PSDF350,
I normally don't try and get involved in the decision that you are working on but, what the heck!
Look at and if possible try a 4320 John Deer.
I bought one and it is all I had hoped it would be and more.
You can't say that about too many things today. I did look at like size orange machines however I was more comfortable with the green. My reasons are the same ones that you hear about over and over in this forum and I don't need to go there. One thing I strongly recomend for woods work is a four in one loader bucket. I lift hickery logs 16' long and 18" at the butt and stack them in a neat pile for bucking with little apparent strain on the loader arms as long as I grab the log in the correct place balance wise. I have read here that some feel the need to add a valve to their grapple buckets because the weight of a load of brush opens the grapple when the machine is driven over rough ground. This is not the case with the JD 4 in 1 on my machine with a log not brush.
The tractor with the 400X loader and 440 Hoe along with the 4 in 1 weighs in at about #7500 LBS. This with the R-4s that I had installed is a good compromise as to traction with minimum ground damage.
Please take a look at these 4x20 machines, you won't be sorry.
