This is similar to a
Woodmaxx 8H but not the same. The safety bar is below the feed chute, not above. The feed chute is more open at the top. The arms between the upper moving feed roller and the springs are wider, blocking access to the slot in the housing behind them. Since stuff sometimes jams in there that will make it harder to clear the jam. The safety bar looks like a better design than
Woodmaxx but it may get tripped by branches a lot.
The feed speed control valve is a simple valve not a proportional speed control valve. Early Woodmaxxes had that too then they went to the proportional valve. If you read up on hydraulic flow control that's a better type of valve.
Woodmaxx uses too large a valve however which makes having the better type of valve less of an advantage. I replaced their 16gpm one with a 4 gpm unit and it works much better. You could put the good valve on the Victory with some fab work to make a bracket, and hoses.
Woodmaxx has an adjustable 3pt hitch, Victory's is fixed.
Woodmaxx has full length skids on the legs, the Victory just has small pads. The
Woodmaxx has two 8" blades. It'd be interesting to find out what size blades are on the Victory. The
Woodmaxx discharge chute turns 360 degrees, this one's only 270 but looks similar otherwise.
The differences are so numerous that there's no way it came off the same line as the
Woodmaxx. So I would not expect it to benefit from
Woodmaxx demanding a certain quality level from the factory. It might be built to the same quality or it might not. Until there's some reports from purchasers you'll be taking a chance.
Betst Co sells Victory (from the west coast). They have posted here in the past though not recently. If they sell these then you should be able to get parts etc from them. Getting parts from China can be tough unless the trading house you're buying from is set up to support individual purchasers. Some are, some are more like distributors.
