Anyone know anything about these? Are they gear, chain, or all hydraulic drive? Anything good or bad about them? The one I'm looking at has a 3 cyl. Duetz diesel. I'm trying to find the specs on it but Can't find any. Even Digger Data skips over it. Thanks in advance!

You might hop over to Tractor Farm and Family and ask TFF Admin about it.

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Pretty much all skid steers are hydraulic driven orbit motors which drive chains going to all 4 wheels. Differences in some brands were the hyd pumps were belt driven but I am almost certain all are direct mount now meaning the pump is mounted to the engine in some fashion and have gone away from belt drive, Bobcat hung onto that the longest I think.

New hollands are a bit more stable as they are bigger than most others with the arm design and a lot of times have a bit higher lifting capacity but most other brands now have similar designs and have caught NH in this category.

Boy that is an older unit after looking up some info on it, looks to be late 70's era, most I see came with a gas Wisconsin engine, have not come across a diesel one yet unless it was a repower.  I would be leery of the hydraulic system on one that old, could wind up costing a lot to keep up and repair if it is well used and ill maintained.

Some I saw where in the early to mid 80's on Auctiontime. And the diesel was an option on some. Just curious, where did you get your info.? I could not find much on it.

I found very little as well but did come across a few sites with tid bits of info. Looks like they were built from 1975-1984 but never saw a diesel as an option on any I have seen, not saying it wasn't an option on the last few years possibly since the Wisconsin was air cooled a Deutz would be the best option to fit the same space.

 

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The deutz engine is an excellent engine. In Saudi Arabia, when my uncle was a crane operator in the 70s, when engines dies, all were replaced with the Deutz, as water cost more than diesel & they worked 24 hours a day. Once a day, they would open the shell & blow the dust out, check fluid levels & fire them right up. Downtime was 45 minutes per day. Water cooled engines lodt 4 hours waiting for the coolant temp to go down to a safe level. THey are also rather powerful for their weight/package size & pretty miserly on fuel.

Thanks for the replies guys!

I did read the Duetz, while a good engine, could be costly should it need replacement parts or a rebuild.  Lifting power was about 2000lbs on these units.  They appear to have a pretty low standard flow rate of about 9GPM.  I agree the skid steer could be costly to maintain being so old, if you're not getting it dirt cheap, I would probably look for a newer option, unless of course the owners have meticulously maintained it.  Good luck.