I'm turning 49 in about a month and a half, and I've been working on equipment all of my life. I began helping Dad with small engines, etc, when I was reallt young. Funny, Mom has a picture of me sitting on the work bench with a screwdriver,'helping' Dad, while I was still in diapers. By the age of 13 I was splitting tractors and putting in clutches pretty much alone.
Now, I routinely work on everything from lawnmowers to D9 CAT dozers, most often completely alone. When one of my customers gets ready I've got both an 80D, and a 190D Northwest crane to put back together. Since Dad pretty much retired several years ago, I imagine I'll wind up doing 90% of that work alone.
Just this week I pulled the rear axel out of a L110E Volvo loader after the mounting bolts in the front mount worked their way out and the axel jumped out of the read mount as well. Other than a little help this morning getting it set back in place with two forklifts (it broke under roof and I couldn't get my crane situated to pick it properly...without a lot of extra work) I did everything myself.
That said, a man once told me that, 'They only make so many kinds of parts, it's just how you put them together as to what they do.' When I think about that, I think about two things. One, the parts aren't really going to be any different regardless of which tractor you choose to work on. The second, is that even though a part may be a little bigger, or smaller, it will still be the same part, doing the same thing.
To sum it up, do whatever your comfortable with, but don't let the size of a machine intimidate you.
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