Gray, yes, I did get your message, thank you for that, and check your PMs.
So, I just got off the phone with the local Kubota dealer, who, incidentally, will be selling the new Ingersoll Rand BL 570, and I asked a salesman who was familiar with both his opinion of the better machine in respect to landscaping. It turns out that he had just come from an orientation at the IR facility, where they not only put the IR 570 through its paces, but ran an
L48 right beside it for comparison. He told me that at one point the IR 570 got stuck in a sandpit because of its small wheels, and they had to use to
L48 to tow it out /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Another compliment paid to the
L48 by IR, as related to me by this salesman, was the fact than IR was "dissecting" an
L48 and studying it so that its features could be incorporated into future IR machines /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
I love my
L48, and I haven't even gotten it yet! I'll be dropping my down payment on Friday...Tony