Toro ‘Dingo’
While on a daytrip out of town last week, saw a couple of nifty little machines doing landscaping dirt work around a new commercial building. One had a bucket and the other a trencher.
Mini Skidsteers is probably an accurate description…something like 35 attachments available. Some with tracks, some with wheels. Most sizes will fit through a 36″ door if one is doing indoor demolition…lot’s of outdoor applications.
Looks like one of those ultimate wishlist tools.
Anybody have one, or use one? Are they all they’re cracked up to be? I just got their literature, but literature tends to be full of hype.
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I think that compact loaders is the generic term. Several other companies have them out now.
I almost rented one last fall, but either of the rental places had all of the attachments that I want. So I ended up with a tiller for part of the job and then used by pickum up truck to carry the dirt one yard at a time and I was able to back right up to most the places that I needed the dirt.
I would tell you to go ahead and by one, with all of the attachments, but you don't live close enough for me to borrow it.
i used the bobcat brand one, it will fit thru a 36" opening and can load a pickup ( bucket will not go high enough to load anything else. we were demoing a ground floor area and needed to dig out about 2 feet of soil to get a legal space out of it, it worked well.
here are some pics
and another pic
sorry the photos are so big, i scaled them down with photo shop but i guess when i converted them to jpeg and sent them to my pictures it enlarged them or somehting.
james