Owned one Hydro - never again!!! Very user friendly, turn on the wheel and turn it off - very easy, very smooth, very quiet. Down here the heat poured off it - so bad that you could barely stand next to it. The handles got so hot I always wore gloves. It never seemed "Super" powerful but when it got hot = no power. Eventually it got to the point that it didn't have power even when cool. Changed fluids tried everything. Steele Tree Equipment wanted a fortune to fix it and wouldn't take it on trade. Sold it at an auction and went back to a mechanical drive tow behind.