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About Wheel Skid Steers

Wheel skid steers provide distinct advantages over track skid steers on urban jobsites and industrial environments with hard ground conditions. Surfaces like asphalt, concrete, and hard ground can wear out rubber skid-steer tracks and can be damaged by steel tracks, whereas tires are more durable on solid surfaces and won’t damage them. Wheel skid steers also offer increased mobility on streets, sidewalks, trails, and parking lots, where they can move nimbly around and support larger machines with excavating, grading, and site preparation tasks.

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CASE SR210B Wheel Skid Steer

History Of Wheeled Skid Steers

In 1960, when the Melroe Manufacturing Company introduced the world’s first four-wheel-drive skid-steer loader, the M400, it was the ultimate culmination of the “Keller Loader” developed by brothers Cyril and Louis Keller in 1957. The Kellers sold the rights to their loader to the Gwinner, North Dakota, firm in 1958 and went to work for Melroe to help develop the M60 and M200, precursors to the M400. 

In 1962, Melroe introduced the M440, notable for its two-cylinder system integrated in the lift arms and for being the first to receive the “Bobcat” branding that would become the brand’s identity much later in 2000, when Melroe Company officially became the Bobcat Company. Leading companies such as Case, Caterpillar, Gehl, Kubota, John Deere, New Holland, and others have since developed their own wheel skid-steer models.

Find The Right Skid Steer

MachineryTrader.com is a great resource for new and used wheel skid steers from major brands like Bobcat, Case, Caterpillar, Deere, Gehl, JCB, Kubota, and New Holland, among many others.