What equipment do you use in your area? Do you agree or disagree with my list? Let me know! ⬇

Im not spending the money on an expensive machine just to use it maybe once a week. I don't have a business and am not buying something to make money with. Im buying to make my life easier. My back, shoulders, hips and knees aren't getting any better.

My dingo tx1000 was the best employee I hired at Bare Ground Stump Grinding . Going from a shovel and wheel burrow to machine was game changer . Your advice is something guys need to listen to .

@alexissaucedo5526

3 ай бұрын

How long have you been running it for now?

@brandenkelsey8929

Ай бұрын

@@alexissaucedo5526I’ve got 2 tx 1000s and 1 322 and love them all, I found something good and stuck with them, I use them for tree work, I have grapples and a big box that I rake debris in , very dependable machines

MT100 are my favorites for mini. Every demo w/ a ditch witch fell in love but too expensive

After your hardships T, I’m glad you’re living life!! Im sure your dad’s proud of you man! Keep killing the hardscape game ❤️🤝

We bought a used Vermeer s600tx and love it! The price was right. Didn't want to pay $30-$60k for the newer mini skids. $12.5k with attachments and 2k hours. It needed some work (maintenance) but hasn't broke the bank. Biggest thing we wanted in a used machine was a ride-on/stand-on machine. We have rented a MT52/MT55 that was a walk behind (I'd rather us a shovel). We've rented a Toro and Vermeer 925tx and they were both decent machines. IMO most of the newer stuff is pretty good.

The impact driver was a nice touch on the set haha. I own a kubota scl 1000. I live it. Could improve on some things but that everything.

I live my mt100 so far. That being said, its new and ive only put a few hours on it. So far i think the standing platform is way to narrow. It looks like you will almost be hugged inside of it but feel like im falling off the back alot. The hydraulic bypass is pretty annoying. It will bypass before the ass end has me in the air sometimes. Its also kind of slow. But this being my first machine im still loving it and looking forward to using it alot

I got a Wacker SM100. Spec wise, it beat almost every comparable machine (except the Vermeer CTX100 which was another 35k CAD!); MUCH faster, higher hinge pin, lower ground pressure, and MASSIVE 64L/17gal fuel tank. Price wise, ~8k cheaper than Kubota/Bobcat where I am. Some other pros: My SM100 is actually built in America (though I live in Canada), Yanmar turbo diesel, front mounted cooler so you don't get hot air basting your legs, triple flanged grease adjust undercarriage, float mode (great QOL option in my opinion), wide track yet narrow machine, grease points where it matters and not on idlers. Some cons: single stick drive control (some like, some don't), lots of electronic limiting for safety and logevity of the engine (again, some don't like that), dealer network isn't as large ( though my dealer is

@JackofHaulTrades

4 ай бұрын

Right on brother I agree with you. I love my sm100

@EuroYardService

Ай бұрын

I'm renting the sm100 this weekend...first time...and love it already :)

Bob cat s70 it’s a great machine we use every day summer and winter specially for snow work I will be allot more comfortable inside a cab with heat than beexpose to the elements with no heat 😅

@brucecooley4170

15 күн бұрын

S70 with very short wheelbase is way more unstable when the ground is not flat than a mini skid on tracks. Also for one man crew, much easier to jump on and off mini than climb out of bobcat. Also to work on S70 is way harder than mini skid. I had a 443 which is a really old S70, now have a vermeer 425 , much happier. It’s always about the exact things you want to optimize.

I love the vermeer mini.

Love my Ditch Witch SK900

Kubota is still the goat

Can confirm. my mt100 is amazing and a life saver but it does bog down with heavy loads in the bucket and it is very slow. The ditch witches have more Hp on the same size machines and are faster. But they are also much more expensive. The mt100 is a great machine for your first machine. It was the most affordable in my area and gets a ton of stuff done for me. Overall happy with it.

@Tylers24

3 ай бұрын

Mt100 sucks its hydraulic system is prehistoric, fighting your hand when you turn making giant whineing sound.

