Being an independent heavy equipment mechanic who also works on anything else my customers want me to work on from lawn equipment to ag tractors, to weedeaters, I couldn't agree with you more. Granted there are those makes of machines that are built heavier/different to suit one market more so than another. Within those lines however the quality, life expectancy for a given application, etc, etc is usually about the same across the board.
Having been into so many different brands over the years I've always said if all of them would put their heads together and take the best parts of each they could make one heck of a machine. Then, of course, guys like us would be out of a job.
That said, you can always tell when a machine is a one owner, and one operator machine. Rarely do those machines need any kind of work, and when they do it's because of a major failure usually attributed to normal wear and tear, or as you said, operator error. Heck I just built an engine in one of the old Ford tractors made for them by Shibaru back during the summer last year. The customer bought the thing new in '88 and has worked it constantly and taken pretty good care of it as well. The only reason it needed the rebuild is that it had gotten low on oil, he had gotten busy and forgot to check it, and it starved, and spun #1 rod as he loaded it on the trailer to take back home from a job.
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