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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reaperman" data-source="post: 76194" data-attributes="member: 6675"><p>I cant stand Cat and their hand controls. To me, with standard (bobcat) controls you have way more control over the machine and its direction. The right lever controls the right side of the machine and the left controls the left side. With the joystick, it seems like I'm always weaving back and forth trying to drive the line I wish to. This is especially noticeable in tight areas. And speaking of tight areas, the visibility of the cats I've operated is much more limited than Bobcat. I work in a lot of very tight spots so I want full control of what I'm doing. This means no trying to find the "right spot" on a joystick countless times throughout the day. Another thing I noticed with CAT is when operating through tight spots the machine will struggle through a turn and just stop dead because the machine doesnt have the power to "slide" the opposite side of the machine thru the turn. With standard controls, one lever forward and the opposite lever can be pulled back just enough to maneuver wherever you wish to go. A joystick will never have this ability, regardless of brand. I'm not a brand basher, I've been running cat skikloaders since they came out and I'm not impressed, we have 3 of them (277,277,247) where I work. One engine blew at 1000 hrs and approx $12,000 later. All three have ongoing undercarriage issues especially the bogie wheels. Which are a huge pain in the ass to fix. We have never had undercarriage issues with our t250's other than new tracks and a occasional drive sprocket. Which only takes about a hour per side to take a track on/off and switch out a sprocket. I still curse the day my boss bought the first 277 and paid $10.000 more for it than a t250. I told him if it didnt say CAT, he would have never even looked at the machine. The other two cats came from another company he bought out. Now almost 10 years later and thousands more in repair bills he finally admits I was right from the start.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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