Skid-steers increasing in versatility

With improvements to hydraulics and electronic controls, skid-steers are more versatile than ever before. And as they become more powerful, they’re able to do the jobs of much larger equipment.

“Now we can get into areas and do jobs and applications with much smaller equipment and less costs by moving equipment in and out that we’ve never been able to do in the past,” says Perry Girard, attachments product marketing manager for CNH Industrial, which provides attachments for New Holland Construction skid-steers. “There’s a lot of attachments out there for a landscape contractor and other things people may not be aware of.”

Skid-steers and the right attachments can speed up all kinds of hand work, reducing the man-hours required for a job. And with the current labor shortage, that can be a big advantage.

“With today’s machine capabilities, hydraulic circuit capacities and variety of attachments, there are few landscaping tasks that cannot be enhanced by a skid-steer or compact track loader,” says Ryan Connelly, aftermarket sales manager for JCB.

Read the full story from the January issue here.