Oooo, I didn't know those didn't have a steering wheel. I don't think I'd like that either. Our bulldozer is like that. I've never driven it either, and don't know that I want to. I think pushing over trees is a little more than I want to tackle. But I always thought that a Bobcat would be handy to have for cleaning out stalls and such. A tractor with a front-end loader, even a small one, is awfully cumbersome to operate in tight quarters like a barn.
The weirdest thing I ever drove was a dolly, here at the plant. They made us all learn how to drive them one year when there was a potential strike in the making and they were thinking that they'd have to run the mill with salaried folks. Had to learn to drive forklifts too, but they were easy. They had a steering wheel. But the dolly had a single lever in the middle, kinda like the tiller on a boat motor, that controlled the rear wheels, so the darned thing steered bass-ackwards. To turn left, you pushed the lever to the right. It really messed with my mind.
Boy I tell ya... we've had every kind of weather today, never for more than 15 minutes at a time. One minute, sun, then a downpour, then dark grey and still, then wind. Very unsettled day.
"But the dolly had a single lever in the middle, kinda like the tiller on a boat motor, that controlled the rear wheels, so the darned thing steered bass-ackwards. To turn left, you pushed the lever to the right. It really messed with my mind."
I know I wouldn't be coordinated enough to handle that.