Selecting a Skid Loader - Tires vs. Tracks

lot of material fast you need a lot of power that's when you want a big body but if you just don't know what you're going to be doing a jack of all trades and master of whatever comes your way you want something that just can do it all but maybe not all the best the Bobcat S185 is an amazing piece of equipment it's a medium bodyi loader it doesn't matter if you buy bobcat any of them again pick your brand of what's best for you but let's also talk about track size so we know we we want a medium bodied skid loader for our very first one but do we want tires or do we want tracks this is where it becomes job site specific you want tires if you're going to be doing demolition you want tires if you're going to be tearing these things up on job sites because tires are cheaper then tracks I can pick up a set of tires like this for $800 to $11,000 they're not good tires but they're still new fresh rubber a cheap set of tracks is going to cost me about $2,000 okay now you want tracks if you're going to be sticking more in the dirt if you're going to be plowing snow there's a big dis big discrepancy do you want tires tracks both are amazing if they're set up the right way tracks set up the right way are more effective than tires but tires are still going to be able to do everything you need to do all day and all night if you're plowing snow you do not want to use tracks if you're demolishing things if you're going in and removing concrete and you got to drive over that concrete you're going to put big gouges and rips in these tracks and these tracks are too expensive to replace to have these things be a throwaway what what there's also it also depends on what type of track you have too because there are multiple different types we have the stand we have the our snowplowing ones on right now yep there are ones that are the big fat logs that the dirt Treads the dirt lug use those for a lot of demo work this is dirt lug so what Zach is talking about this is a