The old adage about "walking a mile in another's shoes" is VERY applicable here.

I've used these kinds of tractors before and can say without a doubt, they are VERY well thought out, are exceptionally well designed and are unsurpassed at what they are designed for.

The key part of that statement being "what they are designed for".

It's silly for "flatlands" to mock features on a machine built for operating on extreme terrain, sort of like a guy in Florida mocking the need for a snowblower, let alone the need to front mount one. I'm pretty sure if you showed them a Wheatland tractor they'd think it was a useless thing too.

As I said, these machines are designed and built for farming in a mountainous terrain, little things like putting the ROPS ahead of the operator mean there is less likelihood of damaging valuable trees in the orchards they work in while also allowing the operator to deal with wayward branches WITHOUT having to turn around backwards and look away from where the tractor's going.

Also, a huge spread of gears means a loaded towed object, or PTO-operated implement can be moved at the optimum rate, the point just before the engine starts to lug or tires begin to slip.

Some of them are also equipped with a feature (which isn't really a feature at all) that we have been using for many years, something they call an "Eco 540" PTO setting. Really all this is is an extra marking on the tach. for the correct RPM which will give you 540rpm on the output shaft with the PTO gear shifter in the 1,00rpm setting. For things like blowers or sprayers that need 540rpm, but not a lot of horsepower it is a really handy thing.

Some of these tractors are even equipped with a special system which pressurizes the cab so that when you are spraying an orchard for instance, the over spray is forced out of the cab not sucked in.

Best of luck.

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