I have a 3008 cutter and it's a very weld built unit. Bought it in 02 and have no complaints what so ever.
If you are looking at buying new I'll make a couple of suggestions. I'm assuming your looking at a 3pt model. If not some of this doesn't apply. Get the heavy duty axle. Hydraulic not required but it does make it nice. Get at least a single row of chains front and rear. If you don't have a loader plan on needing 600 lbs of suit case weights at least, maybe more.
I believe you will have enough power, may have to run slow in real heavy grass. If it makes you feel any better I pull a 15' batwing with my M9000. In heavy grass it loads up but clipping pastures you don't even know it's back there. Hope this helps.