One of my loudest complaints about Case is their interpretation of the "articulating concept" in their line of equipment and it seemed like they took a long time to correct it.I am pretty sure that their new stuff has now caught up with the rest of the world.I have argued the point with other operators and the most of the Case diehards in my experiences have been raised on them and have never run anything else it seems.Hough was the first loader on the market with that feature and they stayed with it for a long time to
therwise they are both robust machines in most other respects.
Their loaders negate any advantage of being articulated by letting the tail end wag around while the operator sits on the front and being startled as his peripheral vision catches the rear end of the machine out of the corner of his eye as you make a sharp turn thinking that something is moving there that should not be there and you never get used to it and I have run them for years.
With the conventional articulated loader you can load from a stockpile in a "V" motion with excellent efficiency but with the Case you have to cover at least twice as much ground travel or more to get the same job done.They are really no better than the old straight frame loaders from the last generation which articulation was supposed to improve upon and I have run both,a lot.
I have run their grader some,maybe at an open house for heavy equipment and was not impressed,mostly because of that Case articulation corporate posture.
I worked for a company for several years that had an old Huber Maintainer grader and I have prepared miles of streets and parking lots for paving and it was set up with the blade controls side by side on your right hand and I liked it and got used to it like that,enough to request it when I could on other machines that I have run,the last being a John Deere 570B.John Deere makes a kit to change their graders to right hand control,just changing the hoses around will work but you lose the float function on the left end of the moldboard without their changeover kit.Ron G