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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bobcatdan" data-source="post: 85652" data-attributes="member: 7339"><p>Its kinda sad because to me, there is a lot to like about the Deere's. I like how you sit down in them and the nice view of the bucket. Also the 40/60 weight difference makes them very surefooted. From an operatior standpoint, they were nice machines. They simply didn't hold up. When I was a Deere tech, if one came in with more then a 1,000 hours, it was always a clapped out pile of junk. It kinda surprising we have one at work that does nothing but run a breaker and at 3,000 hours its still going. Granted its had two hydrostats, both drive motors, two sets of arms and completely rewired. Next project is going to be doing the steering, it is a miserable thing to drive right now. The 300 series was far more reliable in my book except the engines. Both the 2.4 and 3.0L had injector pump issues that could easily doom the whole engine. I think many updates later, that was solved so all you had to do was water pumps fairly regularly.</p></blockquote><p></p>