Well fellas,I got my Phantom 110 last night,ran it around a bit,spread some process,had to get home though the wife was makin dinner and didn't want to be late so I parked her for the night,it apparently has a bad check valve,the loader does creep down but ever so slowly,if you weren't lookin' for it you wouldn't know it was happening,they ordered the valve and will install it when they get it,I don't think the dealer wanted to be out of 2 pieces of rental equipment so they sent the Phantom to me.I would have used it to Harley rake a lawn today but it didn't come w/the 3 point hitch so I used a buddies machine,but to my amazement my salesman called me outta the blue today and said he had my 3 point hitch.....WOO-HOO /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif........of course this was after I had finished raking.I headed back to my shop to install the skid plate,stabilizer gaurds,and 3 point hitch,but of course it started to rain.....HEAVILY.....so I waited for the rain to stop/slow down and couldn't resist,I had to go play,so I spread some more process,piled up some mulch,and moved a couple of paver pallets around that weigh about 3000lbs,I picked em' up about 2' off the ground and drove em to a new spot,I was surprised it picked them up,but I'm not sure that it would've gone much higher,but I didn't try,it did feel a bit tipsey though,I'm going to look into having the rear tires filled w/anti freeze and water.Anyway tomorrow I'm putting on the goodies(the ones that I have anyway) and if the weather is good I'm takin' this pig to do some work.
I have to say though this whole experience has left me with that "not so fresh feeling" am I glad I bought this machine,yes,it really has the potential to be a great machine,I say potential because I don't really know what or how the thing is going to perform aside from the few minutes I've had on it,but I'm gonna find out,do I think that JD should have waited till they had their s@#t together, absolutely,it really shows that they still haven't quite gotten the whole thing w/delivery or enough product down yet,and it shows that they are willing to tell the dealers sell,sell,sell even though they didn't have the goods,next time they come out w/somethin' new I think I'll wait a year that way I won't have to wait 3 months.
