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You’re gonna drop some coin on one of the high flow outfits

What are you running Bob?

If Kubota has a tracked one then I would look at it. I ran a CAT a couple of weeks ago and it was nice but they don't hold up. They are constantly in for repair.

NH

What's going on with it? How many hours and years old?

Nothing but they just aren’t as high quality overall as a CAT or Kubota . I don’t think they cost as much either so it really depends on what you wanna do with it and frequency of use.

It’s about 4 year old 75 hp tracked . Low hours . I bought it used

Oh yeah get one that uses a safety device OTHER THAN a seatbelt.

Got enough hours on my New Holland to have a pretty good feel for it.

I like it!

Made in the USA as well, so no wait for parts that may or may not be coming from overseas.

Power of it still surprises me. High flow C245.

I keep it busy. Money maker for me. Last week I was taking out mesquite trees I couldn't reach around with it.

They may have changed them now but the NH cabbed version requires the loader to be down so far before the door can swing open . That’s just dumb. What if the machine has a breakdown and it does with the loader up far enough to keep you from being able to open the door to leave the cab. Big boo boo on the design team

How many hours you up to now? What kind of mulcher you using RB?

I'd just lower the loader by letting the hydraulic pressure off. Same goes for my tractors. I can shut them off with the loader in the air, and still lower it. Just use the control stick and let the pressure out of the cylinders.

But there's other ways too.

You open the door a crack, then push upwards on the door... it slides off the hinges. Or in an emergency, you can exit the rear.

Or you could just design it better SEE KUBOTA

I have about 275 hrs now.

No mulcher. I made the decision not to use a mulcher when I bought it. Using a mulcher will take half the life out of a machine. If you expect you can get 5000 hours out of a machine, if you are using a mulcher, you'd get half that. It's hard on stuff.

Yeah. I looked at them. Don't lift as much, and cost $10k more.

Pass.

What are you using to take down the mesquite?

Danuzer Intimidator.

Pulls trees out by the roots.



Clean up and back drag with an Armstrong Ag root rake.

I wonder if that would work on the oaks we have here? They are tough to get out even with an excavator.

Takeuchi makes a damn good mini excavator. I would expect their skidsteers to be good as well, but haven’t been on one. Kubota and Caterpillar are both well regarded.

I do okay on oaks up to about 20" with it.. as long as you have some moisture in the soil, and it not dry and set up like concrete.

Liveoaks are the hardest to get out, but I get them too, most of the time. If it's too big for me to get out with what I have, you don't wanna be running a mulcher on it.