I haven't put it through its paces yet, but appears to be a good machine. Mine came delivered fully assembled with hydraulic thumb and just wrapped in plastic. Hydraulic oil full, very few zerks greased, tiny bit of gas. I spent an extra $700 and installed oil cooler, filter, a few new lines to fit cooler/oil, temp gauge, 12" fan, switches and new hydraulic oil. Overall decent price for the mini-ex. Soon I'll be taking her to trenching and she appears to have plenty of power for it.
Few notes: - she's slow, jerky and had a number of lose connections. Give yourself time to learn controls and make small adjustments, otherwise you end up rocking back and forth fairly hard, even with the blade down. Not much room to get in and out, so don't start the machine till your in it and turn if off before you get out in case your shirt/pants get caught on controls.
I had the unit delivered and had to winch the pallet to the lift gate from a SxS - pallet was loaded sideways so the driver's pallet jack would not fit. I then used a 40hp deere with forks to unload which was close to the max she would lift.
Overall, nothing I didn't expect after researching and happy with the purchase. Only going 4 stars due to lose connections, non-greased zerks.