by Canadianbombar on 30 May 2009, 00:20
The Version 2 PB 400 tiller has many parts which seem to be a complete rip off of the Bombi/Prinoth BR 350 tiller. Hmmm....wonder why? Throwing a PB 400 into a total BR 350 fleet must be painfull as well where the red tiller lift button is exactly where a blade function button is on the BR. They have the same red button on the 2008 300 Edge (of which we got 2) and I can't tell you how many times I popped my tiller in the air by mistake because I was so used to running the 350.....but it wasn't just me....veterans who ran PB 200's 95% of the time were doing the same damn thing. I think every 4th radio transmision last year was #$#%$#^%^$# red button. The tiller on our 300's worked very well. Why the heck wouldn't PB just go back to the old tiller if the new one is a flop? To me, it's one of the few things PB had going for them....as rear visibility certainly isn't their forte. The tiller on the 300 worked a lot better than the 350 tiller in the hard stuff, one had to really suck to leave a cookie trail even going down even the steepest of steeps (for a free cat) so it didn't matter much that you couldn't see the tiller much. One could darn near set it and forget it. To be fair to Prinoth though...our 350 tiller was 5 years old vs. a brand new PB tiller.