I have been using a 2014 Gator 855d to spread Avadex. It's got a universal steering wheel and Greenstar and quite like it.  It doesn't feel particularly heavy duty but has taken spreading in its stride and each time ran all day none stop. It also hardly left a mark on the freshly drill, conventionally tilled wheat, if weight is important to you. To run short distances you'd probably be better with a gas version.

As someone up thread says, you probably need to wok out what you want it to do, which is seems you have and buy the machine that its the bill. Just thinking aloud, if you are doing short distances, does anyone make an electric powered one? That may well be the best machine to go for if someone does.