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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ward" data-source="post: 139917" data-attributes="member: 25583">I doubt that it has anything like that, it maybe more of a this is the way we treat equipment in our posspossession and they don't want someone just jumping in it and starting it and going wide open from cold while they (the seller) own/ have possession of it. I myself never want to move a piece of equipment until the engine is happy sounding just above idle then I gently start moving the functions, on a skidsteer that is the bucket and loader, the reason being the gear pump which runs the loader bucke system does not warm the oil just pushing it through the system, however it will move cold hydraulic oil just fine, after having tested the loader controls I creep forward and backwards. What I can tell you is we had between 25 to 35 skid steers in the the rental fleet (at the stores I worked at around the greater Washington Dc area) and never had issues and our customer seemed to let them warm up in cold weather when I was on their job sites I think we had about 20 to 25 back hoes and 4 to 5 larger excavators I don't remember how many mini excavators 7 to 10 I would guess and a couple of about 18,000 lb dozers.</blockquote>