I'm a little confused. You seem to have done a lot of other repairs to your NH in 4000 hours. Driving in mud and manure wears holes in the chain case? That certainly doesn't sound like routine wear and tear to me. Are you sure the chain wasn't loose and wore through? The chain cases must be pretty light to wear through from dragging through the mud. Try spreading and grading topsoil to meet lot grading inspectors standards. Shibura has ties to Perkins engines. I'm not saying a NH isn't a good machine for certain tasks like moving bales but I'm curious what other brands you have spent some time in? The new JD's are a heavier built machine than the old NH JD's but I find the visibilty with the flip up door and full cab really poor. I've done a lot of residential landscaping and it seems like houses are getting closer and closer together. Sometimes less than 5 ft., which I can't get into, but my Thomas T133 has excellent visibilty compared to most other machines in the same category. Bobcat 743/753 is similar, Case 1840/1845 has the loader towers in the way, NH and JD machines of the the same era and apparently newer ones too, you sit too far down in the machine to have as good of visibility. Seeing the cutting edge is important for precise work. Mustang's have pretty good visibilty but have the hyd. tank in the belly. I rented a small 3 ft. wide Mustang once. It tipped forward when I was backing up a ramp on a retaining wall. With any other machine, this wouldn't be a problem because all you had to do was lower the boom to put you back on the ground. With the hyd. tank in the belly, there was no oil available to do this and I had to crawl out with the machine tipped forward at a 45deg. angle. Pretty scary to say the least! I've tipped forward with my Thomas loading wet clay into a dump truck and it's a good thing I wasn't running a Mustang. A lot of people like Cat machines but they weren't on the market in 1994. If I bought a new machine, I'd have a harder time desiding with all the different brands available now. If I couldn't see the cutting edge, I'd look at a different machine. Big priority for me. Dave
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