Buying Advice YM240D. Good deal?

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Long story. I have a post on it. I forget the thread title. Search my name on posts I have started.

But the gist of it is, my original exploded internally while I was disking foodplots. Ordered the replacement from Hoye. The first one the bolt holes were machined off. I could only get three bolts in it. The o ring blew out cause of the uneven pressure from three bolts. He sent a replacement, it too was bad, was bypassing internally is all I can assume. Aaron made it right. I swapped out with a used original one he had (he didn't have it when I first ordered). To Aaron's defense he said I was literally the only one that had issues with these. No hard feelings with me though. Aaron made it right with me, and gave me the best customer service one could ask for and I still buy my parts from them. I am in no way bashing Hoye, I want to make that clear.

Hopefully, that's just one of those one-off kind of things and is not normal.

I'm really enjoying our YM1700, just don't know what all to expect in the long run. Bought it because of it's narrow width to run down our berry rows. Worked great with our sprayer, so I hooked it up to our mulcher. Needed to add accessible hydraulics for the mulcher, so I bought parts from Hoye to add a hydraulic valve. All the parts showed up pretty quick and as promised.

That little tractor pulls like none other, for it's size. Still curious what the gpm output of the hydraulic pump is, but it's producing enough to run the mulcher.

Thanks for the comments.