I hadn't only because so many of these TLB's get beat daily hard and I'm not up for wrenching on something in the first few weeks of ownership.....plus I'm seeing more and more of these TLB's sitting on the lots of various dealers, figured I'd try the new route first.....my local dealer is going to get me a used
B26,
L39, and
L45 out to try out at my place for a week or so to see what really makes the most sense for me, but, at this point, based on input from my neighbor who has a
B21, he suggested going smaller will save money in upfront equipment costs, fuel, easier to transport, and more adept at getting around the narrow trails on my place....said you just have to dig in smaller chunks, but there's not much the baby TLB couldn't do....... (retaining wall construction, landscaping, stump removal, garden tilling, log splitting, water/electricity trenching, soil reclamation from a few creek beds, post hole digging)...... he said he felt the TLB is very conservatively rated and does much more work than the HP and size shows.....