IN THE saddle

This month I have decided to specialise in reviewing skid steer loaders from a couple of differing angles.

First one was the newly imported OzDiggers mini skid steer loaders and keeping away from the popular brands I decided, seeing the opportunity was sitting in front of me, to take on this little Mustang 2044, a 2.5 ton skid steer from Tutt Bryant, the Australian distributors of Mustang Compact Equipment.

I don’t have a liking for operating skid steers.

In my early days I grew up on the dozers, scrapers, loaders and especially excavators so I was a bit of a latecomer to the skid steer game and, I suppose due to age and injury, I certainly did not come to terms with the rough and tumble, dusty, cold and wet days expected of a skid steer operator.

To put it