Iam looking for a quad. These are in my budget and I will be Plowing, Trail Riding and yard work. I want to have power to. They will both be 2wd. I dont know whitch to get. Iam going to a dealer tommrow to look at both of them.

 

you should take a good look at the kodiak.. very good quad, been around awhile so the problems are mostly worked out already.. this is the bruins first year, and even tho its a yamaha ( [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] ) it could still have problems that havent been found yet. the rancher is offered in many dif versions and is a bullet proof machine. plenty of power with both.. but take a look at the kodiak 400/450 [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

luke

 

Thanx but I think they might be out of my price range.

 

Nope their not, Iam looking at a KODIAK 400 2x4 sometime soon

 

I have a Rancher TM, and have recently ridden a Bruin 2x4. The Bruin has some features
my Rancher doesn't, and a little bit more power and top end, but the Rancher has better
acceleration from a dead stop. The Bruin has a belt drive, and I prefer gears. The belt
may be the reason for a tad slower accel.

I got the '03 Rancher for $3790 OTD. My friend paid $3700 for his Bruin, but I dont't know if that
was with tax, title and shipping or not. He never said.

 

Thanx for the info. I like all quads and I havent drivin one of them. Iam going to look at all three of them this week maby tommrow. I like the Kodiak more because for $600 more you get way more featurers than any of them. I willtry to drive them. I like shifting to, but like the auto for mudd, and snow. I whitch one of the three will be better at plowing ? Thanx ~ CHRIS ~

 

Some people have no trouble with belt drives and plowing. Others replace belts every year they have
to plow a lot. From what I have seen, I wouldn't want a belt for plowing or any other heavy loading
use.

If you get to drive a Rancher and a Bruin, note the handling differences. The Rancher has quicker
steering radius and a lower center of gravity. The Bruin and Kodiak have higher ground clearance,
and therefore higher center of gravity. I had a Kodiak a few years back, it was a great quad,
powerful and fairly fast, but it was top heavy and tippy. It wouldn't do what I wanted it to do.
I sold it at a loss, and bought a Bayou 300, which would. But the Rancher does it better.

 

Iam not to fond of the belt drive either, Maby ill keep looking for something eles.

 

Well I have a problem then. The forman is $5500 and Iam not paying that for a formen. I have riden before.

 

Well the most plowing I would be donig is a drift thats a foot tall. All the rest would be like 10in at the most. And my drive way is 12x12.