The old AC has as much power, wider blade, does twice the work the Kohler K301 does on the same amount of fuel, IMO the stinger counter weight and the floating lift gives me better control than the new hydraulics (no float), electric lift (no float) or old hydrolift (is nice) But I have much better feel with the manual lift. The icremental manual lift on the 7112H with no float is almost useless with a front blade...
Mowing or roto-tilling the outcome would be different. And you wont fin me doing 8 hour days with the TEN's manual lift...
The only place the hydrolift wins with a dozer is when plowing snow on concrete...My drive never bears ice. I can get the front wheels off the ground and scrape like crazy. Theres a sense of great satisfaction when you get into the thick packed ice/snow and busts like peanut brittle as I fly along in 3rd....
In dirt, it does a nice job back-blading, and thats about it.
Larry, Larry, Larry........I am so proud of you and that Big Ten! Welcome to the "Yellow Side of Life"! When ever I am on my B10 I think to myself "I wonder what the poor other half are doing right now"!
Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional!