by Donna Hogan

When it comes to jobs, big and small, there is no other piece of equipment more valuable than a skid-steer loader.

Short history of the skid-steer loader:

Louis and Cyril Keller of Rothsay, Minnesota, invented the first skid-steer loader in 1957 to help a local turkey farmer clean his barn. In 1958, Melroe Manufacturing purchased the rights to this invention and hired the Keller brothers to refine it. Thus the M200 self-propelled loader was born. This invention would later become known as the skid-steer loader that we know today.

See below for examples of skid-steers sold auction during the past sixty days.

Two auctions one in Georgia, and another in Pennsylvania, sold a large number of Bobcat T590 skid-steer

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2014 machines brought an average of $ 19,800, and three 2016 models brought an average of $ 23,300 in Georgia. A 2014 of the same model sold at a Pennsylvania auction bringing $ 19,200, along with a 2017 that sold for $ 27,250. Two 2018 Bobcat MT85 walk-behind loaders brought $ 15,700 and $ 15,680 at auctions in Tennessee.

At an auction in Ohio, three Case-IH 430 skid-steer loaders sold for an average price of $ 11,000 each for a 2013 model.

Three 2017 Caterpillar 279D tracked skid-steer loaders( compact track loaders) sold for $ 22,500 each at a Georgia auction.

A pair of Takeuchi TL8 loaders brought $ 15,000 and $ 18,500 in Ohio.

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