Has really grown on me the Vermeer 382. Super stable working on slippery slope. Never says no with four wheel drive engaged.
Good example of an afternoon from last week. Vermeer skid was rolled on the slope beneath these leggy tuarts earlier in year (inexperienced operator pulling out hanger with rigid grapple). Stumpy chugged across, down & up the slope without a worry, getting all the stumps left from previous thinning. While the guys knocked down this declining tree above driveway, blasted out stumps on house terrace, by the time they were turning truck around, was down grinding the trees they just dropped.
Got 25 hours out of first teeth rotation.
Job this week will be craning tree out & stumpy in, not a big tree at all, but will be a quick way to deal with it.