but this is a full-size backhoe. This is not a small machine, which you guys are kind of known as the skid steer. Oh yeah. When you when you get up close to it, I think it's, you know, nine feet tall.

unit,” says Bob Lessner, product manager for skid steers, Komatsu America Group ... on different prime movers from skid-steer loaders and backhoe-loaders to wheel loaders,” Lessner explains.

In the case of Komatsu skid-steer models, PPC controls (Proportional ... such as mini-excavators and backhoe-loaders," says Sauber. "We definitely see this as an area for growth.