Here is my advice after having both but not related to equipment preference. Before you get either but especially the skid loader.... Prepare your mindset & response about loaning out a skid loader. (yes, someone may ask to borrow the tractor, but for sure they will the loader) When people find out you have a skid loader and I mean anyone, neighbors friends, people you barely know but saw it and in a pinch on a weekend, etc. will ask to use it. Keep in mind NO ONE knows how to safely run a skid loader until the have for 6-10 hours minimum. I know a landscape guy who loaned his $45k cat skid loader to a neighbor and the guy backed it off a retaining wall & tipped it over. I also know a guy who could not say no to his neighbor and borrowed it and the neighbor let his 5 yr old run around outside on a small 4 wheeler. Well the guy was not aware the son started following him and backed up right into and up onto the front of the 4 wheeler dam near killing his own kid. I will tell you this. I had an IH loader. Had to sell it and tell everyone far and wide I did and just have the old tractor. I now have a Case 1845C and tell no one I work with or know around the community. I put it in my building and use it when I need it. The few times I have been cornered I tell them I will bring it over and run it and most people back away then. So, unless there is one around others have access to, any new skid loader in a community that a nice guy gets will be the most seen community device you will ever see. Be ready, I warn you. And be very careful swinging around fast near buildings or inside them until you clearly know the "size of the butt" of the machine. And get all kids in the house until you are very comfortable running it. I added a cheap boat mirror to mine to maybe see something behind you that was not there 30 secs previous. Tractors are much wider open and easier to be aware of unsafe scenarios and inherently slower to change direction or turn. That PTO shaft is the big killer and I am sure you know it.
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