Well Corey... the 312 seemed like quite the weapon compared to that 375. She was a fast little unit, the hydraulics were nice on her, lots of grunt for what I was doing with it. I would say its a quality machine, but I think if you compared it to a 120 Deere the deere would be a little nicer. We only have 2 312's a B and C, the B is an absolute dog, but it's been rode hard and put away wet. I will have to get the pic of the unit I was running up.... you'll be amazed at how poor a condition it's in for only being 2 years old and having 4700hrs on her. This thing looks worse than the retarded 312B my old man bought a few years back. And I use that word literally on that one... she fell off a trailer and had computer problems among other things. But we got a 312B with 900hrs on it for 6000 dollars, put about 8 gallons of bondo in her, cleaned it up a bit and sold it for 40 000 a year later.
Well my 120" bucket is sitting on site right now, but the 375 is down again. Apparently someone went to move it on thursday morning and after that the mechanic noticed a big puddle under a final drive so she is gonna be sitting still for some time. Now they floated in one of the other operators and a PC400 to finish the job up, and I got sent to my new sewer and water crew.....