It depends on what you're driving over. Tracks spread the weight out, so they float on soft ground, wet soil, and finished turf without tearing it up, which is why most residential landscape crews run an SVL. A wheeled skid steer like the SSV is faster on pavement, cheaper to maintain, and better on hardscape and material handling jobs. If most of your work is on dirt and lawns, go tracks. If most of it is on concrete and gravel, go wheels. If you're split, call us and we'll talk through your last five jobs.

The SCL stand-on loader is built for exactly that. It's narrow enough to get through a standard side yard gate, which is where a lot of residential jobs are won or lost. If you can't get a machine into the backyard, you're moving everything by wheelbarrow and eating the labor. Tell us your tightest gate width and we'll tell you what fits.

The short list: a bucket for material, pallet forks for sod, block, and plant stock, a grapple for brush and demo debris, a grading or landscape rake for finish prep, an auger for fence posts and trees, and a brush cutter for overgrown lots. Kubota's quick-attach system swaps them in under a minute, so one machine covers most of a residential build.

It comes down to how many days a month you're renting. Once you're on a machine consistently, rental costs usually run past what a financed payment would be, and you're building equity instead of handing it to the rental yard. There's also the job you didn't bid because the yard was out of machines that week. Tell us what you're spending on rentals now and we'll put the two numbers side by side.

Most financing approvals come back within 24 to 48 hours. We stock machines at our LA, Temecula, and San Diego locations, and delivery is free within 70 miles of your branch, so a lot of contractors are running the machine on a job the same week.

Yes. We deliver free within 70 miles of any of our three Southern California branches, LA (Sun Valley), Temecula, and San Diego (Escondido), to your yard or straight to the job. If you're outside that range, we can still arrange delivery, just ask your branch.