ive heard
@wcorey is the guy to talk to on these, whatya say bill?
Not so much really...
I have a friend that has a few and I've become the sort of default mechanic so I do end up working on them here and there.
Can never get the model designations straight, just don't deal with them on a regular enough basis...
He has a smallish gasser, a medium gasser looking much like yours but shorter and then a big beasty of a diesel.
The mid size one is totally restored/customized but has something seriously wrong with the clutch rendering it undrivable.
Not looking forward to that job, a crap-ton of stuff has to come apart just to see what's up in there.
The big diesel is solid and runs well and then he also has an m1078 that's in pretty nice shape.
I've had to adapt various attachments, like making plow frames setups and such.
We have one of those huge snow blowers that needs to go on one, gonna be interesting figuring that one out...
He just sold what was a forth one, another mid sized gasser, that I did a lot of work to over a few years.
It liked to foul plugs if you left the manual choke on for just a bit too long.
Kind of a ratty looking fixer upper but generally solid mechanically, sort of glad to see it leave while everything was still working, lol...