Skid steer or tractor

[Tomtint]

I have both, a tractor and a skid. Pros and cons with both. The skid will lift quite a bit more than my L3700 and visability is way better in the skid than the tractor. The tractor is smoother on hard surface and learning to operate a skid on hard surface so it's not jerky, takes some practice. For general uses, my skid is probably 3-4x faster than the tractor, but is absolutely brutal on the lawn.

 

[newbury]

In my opinion a skid steer would be the way to go and I am a tractor man. My reasoning is if u are going in and out of a greenhouse you will want something small and maneuverable. Yet will still need large lift capacity. This is skid steer Territory all day long. You won't find many small tractors that can handle 1 ton on pallet forks unless they are special purpose machines. this should not be unreasonable for a decent size skid steer.

Yup

Looking at buying something to plow snow, move dirt for a green house and lift a pallet of pellets (one ton) I have a small rural store and need something to help lift things as I do not have any teen age boys There is a case 1845C close by for about 8.5K but it has been insurance salvaged. It has been gone through by a local dealer but has some rust as it was used in a cargo ship. Thoughts? Another dealer wants to sell me a new tractor (Mahindra) 5110 but for a bunch more money and I am not sure I can afford it.
Thoughts on used equipment?

Used equipment can often be the BEST.
But if you are running a business and don't know if you want a tractor or skid steer you should look into rental of each for say a week.
A tractor is mainly a wheeled power source and can use an extremely wide variety of attachments.
A skid steer is more focused on lifting and loading. My 50HP tractor w/ FEL and pallet forks requires a lot of space to turn. I can barely move stuff around in my shed.