CUT vs Skid Steer loader

[RobertN]

Questions about use, includes landscaping (moving rock and stone) clearing snow in the winter. Not for mowing. Renting some attachments (breaker, PHD, Tiller and other landscaping attachments).

KC

Sounds like a skidsteer to me.

I have not found a place to rent 3pt attachments. I can easily rent skidsteer attachments though.

Having had both, I find a tractor more useful around home on a day to day basis. And, attachments for a 3pt type hitch are much less expensive if you do buy them.

I have access to a Bobcat S185, a pretty heavy duty machine(6000lb, 65hp). I can out dig, out load my CUT all day long with that skidsteer. But, for average stuff, I like my little Kubota.

I personally would get a tractor, and rent a skidsteer or tracked loader for major work.

 

[dodge man]

I would say a skid steer would be worth more, but I think you will find they cost quit a bit more. Most skid steers are desinged more as a piece of construction equipment, where a tractor can do some things a skid steer can't, such as plow fields, mow etc.