I dont want to bring down any one, but I have the ...privilage to run a brand new 160 h cat and a brand new 772d deere, with full gps blade control, and will have to say that the deere still needs to blade a few more miles of road to match the cat. Sorry.
The cabs are smaller, seats are smaller, Deere has almost twice as many grease nipples, the brass in the blade slide dosent last near as long as the cat, the Ripper/ scaraffier would build up with mud/clay, and lay on the the cross bar in the frame, and when you raised it, it would lift whatever was on it into the grill, bending it. The blade dose not lift high enough, a PIG on fuel, ( two good days of pushing in a cat compaired to 1, 1 1/2 in deere. ) the 'feel' in the deere is not the same the older 140's i ran or the 160.
The best thing I like about the deere is the Transmission and 6 wd options. Trans is smooth shifting at any gear and I like the 16 different options on the front end. it can be very aggressive it you need it.
these are just a few of the things that come to mind, I know that its not much, but when you are compairing the too machines, it is a lot.
I dont consider my self an old hand at these things,(37, with 14 yrs in a grader) but I think that If I had the choice between my 772 with 2500 hrs and using the old 140H wh have with almost 10 000, im gonna take the cat.
ok im done ranting have a good day.