Evaluate Power, Productivity, and Performance

loaders to excavators. The first is power and productivity. When you purchase that machine, is it actually going to deliver what you expect it to? Number two is quality. when you purchase that machine, is it going to continue to deliver results long after it's paid off? That's when a machine gets profitable. And number three is so absolutely important that I've broken it into two separate subcategories. That's serviceability. How well can you dig into that machine and maintain it? And then if you do have a breakdown, what is the local shop like that you have to bring it into? That is a key factor when making a purchase decision. I'm going to be using case equipment as my guinea pig today and we're going to see how they hold up to these three important categories. So, let's get started. Productivity and performance are one category. Basically, what it means when you put your butt in the seat of that machine, does it deliver? Now, in today's example with the case excavators, absolutely. I got a chance to use the mini excavator lineup all the way up to the midsize excavators and their power was eyeopening to say the least. I'm not so concerned with bells and whistles. I want end results of a piece of equipment. It's always your first impression. What is it like when you initially get into it and what's your impression after you've had it for five or 10 years? What's the upkeep like on it? My first impression of this machine is this is a get in and go type of a machine. I have a little bit of a runand gun style to my uh excavating. I don't like to try to figure stuff out. I don't like to have to worry about what buttons do and knobs do. This has got a very intuitive control system. Anybody that's familiar with excavators can hop in this thing and immediately go to work. I was in this thing less than 2 minutes before I was ripping out a swimming pool. And I'd never been in a case mini excavator like this before in my life. and everything felt comfortable, fast, convenient, easy to use. I like the initial layout. Demolishing the house, we had a giant footing that we had to literally tear out of frozen dirt. We put the excavator on it just to loosen it up. And to our shock and surprise, it literally lifted the entire half of the house out of the ground. We never expected a machine to deliver on that kind of power, but when it does, that's a very pleasant surprise. Thing I was really impressed by was how the power wasn't isolated to just that one machine. On other…