LD1
Epic Contributor
If you have never run skid steer I can understand you comments.
First of all the number of attachment in in the hundreds compared to a tractor and most can be used on a farm. If around where you live they only use it for unloading pallets, well that's like having a Ford 350 Dually 4x4 to go get groceries - a lot of over kill and not using the equipment's full potential.
I had nothing but tractors then I thought why not I'll go get a skid steer. Well I have to tell you, on any given gay I connect the back hoe, disconnect then the trencher, then a variety of buckets, land grader, rake, and forks, and my best attachment the grappler.
I'm always putting in water lines or electrical lines and clean up is a snap with the grappler.
There is nothing better than pulling up to an attachment throwing a switch in the can releasing the attachment and moving to the next attachment and hooking up and throwing the switch again to lock it in and doing this in seconds and never leaving the cab.
I've done more with my skid steer than I could have thought of doing with a tractor. Now I do not plant crops so pulling a disc is not my concern.
Lastly with the tractor I had flats on a daily basis plus got stuck often in the sand, with the skid steer I float over the sand and obviously never got a flat.
You don't realize how much lifting power you need till you have it. The Kubota I had never had the guys to lift anything.
I am not quite sure what you mean by your comment directed towards me.
Yes I have put several hours on a skid loader. And yes their are a lot of things they do better than a tractor, but they will still never replace a tractor. As I mentioned, they are designed for construction, most of the jobs you listed sounds like construction work to me and not farm work.
In a perfect world, with unlimited money, I'm sure everyone would have a SS, but they are expensive, and the bucket attachments are about 3x to 4x's the cost of 3ph equipment, not to mention the base price of the unit to begin with, that cant even work ground.
Sure some farmers have them, but most dont, because they cant justify a $30000+ peice of equipment that cant work ground. Tractor loaders will do the same jobs, just a little slower. But if your in a hurry, your probabally not a farmer.