Its a very nice little machine. The hydro over belts is great. It in my mind is way way more productive than a 252. The disk doesn't stall very often.
We have taken out huge stumps with it, it just takes it a little while a 30" stump is gonna take it a little while when you start getting into 50 or 60" your talking hours of operation. But i think its almost twice as fast as a 252 I've had two of them in the past. It has adjustable swing speed which helps out greatly and seems to automatically slow itself down in the cut the more strain that is put on the motor. I had no intentions of getting it when they wanted to demo it. I was never impressed with a machine that small but it is sweet for what we use it for. Taking a 5k+ pound carlton out to get a 12" stump is just stupid. The small bandit and the 2450 both fit in the back of my pickup with the outside wheels off, I don't trailer them anymore. I bought an old ford f250 that should be getting a flat bed put on it soon for hauling my stumpers around. Im trying to do away with trailers.
The 2450 does so good id like to sell the carlton as we only use it for land clearing where we have to do a few hundred stumps but its just not that often machine sits a lot. Im not as sold on carlton as i was before i had one. Customer support and dealer support needs major gains, Only reason i bought bandits is the closest carlton dealer is like 7 hours, there best answer to this was take it to a local guy? I wouldn't like a local guy working on a 60k grinder thats use to fixing lawn mowers. Bandit picks my stuff up and brings it back if there is a problem.
