You don't know how hard it was to accept the tractor, put it in the barn and then go to work
. Hurried home and gave it a good inspection checking oil, grease fittings, etc....basically making shure there were no obvious QC items.
Hooked up the brush cutter and AWAY WE GO! Cut a small area (approx 1/4 acre) of overgrown area. It was pleasing (in an odd way) having the cutter in front...I'm used to CUT/brush hogs with the need to alternate between looking forward and checking behind. This experience was NEAT!
Went down by the creek...down a small slope/drop. Cut that area and crawled out. I cut the PTO coming out...so I could lift the cutter 12+" to clear the relatively sharp drop to the low area by the creek. The tractor articulated well...I slowed it down to a crawl and let the hydro pressure turn the wheels and let it crawl itself out. I love the low CG!
Swapped to the mini-hoe and did a quick demo for wife and daughter.
My girls love it! Saw my neighbor with a "WTF?" expression
on his face.
First impressions:
-Wow factor is off the scale.
-Build quality good..think Abrahms tank--There's nothing that feels "light duty".
-Brush cutter is a brute but does not like tall/thick grass unless
really slow speed...but I already knew this from using CUTs.
-Learning curve is very shallow---meaning one will quickly adapt to the articulated function....hydro controls are easy to learn.
-For my needs it should be infinetly more useful than any other tractor I could have bought.
Immediate needs:
-The steering wheel knob.
-Extra caps/cover for the connectors when mini-hoe circuit is being used.
Hopefully will post more as I "get into it".
