I have put about 25 hours on it so far. The air ride seat is worth the extra money I think. Most of the hours have been bush hogging. The cab came in handy when I ran over a hornets nest bush hogging. I did use the FEL to pull up some old fence post and push about 100 t-post in the ground for some new fencing. If I had it to do over I don't think I would change a thing.