Birthday No. 40 for Case skid-steer loaders
This is the year that Racine, Wis.-based Case Construction Equipment celebrates 40 years of manufacturing skid-steer loaders. The multi-attachment machines provide versatility for construction and landscaping crews, and road and grounds maintenance personnel.
The company began producing skid steers under the Case name in 1969 after acquiring the Uni-Loader line from Universal Industries.
In addition to the 40th anniversary mark, Case is on track to hit another milestone in 2009.
“Before the end of the year, Case will produce its 250,000th skid steer,” said Jim Hughes, Case brand marketing manager.
Hughes noted that customers operating current-model Case skid steers will continue to find the high level of maneuverability that allows the machines to counter-rotate.
“But today’s Case skid steers include operator comforts — suspension seats, heated and air-conditioned cabs, radios with an MP3 port — and productivity features like pilot controls, hydraulic couplers and high-flow hydraulics that operators in 1969 couldn’t even begin to imagine,” Hughes said.
