Well folks, just got back from my property where the backhoe is, armed with all the info you great people gave me. Good news and bad news, good news is I got it moving again, drained the reverser and torque converter, there was about 5 quarts in there that drained out and was burnt. Put in new tranny fluid a quart at a time letting it run and it took 8 quarts to full on the dipstick, hopped up and pulled it right out of the woods! But the bad news, there was not anything in the gearbox the last time I went up there as I said earlier, then I added 3 quarts of hyd/trans fluid I had with me to the gear box, so I drained that out, I read online somewhere that it took 18 quarts of 90 gear oil (hope that was correct), so put that 18 in the gearbox, went about 10 feet and it blew right out the end of the axle on the right side behind the wheel. I guess I now know why it was empty....but progress made!!

so, anyone know if 18 quarts 90 gear oil in gearbox was correct?

secondly, a seal blown? where can I get one if so...