I can understand where yall are coming from on running mulchers on CTL they could be built alittle better to handle the torture, but we have a supertrak takeuchi with 7000hrs of mulching and a sk120 which is a 287b based machine with 5500hrs of mulching.....both have had there problems, mostly minor or normal to what mulching will do to a machine. We still run both of them today 8-10hrs daily. It all comes back to how you take care of them because everyone in the mulching business knows, there isnt very many other services that will wear a piece of equipment as much as this business.
I have heard of nearly all brands having problems dealing with the stress involved in mulching, fecon 140s burning up, tons of rayco 87 problems, even bron 400 and 500, supertrak machines, and just name it with ASV.
But on the same hand i am sure there are many of these same machines out there running problem free, even the ole RC100.
I am curious to see what this 299D will do, but fear the DPF emission equipment is going to create way too much heat and be a very easy source of a fire. Also heard they will offer a steal track for this undercarriage.