@trevorsmith4472

3 ай бұрын

@@Tylers24 it is what it is homie. At least it shows up everyday.

@saulmartinez8809

2 ай бұрын

​@@Tylers24 If it's fighting your hand when you turn then your joystick roller bearing is going out. They are a bitch to replace too.

We've tested and studied many mini skids. Ran a Toro TX1000 for a year or so. Was a high performing, compact machine, but the wasn't terribly tough/reliable and was easy to roll tracks off of. Have heard good things about Ditch Witch until recently when the we're purchased by Toro (no surprise) Ended up purchasing a Vermeer CTX 100. We've been running it for 2.5 years now and love it. It is a tough, well designed, and very powerful unit compared to machine like the Toro or Bobcat. Vermeer for the win in my opinion if you have a good dealer.

Non turbo mt100 for the win by miles. And I have a dealer 8 blocks up the road. The product support is amazing.

@hazzurs

5 ай бұрын

I agree, my mt100 has been amazing

I Saw Tigran at concrete world

MT 100 kills it here in So Cal. Bobcat dealers everywhere. Secret weapon in Hollywood. Swell Landscapes!

@orozcob.l.i1297

3 ай бұрын

We have tried both and my favorite is bobcat don’t really like ditch which

Completely of guard when he pulled out the shovel.😂😂

lol kubota has so many known issues and mt100 so low. dude is trolling hard

@tylerm9528

5 ай бұрын

What kind of issues on the kubota? All my machines are kubota and have been very good to us

@danielaltamirano322

4 ай бұрын

@@tylerm9528kubotas full sized machines have been very reliable it’s just the minis that have some issues. like it being tippy, they’ve needed quite a bit of software updates and i’ve seen that the turbo makes it jerk. still a good machine though no doubt.

@CHAKAMALANDRIN

4 ай бұрын

Lol what ?? Bobcat is made by Doosan Group of South Korea. John deere Yanmar engines are rebranded and primarily marketed by John Deere, an American corporation also invested in diesel engines and heavy machinery for agricultural and industrial use. Kubota, on the other hand, sells its products under its name in the US. Kubota on top

@adammcalpine231

4 ай бұрын

@@CHAKAMALANDRIN not that the engine is everything, but the MT100 is Kubota powered, at least mine is.

@CHAKAMALANDRIN

4 ай бұрын

@@adammcalpine231 right, I was simply defending the kubota motors as The top comment mentioned Kubota having "loads of known issues".

Is he trolling about the Bobcat? Mt 100 is excellent. It makes me wonder if he has actually use it because the Ditch 850 and Kubota SL1000 stalled on me every time I went into a pile of crushed gravel. My list Ditched witch 1050+ Bobcat Vermeer Toro Kubota And everything else.

@davidg9401

5 ай бұрын

The mt100 we use at work is great. Definitely a great addition to smaller job sites

@TigranGertz

5 ай бұрын

It’s a good machine but side by side to the DW. It’s not as strong

@lukemarks92

3 ай бұрын

I like the ditch witch wayyyyy better. Wayyy more comfortable controls and cushions / standing platform. Also MUCH better handles to actually hold on to. Its way smoother to operate. Faster. And overall just a better machine. I think the mt100s are trash to be honest. Night and day compared to a ditch witch

@DiffleysLandscaping

3 ай бұрын

Having run a mt100 for 3 years and bought a vermeer ctx 100 it's not even comparable. I wouldn't touch a bobcat ever again. CTX100 runs circles around it.

@lukemarks92

3 ай бұрын

@@DiffleysLandscaping would love to try a vermeer still have not been able to. Ditch witch and bobcat are by far the most popular in my area. The next would be dingo but NOT a fan of those haha

Toro 1000 or 2000 way better than Kubota, better balance , better stance, better controls, no-brainer.

I have two BobcatS70's and they are great and more power than expected. The Kubota engines are solid as a rock.

