After the horrible experience I had with Cats last year, I'd only take one if it were given to me. I push snow in Madison and the place I work for has contracts with Cat, so that's what we get. Both machines burst hydraulic lines on two different occasions. Fabco was pretty quick to get them fixed, but we refused to take 'em back this year. When two different machines with less than 50 hours have failures like that, I get leary.
Also, those joystick controls are not for me. I grew up on foot controls in a Bobcat 753 and got used to hand controls in a Case 1840 of the neighbors (both very good machines). I can do just about anything that can be done with hand or foot controls. My first experience with joystick controls was in those Cats. They offer no finesse. We're trying to backdrag several hundred driveways in a short period of time. It takes me a 1/3 longer to do it with joystick controls. I challenge someone to show me how to dig myself out with those controls. You cannot run the wheels, drop the arms, and flip the bucket with them to get you out of a hole. After 50 hours with joystick controls, I'm still no good at 'em.
I'm glad that my boss said he'd refuse to do the job if we got Cats or joystick controls this year. I'm running a Bobcat S185 and he's running an S250 with foot controls. We both have 100 inch buckets. We sure can move a lot of snow with the proper equipment.
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