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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Team Fountain" data-source="post: 243" data-attributes="member: 37"><p>They both have their purpose in life.  I love my T300, but I'm sorry I didn't keep my S185.  I can see myself adding an AWS to the fleet.  The tracks really do shine in the dirt, but I use mine for a lot more than dirt.  If I could only have one, I think it would be a track machine.  If I can have two, it wouldn't be two track machines.  As far as the money, for what the track machine can do in the dirt it easily justifies the extra $20k.  That being said, they are probably overpriced just because the market will bear it.  It's nice to know I could work in the slop if I had too, but I still choose not to.  The other major downfall to the larger track machine is the weight.  You're at 10k # just for the machine with a bucket.  Add an auger and trencher to the trailer + the weight of the trailer = a bullet between the eyes if the DOT weighs you and you don't have a class A CDL.  I'm covered, but my salesman did make a point of telling me that the resale market is limited on my machine because the average landscape company around here wants a machine they can stick on a lightweight trailer and tow behind a pickup.  Resale is also limited because of the higher operating expenses associated with track machines.  That being said, I see a change in the local market.  My dealer is selling more track machines than wheeled machines this year.  Maybe it's because we nearly drowned last year with all the rain, or maybe it's because they do perform so well in dirt.  Hard to say.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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