I took a look at a CAT after it was demoed last fall: i don't know how many acres this machine saw, but I was not imprewssed with how it held up for one season! the feeder house was all but wore through, the ladder to the cab was bent ( looked like it was built out of 16 gauge!, and there is no access to the feeder house without taking the header off! Several people i know watched it cut wheat and were not impressed by it's "capacity' everyone brags about. My overall opinion was that it should be built ten times stronger than it is to have a CAT name on it!!!