I recently rented a Deere 450H becuase I was curious, and the availability of at Cat was questionable. I usually go for the D5 G/K when renting. I must admit that the majority of finish dozer experience I have is on Cats. I have been told, by several people, that Deere is making a great finish dozer these days. I don't have ton of experience with Deere dozers.

It's a high drive unit and will push more than the 650 in one pass. If I remember correctly the D4H is similar to the current D5M/N. Deere has the small dozers about right for the past 40 years when they started making a 450c. Which do you choose, and don't say cat cause its the right color yellow. Garage pads, maybe a house site, re-habbing dirt drives, farm road / log road maintence and that type of stuff.

I wanted a deere 650h, forestry package, winch, w/ like 4k hours & decent chains, but when I called a local dealer they said that they had a cat d4h low hour repo there, and they didnt know the $$ but were sure it was very resonable. The job should be close to the total payment for the used dozer. The job is going hourly, I'm thinking it may take a month, maybe more to do all the required work. An additional 1.5 miles of new skid trail, then cleaning up 3 landings and dressing up 4 miles aprox of old trails after the skidders are done. Had a pre job with the customer on Monday, and I'll have 3/4's of a mile of road to build that will have to handle loaded tractor trailers, single lane, so 12' minimum, 15' prefered.

John deere 650 dozer specs