Battle of Bowling Green: The Hill Climb
In this head-to-head grudge match, a Deere 313 takes on Bobcat and New Holland – with contractors like YOU in the seat!
No plants, no Deere employees wearing some other brand’s hat, just real contractors from the crowd. And they got to pick which skid steers they wanted to run. That’s the nature of the “Prove It Tour.”
But the operators didn’t get to pick the harrowing conditions for the hill climb event…two three-foot berms followed by a fearsome five-foot berm. After negotiating those, the contractors had to fill the bucket and return to the starting line by going over the exact same hills.
It’s all an effort to re-create some of the conditions you’d see on a jobsite. We all know jobsites aren’t always flat. The real world is full of obstacles and your skid steer shouldn’t be one of ‘em.
The hill climb’s a titanic test of stability and weight distribution. Don’t let those wheels leave the ground!
Tell us what YOU think.
For all of you non belivers last season here you are. You NH guys wanted to compete and you get that this season. NH still loses!!!
I don’t like the feel in side of a new jd skid. you’re too far down on the ground, and the bottom of the door blocks out two much visability of the bucket, not impressed guys. Cat rules
You need to test Gehls they would out run and out perform the Deeres
Hey, gehlman 101…be sure and let the leading brands know when you crack the top five or six best-sellers!
lone deranger you need to learn what a real skidster is buy a gehl and see what it will do
Hey, gehlman 101 just want to let you now that deere is scared to put gehl in skid steer smack down because takeuchi and gehl will smash deere and since the host is john deere they dont want to lose so they wont include them lol thats my guess. lol have a great one gehlman 101
Good try guys, but I’m guessing they weren’t included because they are a VERY minor player in the business. I have spent a lot of hours running Gehls in the past for other people, and sorry, once you spend time in a Deere or even a Bobcat for that matter, you’ll never go back to the stoneage Gehls. Weak performance specs, poor heater from the oil cooled engines, goofy controls, poor reliability. I suppose if you’ve got 40 acres of open field to work in the 7810 Sherman tank with a bucket would be nice, but most people can’t use a big cumbersome machine like that in general use. Beats a shovel, but that’s about as far as I’d go on them. I’d be a little easier on the yellow Tak’s, but Gehl doesn’t even make them, so I don’t really consider them a Gehl.
Curious in what respect you guys think the Gehl would outperform these Deeres?
How is it operating your wheel units and track units all made by different people and slapped with a Tak of Gehl sticker? Deere probably is scared to put Gehl or Tak in the competition because they don’t want any casualities from those hunks. Once Gehl/Tak/Mustang make a machine that is large enough to do what a Bobcat S330 or Deere 332 can do without being the size of a highway and weigh as much as one too. I was also going to ask you two guys how your electrical system was working. I don’t know anyone who has owned a Gehl/Tak/Mustang without having a ton of electrical issues.
i don’t even like gehls. I’ve worked on one and it had bad controls and performance. I just love the takeuchi
i like takeuchi its beter than gehl i think because its a knock off of takeuchi
gehlman101 look at a takeuchi and a tacked gehl they are the same machine just diferent colors