Machines | Bobcat T870 Compact Track Loader and S850 Skid-Steer Loader: Video Press Release

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1. This saga with the Bobcat T870 is crazy, the machine kept breaking front doors then had a track motor go which couldn't be replaced for 10 weeks! Bobcat did not have a replacement motor anywhere in the world! The agent wouldn't explain why the machine failed, health and safety rules meant the machine couldn't do my job without a front door! I said I had no faith in the machine and sent it back......what happens, the machine with 295 hours on it is sold for £24,000 pounds at 9 months old! It cost £55,000! AVOID these machines like the plague!
   
   I advise anyone to think twice....three times before buying bobcat!
2. I bought one of these July 2014, the front doors kept popping, we had to finish the season without doors because Bobcat UK ran out of doors. Then at 280 hours the track motor went, Bobcat did not have a spare anywhere in the world, two months without a machine or replacement they finally found a motor but took two weeks to get the motor from the USA to the UK! Its not reliable enough.....avoid this machine! And guess what, when I complain Bobcat wash their hands and now the £55K machine is only worth £35K apparently......avoid avoid avoid! 
3. I wouldnt buy a T870, I bought one in July and all it did was break front doors all summer, then a track motor went.......guess what Bobcat had no parts anywhere in the world.....two months to fix it! Steer clear!!!
4. the bobcat t870 can 6,780lbs with 30% tip
5. Man this is a really big machine 
6. I really like Bobcat. Not the tractors - there I am, personally, loyal to Deere ("Bobcat" tractors are really Kioti tractors with Bobcat paint and decals) - but everything else. These are great, because it means that if I get to be an excavator (big projects like basemens), I can use a Bobcat without it being undersized.
7. Like the cab forward design.144 inches-12 feet lift height