I couldn't of said it better myself. The reason for most people to buy a mini is expecting to put it in very tight areas and the last thing you want to do is to swing the machine around and hear "BANG" and have to look back to see that you took out the corner of a house and knocked down a fence. Zero turn machines have almost dominated the market. I see very few standard tail machines around anymore and most of them are older before they really started making the zero turn models. When I go to buy a mini i won't even look at any standard tail machines even if they have a good price on them. My local Takeuchi came out to my house this morning and gave me a hat and just stopped by to say hello but he has a good deal on some brand new TB153FR open cab models for only $39,000. It is a little too big for me but if anyone is interested it is a good price for a zero turn machine.
Ironically that is the one area that TK excavators don't do well.* Whatever the reason they don't create the GPM at the aux. hyds that other machines do.** I am not sure why.* My 153 should be about 4-5 gpm than it is (currently around 16).*Deere/Hitachi although not that powerful on any other spec seem to create a good gpm flow at the aux. hyd.
