You read that right. I embarrassingly got to close to the edge on a very steep embankment while trying to place rip rap in a wash out spot. It flipped 3 times and landed 30' at the bottom right side up. I went down to see it in shock that I just did that on a brand new machine. I bent the right handle down and broke the hydraulic dip stick cap and that was all. I bent the handle back and gave it a few pulls. It started and it crawled itself up and off the embankment. Wow! I have since then moved 16,000 pounds of rip rap and over 13 yards of soil and this thing is awesome. I highly recommend this well built machine that survived my accident. Please, don't get to close to the edge with yours.

I live on a hill with 16 degree incline. This machine is so simple to use and very powerful. It really is more than meeting my expectations. Got it out of the create put in oil and fresh gas it fired up on first pull. I put 5 bags of cement and took them up the hill with ease. I know my back is thanking me :)

So I have about 20 hours in this machine so far. Here's my assessment so far.
-Starts easier than any pull start small engine I've ever seen.
-hydraulic dump works wonderfully, even fully loaded. When I say fully loaded, I've had this thing fully loaded with 10-12 inch boulders for landscaping and moved approximately 20 loads with it and it never even grunted.
-power to spare. Hauling the above mentioned boulders up hill and didn't notice any lag in power
-while they do put dampeners at the motor mounts there still is a fair amount of vibration. While I've not noticed anything else vibrating loose, the cable tensioners for the turn levers do vibrate loose and you won't know until you cannot turn, or it jerks when you depress them. It's an easy fix but you'll need to check them from time to time. They're easy to get to as they're just outside the handle bars.
-will literally climb over anything.

Received the Yardmax this past Thursday. Assembled the upper control handle bars and put in the oil and gas and fired it up with no issues. The only issues I had was that the bolts used to install the handle bar was not properly machined right. One bolt for the front left and forward right side were not threaded properly to install and so I had to modify the bolts with a smaller one and now its just fine. Second issue I have with the machine is the amount of vibration in the handle bars, absolutely not ok with a machine like this, and when you plan on using this a lot during the day that becomes a real issue. Right away I noticed how bad the vibration was and let me say its not like a minor bit and I need to get used to it, its enough that you don't want to touch the handle bars again, I operate a chainsaw all day and I don't even get no where near at all that amount of vibration issues. I wrapped the foam which came with the machine around the handle bars and taped it which helped a bit to reduce the vibration but not much.

Other then the two issues with the bolts and the vibration, I would say from running it around the yard a bit to get a feel for it, that its a solid well built machine.
I will update in the coming weeks as next month in May I will begin to put the Yardmax to work gathering firewood, its primary use I bought it for to help get to the hard to reach areas where my truck and trailer cant go and to help with deliveries and around the yard.
Durability, Longevity and reliable are the three I will be looking for in the coming months.

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