@Samuel Hambley I have heard the Chinese dingos that cheap are absolutely trash. During Covid we bought an expensive knock off, it ran fun, but stupid slow, until the hydraulic pump rattles off the engine. The company wanted $5k for a new pump even though just the splines were stripped.

@Samuel Hambley that’s great. I guess everyone has different experiences. Paid $28k for an “iron rhino 1,000” with bucket, Harley rake, maybe another attachment. One of the worst equipment purchases I made. It was a simple machine but, $5k for a pump and being told torquing the bolts was regular maintenance even though it wasn’t in the poorly written handbook was too much for me.

90% removals, we do a lot of fence line clearing, canopy raising, etc but hardly any whole tree trims.

I hate climbing srt. We do mostly removals and I just never got comfortable with srt as it Always felt awkward.