To low on bobcat. And too high on toro

I love my toro 525 diesel with a Kubota engine . The best of both worlds. . small enough powerful enough only down fall is lifting weights..also great little machine and easy to work on .. for your basic repairs and maintenance.. love toro

I really appreciate a good honest opinion, especially by KZreadr, who is not a computer generated voice

@TigranGertz

4 ай бұрын

thanks man

Bought a Kubota today . Agree on Bobcat . Wore out 2 big Bobcat , loved them .

The MT100 is fantastic, much better than Ditch Witch, Vermeer or Toro. Bobcat has more knowledge and experience building Construction Equipment than any of the others. As far a the S70 its a great machine for what its designed to do. Many people who criticize do not understand how to operate them correctly or understand that machines are rated and designed to do certain things. You can overload anything. From the looks of the other comments here here its pretty obvious that your ratings are not really spot on and are just your personal opinion without true merit.

@naddaohone

2 ай бұрын

MT100 .898 Liter Kubota, vs SK800 1.1 Liter engine.

The fact that he put shovel #1 shows he a real one 😂

I love my Vermeer ctx160 it lifts 1600 pounds it’s one of my favorites

Im buying a ditchwitch 1050 2018 1000h with stumpe grinder bucket and fort for 32k canadian bought un 2019 for 65 i hope im gonna like it anyways not gonna lose à lot its cheeper then the other and have a 11000$ strump grinder attachement with it

That Ditch witch sk1750 is pretty bad ass. I have a sk900 on order right now. 12-18 month wait.

@TigranGertz

5 ай бұрын

good choice

@naddaohone

2 ай бұрын

SK900 1.27 Liter Yanmar, with a Turbo

I have a china mini excavator, had it for almost a year, got TONs of work done with it. Parts are kind of a pain in the ass, but its really not that bad. If you can spend 5 grand instead of 35 grand and get some work done, then do it

SK600 .898 liter Kubota diesel engine…

@ngnmech

Ай бұрын

own one. 902D Kubota diesel engine. Good little machine for close in work and will fit through standard backyard 36" gates. Use it for stump chip cleanup. Only complaint is it doesn't like cold weather. Even with glow plugs hard to start initially. I don't think the engine is the problem. The issue is the engine starts and then the pumps with their cold hydraulic fluid override the engine and kill it. Need a fair amount of throttle for that initial below 30 degree start to keep it running.

Bobcat mt100 is probably the best machine I ever owned . Reliable / nice power / kubota engine / simple and well thought out. My friend changed also and he came from a ditch with 1000 that he had nothing but problem with . To me the mt100 is goat status especially for the price compared to others .

my favorite is ditch witch ! but im ready to order Chinese brand with diesel engine and Italian pumps ! LOL

Bro good video dingo is the best next to ditch witch.

@OlivierL.27

5 ай бұрын

I dont think so thats why the bought ditchwitch to upgrade the mini skid

@artemauziak6722

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, non of these has extendable reach like the Dingo 1300

I’ll admit, finding parts were hard for the Chinese brand. Until I realized tractor supply and amazon carry 95% of the replacement parts for it. I own 6 of them now for my tree company. Hydraulic pump can be replaced with any one of them on the market too! The motors are ether American gas brands or Yanmar diesels, so parts for the motor is hella easy to find

@joann4517

Ай бұрын

Which one?

I've used Kabota, Vermeer, and ditch witch. Ditch witch is hands down my favorite. One thing I would change on it is to have the aux hydraulic button on the boom control like the Kabota. I also kinda liked the dual stick for the drives. The newer single stick is not bad though. Vermeer i didn't like at all. It had the Kohler diesel and it was total garbage. Very low hour machine and it constantly died and smoked like a freight train. Boom control was smooth. Kabota was an ok machine. I hated the drive control on it. It was very stiff and wore my left hand out after 6 hours of use. The boom control was all or nothing. It is very hard to be precise with it. Ok power wise and the platform was the most comfortable. The boom had float mode which was nice. Ditch witch first, Kabota second and Vermeer last for me.

