Chinese digger recommendations

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It now mentions a piston travel motor. What exactly is that? I’m hoping it is planetary travel motors. I’m concerned about freewheeling downhill.

Yesterday, the Typhon website mentioned something about a plunger pump.

A piston-type travel motor is what is used in HST tractors. In branded (and large Chinese) excavators, the piston motor drives a planetary gearset, which turns the drive sprocket. Both are in the housing you see that surrounds the sprocket. It is possible to drive the sprocket directly with a piston-type motor, but I don't think anyone does that.

On branded excavators, the travel motors usually have a 2-position swash plate piston motor, electrically-controlled, and a friction brake.

I suspect Typhon's "plunger" is a piston.