Wow, great thread guys! We're going on 250 hours now, have used this honey for so many BIG chores & different odd jobs, the list would take way too long to write... and other than filter/fluid changes, only 1 minor mishap. Got it high-centered on a stump hidden under the brush while logging and bent the TUBULAR steering tie-rod in the process of walking her back off it (by biting & raising with the loader and BH buckets & rotating both - thank goodness for long arms, as in MINE!) Anyway, that finally broke 6 months later. I was surprised because car & truck tie-rods are solid & I thought it could've been heated & straightened, but no. (So watch that ground clearance, fellas!)
And no problem with cold weather starts, either. (We did have several weeks of below 20 degrees F. this winter.) Or sagging hydraulics.
Here's a photo of one of the little stumps we've pulled. Started as a 50' or so Doug fir, bout a 2' dia. trunk & 6' wide root ball. Man have we worked that BH and been VERY impressed with it. The only 'no-sweat, no-thorns' way to clear large brush areas!