Skid steers are heavy machinery used by construction companies for all kinds of purposes. It's kind of an all-in-one construction vehicle.
Mostly you can choose between having a skid steer be four wheel drive or crawler. There are all kinds of different attachments to use for skid steers so you can transform it into a bulldozer, forklift, mower, loader, snow blower, plenty of different grinders or cutters and much more in just a small amount of time. The benefit of this is that you don't need all those different construction vehicles separately.
Skid steer
Most of the skid steers have around 40 - 100 horsepower and the loaders have a capacity between 600 and 2200 lbs. Almost all of them are running on Diesel. The price range of a skid steer is depending on the capacity. The attachments price can also vary on the size quality and capacity. All skid steer attachments made nowadays use a universal coupler that's compatible with all later models of all brands. Some older skid steers had different couplers so those are not all compatible with the newer couplers.
There are a lot of manufacturers of skid steers for example Bobcat, Gehl, JCB, Caterpillar, ASV, Case and much more. The biggest of them is Bobcat. Bobcat introduced the first compact loader in 1958 and in 2004 they won an award for the invention and development of the skid steer. Nowadays they sell all kinds of different construction vehicles and attachments for them. Most of Bobcat's factories are located in the U.S. and Europe and the headquarters is located at West Fargo ND. They have approximately 1000 independent dealers all around the world.
Skid Steer for sale - Used skid steer
