Huayee the best of Chinese brands? Any dissenting content out there?
For discussion purposes, let's just assume all the big name brands (Kubota, CAT, etc) are indeed better than any Chinese brand. I wouldn't argue that in general, and that's not the comparison I'm trying to do here.
I'm trying to find the highest quality of the Chinese brands just to understand the upper "bound" so to speak. It looks like Rippa is pretty great in this realm with Huayee edging out a bit better than Rippa, particularly the SHY (dealer specific) line.
I can find content that highlights negatives about Rippa, even if the article/video is largely positive about the machine. I can't say the same about Huayee. The most negative thing I can find about them is price, or they put it up to a task it's just not designed/marketed to do and any competition would fail similarly.
Anyway, I'm just suspicious that there is nothing to be found aside from it costing a lot (relative) and lack of US dealer support compared to the big brands (still is good support for Chinese brand from what I can see).
The videos / content up close look like the SHY10 is a great machine - true pilot controls, protected grease fittings, etc... it ought to be for ~double the price of an auction machine, but that doesn't mean it should be perfect.
Where are the dissenting views? For ~9k is there a higher quality Chinese machine? Do they just have a great marketing department? Or is it truly the "best" you can do until you get big boy money into a name brand?