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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 26418" data-attributes="member: 307">HansThe 463 and the 1816 are not going to run the standard skidsteer attachments, they are too small. A 553 bobcat (or S 95 ? new numbers) is the smallest bobcat brand loader with a standard quick attach.Loaders made in the last 5 or so years have the best hydraulic pump capacity (flow in gpm, and pressure p.s.i.) to run augers and such kept getting higher on the newer machines in this weight class.With the 1816 you need to make sure it has auxilary hydraulics (evident by quick couplers plumbed out on the boom behind the bucket) and even if it does the most it would likely handle would be the angle on a snow plow or a cylinder on a grapple. Again the newer machines have better hyd specs. For auger work you need at least  8 to 10 gpm and at least 2000 psiSome of the new mini skidsteers you sit in share attachments with the mini skidsteers you stand on or walk behind. Bobcat has its own quick attach going on with the 463 if I understand it right.However Toro dingo and simular walk behinds share there attachments with several other makes and models and if I was going mini I would be looking to see who around me might have these attachments for rent and what type or quick attach they use.In all honesty I would be temped to rent a 463 or simular and try it. They are cute little machine and will vastly out work a wheel barrel, but as far as renting attachments you will be greatly limited by going smaller then the standard skidsteer quick attach.I had a 553c 8.5 gpm 2000 psi, which I sold, it was good for dirt work, marginal for auger work, no extension to drill deeper because the loader would not lift high enough to pull the bit with a extension out of the ground, limiting drilling to 5 feet. It was very tippy on uneven ground, do to short wheel base and narrow width. No reasonable priced tracks could be had for it because the tires were smaller then 10 by 16.5Way better then a wheel barrow, but if a 1300 lb lift machine with standard 10 by 16.5 tires and a standard QA and 13 to 15 gpm at 2500 or higher psi will fit in your jobsite I recommend going that way. You will be so much more versatile. Also with a mini, look at what you pallet fork ratings will be with the load center of gravity out 18" further forward, it will be much lower then the rated lift capacity of the loader. My 553 was rated 850 lbs, tipping load was 1700 lbs, forks were rated for 500 lb (from memeory) and maybe 900 max , All provided the ground is flat, add in a slope and it drops even more.RegardsKen</blockquote>

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