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I'll second the nod towards good engineering. When we bought our Dingo 222 in '97 (wow, nearly 10 years ago), I also considered Ramrod, the only other compact skid on the market at the time. I wasn't convinced at the time that it was the better machine, it wasn't polished and hadn't be proven to the best of my knowledge. While Toro had just bought the Dingo brand, it had been tested. For nine years now that same machine goes out to the work site and does it's thing. Other than replacing the drive chains, some hardware, etc., we've had very very few problems with Dingo. That is why when we replace the power unit in the next year or two we'll look at the Toro Dingo's first. I'll look at some others to see what innovations are out there, but I've been very satisfied with the Toro. I will say for stand on units, after using one briefly, I can't imagine owning one. I'm not sure what application they're preferred over the stand on ones (other than for rental stores).
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