I am about to buy the Wacker Neuson SM100 or SM120 depending on price here in Texas. Thank you for your review, i was tempted to buy a bobcat because it is about $10k less than vermeer and ditch witch but we are getting a good deal on WN

@chi_stuntsxxx4413

2 ай бұрын

I’m currently on the fence of an mt100 or WN

@dhanijt

2 ай бұрын

WN hands down...I have tested it pretty rough and hasn't failed

@EuroYardService

Ай бұрын

I'm renting the SM100 right now and I love it. I've rented ditch witches and vermeers before but I think the WN takes the cake :)

I used that chinese brand , it will break down frequently than others , toro and new Holland is very good

Bro the mt 100 is pretty freaking powerfull

lol I almost got a s70 but ended up with the mt85. Great so far

Own Toro Dingo 427 No man can lift 550 lbs Also useful for lifting a truck or a trailer whenever need an access from the bottom

Bobcat is the only one I've ran of these they are very smooth and sure you can bog them when you have plenty of traction... can't trash talk the others but in my opinion it's a mini skid there isn't any of them with any amount of balls they are handy little buggers tho when you need them and every one of them is better than the shovel.

Growing up working on farms and doing landscaping over 20 years I love bobcat and always will. My mt100 my only complaint is the clearance on the arms one side can't even put a finger in the space when moving causing it to hit the machine. I do like ditch witches as well. definitely amazing machine, wish I had the 3000

I thought the mini skid review was a good assessment, altho idk about kubota mini skids. It’s also interesting to see company sizes. I didn’t know NH was that big, same with Kubota, but that makes sense due to their ex’s/tractors

Bruh, mt100 has plenty of pelotas. 😂 my experience I had more issues with a ditch witch. But again all equipment have problems.

Kubota the giant goat!!!!

@MrDavidhar

5 ай бұрын

Agree

I came here specifically to see how the Case stacks up

The brujita machine is numero one

Should have had the worky quad on here

Then choose ours! It's absolutely worth it!

You messed up on the bobcat rating. 😢

S70 is the best on the list... damn can't take this serious

Pretty bold statement "because i am the best landscaper" lol

I own a vermeer ctx100 and I personally would flip ditch witch and vermeer. Maybe it's where you live you have a good experience with DW, but vermeer's customer service and availability on everything is literally 100X better than DW in Billings, MT. I couldn't run away fast enough from DW from the time I walked into the door. They basically were forcing me out the door AND I told them I was ready to purchase from them! Never experienced anything like that lol. I've run all the bobcats as well and they are a solid homeowner unit, but absolute garbage for a landscape business. Can't take the abuse and are absolute dogs compared to a turbo deisel.

The Chinese brand runs about 6500. All parts are easy to get at any local store.

Vermeer!

💎💎💎

You have lost your ever-loving mind as a person who is owned ditch witch, vermeer, toro, and bobcat, My guys referred to our Ditch Witch as a Ferrari fast as hell but always broken and in the shop for repairs we have a bobcat mt85 it's the old Ford truck that just starts every single day and goes to work, as to the S70 machines we own two of these if driving on hard surfaces at all they will run circles speed-wise around our mt-85 or our Ditch Witch. We sold our Ditch Witch because it needed constant repairs, we actually snapped the arms on it, and snapped attachment plate multiple times. Bobcat Mt might be a little underpowered, and a little slower, but it stands uo to employee use much better. In closing I would probably put the Bobcat machines somewhere in the above average area, and bring the ditch witch down because of all of the recent repairs I've seen that are not being covered under warranty from Ditch Witch, examples being pumps shearing completely off of the engine, drive Motors completely shearing the sprocket off, hoses rubbing through because routed poorly, emissions issues causing machines to be constantly at the dealer and the dealer not wanting to work on them because they have a Yanmar engine in them.

@etienneforget942

2 ай бұрын

I had somebody that is working for ditch witch tell to get the bobcat because of reliability issues. And it was the exact experience of my friend who bought a ditch witch . He probably had to bring it at the dealer 10 times for problem they couldn’t fix . I have a bobcat mt100 ( amazing machine by the way you will love it coming from a 85 ) and in 3 years hasn’t been in the shop once .

Not getting parts for China brand is a myth. You have to get one from an importer like Kymron. Good stuff. Parts on hand. Over a hundred hours no issue yet. Even has a kubota diesel

Hey

What about Takeuchi?

You had me at america

Toro is amazing! Correction! Bobcat did 7 billion in 2023.

Kanga loaders and toro are the top dogs in Australia by far!

Wacker Sm120 are trash been through 2! Lots of manufacture issues and very difficult to get parts. Just bought a mt100 run them all before rating them.

Buddy I have the wacker sm100 I can't believe you haven't seen one in the USA 😂😂😂

@tacomafan7488

3 ай бұрын

they are very slow machines!

@JackofHaulTrades

3 ай бұрын

@tacomafan7488 lol your joking right?

@tacomafan7488

3 ай бұрын

@@JackofHaulTrades no , according to other reviews!

@JackofHaulTrades

3 ай бұрын

@@tacomafan7488 have you ever ran one? It's like the fastest mini skid on the market brother

@EuroYardService

Ай бұрын

@@tacomafan7488 slow is a relative term...I'm renting a sm100 right now and it's plenty fast.

I'd disagree, at least in part, about the Chinese knockoffs. If you need dealer support, 100% don't buy them, but given I can do down to my local Harbor Freight or Princess Auto (Canada's version) and get replacement parts it's not that bad.

@steven4686

13 күн бұрын

First of all no 1's mentioning the name of the Chinese loader and no 1's name in the parts that they're finding and what parts are going bad

My bobcat e20 is better than any other small excavator that I’ve used

I think you had New Holland’s revenue at $18 trillion on the screen.

Vermeer has the best chippers tho

Does big out ahhh

Did this guy just say Toro is better than Bobcat?!... That's a joke, Right?

You lack experience. No issues getting parts for the china mini's in the USA. Great dealers like Ground Hog offering parts in the USA for the china units.

Sk1550 best machine ever

Great🎉

So patriotic 💀👍💀

Just rent different ones till you find one you like. Renting is cheaper than buying anyways.

Have mt100 its build quality is crap bogs down and at 200 hrs had to have all the electrical harness replaced thank god under warranty but also the dealer in my area not the greatest

Mt100 👍😎

“Because I’m the best landscaper” 😂

@TigranGertz

4 ай бұрын

😅

You really paid 85k for a mini skid steer that you have to stand on! You could’ve bought a cab machine for that where you could sit down and operate.

@barrettmills856

5 ай бұрын

They have their place and applications where a full size stand on makes sense versus full cab sit in

@pjs5191

5 ай бұрын

@@barrettmills856 I’ll buy that they have their place but no way would I spend 85k for one. It’s more of a niche machine than a use it every day machine. 85k for a niche machine is wild, I’d rent one when I needed it before I’d spend 85k on one.

@StefOutside

5 ай бұрын

@@pjs5191 In Canada these 1k operating capacity stand on are around 40-50k CAD new (30-37k usd) and maybe 10k less used with 1000 hrs. Cab machine that price have around 2500 hrs and sometimes near end of their life.

@barrettmills856

5 ай бұрын

@@pjs5191 they are all over priced for what they actually are materials and labor wise to build lol very inflated for what they actually are composed of

The bobcat MT100 is not that great

This kid's 21 years old, are you kidding me?

Mt 100 is the best

How About Jhon Deer?

CYKA BLYAT T, Do you still remember russian language?

@TigranGertz

5 ай бұрын

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Kabota sucks Dingo 1000 the best

Anti china but thats all peep can afford