When I was shopping for tractors before my purchase, Bobcat compact tractors were Yanmar's with white paint and Bobcat stickers. Cub Cadet tractors were the same thing. The thing that made me shy away from a small John Deere was the fact that the lower mounts for the 3 point hitch were cast aluminum and would break like toothpicks when using a scrape blade. I have a quarter mile long road to scrape when it snows, so that was a no go for me.