NEW KOMATSU SKID-STEER LOADERS TO BRING ‘UNBEATABLE’ VALUES TO USERS: MCHALE PLANT SALES SAYS

McHale Plant Sales has confirmed the imminent availability on the Irish market of two new fully-redesigned Komatsu skid-steer loader and compact track loader machines which ‘prototyped’ at the bauma 2025 exhibition: a new 4-tonne skid steer loader and a new 5-tonne compact track loader.

According to their sales director, Denis McGrath, who attended their introduction, the new units join Komatsu’s Dash-8 range to bring what he calls “unbeatable customer values to the loader sector”.

Specifically focused on the European market, both units provide “outstanding capacity and hydraulic specification powered by a low emission and low maintenance stage V engines to deliver one of the highest operating capacities in their category, merged with superior lifting, breakout, and traction force,” McGrath said.

Features to benefit operators, including low emissions operation from their 53,7 kW Stage V compliant engine with diesel particulate filter; outstanding stability and weight distribution in all conditions; manoeuvrability and highest driver comfort; all backed by powerful performance, lift pin height, and category-leading lifting capacity.

Other enhancements include redesigned hydraulics: reduced maintenance cost: a new cab layout with pull-up sliding door for comfort and non-stop working in all conditions; and new operator comfort functions that include an air-suspended seat, pressurized cab,

easiness of operation functions such as slow speed system, cruise control, adaptive steering, return to dig, and other drive modes.

A rear-view camera with ‘human’ detection system, radio, LED lights and an optional front hydraulic quick coupler add to what McGrath says are “two worthy additions to the Komatsu portfolio, engineered for applications in which skid-steer units are deemed the most effective, most economical, and most cost-value choice”.