Re: New Skid steer

Posted by Destroked 450 on October 11, 2017 at 09:16:50 from (173.242.142.14):

In Reply to: New Skid steer posted by Marvin Troyer on October 10, 2017 at 09:16:11:

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Your looking for a machine to do the same basic work I do with mine, I have 3= 43x500 poultry barns, I use a skid loader for clean out and to operate a composter.

One issue you'll find is OSHA has required more operator head room on newer machines, this is a deal killer in our business.

Although I don't recommend using a skid steer for unloading birds they are much better for most other operations in poultry barns than a tractor.

The biggest issue is overhead clearance, with water lines, feeders and in my case heaters hanging on winch lines from the ceilings you don't have a lot of overhead room for tall machines.

My buildings have 8 ft side walls that only gives me a little over 7 ft of clearance under the feed lines, add 3-6 inches of bedding and machine height becomes a real issue. My machine is 80" tall and when operating on top of the bedding things get real close, at times I wish mine was shorter and I wouldn't consider any machine over 82" tall, the shorter the better. Width also becomes important if you plan to operate a composter, wide machines will have the tires or tracks riding up on the compose pile your making throwing the machine off level and possibly elevating the cab into overhead equipment.

Some growers south of me have shorter buildings requiring them to cut the roof off of their machines in order to operate inside the buildings, there forth they must look at machines that don't have overhead controls, switches, gauges, ect.

Your on target looking for min hp and lift capacity, mine has 85 hp and there's times I wish it had more, I had a large material bucket built for handling litter, 84"w x 42"d x 40"h, the bucket full of litter weighs nearly a ton but we can completely empty a building out in 5 hours with one machine.

Another important part is the type of lift, only look at machines with radial lift, on machines with vertical lift when you raise the bucket that's in front of you the lift arms behind you could raise up into any equipment your under.

For other farm uses if you get a rubber tire machine also get a set of steel tracks, you'll need them.

Hope this helps in your decision making.

John

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