Soon to be a DK40 HST owner!

[IndyIan]

II, if you do a lot of boxing, why no Hyd side link? My side link is indispensable when ditching or maintaining a crown on my gravel driveway. What ever you get make sure the joysticks have no dentent balls in them. My top link does not, the side link did & I still need to take the dang thing apart & get rid of the detents because they cause the lever to lock all the way in or out, which overloads the IP and can burn it out.

I got a second remote installed so we'll see how it goes with just the hyd top link. I had to keep the tractor somewhere near our original budget and I debated weither the side link or the top link would be better to have. I think the top link will be good for snowblowing, either to keep the pto angles reasonable or use it to fine tune how close the blower gets to the driveway.
We'll see how it goes and adding a hyd side link later won't be a huge deal with a remote ready for it.