masalser
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- Joined
- Feb 10, 2008
- Messages
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- Location
- Snohomish County, Washington
- Tractor
- John Deere 5510, Kubota HST 3010, ASV RC100 tracked skidsteer, Bobcat 435 excavator, Howard Price 15' finish mower, Kubota ZD331 mower, Woodmizer LT40 super hydraulic sawmill
I'm looking at replacing an ASV RC100 and am contemplating going with either a Bobcat T770 or a Terex PT100G. I would also consider the Bobcat T870, but am not sure I want a machine that wide. Is anybody out there running either of the new Bobcats? If so, what are your thoughts on the machine and what are you using it for?
In terms of how we use the machine, we are a large horse farm in the Pacific Northwest, so we deal with a lot of mud and fairly soft ground. We use the current machine to move dirt and gravel around, to mow horseback riding trails with both a sickle bar mower that mows the sides and a heavy duty Davcon rotary mower that mulches up anything in the path, to move large heavy horse jumps around out in a big field, and finally as a forklift to move lumber and logs around (we have a Woodmizer sawmill). I'm used to the high speed of the RC100 (about 11mph) and won't consider any machine significantly slower than that, and I need high lifting capacity because we occasionally need to move Ecoblocks, large logs, and boulders around.
Let me know if you have any thoughts.
In terms of how we use the machine, we are a large horse farm in the Pacific Northwest, so we deal with a lot of mud and fairly soft ground. We use the current machine to move dirt and gravel around, to mow horseback riding trails with both a sickle bar mower that mows the sides and a heavy duty Davcon rotary mower that mulches up anything in the path, to move large heavy horse jumps around out in a big field, and finally as a forklift to move lumber and logs around (we have a Woodmizer sawmill). I'm used to the high speed of the RC100 (about 11mph) and won't consider any machine significantly slower than that, and I need high lifting capacity because we occasionally need to move Ecoblocks, large logs, and boulders around.
Let me know if you have any thoughts.