Hi Jim, welcome to the forum and welcome to the Ag Cat thread... glad you're on board. I have been dragging feet over the last few years. Back on this thread when everyone else was actively buying Duane's Ag Cat kit, I was busy planning, asking questions, and waiting for a chance to start working on this project. Unfortunately the ups and downs of life got the best of me (work overload, raising kids, etc.) and I have only now got around to building this bird. Sadly, it looks like the other guys on this thread have moved on and are into other things. For them it looks like it's over. As for me, I'm still active in my pursuit to build this kit and be proud of it. It saddens me, though, that everyone seems to have left.
I'm very glad Duane is still around and making kits...I love knowing I could get another one if I contact him. Wondering what his price is now and if he made any changes to the kit since he built mine. Hope you post many pictures of your build...would love to see that 999 up front. A word of advice...don't go into it thinking it's an arf, it's not. It's the shell of an arf with a lot of figuring out of what to do as there are no instructions. You buld it as you see fit, anything goes as long as you go light with it...it already comes to you with some serious heft, but then it's built as strong as a brick house. I weighed mine and I'm at 34 1/2 lbs.....probably 35 lbs even when I'm done.