Vertical lift is great if you never need to see anything to the side of you... ever.
With a Deere that's got vertical lift your options are: Raise the boom so you can see the edge of the tracks and lose some frontal visibility or just guess where your tracks are.
Fit and finish on Deere skids is garbage. Supposedly they fixed it on the new D series but I haven't seen one in person yet so I can't judge that.
CAT is best in the business for operator comfort and that's what matters when you're running the machine 8 hours a day. And what is so great about vertical lift over radial? Radial does just fine for pushing up leaf piles and dumping wood chips into a regrinder/colorizer to make mulch. Maybe if you're using the machine like a forklift instead of a skidsteer it'd be nice but if you do mainly bucket work radial is fine.
Sorry to hear the news Jim, but maybe it did happen for a reason, but getting so close and then having the rug pulled out from under you at the last minute. Your right about having your health and J/L, and the great bunch here too.
Pete remember I'm not a fan of Deere skids unless they were made by NH. I like vertical lifts cause they seem more stable with stuff over head, and you dont have to roll the bucket forward as much to level it. Though i want to run a joystick skid to just for the hell of it.
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