! so we had to hire the machine as well!!
Who is that you are working for around Basingstoke or as we used to call it Doughnut city (lots of roundabouts!
Nick