Finally drove a Rhino

   / Finally drove a Rhino #1  

Kyle_in_Tex

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East Central, Texas
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JD 4310,JD5420
My wife's uncle finally brought his Rhino to our place and let me have at it. WOW. His has a few mods including bigger tires, a home made double exhaust system to quiet the engine, and a few other things. The exhaust did quiet it substantially but it also hindered acceleration. It would still reach over 40mph but I could tell it could accelerate better with a different exhaust. He's after quiet for hunting and not worried about performance.

The ride is smooth and it turns with little effort on the steering wheel.

I have my own electric golf cart, my FIL's 2wd gator HPX here on our place all the time. I also have test driven the mule, RTV, Cub Cadet, and others.

The rhino gets my vote for quality of ride alone. I know, it is only rated to hold 400Lbs in the bed. (My wife only weighs 130 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) The way I'm thinking, my usage would be 98% driving/playing around the place. Mail, trash, get something from the barn. So my electric fits my usage fine. But, If I was buying a gas powered, the rhino would be it. I would put a trailer behind it if I needed to carry more than 400 lbs. We haven't put anything approaching 400 lbs in our gator yet. It drives like a 1 ton truck. It is Heavy Duty.

PS, Uncle says he's never had to put it in 4WD to get unstuck. Only for stability in muddy conditions.

I would say a person that wants to take a UTV to Colorado for a camping trip would be glad he purchased a rhino. If you do a lot a spraying or heavy duty work, I could see where you might want something heavier duty or a trailer to pull behind the rhino.
 
   / Finally drove a Rhino #2  
Kyle,

I have one and love it. I too looked at them all including the RTV 900, nice rig but the cost and the little problems scared me away. We use ours everyday for barn duties, go through about 5 gal. of fuel a week so it's never sitting. As far as the 400lb load capacity in the dump bed, the rating is 400lb's so you can tilt the bed up using the tilt lever. Believe me with all the wet sand I had in mine over the weekend I had more then 400lbs in the bed.

The Rhino runs great and does every chore we ask of it.
Besides, the horses like it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Malvern /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

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